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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 10 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.21% 2.62% 4.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 10.61% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 24
10th Percentile £47,310 £44,250 £37,950
25th Percentile £48,659 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.89% +7.93%

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 125 377 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.11% 24.69% 34.89%
Number of salaries quoted 108 242 273
10th Percentile £43,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,557 £38,813 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +13.61% -11.98%
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,299 £72,487
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -3 10 £60,000 -11.11% 14
Java
UK

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Google Workspace
2 3 (30.00%) SurveyMonkey
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (30.00%) Modbus
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (30.00%) VLAN
1 3 (30.00%) Wireshark
1 3 (30.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Appium
2 3 (30.00%) Burp Suite
2 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) JMeter
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Katalon Studio
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) Metasploit
2 3 (30.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (30.00%) Law
1 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CAN bus
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (30.00%) IoT
1 3 (30.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (30.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Android
1 3 (30.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Ergonomics
4 3 (30.00%) Human Factors
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Psychology
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Statistics
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) C++
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Groovy
3 3 (30.00%) R
3 3 (30.00%) Rust
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) C
5 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Nessus
1 3 (30.00%) Nmap
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Qualtrics
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk