GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the North East

GitHub Actions
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.08% 0.36% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 1.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £544 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £544
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.49% -16.31%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 156 84 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 46.29% 30.11% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 39 57
10th Percentile £220 £295 £209
25th Percentile £400 £351 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £525
90th Percentile £688 £612 £593
England median daily rate £500 £534 £533
% change year-on-year -6.37% +0.28% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £37.70 - £15.95
25th Percentile £40.25 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile £53.25 - £46.18
90th Percentile £54.30 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the North East

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the North East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the North East

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Tyne and Wear -6 5 £600 - 3
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Mocha
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) JPA
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (14.29%) Playwright
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) Argo
4 2 (28.57%) Podman
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk