Git Job Trends in Wales

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 43 21
Rank change year-on-year -32 -22 +7
Permanent jobs citing Git 59 25 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.97% 3.04% 5.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 52.21% 43.10% 59.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 23 54
10th Percentile £36,000 £47,500 £23,750
25th Percentile £40,041 £49,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +41.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £67,625 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £67,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 113 58 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.77% 7.05% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 93 54 92
10th Percentile £35,250 £46,486 £23,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £49,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +26.44% -13.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Git job vacancy trend in Wales

Git
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in Wales over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in Wales

Git
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -29 38 £48,961 -18.40% 23
West Wales -43 21 £60,000 +19.70% 5
Git
UK

Git
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 6 (10.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.93%) Azure
2 29 (49.15%) AWS
3 16 (27.12%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) GCP
4 10 (16.95%) GitHub
5 9 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (15.25%) Serverless
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.78%) dbt
8 4 (6.78%) SaaS
9 3 (5.08%) IaaS
9 3 (5.08%) PaaS
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.39%) npm
10 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.39%) Prefect
10 2 (3.39%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Intranet
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) MySQL
1 15 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (22.03%) MongoDB
3 12 (20.34%) Relational Database
4 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.78%) Redis
7 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
7 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Looker
8 2 (3.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.34%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
4 5 (8.47%) RSpec
4 5 (8.47%) Selenium
5 4 (6.78%) JUnit
5 4 (6.78%) minitest
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) GitLab
7 2 (3.39%) Bower
8 1 (1.69%) Gradle
8 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.69%) Maven
8 1 (1.69%) Mocha
General
1 28 (47.46%) Public Sector
2 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.95%) Banking
5 9 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Finance
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 38 (64.41%) Developer
2 22 (37.29%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Senior Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Software Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Web Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Applications Support
9 3 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (49.15%) RESTful
2 24 (40.68%) React
3 22 (37.29%) Terraform
4 18 (30.51%) CSS
4 18 (30.51%) HTML
4 18 (30.51%) Spring
4 18 (30.51%) Spring Boot
5 14 (23.73%) Node.js
6 13 (22.03%) Kafka
7 11 (18.64%) JPA
7 11 (18.64%) Next.js
7 11 (18.64%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (18.64%) Ruby on Rails
8 10 (16.95%) Hibernate
9 9 (15.25%) HTML5
10 8 (13.56%) CSS3
10 8 (13.56%) Vue
11 7 (11.86%) Web Services
12 6 (10.17%) jQuery
12 6 (10.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) Product Ownership
2 14 (23.73%) Cloud Native
3 13 (22.03%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (15.25%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (15.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (5.08%) Mainframe
7 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (5.08%) Replication
8 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) AIX
2 3 (5.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) Agile
2 43 (72.88%) CI/CD
3 38 (64.41%) DevOps
4 29 (49.15%) Scrum
5 27 (45.76%) Mentoring
5 27 (45.76%) Microservices
6 26 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (37.29%) Containerisation
8 20 (33.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (30.51%) Test Automation
10 17 (28.81%) Observability
11 16 (27.12%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (27.12%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (23.73%) AI
13 14 (23.73%) API Integration
14 13 (22.03%) Decision-Making
14 13 (22.03%) Incident Management
14 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Java
2 19 (32.20%) JavaScript
3 18 (30.51%) SQL
4 16 (27.12%) Python
5 11 (18.64%) Ruby
6 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
7 6 (10.17%) Bash
7 6 (10.17%) PHP
8 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.08%) C#
9 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.51%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) WCAG
3 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (10.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (8.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (52.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.25%) Grafana
2 9 (15.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Splunk
2 8 (13.56%) OneLogin
3 6 (10.17%) Databricks
4 4 (6.78%) Google
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.08%) Oracle
6 2 (3.39%) MicroStrategy