GitHub Contracts in Wales

GitHub
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 60 66
Rank change year-on-year +46 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 34 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.27% 0.47% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.13% 1.80% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 3 4
10th Percentile £483 £568 £454
25th Percentile £504 £580 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £606
90th Percentile £623 £640 £708
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.37% -0.91% +4.27%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 147 167 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.77% 25.93% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 143 206
10th Percentile £157 £160 £206
25th Percentile £328 £250 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +7.65%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 17
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -5.65% -8.82%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £20.75
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £24.40
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £31.40 £21.20
% change year-on-year -33.17% +48.10% -6.84%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 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
South Wales +45 32 £528 -15.56% 11
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:

Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) GitHub Actions
2 17 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) MySQL
2 7 (20.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.82%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Cypress.io
2 10 (29.41%) Postman
3 9 (26.47%) GitLab
4 5 (14.71%) JIRA
5 4 (11.76%) Storybook
6 3 (8.82%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.88%) Git
8 1 (2.94%) AppScan
8 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) Migration Manager
2 11 (32.35%) Migration Project Manager
2 11 (32.35%) Project Manager
3 6 (17.65%) PHP Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.82%) DBA
6 3 (8.82%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (5.88%) LoadRunner Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Tester
8 1 (2.94%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) GUI Tester
8 1 (2.94%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Vue
2 8 (23.53%) Laravel
3 6 (17.65%) Playwright
3 6 (17.65%) React
4 3 (8.82%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) AIX
2 3 (8.82%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) Project Management
3 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Test Automation
4 14 (41.18%) Scrum
5 12 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 12 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (32.35%) Migration
6 11 (32.35%) SDLC
7 7 (20.59%) Analytics
7 7 (20.59%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (14.71%) Data Analytics
8 5 (14.71%) Front End Development
8 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 4 (11.76%) Manual Testing
9 4 (11.76%) Objectives and Key Results
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.76%) Refactoring
9 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) PHP
2 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Argo
2 3 (8.82%) Data Guard
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Graylog
3 1 (2.94%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Nagios
3 1 (2.94%) Nessus
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (32.35%) Atlassian
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (8.82%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Veracode