GitHub Actions Contracts in the North West

GitHub Actions
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 102 131 154
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 18 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.22% 0.094%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 0.68% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 3
10th Percentile £400 - £484
25th Percentile £456 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.10% -21.49%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £520
90th Percentile - £565 £532
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +30 18 £475 +5.56% 27
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) GitHub
2 11 (61.11%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (33.33%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.56%) Contentful
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) ObjectStore
4 1 (5.56%) DocumentDB
4 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Gradle
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Kafka
2 5 (27.78%) React
3 4 (22.22%) OAuth
3 4 (22.22%) OAuth2
3 4 (22.22%) OpenID
3 4 (22.22%) SAML
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (5.56%) Express.js
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Jest
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) Redux
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (50.00%) Analytics
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (50.00%) Digital Twin
3 9 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) RBAC
6 5 (27.78%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (27.78%) Load Balancing
6 5 (27.78%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (22.22%) Agile
7 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
7 4 (22.22%) Data Security
7 4 (22.22%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) Clojure
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Istio
3 3 (16.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Confluent
1 1 (5.56%) New Relic