Software Engineer Jobs in Wales

Software Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Software Engineer salary in Wales is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 60 35
Rank change year-on-year +40 -25 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 88 68 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.23% 5.35% 7.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.41% 5.56% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 25
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,159 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £69,800 £74,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,372 1,224 1,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.10% 96.23% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 760 706 991
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,920 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,210 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -7.58% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,466 £72,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in Wales

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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 +29 57 £65,000 +18.18% 11
West Wales +18 18 £60,000 +60.00% 4
North Wales - 13 £40,000 - 1
Software Engineer
UK

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (27.27%) C++
3 23 (26.14%) Degree
4 20 (22.73%) C
5 17 (19.32%) Agile
5 17 (19.32%) Azure
5 17 (19.32%) AWS
5 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
6 16 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 16 (18.18%) C#
6 16 (18.18%) Java
7 15 (17.05%) DevOps
7 15 (17.05%) Mentoring
8 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
9 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
10 11 (12.50%) Project Roadmap
10 11 (12.50%) Customer Experience
10 11 (12.50%) People Management
10 11 (12.50%) Fintech
11 10 (11.36%) Embedded Systems
11 10 (11.36%) Python
11 10 (11.36%) Project Management
11 10 (11.36%) Time Management
12 8 (9.09%) .NET
12 8 (9.09%) OO
13 7 (7.95%) Linux
13 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
13 7 (7.95%) Finance
13 7 (7.95%) Computer Science

Software Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.32%) AWS
1 17 (19.32%) Azure
2 6 (6.82%) Serverless
3 3 (3.41%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (3.41%) ChatGPT
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) PaaS
4 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Bluetooth
1 5 (5.68%) Modbus
1 5 (5.68%) RS-232
1 5 (5.68%) RS-485
1 5 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.27%) Metadata
2 2 (2.27%) MySQL
2 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Git
General
1 7 (7.95%) Electronics
1 7 (7.95%) Finance
2 6 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Automotive
3 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) .NET
2 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.41%) React
4 2 (2.27%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.27%) HTML
4 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.27%) Vue
5 1 (1.14%) Backbone.js
5 1 (1.14%) Electron
5 1 (1.14%) Node.js
5 1 (1.14%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (5.68%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.55%) NHS
4 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (19.32%) Agile
2 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
3 16 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 15 (17.05%) DevOps
4 15 (17.05%) Mentoring
5 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 11 (12.50%) Fintech
6 11 (12.50%) People Management
6 11 (12.50%) Project Roadmap
6 11 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
7 10 (11.36%) Project Management
7 10 (11.36%) Time Management
8 8 (9.09%) OO
9 7 (7.95%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.82%) E-Commerce
10 6 (6.82%) OOD
10 6 (6.82%) Prototyping
10 6 (6.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) C++
2 20 (22.73%) C
3 16 (18.18%) C#
3 16 (18.18%) Java
4 10 (11.36%) Python
5 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.82%) Embedded C
6 6 (6.82%) Embedded C++
7 5 (5.68%) Assembly Language
8 4 (4.55%) Ruby
9 3 (3.41%) Go
9 3 (3.41%) PHP
9 3 (3.41%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.27%) Scala
10 2 (2.27%) SQL
10 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (26.14%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.68%) PhD
3 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) ISO 26262
1 6 (6.82%) MISRA
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft