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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +20
Permanent jobs citing Java 38 24 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.27% 4.44% 4.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.17% 15.79% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 32 12 68
10th Percentile £58,050 £37,523 £36,206
25th Percentile - £40,371 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,690 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.30% -4.62% -5.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,852 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,194 £82,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 235 152 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.05% 28.15% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 138 125 430
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,602 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 7 May 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 7 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 -24 19 £66,000 +37.29% 15
North Wales +4 18 £65,000 +100.00% 1
West Wales -22 1 £51,619 +5.63% 2
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 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) PaaS
3 7 (18.42%) SaaS
4 6 (15.79%) dbt
5 5 (13.16%) Azure
5 5 (13.16%) GCP
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) IaaS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.63%) Datadog
8 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.63%) Sentry
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) Looker
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Redis
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
2 3 (7.89%) JMeter
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) Locust
4 1 (2.63%) Maven
4 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Welsh Language
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Engineering Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Software Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Spring
1 4 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.89%) Node.js
3 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) CSS3
4 1 (2.63%) Django
4 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) HTML5
4 1 (2.63%) JPA
4 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.63%) React
4 1 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (2.63%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.63%) Vue
4 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Replication
3 2 (5.26%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 10 (26.32%) DevOps
3 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.42%) BDD
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.16%) Mathematics
7 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.16%) Observability
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (10.53%) FinOps
8 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
8 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (10.53%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.63%) Google
1 1 (2.63%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle