Software Engineering Jobs in Wales

Software Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -10
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 75 183 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.15% 8.31% 8.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 10.88% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 55 116 64
10th Percentile £53,500 £31,250 £29,139
25th Percentile £59,625 £40,938 £36,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £78,750 £66,875 £117,800
UK median annual salary £66,206 £61,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.65% -12.14% +0.80%

All Process and 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 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 -13 37 £65,000 +23.81% 42
North Wales +2 14 £40,101 +0.25% 7
West Wales +2 6 £37,733 -24.53% 7
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 1 (1.33%) Apache
1 1 (1.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) AWS
3 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.00%) Serverless
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.67%) GitHub
4 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.00%) Network Security
2 10 (13.33%) Modbus
2 10 (13.33%) MQTT
2 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (16.00%) RDBMS
1 12 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.33%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Electronics
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.67%) Marketing
4 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.33%) Aviation
5 1 (1.33%) Avionics
5 1 (1.33%) Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Principal Engineer
3 22 (29.33%) Lead
4 14 (18.67%) Principal Software Engineer
4 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 14 (18.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Software Team Leader
5 12 (16.00%) Team Leader
6 11 (14.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (13.33%) Software Assurance Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Developer
8 8 (10.67%) Lead Developer
9 6 (8.00%) Firmware Developer
10 5 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (5.33%) Software Engineering Manager
11 4 (5.33%) Software Manager
12 2 (2.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 2 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
12 2 (2.67%) Test Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.67%) Node.js
2 2 (2.67%) React
2 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.67%) XML
3 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.33%) JSP
3 1 (1.33%) Middleware
3 1 (1.33%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.33%) Spring
3 1 (1.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) IoT
2 11 (14.67%) Device Driver
3 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.67%) CUDA
4 2 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Linux
2 20 (26.67%) Windows
3 18 (24.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (58.67%) Agile
2 32 (42.67%) Computer Science
3 23 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (29.33%) UML
5 21 (28.00%) Mentoring
6 19 (25.33%) Waterfall
7 18 (24.00%) Product Strategy
7 18 (24.00%) Technical Debt
7 18 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
9 14 (18.67%) Systems Engineering
10 13 (17.33%) Configuration Management
10 13 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (16.00%) Web Development
12 10 (13.33%) API Development
12 10 (13.33%) Computer Architecture
12 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 10 (13.33%) Software Assurance
13 9 (12.00%) OO
14 8 (10.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) C#
2 21 (28.00%) C++
3 16 (21.33%) C
4 15 (20.00%) Ada
5 14 (18.67%) SQL
6 13 (17.33%) Java
7 10 (13.33%) Python
8 6 (8.00%) Ada 95
9 5 (6.67%) Rust
10 4 (5.33%) Ruby
11 3 (4.00%) Go
12 2 (2.67%) Bash
12 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
12 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Degree
2 28 (37.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (21.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Firmware
2 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Grafana
1 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.67%) SAP