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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 40 80
Rank change year-on-year -25 +40 +7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 9 40 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.86% 4.58% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 13.61% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8 32 13
10th Percentile £27,500 - £30,350
25th Percentile £28,063 £23,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £58,874 - £68,750
90th Percentile £63,297 £76,500 £72,750
UK median annual salary £55,100 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.84% -13.79% +5.82%

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 234 294 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 22.35% 33.68% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 128 182 304
10th Percentile £28,175 £31,250 £30,338
25th Percentile £39,219 £33,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,813 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,571
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -28 7 £41,500 -36.15% 53
West Wales +7 2 £42,600 -34.46% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) git-flow
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (44.44%) Multimedia
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Trainee
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Trainee Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Web Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Trainee Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Django
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Flask
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Laravel
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) SEO
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) R
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) Delphi
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle