Software Engineering Jobs in Wales

Software Engineering
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 20 21 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 124 156 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 11.28% 9.73% 12.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.64% 10.01% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 67 72 137
10th Percentile £36,941 £25,854 £35,745
25th Percentile £43,625 £37,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
75th Percentile £69,149 £66,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,329 £84,056 £71,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,065 1,558 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 96.91% 97.19% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 615 959 1,108
10th Percentile £30,450 £31,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,169 £72,500 £67,513
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Wales.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Wales

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 100 £57,500 - 41
West Wales - 21 £48,066 - 9
Software Engineering
UK

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.45%) Umbraco
2 7 (5.65%) JBoss
2 7 (5.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.39%) Azure
1 29 (23.39%) Serverless
2 28 (22.58%) AWS
3 18 (14.52%) SaaS
4 9 (7.26%) GCP
5 7 (5.65%) PaaS
6 6 (4.84%) IaaS
7 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.61%) dbt
10 2 (1.61%) GitHub
10 2 (1.61%) IBM Cloud
11 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
1 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.45%) RDBMS
3 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.84%) Big Data
5 5 (4.03%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.23%) MySQL
7 3 (2.42%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.81%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (23.39%) Git
2 7 (5.65%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.42%) JDeveloper
3 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (15.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (13.71%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.29%) Police
4 13 (10.48%) Finance
5 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.84%) Banking
7 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.81%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 67 (54.03%) Software Engineer
2 28 (22.58%) Senior
3 21 (16.94%) Java Engineer
3 21 (16.94%) Java Software Engineer
4 16 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) Architect
6 11 (8.87%) Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Lead
8 9 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Ruby Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Full Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.61%) React
2 20 (16.13%) HTML
3 19 (15.32%) Spring
4 17 (13.71%) CSS
5 15 (12.10%) .NET
6 14 (11.29%) Node.js
7 11 (8.87%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.87%) J2EE
7 11 (8.87%) Ruby on Rails
8 10 (8.06%) RESTful
9 9 (7.26%) ASP.NET
9 9 (7.26%) JSON
9 9 (7.26%) Middleware
9 9 (7.26%) Web Services
10 8 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (6.45%) Blazor
10 8 (6.45%) XML
11 7 (5.65%) JPA
11 7 (5.65%) REST
11 7 (5.65%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.65%) Legacy Code
4 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.42%) IoT
6 2 (1.61%) Blog
6 2 (1.61%) CMDB
6 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) NHS
6 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) Smart City
7 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.81%) Digital TV
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.61%) Android
3 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (50.00%) Agile
2 42 (33.87%) Actionable Insight
3 37 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (23.39%) Microservices
5 26 (20.97%) Containerisation
5 26 (20.97%) Mentoring
6 25 (20.16%) Design Patterns
7 22 (17.74%) DevOps
7 22 (17.74%) Software Delivery
8 21 (16.94%) Code Quality
8 21 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (16.94%) Unit Testing
9 20 (16.13%) Clean Code
10 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (14.52%) Open Source
11 17 (13.71%) Coaching
12 15 (12.10%) Roadmaps
12 15 (12.10%) Scrum
13 14 (11.29%) Front End Development
14 12 (9.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (36.29%) Java
2 42 (33.87%) Python
3 31 (25.00%) C#
4 30 (24.19%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.32%) Ruby
6 11 (8.87%) SQL
7 10 (8.06%) Bash
8 8 (6.45%) Go
8 8 (6.45%) Perl
9 6 (4.84%) C++
10 4 (3.23%) C
11 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.42%) PHP
11 3 (2.42%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.61%) R
13 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) Degree
4 11 (8.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (7.26%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.61%) OCP
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.26%) Oracle
2 6 (4.84%) SAP
2 6 (4.84%) TOWER Software
3 5 (4.03%) Databricks
3 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.42%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.61%) IBM
5 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.61%) Snow
6 1 (0.81%) ESRI
6 1 (0.81%) Google