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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 59 56
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 109 10 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.03% 1.23% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.77% 6.80% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 99 8 31
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £49,735 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -13.50% +8.51%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £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 423 147 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.65% 18.06% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 266 134 310
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,352 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +17.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,281 £62,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 15 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 15 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 +28.41% 23
West Wales - 44 £70,000 - 11
North Wales +9 11 £65,000 +100.00% 1
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 (6.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.88%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) Serverless
3 29 (26.61%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (24.77%) Azure
5 23 (21.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (20.18%) GCP
7 16 (14.68%) GitHub
7 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (11.01%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.42%) PaaS
9 7 (6.42%) SaaS
10 6 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.50%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.50%) CloudFront
10 6 (5.50%) dbt
11 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.26%) MySQL
5 6 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.83%) Looker
7 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.92%) Adabas
8 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Git
2 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.01%) JIRA
4 9 (8.26%) Cypress.io
5 8 (7.34%) Selenium
6 7 (6.42%) JUnit
7 4 (3.67%) GitLab
7 4 (3.67%) Postman
7 4 (3.67%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.67%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.75%) JMeter
8 3 (2.75%) Newman
8 3 (2.75%) TestRail
9 1 (0.92%) Gradle
9 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.92%) Maven
9 1 (0.92%) Mocha
9 1 (0.92%) RSpec
General
1 46 (42.20%) Public Sector
2 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.09%) Banking
5 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Welsh Language
6 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.92%) Finance
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (55.05%) Developer
2 35 (32.11%) Java Developer
3 27 (24.77%) Senior
4 24 (22.02%) Software Developer
5 21 (19.27%) Senior Developer
6 18 (16.51%) Lead
7 13 (11.93%) Software Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (8.26%) Consultant
9 9 (8.26%) Software Consultant
10 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Test Leader
12 6 (5.50%) Architect
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Junior
13 5 (4.59%) Junior DevOps
13 5 (4.59%) Junior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.59%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (46.79%) Spring Boot
2 44 (40.37%) Spring
3 31 (28.44%) Ruby on Rails
4 29 (26.61%) Node.js
5 27 (24.77%) React
6 17 (15.60%) Kafka
6 17 (15.60%) RESTful
7 12 (11.01%) AWS CDK
7 12 (11.01%) JPA
7 12 (11.01%) REST
8 11 (10.09%) Hibernate
9 10 (9.17%) AngularJS
9 10 (9.17%) Jest
9 10 (9.17%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (8.26%) HTML
10 9 (8.26%) HTML5
10 9 (8.26%) Playwright
11 8 (7.34%) CSS
11 8 (7.34%) CSS3
12 7 (6.42%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (19.27%) Mainframe
3 17 (15.60%) Product Ownership
4 15 (13.76%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (7.34%) Digital Wallet
6 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (7.34%) Management Information System
6 8 (7.34%) Virtual Team
7 7 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (4.59%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.75%) Replication
10 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
1 8 (7.34%) Unix
2 6 (5.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (73.39%) Agile
2 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
3 49 (44.95%) Software Engineering
4 41 (37.61%) DevOps
5 39 (35.78%) Microservices
5 39 (35.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 33 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (26.61%) Scrum
7 29 (26.61%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (25.69%) Event-Driven
8 28 (25.69%) Observability
9 27 (24.77%) Containerisation
10 25 (22.94%) Test Automation
11 24 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (22.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 24 (22.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (21.10%) TDD
13 21 (19.27%) Mentoring
14 20 (18.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) Ruby
2 24 (22.02%) Python
3 20 (18.35%) JavaScript
3 20 (18.35%) TypeScript
4 15 (13.76%) SQL
5 9 (8.26%) Scala
6 8 (7.34%) C#
7 6 (5.50%) COBOL
8 3 (2.75%) Bicep
8 3 (2.75%) Go
9 2 (1.83%) Bash
9 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.92%) Natural
Qualifications
1 47 (43.12%) Security Cleared
2 43 (39.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.67%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.83%) Degree
8 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.18%) Accessibility
2 19 (17.43%) WCAG
3 14 (12.84%) QA
4 6 (5.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (5.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (26.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (32.11%) Terraform
2 27 (24.77%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Grafana
4 8 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) OneLogin
2 7 (6.42%) Splunk
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle
4 5 (4.59%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.83%) MicroStrategy