Lead Java Developer Job Trends in Wales

Lead Java Developer
UK > Wales

The median Lead Java Developer salary in Wales is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.061% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £135,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -46.30% +42.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 3,018 733 1,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 85.53% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 533 873
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £28,125
25th Percentile £36,685 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -1.10%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,050
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Lead Java Developer job vacancy trend in Wales

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in Wales

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
West Wales - 2 £62,000 - 2
Lead Java Developer
UK

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, Lead Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JPA

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk