Java Jobs in South Wales

Java
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 55 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 12 52 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.90% 3.15% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.96% 12.06% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 46 28
10th Percentile £40,875 £42,750 £38,550
25th Percentile £41,800 £43,625 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,735 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.38% +21.76%
75th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £68,497
90th Percentile £75,444 £82,500 £73,250
Wales median annual salary £47,690 £50,000 £51,996
% change year-on-year -4.62% -3.84% +9.46%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 134 431 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 10.09% 26.12% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 117 320 210
10th Percentile £47,064 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,144 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -0.68% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £65,000 £67,393
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,125
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +9.89% -9.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Java in South Wales

Java
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in South Wales

Java
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 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +1 7 £49,735 -3.43% 40
Neath Port Talbot - 3 £42,500 - 1
Bridgend +46 1 - - 1
Glamorgan -7 1 £62,500 - 13
Java
Wales

Java
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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) JUnit
3 3 (25.00%) Appium
3 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (25.00%) JMeter
3 3 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (25.00%) Maven
3 3 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 3 (25.00%) TestNG
4 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) CUDA
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) BDD
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) API Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Coaching
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Fintech
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Groovy
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP