GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

GitHub Actions
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.52% 0.58% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 - -

All Cloud Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 129 63 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.86% 36.42% 42.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 27 41
10th Percentile £300 £185 £225
25th Percentile £400 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £405
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% +2.47% -28.79%
75th Percentile £575 £486 £550
90th Percentile £700 £622 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £37.70 - £18.65
25th Percentile £40.25 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £53.25 - £32.88
90th Percentile £54.30 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - £32.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.22%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Mocha
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat