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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 108 9 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.71% 1.08% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.05% 6.52% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 97 7 28
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,830 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £51,398 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -10.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,375 £69,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 449 138 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.43% 16.57% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 265 123 279
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 54 £66,000 +18.49% 31
West Wales - 46 £70,000 - 8
North Wales +6 8 £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 7 (6.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.33%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) Serverless
3 29 (26.85%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (26.85%) Azure
4 25 (23.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (22.22%) GCP
6 16 (14.81%) GitHub
6 16 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.56%) CloudFront
8 6 (5.56%) PaaS
8 6 (5.56%) SaaS
9 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.63%) dbt
10 3 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.04%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.19%) MySQL
5 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) Looker
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Adabas
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (21.30%) Git
2 19 (17.59%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.11%) JIRA
4 9 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 8 (7.41%) Selenium
6 7 (6.48%) JUnit
7 4 (3.70%) GitLab
7 4 (3.70%) Postman
7 4 (3.70%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.70%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.78%) Newman
8 3 (2.78%) TestRail
9 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.85%) JMeter
10 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.93%) Gatling
10 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.93%) Maven
10 1 (0.93%) Mocha
10 1 (0.93%) RSpec
General
1 48 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Banking
3 13 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Welsh Language
6 5 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.85%) Finance
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (54.63%) Developer
2 34 (31.48%) Java Developer
3 28 (25.93%) Senior
4 24 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 22 (20.37%) Senior Developer
6 18 (16.67%) Lead
7 13 (12.04%) Software Engineer
8 11 (10.19%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (8.33%) Consultant
9 9 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (8.33%) Software Consultant
10 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.56%) Architect
11 6 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.56%) Test Leader
12 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Junior
12 5 (4.63%) Junior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 47 (43.52%) Spring
3 36 (33.33%) Terraform
4 31 (28.70%) Ruby on Rails
5 29 (26.85%) Node.js
6 28 (25.93%) React
7 19 (17.59%) Kafka
7 19 (17.59%) RESTful
8 14 (12.96%) JPA
9 13 (12.04%) Hibernate
10 12 (11.11%) AWS CDK
10 12 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (11.11%) REST
11 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
11 10 (9.26%) Jest
12 9 (8.33%) HTML
12 9 (8.33%) HTML5
12 9 (8.33%) Playwright
13 8 (7.41%) CSS
13 8 (7.41%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 40 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.44%) Mainframe
3 19 (17.59%) Product Ownership
4 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (13.89%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (9.26%) Virtual Team
6 9 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (7.41%) Digital Wallet
7 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
8 5 (4.63%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.78%) Replication
10 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Linux
1 8 (7.41%) Unix
2 6 (5.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (75.93%) Agile
2 66 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 52 (48.15%) Software Engineering
4 42 (38.89%) DevOps
5 41 (37.96%) Microservices
6 40 (37.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 34 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (28.70%) Scrum
8 31 (28.70%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (27.78%) Event-Driven
9 30 (27.78%) Observability
10 28 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 26 (24.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 24 (22.22%) Test Automation
13 23 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (21.30%) TDD
14 22 (20.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) Ruby
2 23 (21.30%) Python
3 21 (19.44%) TypeScript
4 20 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 15 (13.89%) SQL
6 9 (8.33%) Scala
7 8 (7.41%) C#
8 6 (5.56%) COBOL
9 3 (2.78%) Bicep
9 3 (2.78%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) Bash
10 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.93%) Natural
Qualifications
1 47 (43.52%) Security Cleared
2 43 (39.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (6.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Degree
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.44%) Accessibility
2 18 (16.67%) WCAG
3 15 (13.89%) QA
4 6 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.19%) Grafana
2 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) OneLogin
2 9 (8.33%) Splunk
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.85%) MicroStrategy