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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 44 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 10 60 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.28% 4.10% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 14.42% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 49 29
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,073 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -4.35% +17.35%
75th Percentile £54,136 £66,250 £67,750
90th Percentile £75,673 £82,500 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £47,307 £50,000 £52,991
% change year-on-year -5.39% -5.64% +11.56%

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 130 416 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 16.60% 28.43% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 116 305 204
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,195 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,101 £50,619
Median % change year-on-year +15.16% +2.93% +1.24%
75th Percentile £65,625 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £77,125
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -5 7 £49,735 -9.57% 22
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £42,500 -
Newport -13 1 £48,500 -19.17% 2
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 2 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (20.00%) TestNG
4 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Electronics
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Marketing
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Java EE
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) CUDA
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) BDD
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) OO
4 2 (20.00%) OOP
4 2 (20.00%) Parallel Processing
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP