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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 34 33
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +14
Permanent jobs citing Java 26 41 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.18% 6.47% 5.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.05% 17.60% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 70
10th Percentile - £37,570 £31,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £41,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £44,672 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.87% -10.66% -16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £51,165 £66,250
90th Percentile - £61,250 £80,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 162 233 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.60% 36.75% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 108 142 424
10th Percentile £32,275 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,701 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,017 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 8 March 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 8 March 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
North Wales +9 14 £75,000 +130.77% 4
South Wales -9 11 £71,940 +59.87% 12
West Wales -22 1 £55,200 +12.96% 1
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 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) dbt
1 4 (15.38%) Google Workspace
1 4 (15.38%) PaaS
1 4 (15.38%) SurveyMonkey
2 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Datadog
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.85%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
2 4 (15.38%) Bluetooth
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (15.38%) Modbus
2 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 4 (15.38%) VLAN
2 4 (15.38%) Wireshark
2 4 (15.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.85%) Redis
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Burp Suite
1 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 4 (15.38%) Metasploit
2 3 (11.54%) JMeter
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Locust
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
1 4 (15.38%) Law
1 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Engineering Manager
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering Manager
2 7 (26.92%) Software Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Django
1 2 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Flask
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) pytest
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) CAN bus
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (15.38%) IoT
1 4 (15.38%) Operational Technology
1 4 (15.38%) SCADA
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Android
2 4 (15.38%) Kali Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) BDD
3 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
4 5 (19.23%) Prototyping
5 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 4 (15.38%) Cognitive Science
5 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Data Science
5 4 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
5 4 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (15.38%) Smart Manufacturing
5 4 (15.38%) User Experience
5 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) C++
2 4 (15.38%) R
2 4 (15.38%) Rust
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Delphi
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Nessus
1 4 (15.38%) Nmap
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco
2 4 (15.38%) Qualtrics
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle