Developer Jobs in South Wales

Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Developer salary in South Wales is £52,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 44 285 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.52% 17.59% 14.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.47% 19.26% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 38 244 103
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,887
25th Percentile £45,313 £43,658 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +15.79% -3.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,200 £75,000 £67,500
Wales median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year +2.38% +14.75% -8.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 805 1,480 1,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.65% 91.36% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 480 1,004 559
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,625
90th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.59%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in South Wales.

Salary trend for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in South Wales over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in South Wales

Developer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 4 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -6 28 £50,000 -9.09% 31
Newport -39 7 £52,000 -5.45% 8
Gwent +8 5 £52,250 +51.45% 8
Monmouthshire -1 3 £65,000 +116.67%
Neath Port Talbot +4 1 £60,000 +60.00%
Developer
Wales

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 4 June 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 22 (50.00%) Git
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (47.73%) JavaScript
3 17 (38.64%) HTML
3 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
5 14 (31.82%) Docker
6 13 (29.55%) Microservices
6 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
6 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
6 13 (29.55%) Vue
7 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (27.27%) CMS
8 11 (25.00%) Python
8 11 (25.00%) CRM
8 11 (25.00%) C#
8 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 11 (25.00%) DevOps
8 11 (25.00%) PowerApps
8 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 10 (22.73%) Serverless
9 10 (22.73%) TypeScript
9 10 (22.73%) Sass
9 10 (22.73%) Symfony
9 10 (22.73%) PHP
9 10 (22.73%) SQL
9 10 (22.73%) MySQL
10 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (20.45%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (20.45%) Legacy Code

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) CMS
2 6 (13.64%) Confluence
3 3 (6.82%) Headless CMS
3 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.27%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 11 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 10 (22.73%) Serverless
5 9 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (18.18%) npm
7 6 (13.64%) AWS
7 6 (13.64%) Power Automate
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (9.09%) GitHub
9 3 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (6.82%) Contentful
9 3 (6.82%) GCP
9 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) MySQL
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.82%) Redis
3 2 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (18.18%) webpack
3 7 (15.91%) JIRA
4 6 (13.64%) Grunt
5 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.27%) GitLab
7 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.91%) Retail
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Games
7 1 (2.27%) iGaming
7 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) HTML
2 13 (29.55%) Vue
3 10 (22.73%) Sass
3 10 (22.73%) Symfony
4 7 (15.91%) CSS
5 6 (13.64%) GraphQL
6 5 (11.36%) CakePHP
6 5 (11.36%) Doctrine
6 5 (11.36%) Node.js
6 5 (11.36%) Pyjs
6 5 (11.36%) REST
6 5 (11.36%) RESTful
7 4 (9.09%) .NET
7 4 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.09%) React
8 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
8 3 (6.82%) Keycloak
8 3 (6.82%) NestJS
8 3 (6.82%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Legacy Code
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 13 (29.55%) Microservices
3 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.00%) CRM
4 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (20.45%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) Web Development
7 7 (15.91%) SOA
8 6 (13.64%) Coaching
9 5 (11.36%) B2B
9 5 (11.36%) OO
9 5 (11.36%) OO PHP
9 5 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.36%) TDD
10 4 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) JavaScript
2 11 (25.00%) C#
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) PHP
3 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.55%) C++
4 2 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) VBA
5 1 (2.27%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) Degree
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.82%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) Facebook
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle