Software Delivery Job Trends in Wales

Software Delivery
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 58 82
Rank change year-on-year -53 +24 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 10 7 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.42% 1.00% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 20
10th Percentile - £50,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £52,500 £37,151
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.22% +13.40% -24.19%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,440 £61,000 £54,805
UK median annual salary £69,936 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.09% +16.67% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,533 588 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.49% 84.00% 68.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 422 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,170 £26,900
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,272 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Wales

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Wales over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in Wales

Software Delivery
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
West Wales - 6 £51,619 - 1
South Wales -40 4 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
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 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Chief Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (30.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) API Design
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) CQRS
5 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google