Java Jobs in Wales

Java
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 71 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.05% 3.13% 7.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.67% 11.99% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14 60 32
10th Percentile £37,522 £41,206 £36,196
25th Percentile £38,612 £42,750 £42,739
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,690 £49,250 £51,996
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -5.28% +9.46%
75th Percentile £62,313 £66,250 £67,749
90th Percentile £72,151 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +10.71%

All Programming Languages
Wales

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 196 592 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.13% 26.06% 37.99%
Number of salaries quoted 171 449 333
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £71,311 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Wales

Java
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Java in Wales

Java
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Wales over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Wales

Java
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +1 12 £49,735 -6.60% 23
North Wales -4 4 £40,101 -8.34% 3
West Wales +13 1 £37,733 -15.50% 6
Java
UK

Java
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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
3 3 (17.65%) Appium
3 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 3 (17.65%) JMeter
3 3 (17.65%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
3 3 (17.65%) REST Assured
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
3 3 (17.65%) TestNG
4 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.88%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Junior
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Leader
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Junior Applications Support
6 1 (5.88%) Junior Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) SOAP
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Java EE
4 1 (5.88%) JSP
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.76%) CUDA
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) API Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Coaching
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) Groovy
5 3 (17.65%) Rust
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) C
6 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.88%) Ada
7 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 13485
2 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) SAP