GitHub Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

GitHub
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring GitHub skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 10 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 8 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.06% 11.47% 4.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.90% 34.72% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 7
10th Percentile £387 £464 £474
25th Percentile - £496 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% -2.28% -7.33%
75th Percentile £415 £550 £619
90th Percentile £571 £551 £643
South Wales median daily rate £405 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -22.89% -2.28% -7.33%

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 62 72 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 31.47% 33.03% 49.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 78
10th Percentile £236 £161 £193
25th Percentile £322 £303 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £504 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +12.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £496 £551 £568
90th Percentile £671 £601 £641
South Wales median daily rate £446 £495 £431
% change year-on-year -9.90% +14.78% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +7.95% +25.00%
75th Percentile £17.00 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.10
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.89% +7.95% +25.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Cardiff over the 6 months to 15 September 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 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) nginx
3 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (12.50%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) OCI
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) Anaconda
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Business Case
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) LXC
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat