GitHub Actions Contracts in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 132 162
Rank change year-on-year +28 +30 +46
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.036% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 0.15% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £700
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -50.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 4 £475 +35.71% 11
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Batch
4 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Snyk
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat