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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 13 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.98% 0.24% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £483 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £613 £530 -
90th Percentile £631 - -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £520 -
% change year-on-year -1.44% - -

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 260 325 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.69% 38.78% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 190 336
10th Percentile £400 £179 £209
25th Percentile £450 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £525
90th Percentile £588 £650 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £15.24 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.69 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +54.63% -0.18% -11.40%
75th Percentile £28.38 £23.30 -
90th Percentile - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £18.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.55% -67.50% +72.93%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 (100.00%) GitHub
2 12 (92.31%) AWS
3 10 (76.92%) AWS CodePipeline
4 8 (61.54%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (61.54%) Serverless
5 7 (53.85%) Amazon S3
6 5 (38.46%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (23.08%) Firebase
8 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
9 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
10 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Storybook
2 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
4 2 (15.38%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) React
2 8 (61.54%) AWS CDK
2 8 (61.54%) CSS
2 8 (61.54%) Tailwind CSS
3 7 (53.85%) Jest
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Amplify
4 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) Playwright
6 1 (7.69%) .NET
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (7.69%) Blazor
6 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (7.69%) REST
6 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
3 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
4 5 (38.46%) OWASP
4 5 (38.46%) Secure Coding
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
6 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (23.08%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (23.08%) Workflow
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) SIEM
7 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Fluentd
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Commvault
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk