Developer Jobs in Wales

Developer
UK > Wales

The median Developer salary in Wales is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 46 365 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.05% 16.87% 13.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.70% 18.15% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 39 310 135
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,625 £31,450
25th Percentile £46,875 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +15.38% -9.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £70,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Wales with a recognized job title 978 2,011 1,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.02% 92.97% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,377 807
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,400 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Wales

Developer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Developer in Wales

Developer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Wales over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Wales

Developer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
South Wales -32 34 £52,000 -5.45% 354
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 Wales region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
2 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
3 23 (50.00%) Git
4 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
5 16 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (32.61%) SQL
6 15 (32.61%) C#
6 15 (32.61%) HTML
6 15 (32.61%) .NET
7 13 (28.26%) PHP
7 13 (28.26%) Docker
7 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
8 12 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (26.09%) Unix
8 12 (26.09%) Windows
8 12 (26.09%) Linux
8 12 (26.09%) Network Security
9 11 (23.91%) Web Development
9 11 (23.91%) Symfony
9 11 (23.91%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (23.91%) Microservices
9 11 (23.91%) API Development
10 10 (21.74%) DevOps
10 10 (21.74%) Vue
10 10 (21.74%) AWS
10 10 (21.74%) CMS
11 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (21.74%) CMS
2 6 (13.04%) Confluence
3 3 (6.52%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.17%) ColdFusion
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Serverless
5 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
6 6 (13.04%) npm
7 5 (10.87%) PowerApps
8 4 (8.70%) GitHub
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (6.52%) Contentful
9 3 (6.52%) GCP
9 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) Network Security
2 8 (17.39%) Modbus
2 8 (17.39%) MQTT
2 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.22%) MySQL
3 6 (13.04%) RDBMS
3 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.52%) Redis
5 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (4.35%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Power BI
6 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 7 (15.22%) webpack
3 6 (13.04%) Grunt
4 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
6 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Retail
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) iGaming
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) .NET
1 15 (32.61%) HTML
2 11 (23.91%) Symfony
3 10 (21.74%) Vue
4 8 (17.39%) CSS
5 7 (15.22%) Sass
6 6 (13.04%) GraphQL
7 5 (10.87%) CakePHP
7 5 (10.87%) Doctrine
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js
7 5 (10.87%) Pyjs
8 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
8 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.70%) React
8 4 (8.70%) REST
8 4 (8.70%) RESTful
9 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
9 3 (6.52%) hapi
9 3 (6.52%) Keycloak
9 3 (6.52%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Device Driver
1 8 (17.39%) IoT
2 6 (13.04%) Legacy Code
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
1 12 (26.09%) Unix
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) Mentoring
2 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 12 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (23.91%) API Development
5 11 (23.91%) Microservices
5 11 (23.91%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (23.91%) Web Development
6 10 (21.74%) DevOps
7 9 (19.57%) CRM
8 8 (17.39%) Computer Architecture
8 8 (17.39%) Product Strategy
8 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.39%) Technical Debt
9 7 (15.22%) Scrum
10 5 (10.87%) B2B
10 5 (10.87%) OO
10 5 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
2 15 (32.61%) C#
2 15 (32.61%) SQL
3 13 (28.26%) PHP
4 9 (19.57%) C++
4 9 (19.57%) Python
5 8 (17.39%) C
5 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) VBA
7 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Grafana
2 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Facebook
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle