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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 44 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 -21 +8
Permanent jobs citing Git 63 25 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.01% 3.03% 5.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.31% 40.32% 62.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 23 48
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £38,361 £49,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +84.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £75,000 £66,125
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 116 62 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.69% 7.51% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 93 54 78
10th Percentile £35,250 £46,486 £23,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £50,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £44,904
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +22.48% -10.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16 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 16 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 -30 38 £50,980 -15.03% 30
West Wales -43 25 £60,000 +19.70% 6
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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (57.14%) Azure
2 32 (50.79%) AWS
3 20 (31.75%) GCP
4 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (20.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.29%) GitHub
6 9 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (14.29%) Serverless
7 8 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.35%) dbt
9 4 (6.35%) SaaS
10 3 (4.76%) IaaS
10 3 (4.76%) PaaS
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Databricks
11 2 (3.17%) npm
11 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Intranet
2 4 (6.35%) Firewall
3 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) MySQL
1 18 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (25.40%) MongoDB
3 13 (20.63%) NoSQL
4 12 (19.05%) Relational Database
5 6 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.35%) Redis
7 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.17%) Looker
8 2 (3.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 12 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.94%) RSpec
4 5 (7.94%) Selenium
5 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 4 (6.35%) JUnit
5 4 (6.35%) minitest
6 2 (3.17%) Bower
7 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.59%) Mocha
General
1 32 (50.79%) Public Sector
2 22 (34.92%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.22%) Banking
4 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
5 9 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Finance
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (63.49%) Developer
2 25 (39.68%) Senior
3 14 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 12 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Web Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Applications Support
9 4 (6.35%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Ruby Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Applications Support
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Support Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (50.79%) RESTful
2 26 (41.27%) Terraform
3 23 (36.51%) React
4 21 (33.33%) Spring
4 21 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 17 (26.98%) Kafka
6 16 (25.40%) CSS
6 16 (25.40%) HTML
7 15 (23.81%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (22.22%) JPA
8 14 (22.22%) Node.js
9 13 (20.63%) Hibernate
10 11 (17.46%) Next.js
10 11 (17.46%) Ruby on Rails
11 8 (12.70%) HTML5
12 7 (11.11%) CSS3
12 7 (11.11%) Vue
12 7 (11.11%) Web Services
13 6 (9.52%) Jest
13 6 (9.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (39.68%) Product Ownership
2 18 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 18 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (20.63%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (20.63%) Virtual Team
5 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.76%) Mainframe
6 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.76%) Replication
7 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.87%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (77.78%) Agile
2 46 (73.02%) CI/CD
3 41 (65.08%) DevOps
4 32 (50.79%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (50.79%) Scrum
5 31 (49.21%) Mentoring
5 31 (49.21%) Microservices
6 25 (39.68%) Containerisation
7 23 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (34.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (33.33%) Observability
10 20 (31.75%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (31.75%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (30.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (28.57%) Test Automation
13 17 (26.98%) API Integration
13 17 (26.98%) Decision-Making
13 17 (26.98%) Incident Management
13 17 (26.98%) Software Engineering
14 16 (25.40%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) Java
2 18 (28.57%) SQL
3 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (23.81%) Python
5 11 (17.46%) Ruby
6 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.52%) Bash
7 6 (9.52%) PHP
8 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.76%) C#
11 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 15 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
3 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.92%) QA
2 7 (11.11%) WCAG
3 6 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (7.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (53.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.63%) Grafana
2 13 (20.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Splunk
2 8 (12.70%) OneLogin
3 6 (9.52%) Databricks
4 4 (6.35%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) MicroStrategy