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 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 28 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 97 | 55 | 37 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -42 | -18 | +43 |
| Permanent jobs citing GitHub | 42 | 16 | 42 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Wales | 1.25% | 1.80% | 3.42% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 5.82% | 8.89% | 11.86% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 38 | 15 | 33 |
| 10th Percentile | £25,875 | £27,800 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £42,500 | £37,455 | £23,750 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £57,500 | £52,500 | £27,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +9.52% | +90.91% | -54.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £69,688 | £59,375 | £65,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £80,000 | £62,500 | £75,750 |
| UK median annual salary | £67,500 | £65,000 | £60,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.85% | +8.33% | -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 28 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 722 | 180 | 354 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales | 21.41% | 20.27% | 28.83% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 498 | 149 | 229 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,000 | £30,800 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,000 | £45,000 | £38,750 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £53,171 | £55,000 | £50,309 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -3.33% | +9.33% | +5.91% |
| 75th Percentile | £70,000 | £73,000 | £65,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £76,201 | £80,000 | £77,500 |
| 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 | -46 | 26 | £60,000 | +100.00% | 2 |
| South Wales | -47 | 16 | £54,038 | +0.54% | 9 |
| GitHub UK |
|||||
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 | 66.7% | 28 |
| 2 | GitHub Actions | 59.5% | 25 |
| 3 | AWS Lambda | 47.6% | 20 |
| 3 | Serverless | 47.6% | 20 |
| 5 | Azure | 28.6% | 12 |
| 6 | Amazon S3 | 23.8% | 10 |
| 7 | Amazon EKS | 21.4% | 9 |
| 7 | SaaS | 21.4% | 9 |
| 9 | Azure DevOps | 19.0% | 8 |
| 10 | AWS CloudFormation | 16.7% | 7 |
| 11 | Amazon ECS | 14.3% | 6 |
| 11 | CloudFront | 14.3% | 6 |
| 11 | GCP | 14.3% | 6 |
| 14 | GitHub Copilot | 9.5% | 4 |
| 15 | Amazon SQS | 7.1% | 3 |
| 16 | Amazon MSK | 4.8% | 2 |
| 16 | Azure Cosmos DB | 4.8% | 2 |
| 16 | IaaS | 4.8% | 2 |
| 16 | PaaS | 4.8% | 2 |
| 20 | Cloud Composer | 2.4% | 1 |