Software Engineering Job Trends in Wales

Software Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 118 41 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.72% 7.50% 8.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 8.89% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 99 38 131
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,625 £56,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -5.33% +23.97% -13.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Software Engineering 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 1,335 461 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.68% 84.28% 71.16%
Number of salaries quoted 944 300 1,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Wales

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
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 Engineering within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 -8 49 £60,000 - 17
West Wales +4 41 £55,000 +25.20% 5
North Wales +8 19 £40,000 +23.08% 5
Mid Wales - 9 £65,000 - 1
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
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 6 (5.08%) CMS
1 6 (5.08%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) CANalyzer
2 2 (1.69%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.85%) CATIA
3 1 (0.85%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (24.58%) AWS
2 17 (14.41%) Azure
3 13 (11.02%) Serverless
4 11 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (9.32%) GCP
5 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.24%) GitHub
6 5 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.39%) CloudFront
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.85%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.85%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.69%) MySQL
2 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.54%) CANoe
3 2 (1.69%) Git
3 2 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.85%) Gatling
4 1 (0.85%) JMeter
4 1 (0.85%) Moq
4 1 (0.85%) Pa11y
4 1 (0.85%) Postman
4 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
4 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (31.36%) Manufacturing
2 19 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Automotive
5 9 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.08%) Retail
7 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Electronics
8 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Welsh Language
9 2 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.69%) Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Finance
10 1 (0.85%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (65.25%) Software Engineer
2 22 (18.64%) Senior
2 22 (18.64%) Senior Software Engineer
3 19 (16.10%) Lead
4 11 (9.32%) Developer
5 8 (6.78%) Architect
5 8 (6.78%) Embedded Engineer
5 8 (6.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 8 (6.78%) Graduate
5 8 (6.78%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 8 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Development Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Junior
6 7 (5.93%) Software Development Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Test Development Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) Node.js
2 15 (12.71%) Spring Boot
3 11 (9.32%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (8.47%) AngularJS
4 10 (8.47%) Spring
5 9 (7.63%) React
6 7 (5.93%) AWS CDK
7 6 (5.08%) REST
8 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.24%) Kafka
9 3 (2.54%) AWS SAM
9 3 (2.54%) OpenAPI
9 3 (2.54%) Serverless Framework
10 2 (1.69%) .NET
10 2 (1.69%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.69%) JPA
10 2 (1.69%) Laravel
10 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.69%) RESTful
10 2 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) Mainframe
2 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.08%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (5.08%) Industry 4.0
3 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.24%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.54%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.85%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.88%) CI/CD
2 26 (22.03%) Agile
3 20 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (15.25%) Test Automation
5 17 (14.41%) AI
5 17 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (13.56%) DevOps
7 15 (12.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 15 (12.71%) Software Testing
8 13 (11.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 12 (10.17%) Containerisation
9 12 (10.17%) Smart Manufacturing
10 11 (9.32%) API Design
10 11 (9.32%) Event-Driven
10 11 (9.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.32%) Observability
11 9 (7.63%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.03%) Java
2 18 (15.25%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.32%) C++
3 11 (9.32%) Python
3 11 (9.32%) Ruby
4 9 (7.63%) C#
5 8 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.08%) C
7 5 (4.24%) PHP
8 4 (3.39%) COBOL
9 3 (2.54%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.54%) SQL
10 2 (1.69%) Bicep
10 2 (1.69%) Go
10 2 (1.69%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.85%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Degree
2 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.54%) HNC
6 3 (2.54%) HND
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) CSPO
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.24%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (3.39%) NCSC
4 2 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.32%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.69%) Grafana
3 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.08%) Sitecore
2 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.69%) Google
3 2 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe
4 1 (0.85%) IBM
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow