GitHub Actions Contracts in the North of England

GitHub Actions
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 145 175 195
Rank change year-on-year +30 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 21 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 0.71% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 25
10th Percentile £387 £400 £450
25th Percentile £456 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £600
90th Percentile - £586 £660
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +29 18 £475 -5.00% 28
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -16.48% 13
North East - 1 £363 - 4
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) CMS
1 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
1 21 (100.00%) GitHub
2 11 (52.38%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (33.33%) Serverless
4 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (9.52%) Azure
7 2 (9.52%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) ObjectStore
3 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Gradle
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) Mockito
4 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) React
3 4 (19.05%) OAuth
3 4 (19.05%) OAuth2
3 4 (19.05%) OpenID
3 4 (19.05%) SAML
4 3 (14.29%) .NET
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.76%) Express.js
6 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (4.76%) pytest
6 1 (4.76%) React Native
6 1 (4.76%) Redux
6 1 (4.76%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (42.86%) Analytics
3 9 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
3 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (42.86%) Digital Twin
3 9 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 7 (33.33%) RBAC
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 4 (19.05%) Data Security
6 4 (19.05%) ETL
6 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) Clojure
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (52.38%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Istio
3 3 (14.29%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Confluent
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) New Relic