Java Developer Job Trends in South Wales

Java Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Java Developer salary in South Wales is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 16 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.73% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £67,500 - £52,625
25th Percentile £69,375 - £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £60,313
90th Percentile - - £60,875
Wales median annual salary £70,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,058 602 969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 87.50% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 438 641
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -1.31%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in South Wales

Java Developer
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in South Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in South Wales

Java 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 Java Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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 - 16 £70,000 - 3
Java Developer
Wales

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 2 October 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Docker
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) React
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) CQRS
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
5 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
1 1 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) React
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) HTML5
2 1 (6.25%) Jest
2 1 (6.25%) JPA
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) CQRS
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) BDD
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (6.25%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes