GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Bristol

GitHub Actions
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.53% - 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £428 - £426
25th Percentile £441 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.87%
75th Percentile £501 - £616
90th Percentile £510 - £659
South West median daily rate £650 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -20.75%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 244 230 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 32.45% 26.35% 29.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 139 250
10th Percentile £297 £231 £320
25th Percentile £390 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £649
90th Percentile £650 £775 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 28 15
10th Percentile £18.83 £56.88 £25.35
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -34.03%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £38.13 - £76.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -5.71%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Bristol

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) Kong
3 1 (25.00%) Sentry
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CMake
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft