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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 50 78
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 +10
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 12 36 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.45% 2.35% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.02% 8.89% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 16
10th Percentile £46,411 - £49,875
25th Percentile £48,080 £23,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £68,497
90th Percentile £62,500 £85,825 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

All Cloud 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 171 405 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 20.68% 26.47% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 140 294 354
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,486 £40,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -11.43%
75th Percentile £68,875 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -7 12 £57,500 - 25
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (33.33%) IIS
3 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) React
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Flutter
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Vitest
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Software Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) CRM
5 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Ansible
4 3 (25.00%) Grafana
4 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Pega
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Guidewire
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce