GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 332 430
Rank change year-on-year +166 +98 +67
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 541 186 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 0.63% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 1.73% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 131 104
10th Percentile £363 £405 £435
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £696
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.49% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 £25.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%
75th Percentile £110.00 £25.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%

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 11,874 10,731 13,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.19% 36.59% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 7,170 9,641
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 138 251
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.50
90th Percentile £75.33 £69.71 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 December 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 +136 333 £535 -10.83% 88
North of England +2 66 £500 +21.21% 87
South East +41 50 £429 -4.72% 89
Midlands +5 44 £550 - 56
West Midlands -2 35 £575 +4.55% 33
Yorkshire -33 31 £500 +21.21% 42
North West 0 25 £475 +15.22% 36
South West +6 19 £650 +13.04% 50
North East -2 10 £600 +65.52% 10
East Midlands - 9 £407 - 20
East of England -20 3 £625 - 47
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 37 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.25%) Confluence
3 12 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.92%) Apache
6 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.37%) Traefik
7 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 541 (100.00%) GitHub
2 321 (59.33%) AWS
3 278 (51.39%) Azure
4 162 (29.94%) Azure DevOps
5 114 (21.07%) Serverless
6 83 (15.34%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (15.34%) GCP
7 81 (14.97%) Amazon S3
8 72 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (10.35%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (10.35%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (8.87%) Azure Monitor
12 43 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (7.58%) Azure AKS
13 41 (7.58%) Entra ID
14 39 (7.21%) Azure Key Vault
15 34 (6.28%) OpenShift
16 31 (5.73%) Power Platform
17 30 (5.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.25%) Firewall
2 20 (3.70%) DNS
3 14 (2.59%) VPN
4 13 (2.40%) Network Security
5 10 (1.85%) HTTP
6 5 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.74%) SSL
7 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.37%) Calico
9 2 (0.37%) SSH
10 1 (0.18%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.12%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (7.39%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.91%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.55%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.25%) Redis
6 22 (4.07%) DynamoDB
6 22 (4.07%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.77%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.59%) Power BI
11 11 (2.03%) Big Data
12 10 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
12 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.66%) Flink
13 9 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.66%) Star Schema
14 8 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 191 (35.30%) Jenkins
2 115 (21.26%) Git
3 112 (20.70%) GitLab
4 52 (9.61%) JIRA
5 39 (7.21%) CircleCI
6 36 (6.65%) JUnit
7 27 (4.99%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 24 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 21 (3.88%) Selenium
11 20 (3.70%) Postman
12 19 (3.51%) JMeter
13 18 (3.33%) SonarQube
14 15 (2.77%) Snyk
15 13 (2.40%) Artifactory
15 13 (2.40%) Maven
16 10 (1.85%) MLflow
16 10 (1.85%) webpack
17 9 (1.66%) Gradle
18 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 114 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.45%) Finance
3 76 (14.05%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.28%) Banking
6 17 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.66%) Front Office
8 9 (1.66%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.66%) Military
9 8 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.29%) Marketing
11 6 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.11%) Retail
12 5 (0.92%) Billing
12 5 (0.92%) Games
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.55%) Electronics
14 3 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (22.55%) Developer
2 107 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (16.27%) Senior
4 52 (9.61%) AWS Engineer
5 45 (8.32%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (7.95%) Data Engineer
7 41 (7.58%) Lead
8 36 (6.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 32 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.73%) AWS DevOps
10 31 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (5.73%) Software Engineer
11 29 (5.36%) Architect
12 28 (5.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 22 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.88%) Java Developer
14 21 (3.88%) Site Engineer
15 20 (3.70%) Backend Developer
15 20 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.34%) REST
2 78 (14.42%) Node.js
3 76 (14.05%) Kafka
4 72 (13.31%) React
5 56 (10.35%) .NET
6 39 (7.21%) RESTful
7 34 (6.28%) Spring
8 33 (6.10%) GraphQL
9 32 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
10 29 (5.36%) CSS
11 28 (5.18%) AngularJS
12 26 (4.81%) OAuth
12 26 (4.81%) Playwright
13 24 (4.44%) JSON
13 24 (4.44%) Spring Boot
14 23 (4.25%) ARM Templates
14 23 (4.25%) HTML
15 22 (4.07%) FastAPI
15 22 (4.07%) pytest
16 21 (3.88%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.40%) AI Agents
5 12 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.66%) NHS
7 9 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.48%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.11%) Replication
10 6 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.92%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.38%) Linux
2 10 (1.85%) Windows
3 9 (1.66%) VMS
4 6 (1.11%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (89.65%) CI/CD
2 363 (67.10%) DevOps
3 256 (47.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (33.09%) Agile
5 163 (30.13%) Containerisation
6 117 (21.63%) Observability
7 106 (19.59%) Microservices
8 103 (19.04%) AI
9 102 (18.85%) Test Automation
10 94 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (14.42%) Software Engineering
12 74 (13.68%) Analytics
13 73 (13.49%) Migration
14 69 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
15 61 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (10.72%) Data Engineering
17 56 (10.35%) Infrastructure Automation
18 55 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (9.98%) Full-Stack Development
20 53 (9.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 260 (48.06%) Python
2 119 (22.00%) SQL
3 102 (18.85%) Java
4 90 (16.64%) TypeScript
5 89 (16.45%) JavaScript
6 77 (14.23%) Bash
7 66 (12.20%) Go
8 65 (12.01%) C#
9 58 (10.72%) PowerShell
10 39 (7.21%) Bicep
11 19 (3.51%) Ruby
12 9 (1.66%) Groovy
13 8 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.48%) PHP
14 7 (1.29%) JSX
15 5 (0.92%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.92%) XPath
16 4 (0.74%) PromQL
16 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 162 (29.94%) Security Cleared
2 136 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.55%) Degree
4 27 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.37%) MCP
14 1 (0.18%) CCA
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.13%) QA
2 24 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.33%) GDPR
5 17 (3.14%) NIST
6 16 (2.96%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.66%) WCAG
8 4 (0.74%) NCSC
8 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.55%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.55%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) SLA
11 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 224 (41.40%) Docker
2 29 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) etcd
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 306 (56.56%) Terraform
2 255 (47.13%) Kubernetes
3 95 (17.56%) Grafana
4 84 (15.53%) Prometheus
5 64 (11.83%) Ansible
6 33 (6.10%) Argo
7 26 (4.81%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.59%) Istio
9 13 (2.40%) Puppet
10 7 (1.29%) Podman
11 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.74%) Kibana
13 3 (0.55%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.55%) linkerd
14 2 (0.37%) Consul
14 2 (0.37%) Control-M
14 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.37%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.37%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 100 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.43%) Databricks
3 28 (5.18%) Google
3 28 (5.18%) OpenAI
4 24 (4.44%) VMware
5 22 (4.07%) Splunk
6 12 (2.22%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.29%) Oracle
8 7 (1.29%) SAP
9 6 (1.11%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.92%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.74%) Cribl.io
11 4 (0.74%) New Relic
11 4 (0.74%) Virgin Media
12 3 (0.55%) Adobe
12 3 (0.55%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.55%) Qualys