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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -38 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing Git 23 34 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.39% 6.36% 5.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.76% 52.31% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 20 31 87
10th Percentile £38,000 - £32,000
25th Percentile £48,425 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,085 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £64,275 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 42 65 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.53% 12.15% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 55 159
10th Percentile £39,200 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £50,124 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +0.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,400 £72,159 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -39 22 £53,171 -18.20% 9
West Wales - 1 £55,200 - 3
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 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) SaaS
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 3 (13.04%) IaaS
6 3 (13.04%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.35%) dbt
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) SSL
3 2 (8.70%) Internet
4 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.35%) git-flow
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Gradle
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Aviation
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Multimedia
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Trainee
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) .NET
3 4 (17.39%) CSS
3 4 (17.39%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) React
3 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) Next.js
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.70%) Vue
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.35%) Django
6 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.35%) JPA
6 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Security
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
6 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
1 4 (17.39%) FPGA
1 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
3 13 (56.52%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
5 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
6 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
8 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (30.43%) Scrum
10 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (21.74%) Observability
11 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
12 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (17.39%) FinOps
12 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
12 4 (17.39%) Microservices
12 4 (17.39%) OO
12 4 (17.39%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 4 (17.39%) C
5 3 (13.04%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
6 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) IEC 61508
1 4 (17.39%) ISO 26262
2 1 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (17.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle