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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 110 38 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.68% 7.22% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 8.56% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 92 35 125
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 - £66,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £60,250
% change year-on-year -6.50% +24.26% -13.93%

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 1,255 444 1,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.79% 84.41% 71.66%
Number of salaries quoted 870 277 1,186
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,120 £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 15 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 15 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 -9 47 £60,000 -4.00% 15
West Wales +4 36 £53,310 +41.28% 4
North Wales +6 18 £40,000 +23.08% 4
Mid Wales - 9 £65,000 -
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 (5.45%) CMS
1 6 (5.45%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) CANalyzer
2 2 (1.82%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.91%) CATIA
3 1 (0.91%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.91%) AWS
2 15 (13.64%) Azure
3 10 (9.09%) Serverless
4 9 (8.18%) GCP
5 6 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.82%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.91%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.91%) MySQL
2 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) CANoe
1 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.91%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.91%) Gatling
3 1 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) JMeter
3 1 (0.91%) Moq
3 1 (0.91%) Pa11y
3 1 (0.91%) Postman
3 1 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.91%) Selenium
3 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (33.64%) Manufacturing
2 14 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.91%) Automotive
5 8 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.45%) Retail
7 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Electronics
7 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Finance
8 2 (1.82%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.91%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 76 (69.09%) Software Engineer
2 21 (19.09%) Senior
2 21 (19.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 19 (17.27%) Lead
4 8 (7.27%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Graduate
4 8 (7.27%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Developer
5 7 (6.36%) Development Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Software Development Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Test Development Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Architect
6 6 (5.45%) Junior
6 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) Node.js
2 11 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.27%) React
4 8 (7.27%) Ruby on Rails
4 8 (7.27%) Spring
5 4 (3.64%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.64%) REST
6 3 (2.73%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.73%) Kafka
6 3 (2.73%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.82%) .NET
7 2 (1.82%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.82%) Laravel
7 2 (1.82%) Serverless Framework
7 2 (1.82%) Vue
8 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.91%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.91%) XML
8 1 (0.91%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.36%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (5.45%) Industry 4.0
3 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.73%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.91%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Robotics
7 1 (0.91%) SCADA
7 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (18.18%) Agile
3 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (16.36%) Test Automation
4 17 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 14 (12.73%) AI
7 13 (11.82%) DevOps
8 12 (10.91%) Smart Manufacturing
8 12 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 9 (8.18%) API Design
10 9 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (8.18%) Observability
11 8 (7.27%) Containerisation
11 8 (7.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 7 (6.36%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.36%) Roadmaps
12 7 (6.36%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.36%) Java
2 17 (15.45%) JavaScript
3 11 (10.00%) C++
4 9 (8.18%) Python
5 8 (7.27%) C#
5 8 (7.27%) Ruby
6 7 (6.36%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.45%) C
8 5 (4.55%) PHP
9 3 (2.73%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.82%) COBOL
10 2 (1.82%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.82%) SQL
11 1 (0.91%) Bicep
11 1 (0.91%) Go
11 1 (0.91%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 9 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) HNC
4 3 (2.73%) HND
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) CSPO
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) WCAG
3 2 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Terraform
2 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Grafana
3 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.45%) Sitecore
2 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe
3 1 (0.91%) Google
3 1 (0.91%) IBM
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.91%) Splunk