Lead Java Developer Job Trends in West Wales

Lead Java Developer
Wales > West Wales

The median Lead Java Developer salary in West Wales is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.31% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £62,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Wales with a recognized job title 586 40 147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.74% 90.91% 99.32%
Number of salaries quoted 382 21 107
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,087 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,848 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.69% +7.12% -11.11%
75th Percentile £69,875 £55,607 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,857 £69,250
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -1.10%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Lead Java Developer job vacancy trend in West Wales

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in West Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Java Developer job vacancies in West Wales

Lead Java Developer
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Swansea - 2 £62,000 - 1
Lead Java Developer
Wales

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, Lead Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Wales region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JPA

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk