GitHub Actions Contracts in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 305 413 445
Rank change year-on-year +108 +32 +146
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 184 129 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 1.09% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 92 128
10th Percentile £418 £351 £459
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £677
90th Percentile £800 £700 £791
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -12.46% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.80 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.13 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £40.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +15.71% -
75th Percentile £26.63 £46.13 -
90th Percentile £27.15 £48.60 -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +82 133 £575 +8.24% 206
North of England +30 21 £475 -13.64% 44
North West +29 18 £475 -5.00% 28
South East +36 7 £520 +37.75% 61
Midlands +28 7 £475 +35.71% 15
West Midlands +17 4 £475 +35.71% 11
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
South West +44 2 £588 +4.44% 12
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -16.48% 13
North East - 1 £363 - 4
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.63%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.09%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) GitHub
2 105 (57.07%) AWS
3 84 (45.65%) Azure
4 39 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (14.13%) Serverless
6 24 (13.04%) GCP
7 22 (11.96%) dbt
8 20 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (7.61%) Entra ID
12 13 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (6.52%) Azure AKS
14 11 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (5.98%) Datadog
15 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
16 9 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
17 8 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.61%) DNS
2 4 (2.17%) Network Security
3 2 (1.09%) DSL
3 2 (1.09%) Firewall
3 2 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (0.54%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.24%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.43%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.89%) Metadata
6 8 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.80%) Power BI
8 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.26%) Redis
9 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.63%) ObjectStore
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.09%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.09%) MySQL
12 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.54%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 45 (24.46%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.67%) Git
3 18 (9.78%) CircleCI
4 17 (9.24%) GitLab
5 8 (4.35%) JIRA
6 6 (3.26%) Selenium
7 4 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.17%) JMeter
7 4 (2.17%) MLflow
7 4 (2.17%) Postman
7 4 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.63%) git-flow
8 3 (1.63%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.63%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.09%) JUnit
9 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.09%) Snyk
9 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.80%) Banking
5 7 (3.80%) Retail
6 6 (3.26%) Front Office
6 6 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.72%) Military
8 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Marketing
9 3 (1.63%) Legal
9 3 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (23.91%) Developer
2 39 (21.20%) Senior
3 26 (14.13%) Lead
4 25 (13.59%) Architect
5 24 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.24%) Python Developer
8 14 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.98%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.89%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.67%) Kafka
2 26 (14.13%) Node.js
3 25 (13.59%) React
4 22 (11.96%) OAuth
5 21 (11.41%) Jinja
6 19 (10.33%) REST
7 18 (9.78%) OAuth2
7 18 (9.78%) RESTful
8 17 (9.24%) pytest
9 16 (8.70%) OpenID
9 16 (8.70%) Pandas
10 15 (8.15%) NumPy
10 15 (8.15%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (5.43%) .NET
11 10 (5.43%) FastAPI
12 9 (4.89%) HTML
13 8 (4.35%) PySpark
14 7 (3.80%) CSS
15 6 (3.26%) Django
15 6 (3.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.89%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.09%) Derivative
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.09%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (81.52%) CI/CD
2 83 (45.11%) DevOps
3 67 (36.41%) Agile
3 67 (36.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 43 (23.37%) Analytics
5 43 (23.37%) Software Engineering
6 40 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (15.22%) Data Modelling
9 27 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (14.13%) Microservices
11 22 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (11.96%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.41%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (10.33%) Data Science
15 18 (9.78%) Observability
15 18 (9.78%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 114 (61.96%) Python
2 48 (26.09%) SQL
3 35 (19.02%) JavaScript
4 28 (15.22%) TypeScript
5 23 (12.50%) Bash
6 22 (11.96%) Java
7 18 (9.78%) C#
8 13 (7.07%) Go
8 13 (7.07%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.80%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.26%) Rust
10 6 (3.26%) Scala
11 5 (2.72%) Bicep
11 5 (2.72%) C++
12 4 (2.17%) R
13 2 (1.09%) PHP
13 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.54%) C
14 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) CEH
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.72%) GDPR
4 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.54%) GxP
7 1 (0.54%) NCSC
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (29.35%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (52.72%) Terraform
2 83 (45.11%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.78%) Grafana
4 14 (7.61%) Ansible
4 14 (7.61%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.26%) Argo
6 3 (1.63%) Istio
6 3 (1.63%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) Puppet
7 2 (1.09%) Salt
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.54%) Nessus
8 1 (0.54%) Packer
8 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (8.15%) Databricks
2 10 (5.43%) Google
2 10 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.72%) New Relic
3 5 (2.72%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.17%) SAP
5 3 (1.63%) Confluent
6 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 2 (1.09%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.09%) DataRobot
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle
6 2 (1.09%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.09%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.54%) Informatica
7 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.54%) Qualys
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.54%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.54%) SolarWinds