GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

GitHub Actions
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.94% - 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £633 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +4.55% +57.14% -42.86%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

GitHub Actions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 245 256 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.03% 37.10% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 195 191
10th Percentile £285 £194 £288
25th Percentile £413 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.40% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Birmingham

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in Birmingham

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (21.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) GitHub
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSH
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
1 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Parquet
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) GitLab
3 4 (28.57%) CircleCI
3 4 (28.57%) Git
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (14.29%) Jaeger
5 2 (14.29%) MLflow
5 2 (14.29%) Poetry
5 2 (14.29%) PyCharm
5 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (21.43%) Flask
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) NumPy
2 3 (21.43%) Pandas
2 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
3 2 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) PySpark
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
3 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 4 (28.57%) Secrets Management
6 4 (28.57%) SIEM
7 3 (21.43%) ETL
7 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (14.29%) Observability
8 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Runbook
8 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
8 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Go
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (28.57%) Bash
5 3 (21.43%) Groovy
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) Ruby
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Grafana
3 5 (35.71%) Argo
3 5 (35.71%) Terraform
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
5 2 (14.29%) Istio
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) VMware