GitHub Contracts in South Wales

GitHub
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 52 64
Rank change year-on-year +41 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 32 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 9.61% 0.97% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.20% 3.82% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 4
10th Percentile £496 £530 £454
25th Percentile £504 £556 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £606
90th Percentile £623 £640 £708
Wales median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.21% +6.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.75
Wales median hourly rate - - £20.75
% change year-on-year - - -5.08%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 127 131 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.14% 25.34% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 107 169
10th Percentile £143 £172 £251
25th Percentile £345 £271 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £575
90th Percentile £623 £668 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.56 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £13.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +2.50% -36.40%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 £18.73
90th Percentile - £16.51 £20.75
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.25
% change year-on-year +8.27% +2.63% -16.18%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in South Wales

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +31 30 £525 -12.46% 6
Bridgend - 2 £615 -
GitHub
Wales

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) GitHub Actions
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) MySQL
2 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.38%) PowerCenter
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Cypress.io
2 10 (31.25%) Postman
3 9 (28.13%) GitLab
4 5 (15.63%) JIRA
4 5 (15.63%) Storybook
5 2 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (6.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.13%) AppScan
6 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Migration Manager
2 9 (28.13%) Migration Project Manager
2 9 (28.13%) Project Manager
3 6 (18.75%) PHP Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (9.38%) DBA
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Tester
8 1 (3.13%) Administrator
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) GUI Tester
8 1 (3.13%) Performance Tester
8 1 (3.13%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) Vue
2 9 (28.13%) Laravel
3 7 (21.88%) Playwright
4 6 (18.75%) React
5 3 (9.38%) Middleware
6 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) AIX
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 17 (53.13%) Project Management
3 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (40.63%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (37.50%) Scrum
6 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (28.13%) Migration
7 9 (28.13%) SDLC
8 7 (21.88%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (18.75%) Analytics
9 6 (18.75%) Front End Development
10 5 (15.63%) Objectives and Key Results
10 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
11 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
11 4 (12.50%) DevOps
11 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
12 3 (9.38%) High Availability
12 3 (9.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) PHP
2 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Argo
2 3 (9.38%) Data Guard
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Graylog
3 1 (3.13%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Nagios
3 1 (3.13%) Nessus
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) Atlassian
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle
4 3 (9.38%) Informatica
5 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Veracode