Java Job Trends in Wales

Java
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 61 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +10
Permanent jobs citing Java 108 10 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.32% 1.18% 2.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.98% 7.81% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 95 5 21
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,310 £43,449
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,659 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 470 128 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.44% 15.06% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 264 111 229
10th Percentile £35,250 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,705 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +13.61%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,468
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Java job vacancy trend in Wales

Java
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Wales over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

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 26 September 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
West Wales - 52 £70,000 - 10
South Wales -10 50 £66,000 +10.00% 33
North Wales - 6 £65,000 - 5
Java
UK

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (63.89%) AWS
2 34 (31.48%) Azure
3 33 (30.56%) Serverless
4 30 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (26.85%) GCP
6 17 (15.74%) GitHub
6 17 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.56%) CloudFront
9 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.70%) PaaS
10 4 (3.70%) SaaS
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.78%) dbt
11 3 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 17 (15.74%) MongoDB
3 16 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (13.89%) MySQL
5 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) Looker
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Adabas
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (17.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.11%) JIRA
4 10 (9.26%) Cypress.io
5 8 (7.41%) Selenium
6 7 (6.48%) JUnit
7 4 (3.70%) GitLab
7 4 (3.70%) Postman
7 4 (3.70%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.70%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.78%) Newman
8 3 (2.78%) TestRail
9 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.85%) JMeter
10 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.93%) Gatling
10 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.93%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.93%) RSpec
General
1 54 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.67%) Banking
4 15 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.48%) Welsh Language
7 5 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.85%) Finance
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (56.48%) Developer
2 36 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 30 (27.78%) Senior
4 24 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 23 (21.30%) Software Developer
6 17 (15.74%) Lead
7 13 (12.04%) Software Engineer
8 11 (10.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (9.26%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (8.33%) Consultant
10 9 (8.33%) Software Consultant
11 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.56%) Architect
12 6 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.63%) Junior
13 5 (4.63%) Junior DevOps
13 5 (4.63%) Junior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (54.63%) Spring Boot
2 52 (48.15%) Spring
3 41 (37.96%) Terraform
4 32 (29.63%) Ruby on Rails
5 29 (26.85%) Node.js
6 28 (25.93%) React
7 24 (22.22%) Kafka
7 24 (22.22%) RESTful
8 18 (16.67%) JPA
9 17 (15.74%) Hibernate
9 17 (15.74%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (11.11%) AWS CDK
10 12 (11.11%) REST
11 11 (10.19%) Jest
12 10 (9.26%) Playwright
13 9 (8.33%) AngularJS
14 8 (7.41%) HTML
14 8 (7.41%) HTML5
15 7 (6.48%) CSS
15 7 (6.48%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 46 (42.59%) Cloud Native
2 25 (23.15%) Product Ownership
3 22 (20.37%) Mainframe
4 20 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (13.89%) Virtual Team
7 14 (12.96%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (8.33%) Digital Wallet
9 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
10 5 (4.63%) Driving Licence
11 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
11 3 (2.78%) Replication
12 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Linux
1 8 (7.41%) Unix
2 7 (6.48%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (80.56%) Agile
2 71 (65.74%) CI/CD
3 58 (53.70%) Software Engineering
4 47 (43.52%) Microservices
5 46 (42.59%) DevOps
6 44 (40.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 40 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (33.33%) Observability
8 36 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
9 35 (32.41%) Event-Driven
9 35 (32.41%) Scrum
10 32 (29.63%) Containerisation
11 31 (28.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (27.78%) Mentoring
13 28 (25.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 27 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (22.22%) API Design
15 24 (22.22%) TDD
16 23 (21.30%) Domain-Driven Design
16 23 (21.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.63%) Ruby
2 22 (20.37%) TypeScript
3 21 (19.44%) Python
4 20 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.96%) SQL
6 9 (8.33%) Scala
7 8 (7.41%) C#
8 6 (5.56%) COBOL
9 3 (2.78%) Bicep
9 3 (2.78%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) Bash
10 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.93%) Natural
Qualifications
1 48 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 44 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.85%) Degree
9 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.37%) Accessibility
2 21 (19.44%) QA
3 19 (17.59%) WCAG
4 6 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (31.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.81%) Grafana
2 16 (14.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (12.96%) Splunk
2 11 (10.19%) OneLogin
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.85%) MicroStrategy