Driving Licence Job Trends in Wales

Drivers' Licence
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Driving Licence over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 11 29
Rank change year-on-year -65 +18 +54
Permanent jobs citing Driving Licence 15 69 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.88% 12.90% 5.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.16% 28.51% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 24
10th Percentile £27,641 £28,400 £26,210
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £29,035
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £36,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +63.64%
75th Percentile £48,654 £37,733 £53,004
90th Percentile £55,308 £51,243 -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year - +17.19% -3.03%

All Generic Skills
Wales

Driving Licence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 361 242 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 21.17% 45.23% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 208 131 334
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,625 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.53% -0.25%
75th Percentile £73,375 £73,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Driving Licence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Driving Licence job vacancy trend in Wales

Driving Licence
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Driving Licence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Driving Licence in Wales over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Driving Licence in Wales

Driving Licence
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Driving Licence within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -58 9 £31,500 -33.33% 9
West Wales -30 4 £51,619 +36.80% 3
North Wales -9 2 £27,734 +2.72% 5
Driving Licence
UK

Driving Licence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DHCP
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) GIS
1 2 (13.33%) Spatial Data
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) IT Technician
2 7 (46.67%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Support Technician
4 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Technician
4 4 (26.67%) IT Support
4 4 (26.67%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (26.67%) Senior IT Technician
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Technician
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Systems Support
7 1 (6.67%) Business Development Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
7 1 (6.67%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Server Migrations
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) API Design
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (6.67%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware