GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

GitHub Actions
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% - 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile £406 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.16%
75th Percentile £419 - £445
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £544
% change year-on-year - +1.10% -14.67%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 255 196 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.75% 26.92% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 109 238
10th Percentile £301 £248 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.33% -8.79%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £530
90th Percentile £625 £620 £616
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 22
10th Percentile £17.91 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire - 2 £413 - 4
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft