Java Developer Job Trends in Swansea

Java Developer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Java Developer salary in Swansea is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 277 37 195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 82.22% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 180 27 176
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,666 £30,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +32.51% -11.22% +4.28%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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 Swansea.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Swansea

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 Swansea region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk