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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 48 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing Java 61 14 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.06% 2.52% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.70% 12.61% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 52 12 67
10th Percentile £47,930 £37,523 £41,073
25th Percentile £60,313 £40,371 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,690 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.30% -4.62% -3.84%
75th Percentile £72,438 £64,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,194 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%

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 247 111 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.38% 19.96% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 159 100 464
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,619 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +22.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -14 33 £65,500 +31.70% 12
West Wales -15 16 £71,250 +88.83% 5
North Wales +3 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 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) AWS
2 13 (21.31%) Serverless
3 12 (19.67%) Azure
4 10 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (14.75%) GCP
6 8 (13.11%) PaaS
7 7 (11.48%) dbt
7 7 (11.48%) SaaS
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 5 (8.20%) GitHub
9 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.92%) IaaS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (3.28%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.92%) MySQL
4 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.28%) Looker
5 1 (1.64%) Adabas
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.64%) Redis
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.20%) JIRA
4 4 (6.56%) Selenium
5 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.92%) JMeter
5 3 (4.92%) JUnit
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 2 (3.28%) Postman
6 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.28%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.64%) Gatling
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.64%) Locust
7 1 (1.64%) Mocha
7 1 (1.64%) Newman
7 1 (1.64%) TestRail
General
1 15 (24.59%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.20%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Welsh Language
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (55.74%) Developer
2 21 (34.43%) Java Developer
3 17 (27.87%) Software Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Senior
5 9 (14.75%) Lead
6 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Consultant
8 5 (8.20%) Software Consultant
8 5 (8.20%) Test Leader
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Consultant
11 2 (3.28%) Architect
11 2 (3.28%) Principal Software Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) Spring Boot
2 15 (24.59%) Spring
3 14 (22.95%) Node.js
4 12 (19.67%) Ruby on Rails
5 11 (18.03%) React
6 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.20%) Kafka
7 5 (8.20%) REST
8 4 (6.56%) AWS CDK
8 4 (6.56%) HTML
8 4 (6.56%) HTML5
8 4 (6.56%) JPA
8 4 (6.56%) RESTful
9 3 (4.92%) CSS
9 3 (4.92%) CSS3
9 3 (4.92%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.92%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.92%) Jest
9 3 (4.92%) OpenAPI
9 3 (4.92%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Mainframe
3 5 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.92%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.92%) Replication
6 2 (3.28%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.28%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Unix
2 2 (3.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) Agile
2 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (32.79%) DevOps
3 20 (32.79%) Software Engineering
4 18 (29.51%) Test Automation
5 16 (26.23%) Containerisation
5 16 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (21.31%) Microservices
7 13 (21.31%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 12 (19.67%) Observability
9 11 (18.03%) AI
9 11 (18.03%) API Design
10 10 (16.39%) Scrum
10 10 (16.39%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (14.75%) BDD
11 9 (14.75%) TDD
12 8 (13.11%) OO
12 8 (13.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.67%) Ruby
4 10 (16.39%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.11%) SQL
6 5 (8.20%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) Scala
7 2 (3.28%) Bash
7 2 (3.28%) Bicep
7 2 (3.28%) COBOL
7 2 (3.28%) Go
7 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.64%) Natural
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.28%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.84%) WCAG
3 3 (4.92%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (3.28%) NCSC
5 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (27.87%) Terraform
2 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Google
1 3 (4.92%) OneLogin
2 2 (3.28%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle
3 1 (1.64%) Splunk