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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 103 11 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.13% 1.48% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.91% 8.03% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 94 9 35
10th Percentile £43,625 £39,250 £41,850
25th Percentile £58,438 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £51,398 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -0.20% -6.36%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,673 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -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 369 137 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.79% 18.49% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 252 124 335
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,375 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 1 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 1 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 +1 54 £66,000 +18.49% 25
West Wales - 38 £71,250 - 7
North Wales +6 11 £65,000 +100.00%
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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (54.37%) AWS
2 28 (27.18%) Serverless
3 25 (24.27%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (24.27%) Azure
4 22 (21.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (19.42%) GCP
6 13 (12.62%) GitHub
6 13 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (11.65%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.77%) PaaS
9 7 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.80%) dbt
9 7 (6.80%) SaaS
10 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.83%) CloudFront
11 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.91%) IaaS
13 2 (1.94%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.80%) MySQL
5 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.94%) Looker
7 1 (0.97%) Adabas
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) Git
2 15 (14.56%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.71%) JIRA
4 8 (7.77%) Selenium
5 7 (6.80%) JUnit
6 6 (5.83%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.88%) GitLab
7 4 (3.88%) Postman
7 4 (3.88%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.88%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.91%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.91%) JMeter
8 3 (2.91%) Newman
8 3 (2.91%) TestRail
9 1 (0.97%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.97%) Gatling
9 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.97%) Maven
9 1 (0.97%) Mocha
9 1 (0.97%) RSpec
General
1 41 (39.81%) Public Sector
2 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.74%) Banking
5 7 (6.80%) Welsh Language
6 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.97%) Finance
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (53.40%) Developer
2 33 (32.04%) Java Developer
3 26 (25.24%) Senior
4 24 (23.30%) Software Developer
5 20 (19.42%) Senior Developer
6 18 (17.48%) Lead
7 11 (10.68%) Senior Software Developer
7 11 (10.68%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Consultant
8 9 (8.74%) Software Consultant
9 8 (7.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.80%) Test Leader
11 6 (5.83%) Architect
11 6 (5.83%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.85%) Junior
12 5 (4.85%) Junior DevOps
12 5 (4.85%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (42.72%) Spring Boot
2 37 (35.92%) Spring
3 28 (27.18%) Node.js
4 27 (26.21%) Ruby on Rails
5 23 (22.33%) React
6 15 (14.56%) Kafka
7 12 (11.65%) AWS CDK
7 12 (11.65%) REST
7 12 (11.65%) RESTful
8 10 (9.71%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.71%) JPA
9 9 (8.74%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.77%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (6.80%) GraphQL
11 7 (6.80%) HTML
11 7 (6.80%) HTML5
11 7 (6.80%) Jest
11 7 (6.80%) Serverless Framework
12 6 (5.83%) CSS
12 6 (5.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.98%) Cloud Native
2 20 (19.42%) Mainframe
3 14 (13.59%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (11.65%) Product Ownership
5 11 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (7.77%) Management Information System
7 7 (6.80%) Digital Wallet
8 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (5.83%) Virtual Team
9 5 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (3.88%) Driving Licence
10 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
11 3 (2.91%) Replication
12 2 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
13 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
1 9 (8.74%) Unix
2 5 (4.85%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.84%) Agile
2 58 (56.31%) CI/CD
3 44 (42.72%) Software Engineering
4 40 (38.83%) DevOps
5 34 (33.01%) Microservices
5 34 (33.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 31 (30.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (26.21%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (25.24%) Containerisation
8 26 (25.24%) Observability
9 25 (24.27%) Event-Driven
9 25 (24.27%) Scrum
10 24 (23.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (21.36%) Test Automation
13 21 (20.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (20.39%) TDD
14 18 (17.48%) AI
14 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (16.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.21%) Ruby
2 24 (23.30%) Python
3 17 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 15 (14.56%) SQL
4 15 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.74%) Scala
6 7 (6.80%) C#
7 6 (5.83%) COBOL
8 3 (2.91%) Bicep
8 3 (2.91%) Go
9 2 (1.94%) Bash
9 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) Natural
Qualifications
1 44 (42.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (38.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.71%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.83%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.88%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Degree
8 1 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.45%) Accessibility
2 16 (15.53%) WCAG
3 9 (8.74%) QA
4 6 (5.83%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (5.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (27.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (33.01%) Terraform
2 25 (24.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.80%) Grafana
4 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) Ansible
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 7 (6.80%) OneLogin
2 5 (4.85%) Google
2 5 (4.85%) Oracle
2 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
2 5 (4.85%) Splunk
3 2 (1.94%) MicroStrategy