GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the East of England

GitHub Actions
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 88 116
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.077% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.36% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £605 - £466
25th Percentile £613 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.10%
75th Percentile £638 - £497
90th Percentile £645 - £499
England median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -17.65%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 411 279 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.40% 21.35% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 162 284
10th Percentile £213 £213 £188
25th Percentile £373 £302 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £566 £575
90th Percentile £700 £649 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £19.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.46 £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.73 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.74% +28.65% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £69.88 £77.50
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 of England

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the East of England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hertfordshire -8 2 £650 - 9
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 - 2
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure
1 1 (33.33%) Cribl.io
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft