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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 130 161
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 +31
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 11 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.037% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 0.15% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £700
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -50.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -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 607 667 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.27% 24.52% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 499 845
10th Percentile £200 £190 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £667 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.95 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +5.78% +7.77%
75th Percentile £19.87 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 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 9 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 +22 8 £500 +42.86% 9
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 4
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) Collibra
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) SonarCloud
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (36.36%) Delta Lake
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) GIS
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Snyk
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) IoT
2 3 (27.27%) SCADA
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Batch Processing
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (27.27%) RBAC
5 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Bicep
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Databricks
3 3 (27.27%) Informatica
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat