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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +29
Permanent jobs citing Java 84 14 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.86% 2.17% 3.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.67% 11.57% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 75 12 62
10th Percentile £47,930 £37,523 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £40,371 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £47,690 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -4.62% -3.84%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,194 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.04% -5.16%

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 293 121 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.47% 18.73% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 202 109 448
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £50,000 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -2 44 £65,000 +30.69% 13
West Wales -5 28 £72,500 +92.14% 6
North Wales +5 12 £65,000 +100.00% 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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.81%) AWS
2 21 (25.00%) Serverless
3 18 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (21.43%) Azure
4 16 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (16.67%) GCP
6 11 (13.10%) Amazon S3
7 9 (10.71%) GitHub
7 9 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.52%) PaaS
9 7 (8.33%) dbt
9 7 (8.33%) SaaS
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.95%) CloudFront
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.57%) IaaS
14 2 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.95%) MySQL
5 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.38%) Looker
7 1 (1.19%) Adabas
7 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.19%) Redis
7 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Git
2 10 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.52%) JIRA
4 7 (8.33%) Selenium
5 6 (7.14%) JUnit
6 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.57%) GitLab
6 3 (3.57%) JMeter
6 3 (3.57%) Postman
6 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.57%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.38%) Newman
7 2 (2.38%) TestRail
8 1 (1.19%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.19%) Gatling
8 1 (1.19%) Gradle
8 1 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.19%) Mocha
8 1 (1.19%) RSpec
General
1 28 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Banking
3 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Welsh Language
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (54.76%) Developer
2 27 (32.14%) Java Developer
3 23 (27.38%) Software Developer
4 20 (23.81%) Senior
5 14 (16.67%) Lead
5 14 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Senior Software Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Consultant
7 9 (10.71%) Software Consultant
7 9 (10.71%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (7.14%) Test Leader
10 5 (5.95%) Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (38.10%) Spring Boot
2 26 (30.95%) Spring
3 22 (26.19%) Node.js
4 20 (23.81%) Ruby on Rails
5 16 (19.05%) React
6 11 (13.10%) Kafka
6 11 (13.10%) REST
7 10 (11.90%) AngularJS
8 9 (10.71%) AWS CDK
9 8 (9.52%) JPA
9 8 (9.52%) RESTful
10 7 (8.33%) Hibernate
11 6 (7.14%) GraphQL
11 6 (7.14%) HTML
11 6 (7.14%) HTML5
11 6 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (5.95%) CSS
12 5 (5.95%) CSS3
12 5 (5.95%) Serverless Framework
13 4 (4.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.86%) Mainframe
3 10 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.95%) Digital Wallet
5 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.76%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.57%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.57%) Replication
7 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
1 6 (7.14%) Unix
2 4 (4.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (65.48%) Agile
2 45 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 31 (36.90%) DevOps
3 31 (36.90%) Software Engineering
4 25 (29.76%) Microservices
4 25 (29.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (26.19%) Containerisation
6 22 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (23.81%) Observability
7 20 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (22.62%) Scrum
8 19 (22.62%) Test Automation
9 17 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (20.24%) TDD
10 16 (19.05%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.67%) AI
11 14 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (15.48%) API Design
12 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.81%) Ruby
2 19 (22.62%) Python
3 14 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.29%) SQL
5 10 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.71%) Scala
7 5 (5.95%) C#
7 5 (5.95%) COBOL
8 2 (2.38%) Bash
8 2 (2.38%) Bicep
8 2 (2.38%) Go
8 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 33 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 3 (3.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.38%) Degree
8 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.10%) WCAG
3 5 (5.95%) Government Security Classifications
3 5 (5.95%) NCSC
3 5 (5.95%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (27.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (33.33%) Terraform
2 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Ansible
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (5.95%) OneLogin
2 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (3.57%) Google
3 3 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow