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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 56 68
Rank change year-on-year +43 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 31 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.56% 1.03% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.31% 3.66% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 4
10th Percentile £464 £527 £378
25th Percentile £501 £548 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £509
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +14.99% -5.79%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £673
90th Percentile £551 £635 £734
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -10.79% +6.90% +12.25%

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 133 164 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 32.44% 28.13% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 134 169
10th Percentile £143 £158 £195
25th Percentile £313 £243 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £583 £663 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.55 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.63 £11.16
Median hourly rate £15.84 £15.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% - -30.23%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.67 £16.64
90th Percentile £18.53 £19.87 £16.78
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +43 30 £525 -12.50% 12
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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) GitHub Actions
2 12 (38.71%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.23%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) MySQL
2 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.68%) PowerCenter
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (54.84%) Cypress.io
2 10 (32.26%) Postman
3 9 (29.03%) GitLab
4 7 (22.58%) Storybook
5 5 (16.13%) JIRA
6 2 (6.45%) Git
6 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.23%) AppScan
7 1 (3.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 6 (19.35%) Migration Manager
2 6 (19.35%) Migration Project Manager
2 6 (19.35%) PHP Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Project Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 3 (9.68%) DBA
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) GUI Tester
6 1 (3.23%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Vue
2 11 (35.48%) Laravel
3 9 (29.03%) Playwright
4 6 (19.35%) React
5 3 (9.68%) Middleware
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.23%) Kafka
6 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (3.23%) REST
6 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) AIX
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 19 (61.29%) Project Management
3 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
4 16 (51.61%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (29.03%) Scrum
6 8 (25.81%) Front End Development
7 7 (22.58%) Analytics
7 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
7 7 (22.58%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (22.58%) Objectives and Key Results
7 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 7 (22.58%) Unit Testing
8 6 (19.35%) Migration
8 6 (19.35%) SDLC
9 5 (16.13%) Data Analytics
10 4 (12.90%) DevOps
10 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
11 3 (9.68%) Data Protection
11 3 (9.68%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) PHP
2 9 (29.03%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.68%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (58.06%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Argo
2 3 (9.68%) Data Guard
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Graylog
3 1 (3.23%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Nagios
3 1 (3.23%) Nessus
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Atlassian
3 3 (9.68%) Informatica
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.23%) Confluent
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Veracode