GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the North of England

GitHub Actions
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 155 169
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 121 26 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.69% 0.68% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.99% 2.06% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 17 9
10th Percentile £396 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £584
90th Percentile £651 £673 £603
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -47.74%

All Cloud Computing 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 2,424 1,264 1,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.77% 33.29% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 911 1,001
10th Percentile £313 £288 £268
25th Percentile £400 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -1.47% -6.86%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £644
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 30 73
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £28.87 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.78 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% +91.66% -28.65%
75th Percentile £75.75 £51.16 £26.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 2026. 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
Yorkshire +8 76 £488 -18.61% 20
North West -18 37 £563 +12.50% 35
North East -33 8 £450 +20.00% 11
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) GitHub
2 67 (55.37%) AWS
3 65 (53.72%) Azure
4 43 (35.54%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (28.93%) GCP
6 20 (16.53%) Serverless
7 17 (14.05%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (10.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (9.92%) Entra ID
10 11 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.09%) Apigee
11 10 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (8.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (7.44%) Azure AKS
13 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
14 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) NAS
1 4 (3.31%) SAN
2 3 (2.48%) Network Security
2 3 (2.48%) SSL
3 2 (1.65%) DNS
3 2 (1.65%) Firewall
3 2 (1.65%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.96%) Redis
5 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.31%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.65%) Parquet
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.83%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
9 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 64 (52.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.83%) GitLab
3 20 (16.53%) Git
4 10 (8.26%) Maven
5 8 (6.61%) Gatling
5 8 (6.61%) Gradle
6 5 (4.13%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.13%) JIRA
7 4 (3.31%) Android Studio
7 4 (3.31%) Claude Code
7 4 (3.31%) Crashlytics
7 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.31%) fastlane
7 4 (3.31%) Mocha
7 4 (3.31%) Snyk
8 3 (2.48%) JUnit
8 3 (2.48%) Postman
8 3 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.48%) TestRail
8 3 (2.48%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (19.83%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Finance
4 7 (5.79%) Retail
5 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) Developer
2 27 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.31%) Senior
3 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Architect
5 10 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (6.61%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) GCP DevOps
7 7 (5.79%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Lead
7 7 (5.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.36%) REST
2 15 (12.40%) Playwright
2 15 (12.40%) React
3 11 (9.09%) Kafka
3 11 (9.09%) Spring
3 11 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.26%) .NET
4 10 (8.26%) Node.js
5 9 (7.44%) RESTful
6 8 (6.61%) OAuth
7 6 (4.96%) JSON
7 6 (4.96%) JWT
7 6 (4.96%) Next.js
7 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
8 5 (4.13%) OpenAPI
8 5 (4.13%) Swagger
8 5 (4.13%) YAML
9 4 (3.31%) JPA
9 4 (3.31%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.61%) Replication
4 7 (5.79%) NHS
5 6 (4.96%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.31%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.48%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.65%) CMDB
9 2 (1.65%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.65%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.65%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.79%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Android
3 2 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) VMS
4 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.08%) CI/CD
2 97 (80.17%) DevOps
3 74 (61.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (45.45%) Observability
5 36 (29.75%) Agile
6 31 (25.62%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (23.14%) Containerisation
8 27 (22.31%) Test Automation
9 26 (21.49%) Microservices
10 25 (20.66%) Software Engineering
11 24 (19.83%) Cloud Security
12 21 (17.36%) Event-Driven
13 19 (15.70%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (14.88%) Roadmaps
15 16 (13.22%) Code Quality
15 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (13.22%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (12.40%) Analytics
16 15 (12.40%) Technical Debt
17 14 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (53.72%) Python
2 29 (23.97%) Java
3 27 (22.31%) PowerShell
4 23 (19.01%) Bash
5 17 (14.05%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.57%) SQL
7 11 (9.09%) Bicep
7 11 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.26%) Scala
9 9 (7.44%) C#
10 6 (4.96%) Kotlin
11 4 (3.31%) Groovy
12 3 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.65%) Go
14 1 (0.83%) ABAP
14 1 (0.83%) C
14 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.44%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.65%) Degree
7 2 (1.65%) NCDA
7 2 (1.65%) NCIE
7 2 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.83%) GIAC
8 1 (0.83%) GSEC
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.92%) WCAG
3 9 (7.44%) QA
4 5 (4.13%) GDPR
5 4 (3.31%) HL7
6 2 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (33.06%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.65%) NFS
4 2 (1.65%) SRDF
4 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (75.21%) Terraform
2 53 (43.80%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.70%) Grafana
4 17 (14.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (11.57%) Argo
6 9 (7.44%) Ansible
7 8 (6.61%) HAProxy
8 6 (4.96%) Istio
9 5 (4.13%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.65%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.65%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.65%) linkerd
10 2 (1.65%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.65%) Packer
10 2 (1.65%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.65%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.65%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.53%) Google
3 11 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.96%) Databricks
5 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 4 (3.31%) Brocade
6 4 (3.31%) Cisco
6 4 (3.31%) EMC
6 4 (3.31%) NetApp
7 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.65%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.65%) Confluent
8 2 (1.65%) Dell
8 2 (1.65%) Foundry
8 2 (1.65%) Palantir
8 2 (1.65%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.65%) Veeam
8 2 (1.65%) VMware