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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 54 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 +14
Permanent jobs citing Java 97 12 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 4.15% 1.73% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.48% 9.45% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 88 10 53
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £41,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,735 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% +2.55% -12.21%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,688 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,444 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -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 329 127 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.07% 18.35% 25.26%
Number of salaries quoted 238 115 404
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,375 £73,750 £61,563
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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +7 52 £66,000 +28.41% 8
West Wales - 34 £72,500 - 6
North Wales +5 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 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.58%) AWS
2 25 (25.77%) Serverless
3 23 (23.71%) Azure
4 22 (22.68%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (21.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (18.56%) GCP
7 12 (12.37%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.34%) GitHub
8 11 (11.34%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.25%) PaaS
10 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.22%) dbt
10 7 (7.22%) SaaS
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (6.19%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.09%) IaaS
14 2 (2.06%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.19%) MySQL
5 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.06%) Looker
7 1 (1.03%) Adabas
7 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.03%) Redis
7 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) Git
2 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.28%) JIRA
4 8 (8.25%) Selenium
5 7 (7.22%) JUnit
6 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.12%) GitLab
6 4 (4.12%) Postman
6 4 (4.12%) REST Assured
6 4 (4.12%) Zephyr
7 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.09%) JMeter
7 3 (3.09%) Newman
7 3 (3.09%) TestRail
8 1 (1.03%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.03%) Gatling
8 1 (1.03%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.03%) Maven
8 1 (1.03%) Mocha
8 1 (1.03%) RSpec
General
1 37 (38.14%) Public Sector
2 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Banking
3 8 (8.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.19%) Welsh Language
5 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (53.61%) Developer
2 32 (32.99%) Java Developer
3 25 (25.77%) Senior
4 24 (24.74%) Software Developer
5 19 (19.59%) Senior Developer
6 17 (17.53%) Lead
7 11 (11.34%) Senior Software Developer
8 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) Consultant
9 9 (9.28%) Software Consultant
10 8 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (7.22%) Test Leader
12 6 (6.19%) Architect
12 6 (6.19%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (4.12%) Java Software Developer
13 4 (4.12%) Junior
13 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (40.21%) Spring Boot
2 32 (32.99%) Spring
3 27 (27.84%) Node.js
4 24 (24.74%) Ruby on Rails
5 19 (19.59%) React
6 14 (14.43%) Kafka
7 12 (12.37%) AWS CDK
7 12 (12.37%) REST
8 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
9 9 (9.28%) JPA
9 9 (9.28%) RESTful
10 8 (8.25%) Hibernate
11 7 (7.22%) GraphQL
11 7 (7.22%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (7.22%) Serverless Framework
12 6 (6.19%) AWS SAM
12 6 (6.19%) HTML
12 6 (6.19%) HTML5
13 5 (5.15%) CSS
13 5 (5.15%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.02%) Cloud Native
2 19 (19.59%) Mainframe
3 13 (13.40%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (7.22%) Management Information System
7 6 (6.19%) Digital Wallet
8 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (5.15%) Virtual Team
9 4 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
10 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
10 3 (3.09%) Replication
11 2 (2.06%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
1 8 (8.25%) Unix
2 4 (4.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (70.10%) Agile
2 53 (54.64%) CI/CD
3 39 (40.21%) Software Engineering
4 38 (39.18%) DevOps
5 31 (31.96%) Microservices
5 31 (31.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 29 (29.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (25.77%) Containerisation
7 25 (25.77%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (24.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (23.71%) Event-Driven
9 23 (23.71%) Observability
9 23 (23.71%) Scrum
10 22 (22.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (20.62%) Test Automation
12 19 (19.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (19.59%) TDD
13 16 (16.49%) AI
13 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (15.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.74%) Ruby
2 22 (22.68%) Python
3 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.43%) SQL
5 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.28%) Scala
7 6 (6.19%) C#
7 6 (6.19%) COBOL
8 3 (3.09%) Bicep
8 3 (3.09%) Go
9 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.03%) Natural
Qualifications
1 40 (41.24%) Security Cleared
2 36 (37.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (4.12%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.53%) Accessibility
2 14 (14.43%) WCAG
3 6 (6.19%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (6.19%) NCSC
3 6 (6.19%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (34.02%) Terraform
2 24 (24.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) Grafana
4 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) OneLogin
2 4 (4.12%) Google
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle
2 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.12%) Splunk
3 2 (2.06%) MicroStrategy