GitHub Contracts in Wales

GitHub
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 36 12 55
Rank change year-on-year -24 +43 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 34 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.39% 8.61% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 23.94% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 4
10th Percentile £407 £483 £527
25th Percentile £411 £504 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -10.21% +6.36%
75th Percentile £599 £551 £613
90th Percentile £622 £623 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales -17 7 £506 -4.22% 16
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) OCI
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Linode
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) JWT
3 1 (14.29%) Laravel
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft