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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	98	55	43
Rank change year-on-year	-43	-12	+37
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	42	13	41
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales	1.26%	1.50%	3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category	5.73%	7.74%	11.20%
Number of salaries quoted	38	12	32
10^th Percentile	£25,875	£46,519	-
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£48,369	£23,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£56,250	£27,500
Median % change year-on-year	+2.22%	+104.55%	-54.17%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£60,625	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£62,500	£76,625
UK median annual salary	£67,500	£65,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+3.85%	+8.33%	-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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	733	168	366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales	22.07%	19.35%	28.80%
Number of salaries quoted	504	137	240
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£33,400	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£39,805	£46,486	£38,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,171	£55,000	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-3.33%	+10.00%	+5.26%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£70,750	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£75,752	£80,000	£75,250
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 19 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 19 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	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Wales	-	25	£60,000	-	3
South Wales	-34	17	£55,000	-2.22%	14
GitHub UK

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 19 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 with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	81.0%	34
2	CI/CD	76.2%	32
3	AWS	64.3%	27
4	GitHub Actions	59.5%	25
5	User-Centered Design (UCD)	54.8%	23
6	Jenkins	52.4%	22
7	React	50.0%	21
8	AWS Lambda	47.6%	20
8	Serverless	47.6%	20
10	Java	45.2%	19
10	Microservices	45.2%	19
10	Ruby	45.2%	19
10	Ruby on Rails	45.2%	19
10	Spring Boot	45.2%	19
15	JavaScript	40.5%	17
16	Containerisation	38.1%	16
16	TypeScript	38.1%	16
18	Infrastructure as Code	35.7%	15
18	Test Automation	35.7%	15
20	Accessibility	33.3%	14
20	DevOps	33.3%	14
20	Node.js	33.3%	14
23	Azure	31.0%	13
23	Playwright	31.0%	13
23	RESTful	31.0%	13
23	Software Engineering	31.0%	13
23	Terraform	31.0%	13
28	Cypress.io	28.6%	12
28	Jest	28.6%	12
28	SC Cleared	28.6%	12

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	64.3%	27
2	GitHub Actions	59.5%	25
3	AWS Lambda	47.6%	20
3	Serverless	47.6%	20
5	Azure	31.0%	13
6	Amazon S3	21.4%	9
6	Azure DevOps	21.4%	9
6	SaaS	21.4%	9
9	Amazon EKS	19.0%	8
10	AWS CloudFormation	16.7%	7
11	Amazon ECS	14.3%	6
11	CloudFront	14.3%	6
11	GCP	14.3%	6
14	GitHub Copilot	9.5%	4
15	Amazon MSK	4.8%	2
15	Amazon SQS	4.8%	2
15	Azure Cosmos DB	4.8%	2
15	IaaS	4.8%	2
15	PaaS	4.8%	2
20	Cloud Composer	2.4%	1