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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +7
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 104 42 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.70% 8.17% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 9.68% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 33 118
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £61,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +36.00% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 - £66,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -3.45% +18.37% -12.50%

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 1,205 434 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 66.03% 84.44% 72.71%
Number of salaries quoted 820 260 1,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +16.11% -
75th Percentile £62,125 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -5 47 £57,500 -11.54% 23
West Wales +1 32 £51,619 +36.80% 13
North Wales +6 16 £40,000 +23.08% 5
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 5 (4.81%) CMS
1 5 (4.81%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) CANalyzer
2 2 (1.92%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.96%) CATIA
3 1 (0.96%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.31%) AWS
2 12 (11.54%) Azure
3 8 (7.69%) Serverless
4 6 (5.77%) GCP
5 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.92%) GitHub
6 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.96%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.96%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.96%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) CANoe
2 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.96%) Gatling
3 1 (0.96%) JMeter
3 1 (0.96%) Moq
3 1 (0.96%) Pa11y
3 1 (0.96%) Postman
3 1 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.96%) Selenium
3 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (35.58%) Manufacturing
2 12 (11.54%) Automotive
2 12 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Retail
6 3 (2.88%) Electronics
6 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Finance
7 2 (1.92%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (71.15%) Software Engineer
2 19 (18.27%) Lead
2 19 (18.27%) Senior
2 19 (18.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Graduate
3 8 (7.69%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 8 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (6.73%) Development Engineer
4 7 (6.73%) Software Development Engineer
4 7 (6.73%) Test Development Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Junior
5 6 (5.77%) Manufacturing Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Team Leader
6 5 (4.81%) Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
2 8 (7.69%) Node.js
2 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.77%) React
3 6 (5.77%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (5.77%) Spring
4 3 (2.88%) OpenAPI
4 3 (2.88%) REST
5 2 (1.92%) .NET
5 2 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.92%) Laravel
5 2 (1.92%) Vue
6 1 (0.96%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.96%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.96%) Kafka
6 1 (0.96%) Playwright
6 1 (0.96%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (0.96%) XML
6 1 (0.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.77%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.92%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.96%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.96%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Robotics
7 1 (0.96%) SCADA
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
2 17 (16.35%) CI/CD
2 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (15.38%) Agile
4 15 (14.42%) Software Testing
5 14 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (11.54%) Smart Manufacturing
7 11 (10.58%) AI
8 10 (9.62%) DevOps
9 9 (8.65%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (6.73%) API Design
11 7 (6.73%) SDET
11 7 (6.73%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (5.77%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (5.77%) Observability
13 5 (4.81%) Clean Code
13 5 (4.81%) Collaborative Engineering
13 5 (4.81%) Containerisation
13 5 (4.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
2 13 (12.50%) Java
3 11 (10.58%) C++
4 8 (7.69%) Python
5 7 (6.73%) C#
6 6 (5.77%) C
6 6 (5.77%) Ruby
6 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.81%) PHP
8 3 (2.88%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.92%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.92%) SQL
10 1 (0.96%) COBOL
10 1 (0.96%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) Degree
2 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.88%) HNC
5 3 (2.88%) HND
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) CSPO
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.88%) WCAG
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (4.81%) Sitecore
2 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.96%) Adobe
3 1 (0.96%) IBM
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft