GitHub Actions Contracts in Manchester

GitHub Actions
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 87 115
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 10 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.00% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.83% 1.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £409 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -7.41% -13.60%
75th Percentile £531 £575 -
90th Percentile £636 £613 -
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -13.60%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 353 452 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.30% 35.48% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 339 611
10th Percentile £363 £313 £318
25th Percentile £411 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £594
90th Percentile £655 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 20
10th Percentile £33.46 £27.60 £15.72
25th Percentile £55.34 £58.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £76.25 £67.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% +248.05% -26.67%
75th Percentile £90.31 £71.87 £36.15
90th Percentile £93.13 £72.90 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.53
% change year-on-year +79.02% -28.72% -9.88%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Manchester

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in Manchester

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in Manchester

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Altrincham - 1 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 - 1
Salford - 1 £300 - 1
GitHub Actions
North West

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
2 9 (90.00%) AWS
3 7 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (70.00%) Serverless
4 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (10.00%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) DocumentDB
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Express.js
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) React Native
3 1 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
7 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
7 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
7 1 (10.00%) LLM
7 1 (10.00%) RBAC
7 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google