Principal Developer Job Trends in Swansea

Principal Developer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Principal Developer salary in Swansea is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £75,000 - -

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 270 38 189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 82.61% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 175 27 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,163 £30,344 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,709 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -16.15% +10.42%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £53,988
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +19.26% -11.22% +4.28%

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, Principal 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 Principal Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes

Principal 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google