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 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	102	57	39
Rank change year-on-year	-45	-18	+41
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	43	16	42
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales	1.27%	1.75%	3.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category	6.03%	8.65%	12.07%
Number of salaries quoted	38	15	33
10^th Percentile	£25,875	£27,800	-
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£37,455	£23,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£52,500	£27,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	+90.91%	-54.17%
75^th Percentile	£69,688	£59,375	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£62,500	£75,750
UK median annual salary	£67,500	£64,250	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+5.06%	+7.08%	-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 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	713	185	348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales	21.06%	20.26%	28.41%
Number of salaries quoted	482	150	225
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£29,000	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£45,000	£38,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,585	£55,000	£50,309
Median % change year-on-year	-2.57%	+9.33%	+5.91%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£72,438	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£76,201	£80,000	£76,500
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 31 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 31 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	-48	27	£60,000	+100.00%	3
South Wales	-40	16	£53,076	-1.25%	10
GitHub UK

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 31 October 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	83.7%	36
2	CI/CD	76.7%	33
3	AWS	67.4%	29
4	GitHub Actions	60.5%	26
5	User-Centered Design (UCD)	55.8%	24
6	Jenkins	53.5%	23
7	AWS Lambda	48.8%	21
7	Java	48.8%	21
7	React	48.8%	21
7	Serverless	48.8%	21
7	Spring Boot	48.8%	21
12	Microservices	46.5%	20
12	Ruby	46.5%	20
12	Ruby on Rails	46.5%	20
15	JavaScript	39.5%	17
16	Accessibility	37.2%	16
16	Test Automation	37.2%	16
18	DevOps	34.9%	15
18	TypeScript	34.9%	15
20	Azure	32.6%	14
20	Containerisation	32.6%	14
20	Infrastructure as Code	32.6%	14
20	Node.js	32.6%	14
20	Playwright	32.6%	14
20	Software Engineering	32.6%	14
20	Spring	32.6%	14
27	Cypress.io	30.2%	13
27	Jest	30.2%	13
27	RESTful	30.2%	13
27	Security Cleared	30.2%	13

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	67.4%	29
2	GitHub Actions	60.5%	26
3	AWS Lambda	48.8%	21
3	Serverless	48.8%	21
5	Azure	32.6%	14
6	Amazon S3	23.3%	10
6	Azure DevOps	23.3%	10
8	Amazon EKS	20.9%	9
9	SaaS	18.6%	8
10	AWS CloudFormation	16.3%	7
11	Amazon ECS	14.0%	6
11	CloudFront	14.0%	6
11	GCP	14.0%	6
14	Amazon SQS	7.0%	3
14	GitHub Copilot	7.0%	3
16	Amazon MSK	4.7%	2
16	Azure Cosmos DB	4.7%	2
16	IaaS	4.7%	2
16	PaaS	4.7%	2
20	Cloud Composer	2.3%	1