Developer Jobs in South Wales

Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Developer salary in South Wales is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 255 174 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.56% 15.16% 18.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.35% 16.94% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 219 104 182
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £37,385 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,500 £61,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £72,375
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +14.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,318 1,027 1,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 89.46% 97.19%
Number of salaries quoted 871 582 876
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,476 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +1 174 £55,000 +22.22% 37
Newport +21 45 £55,000 +7.62%
Bridgend -14 25 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Rhondda Cynon Taff -1 3 £32,500 -
Glamorgan -1 3 - - 24
Caerphilly +5 2 £37,500 -21.05%
Neath Port Talbot -2 1 £37,500 +7.14% 4
Monmouthshire - 1 £30,000 -
Gwent - 1 £34,500 - 1
Developer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 68 (26.67%) Agile
2 65 (25.49%) C#
3 55 (21.57%) Azure
4 54 (21.18%) Git
5 53 (20.78%) SQL
6 47 (18.43%) JavaScript
6 47 (18.43%) Mentoring
7 46 (18.04%) HTML
8 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (16.08%) .NET
9 41 (16.08%) Finance
10 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
10 39 (15.29%) React
11 38 (14.90%) AWS
12 35 (13.73%) Microsoft
12 35 (13.73%) Oracle
13 34 (13.33%) CSS
13 34 (13.33%) RESTful
14 32 (12.55%) AngularJS
15 31 (12.16%) REST
16 30 (11.76%) Docker
17 29 (11.37%) SQL Server
18 28 (10.98%) PHP
18 28 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (10.98%) Coaching
19 27 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
20 26 (10.20%) Scrum
21 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
22 24 (9.41%) Clean Code
22 24 (9.41%) Java

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 14 (5.49%) WordPress
2 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.35%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Drupal
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (21.57%) Azure
2 38 (14.90%) AWS
3 20 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.06%) GitHub
5 17 (6.67%) Heroku
6 14 (5.49%) PowerApps
7 13 (5.10%) GCP
8 12 (4.71%) SaaS
9 10 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.14%) WhatsApp
11 7 (2.75%) npm
12 6 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.57%) iPaaS
14 4 (1.57%) PaaS
15 3 (1.18%) DigitalOcean
16 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
16 2 (0.78%) Firebase
16 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
16 2 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) Intranet
2 2 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.37%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.88%) MySQL
3 15 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (3.14%) Oracle Database 11g
5 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.75%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.96%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.96%) Power BI
9 4 (1.57%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.18%) Power Query
10 3 (1.18%) Redis
11 2 (0.78%) Tableau
12 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 54 (21.18%) Git
2 14 (5.49%) GitLab
2 14 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.31%) Selenium
4 7 (2.75%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.57%) webpack
6 3 (1.18%) Grunt
6 3 (1.18%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.78%) NUnit
7 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.39%) GitKraken
8 1 (0.39%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.39%) JIRA
8 1 (0.39%) ReSharper
General
1 41 (16.08%) Finance
2 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.45%) Games
5 13 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.14%) Banking
7 7 (2.75%) Welsh Language
8 5 (1.96%) Police
9 4 (1.57%) Electronics
9 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.18%) Advertising
10 3 (1.18%) Law
10 3 (1.18%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.04%) HTML
2 41 (16.08%) .NET
3 39 (15.29%) React
4 34 (13.33%) CSS
4 34 (13.33%) RESTful
5 32 (12.55%) AngularJS
6 31 (12.16%) REST
7 21 (8.24%) ASP.NET
8 19 (7.45%) Node.js
9 18 (7.06%) .NET Core
10 17 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (6.67%) Visualforce
10 17 (6.67%) Web Services
11 16 (6.27%) Laravel
12 15 (5.88%) JSON
13 14 (5.49%) Spring
14 12 (4.71%) Spring Boot
15 11 (4.31%) HTML5
15 11 (4.31%) SOAP
16 10 (3.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.14%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.75%) Housing Association
4 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.78%) CMDB
6 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.39%) EPoS
7 1 (0.39%) IoT
7 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Android
2 8 (3.14%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.18%) Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.67%) Agile
2 47 (18.43%) Mentoring
3 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (10.98%) Coaching
5 27 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (10.20%) Scrum
7 24 (9.41%) Clean Code
8 22 (8.63%) CI/CD
8 22 (8.63%) Data Modelling
8 22 (8.63%) Unit Testing
9 21 (8.24%) DevOps
9 21 (8.24%) Web Development
10 20 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.45%) Fintech
11 19 (7.45%) Microservices
12 18 (7.06%) Refactoring
13 17 (6.67%) Roadmaps
13 17 (6.67%) SDLC
13 17 (6.67%) Test Automation
14 16 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.49%) C#
2 53 (20.78%) SQL
3 47 (18.43%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.98%) PHP
5 24 (9.41%) Java
6 23 (9.02%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.84%) Python
8 17 (6.67%) Apex Code
9 15 (5.88%) PL/SQL
10 12 (4.71%) C++
11 10 (3.92%) C
12 5 (1.96%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.96%) Swift
13 3 (1.18%) Scala
14 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) VBA
15 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (7.06%) Degree
2 13 (5.10%) SC Cleared
2 13 (5.10%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (13.73%) Microsoft
1 35 (13.73%) Oracle
2 17 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.14%) WooCommerce
4 4 (1.57%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.78%) Blue Prism
5 2 (0.78%) Google
5 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.78%) UiPath