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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 145 184
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +62
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 41 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.65% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 2.09% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 9
10th Percentile £391 £400 £485
25th Percentile £463 £406 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £544 £700
90th Percentile £666 £583 -
England median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -7.69%

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 1,369 1,289 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.38% 30.88% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 875 1,253
10th Percentile £298 £288 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £618 £650 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 60
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.94 £17.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -11.52% +10.51%
75th Percentile £69.35 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.40 £46.76
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

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
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 1 September 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 September 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
Yorkshire -9 22 £525 +10.53% 6
North West +6 17 £500 +11.11% 10
North East +2 2 £375 - 3
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 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.88%) CMS
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (2.44%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) GitHub
2 32 (78.05%) AWS
3 18 (43.90%) Serverless
4 15 (36.59%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (31.71%) Azure
6 12 (29.27%) Amazon S3
7 11 (26.83%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (21.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (12.20%) GCP
12 4 (9.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (9.76%) Datadog
13 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (7.32%) AWS KMS
13 3 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) SSL
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) Network Security
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 2 (4.88%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) Redis
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.88%) DocumentDB
5 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.44%) MySQL
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (48.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.95%) GitLab
3 7 (17.07%) Git
3 7 (17.07%) JIRA
4 3 (7.32%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.44%) Crashlytics
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.44%) MLflow
6 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Software Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Developer
3 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Senior
5 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Lead
7 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.32%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (7.32%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) React
2 8 (19.51%) Node.js
3 7 (17.07%) .NET
3 7 (17.07%) REST
4 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (12.20%) Next.js
4 5 (12.20%) Playwright
5 4 (9.76%) Kafka
6 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
6 3 (7.32%) Blazor
6 3 (7.32%) HTML
7 2 (4.88%) Express.js
7 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.88%) Jest
7 2 (4.88%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.88%) Swagger
8 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) NHS
2 2 (4.88%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (95.12%) CI/CD
2 30 (73.17%) DevOps
3 21 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (46.34%) Agile
5 12 (29.27%) Containerisation
6 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.51%) Microservices
8 8 (19.51%) Observability
9 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 6 (14.63%) Cloud Security
10 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (14.63%) TDD
10 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
11 5 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
12 4 (9.76%) Coaching
12 4 (9.76%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
3 10 (24.39%) Bash
4 5 (12.20%) C#
4 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.76%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) SQL
6 3 (7.32%) Go
7 2 (4.88%) Bicep
7 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) Clojure
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) Korn
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) GDPR
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) NIST
1 3 (7.32%) QA
1 3 (7.32%) SOC 2
2 2 (4.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Terraform
2 19 (46.34%) Kubernetes
3 12 (29.27%) Grafana
3 12 (29.27%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.07%) Ansible
5 2 (4.88%) Kustomize
5 2 (4.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Databricks
1 3 (7.32%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) VMware