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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 56 50
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 +28
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 38 12 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.18% 1.45% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 7.14% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 35 11 29
10th Percentile £25,875 £46,411 -
25th Percentile £38,250 £48,080 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,625 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £83,050
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -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 requiring cloud computing skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 777 168 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.21% 20.27% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 484 136 286
10th Percentile £29,125 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £46,680 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +13.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 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 21 September 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 21 September 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
West Wales - 22 £60,000 - 5
South Wales -45 15 £55,000 -4.35% 31
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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 24 (63.16%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (50.00%) Serverless
4 10 (26.32%) Azure
4 10 (26.32%) SaaS
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon S3
6 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (15.79%) CloudFront
8 6 (15.79%) GCP
9 4 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (2.63%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (2.63%) Dagster
11 1 (2.63%) Datadog
11 1 (2.63%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.89%) MySQL
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Redis
5 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 12 (31.58%) Cypress.io
3 10 (26.32%) Git
4 8 (21.05%) GitLab
4 8 (21.05%) JIRA
5 4 (10.53%) Postman
5 4 (10.53%) REST Assured
5 4 (10.53%) Selenium
5 4 (10.53%) Zephyr
6 3 (7.89%) JUnit
6 3 (7.89%) Newman
6 3 (7.89%) RSpec
6 3 (7.89%) TestRail
7 2 (5.26%) minitest
8 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.63%) Gatling
8 1 (2.63%) Mocha
8 1 (2.63%) Pa11y
8 1 (2.63%) Storybook
General
1 20 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.79%) Finance
5 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
2 9 (23.68%) Senior Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Applications Support
3 6 (15.79%) Applications Support Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Junior
3 6 (15.79%) Junior Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Junior Applications Support
3 6 (15.79%) Junior Support Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Software Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (55.26%) React
2 18 (47.37%) Ruby on Rails
3 16 (42.11%) Spring Boot
4 14 (36.84%) Node.js
5 12 (31.58%) Jest
5 12 (31.58%) Terraform
6 11 (28.95%) Playwright
7 10 (26.32%) GraphQL
7 10 (26.32%) Next.js
7 10 (26.32%) RESTful
8 9 (23.68%) AWS CDK
8 9 (23.68%) Spring
9 8 (21.05%) CSS
10 7 (18.42%) REST
11 5 (13.16%) CSS3
11 5 (13.16%) HTML
11 5 (13.16%) HTML5
12 3 (7.89%) Kafka
12 3 (7.89%) Tailwind CSS
12 3 (7.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (28.95%) Mainframe
3 10 (26.32%) Product Ownership
4 8 (21.05%) Digital Wallet
5 6 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) Agile
2 28 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 20 (52.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 18 (47.37%) Microservices
5 16 (42.11%) Containerisation
6 15 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (31.58%) DevOps
7 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
8 11 (28.95%) AI
8 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
9 10 (26.32%) Software Testing
10 9 (23.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 9 (23.68%) Event-Driven
10 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (23.68%) SFIA
10 9 (23.68%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (21.05%) Clean Code
11 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
11 8 (21.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Ruby
2 16 (42.11%) Java
3 15 (39.47%) JavaScript
3 15 (39.47%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.79%) COBOL
5 3 (7.89%) Python
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) Dart
7 1 (2.63%) R
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) AWS Certification
1 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) Accessibility
1 11 (28.95%) WCAG
2 7 (18.42%) QA
3 6 (15.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (15.79%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) OneLogin
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle