GitHub Actions Contracts in Edinburgh

GitHub Actions
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.12% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Scotland median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Edinburgh

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in Edinburgh

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) Firebase
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Storybook
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) Jest
1 4 (80.00%) React
1 4 (80.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk