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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 53 87
Rank change year-on-year -26 +34 0
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 10 8 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.61% 1.50% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 5.76% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 22
10th Percentile £28,925 £60,200 £43,250
25th Percentile £50,600 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% +4.00% +22.30%
75th Percentile £66,937 - £68,750
90th Percentile £73,325 £68,750 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.89%

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 465 139 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 28.15% 26.03% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 185 123 465
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,873 £71,936 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,900 £78,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -31 8 £55,000 -15.38% 8
West Wales - 1 £55,200 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) git-flow
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) MSTest
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Storybook
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Trainee
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Django
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) Flutter
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) React Native
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Dart
4 1 (10.00%) Delphi
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle