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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 22 83 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.11% 4.06% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.33% 14.69% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13 67 33
10th Percentile £37,515 £37,000 £36,052
25th Percentile £37,733 £42,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,307 £50,000 £52,991
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -5.64% +11.56%
75th Percentile £54,136 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,773 £82,500 £72,050
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +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 213 565 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 20.44% 27.67% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 182 428 309
10th Percentile £37,507 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,813 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £74,000
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 13 May 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 May 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 -10 10 £48,073 -12.59% 32
West Wales +16 6 £37,733 +10.00% 5
North Wales +1 6 £40,101 -10.89% 8
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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) Selenium
2 4 (18.18%) Appium
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) JMeter
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 3 (13.64%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) REST Assured
4 2 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (9.09%) Postman
4 2 (9.09%) TestNG
5 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.55%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.55%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitLab
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) NUnit
5 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Electronics
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Marketing
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Health Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Junior
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Development Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Java EE
4 1 (4.55%) JSP
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) CUDA
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Design Patterns
4 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) OO
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
6 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Order Management
6 5 (22.73%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) BDD
8 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.64%) Fintech
8 3 (13.64%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) OOD
8 3 (13.64%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) C#
3 7 (31.82%) C++
4 5 (22.73%) Rust
5 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 3 (13.64%) Go
6 3 (13.64%) SQL
7 2 (9.09%) Groovy
7 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.55%) Ada
8 1 (4.55%) C
8 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 13485
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) SAP