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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Java 47 18 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.58% 3.50% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.61% 15.25% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 39 12 64
10th Percentile £47,594 £37,523 £40,941
25th Percentile £55,625 £40,371 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,690 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.30% -4.62% -5.21%
75th Percentile £71,000 £64,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,194 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 228 118 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.49% 22.96% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 143 102 444
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,085 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,790 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,053 £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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -20 25 £66,000 +32.70% 20
North Wales +3 12 £65,000 +100.00% 2
West Wales -17 10 £51,619 +36.80% 10
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 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) AWS
2 11 (23.40%) Serverless
3 9 (19.15%) Azure
4 8 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (17.02%) PaaS
5 7 (14.89%) dbt
5 7 (14.89%) SaaS
6 6 (12.77%) GCP
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.51%) GitHub
8 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (6.38%) IaaS
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (4.26%) Vertex AI
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.26%) Looker
3 2 (4.26%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Adabas
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 4 (8.51%) Cucumber
3 4 (8.51%) JMeter
3 4 (8.51%) Selenium
4 3 (6.38%) GitLab
4 3 (6.38%) JUnit
4 3 (6.38%) Zephyr
5 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.26%) Postman
5 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.13%) Locust
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (2.13%) Mocha
6 1 (2.13%) Newman
6 1 (2.13%) Pa11y
6 1 (2.13%) RSpec
6 1 (2.13%) TestRail
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Welsh Language
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 16 (34.04%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) Software Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Software Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Lead
6 5 (10.64%) Test Leader
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Java Software Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Development Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Java Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) QA Leader
10 1 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) Spring Boot
2 12 (25.53%) Spring
3 10 (21.28%) Node.js
3 10 (21.28%) Ruby on Rails
4 8 (17.02%) React
5 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.51%) HTML
6 4 (8.51%) HTML5
6 4 (8.51%) REST
7 3 (6.38%) CSS
7 3 (6.38%) CSS3
7 3 (6.38%) Jest
7 3 (6.38%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.26%) JPA
8 2 (4.26%) Kafka
8 2 (4.26%) Playwright
8 2 (4.26%) RESTful
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Mainframe
3 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.38%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.38%) Replication
5 2 (4.26%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (2.13%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
1 4 (8.51%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) CI/CD
2 23 (48.94%) Agile
3 19 (40.43%) Test Automation
4 17 (36.17%) DevOps
5 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
6 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
7 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (21.28%) BDD
9 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (19.15%) Observability
10 8 (17.02%) AI
10 8 (17.02%) API Design
10 8 (17.02%) Microservices
11 7 (14.89%) Scrum
11 7 (14.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 6 (12.77%) Front End Development
12 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (10.64%) API Integration
13 5 (10.64%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.28%) Ruby
4 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.38%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.13%) COBOL
7 1 (2.13%) Natural
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.64%) WCAG
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) OneLogin
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (2.13%) Google