Git Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Git Distributed Version Control System
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Git skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Git 12 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.60% 3.26% 1.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.36% 20.37% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 5
10th Percentile - £383 -
25th Percentile £256 £394 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £310
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +57.26% -48.97%
75th Percentile £488 £595 £638
90th Percentile £526 £609 £683
Wales median daily rate £375 £475 £343
% change year-on-year -21.05% +38.69% -43.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 -

All Development Application Skills
South Wales

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 33 54 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 12.64% 16.02% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 42
10th Percentile £233 £199 £413
25th Percentile £256 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £503 £588
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -14.47% +3.07%
75th Percentile £423 £544 £638
90th Percentile £503 £551 £699
Wales median daily rate £409 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -18.66% -8.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.17% -
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -22.17% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in South Wales

Git
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in South Wales

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Git

Git
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 Git within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. 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 +4 7 £484 +20.94% 15
Glamorgan - 5 £263 - 16
Git
Wales

Git
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (25.00%) Jest
1 3 (25.00%) Next.js
1 3 (25.00%) React
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Anaconda
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) Drush
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Twig
3 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Case Management
5 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) BDD
7 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 1 (8.33%) Data Munging
7 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
7 1 (8.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) SOQL
5 1 (8.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce