GitHub Contract Job Trends in Wales

GitHub
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.82% 4.14% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 14.88% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile £390 £481 £425
25th Percentile £405 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £538 £531
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +1.18% -7.61%
75th Percentile £554 £550 £609
90th Percentile £638 £588 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%

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 115 121 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 29.95% 27.82% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 81 114
10th Percentile £230 £178 £153
25th Percentile £304 £325 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £17.83 £20.58 £13.11
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.01 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +45.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.84 £31.82 £24.31
90th Percentile £29.28 £35.10 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

GitHub job vacancy trend in Wales

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Wales over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub

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 16 October 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 -5 6 £410 -23.72% 31
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
5 1 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Anaconda
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Data Munging
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk