GitHub Contracts in Cardiff

GitHub
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 7 41
Rank change year-on-year -18 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 5 30 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% 14.15% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.81% 27.78% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 26 3
10th Percentile £407 £493 £530
25th Percentile £409 £504 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -12.46% +9.09%
75th Percentile £512 £551 £625
90th Percentile £556 £611 £640
South Wales median daily rate £506 £528 £600
% change year-on-year -4.22% -12.04% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 108 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 40.00% 50.94% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 91 87
10th Percentile £200 £188 £202
25th Percentile £240 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £600
90th Percentile £596 £645 £663
South Wales median daily rate £409 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -18.25% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.06 - -
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -23.99% -3.97%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £16.67
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Cardiff

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Cardiff

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Cardiff

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) nginx
3 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (20.00%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Storybook
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) Laravel
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) GitOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat