GitHub Job Trends in Wales

GitHub
UK > Wales

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

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	100	57	39
Rank change year-on-year	-43	-18	+35
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	44	15	42
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales	1.28%	1.60%	3.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category	6.24%	7.94%	12.17%
Number of salaries quoted	39	14	33
10^th Percentile	£25,875	£27,725	-
25^th Percentile	£43,125	£28,313	£23,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£55,100	£27,500
Median % change year-on-year	-0.18%	+100.36%	-54.17%
75^th Percentile	£69,375	£59,688	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£62,500	£75,750
UK median annual salary	£67,500	£63,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+7.14%	+5.00%	-14.29%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Wales.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	705	189	345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales	20.52%	20.17%	28.30%
Number of salaries quoted	473	154	222
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£29,000	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,345	£42,125	£38,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£55,000	£50,309
Median % change year-on-year	-	+9.33%	+5.91%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£70,563	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£76,201	£80,000	£77,250
UK median annual salary	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+4.00%

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 Salary Trend in Wales

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 6 November 2026.

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 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Wales	-47	29	£60,000	+40.85%	3
South Wales	-41	15	£53,076	-5.64%	17
GitHub UK

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	84.1%	37
2	CI/CD	79.5%	35
3	AWS	70.5%	31
4	GitHub Actions	63.6%	28
5	User-Centered Design (UCD)	56.8%	25
6	Jenkins	54.5%	24
7	Java	52.3%	23
7	Spring Boot	52.3%	23
9	AWS Lambda	50.0%	22
9	Serverless	50.0%	22
11	Microservices	47.7%	21
11	React	47.7%	21
11	Ruby	47.7%	21
11	Ruby on Rails	47.7%	21
15	Accessibility	40.9%	18
16	Test Automation	38.6%	17
17	DevOps	36.4%	16
17	JavaScript	36.4%	16
17	Spring	36.4%	16
20	Azure	34.1%	15
20	Node.js	34.1%	15
20	Playwright	34.1%	15
23	Cypress.io	31.8%	14
23	Infrastructure as Code	31.8%	14
23	Jest	31.8%	14
23	Scrum	31.8%	14
23	Software Engineering	31.8%	14
23	TDD	31.8%	14
23	Terraform	31.8%	14
23	TypeScript	31.8%	14

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	70.5%	31
2	GitHub Actions	63.6%	28
3	AWS Lambda	50.0%	22
3	Serverless	50.0%	22
5	Azure	34.1%	15
6	Amazon S3	25.0%	11
6	Azure DevOps	25.0%	11
8	Amazon EKS	22.7%	10
9	AWS CloudFormation	15.9%	7
9	SaaS	15.9%	7
11	Amazon ECS	13.6%	6
11	CloudFront	13.6%	6
11	GCP	13.6%	6
14	Amazon SQS	9.1%	4
15	Amazon MSK	4.5%	2
15	Azure Cosmos DB	4.5%	2
15	GitHub Copilot	4.5%	2
15	IaaS	4.5%	2
15	PaaS	4.5%	2
20	Cloud Composer	2.3%	1