GitHub Job Trends in Wales

GitHub
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 50 87
Rank change year-on-year -39 +37 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 19 12 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.92% 2.18% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 9.30% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 23
10th Percentile £45,250 £46,519 £30,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,369 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -6.00% -8.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.45% +13.60% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 526 129 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 25.37% 23.45% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 308 114 507
10th Percentile £29,525 £37,170 £28,290
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,353 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +8.45%
75th Percentile £60,938 £73,438 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Wales

GitHub
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Wales over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Wales

GitHub
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Wales region over the 6 months to 25 June 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 -42 9 £67,500 +14.89% 12
West Wales - 9 £75,000 - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
1 13 (68.42%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) Azure
4 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) SaaS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 4 (21.05%) CloudFront
5 4 (21.05%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
3 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
3 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 4 (21.05%) Selenium
4 3 (15.79%) GitLab
4 3 (15.79%) Postman
4 3 (15.79%) REST Assured
4 3 (15.79%) Zephyr
5 2 (10.53%) JMeter
5 2 (10.53%) JUnit
5 2 (10.53%) Newman
5 2 (10.53%) TestRail
6 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 1 (5.26%) Gatling
6 1 (5.26%) Mocha
6 1 (5.26%) MSTest
6 1 (5.26%) RSpec
6 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Software Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Trainee
6 1 (5.26%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Node.js
2 8 (42.11%) React
2 8 (42.11%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (42.11%) Spring Boot
3 5 (26.32%) GraphQL
3 5 (26.32%) REST
4 4 (21.05%) AWS CDK
4 4 (21.05%) CSS
4 4 (21.05%) Jest
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) Playwright
5 3 (15.79%) Spring
6 2 (10.53%) CSS3
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 2 (10.53%) Kafka
7 1 (5.26%) .NET
7 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.26%) Express.js
7 1 (5.26%) RESTful
7 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (31.58%) Mainframe
3 4 (21.05%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
5 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
6 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (42.11%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Microservices
4 8 (42.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (31.58%) AI
5 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
6 5 (26.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (26.32%) Event-Driven
6 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (21.05%) Digital Identity
7 4 (21.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
1 8 (42.11%) Ruby
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) COBOL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Dart
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
2 4 (21.05%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Government Security Classifications
1 4 (21.05%) NCSC
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (15.79%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) OneLogin