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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 51 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.74% 4.81% 6.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.67% 15.22% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 28
10th Percentile £56,180 £41,594 £31,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £43,850 £36,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £49,355
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +21.57% -16.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile - £71,500 £66,625
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 178 335 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.26% 31.60% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 146 192 224
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,740 £32,375 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £49,324
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.37% -1.40%
75th Percentile £71,875 £65,000 £65,889
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,060 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 13 December 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 13 December 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
North Wales +9 10 £85,000 +21.43% 1
South Wales -23 8 £70,079 +27.42% 24
West Wales -9 1 £55,200 -8.00% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Google Workspace
1 4 (21.05%) SurveyMonkey
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Datadog
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Bluetooth
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (21.05%) Modbus
1 4 (21.05%) Network Security
1 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (21.05%) VLAN
1 4 (21.05%) Wireshark
1 4 (21.05%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Burp Suite
1 4 (21.05%) Metasploit
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) JMeter
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Appium
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (5.26%) Locust
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.26%) TestNG
4 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (21.05%) Aerospace
1 4 (21.05%) Law
1 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Engineering Manager
1 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering Manager
1 7 (36.84%) Software Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Django
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.26%) Flask
1 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
1 1 (5.26%) pytest
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
1 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) CAN bus
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (21.05%) IoT
1 4 (21.05%) Operational Technology
1 4 (21.05%) SCADA
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Android
1 4 (21.05%) Kali Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Software Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (21.05%) AI
4 4 (21.05%) BDD
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Cryptography
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Ergonomics
4 4 (21.05%) Human Factors
4 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Prototyping
4 4 (21.05%) Psychology
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) Security Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Smart Manufacturing
4 4 (21.05%) Statistics
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) C++
2 4 (21.05%) R
2 4 (21.05%) Rust
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Delphi
3 1 (5.26%) Groovy
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.26%) Ruby
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Nessus
1 4 (21.05%) Nmap
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco
1 4 (21.05%) Google
1 4 (21.05%) Qualtrics
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle