GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the North West

GitHub Actions
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 115 119
Rank change year-on-year -22 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 40 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.04% 0.68% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 2.18% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 5
10th Percentile £361 £401 -
25th Percentile £458 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £651 £634 £575
90th Percentile £755 £674 £613
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,220 688 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.59% 31.40% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 510 499
10th Percentile £250 £313 £307
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £691 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 24 30
10th Percentile £18.45 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £24.87 -
Median hourly rate £45.50 £40.83 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% +154.20% -40.96%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £35.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.13 £69.93
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the North West

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 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
Manchester -24 27 £650 +36.84% 18
Cheshire +2 8 £550 -15.38% 1
Lancashire - 1 £519 - 2
Merseyside - 1 £300 - 1
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.50%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) GitHub
2 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 23 (57.50%) Azure
3 20 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (20.00%) Serverless
5 6 (15.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 6 (15.00%) Azure AKS
5 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 6 (15.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (15.00%) Google Gemini
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) SSL
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) BGP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) OSPF
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (22.50%) GitLab
4 6 (15.00%) Claude Code
5 4 (10.00%) Postman
6 3 (7.50%) JIRA
6 3 (7.50%) TestRail
6 3 (7.50%) Zephyr
7 2 (5.00%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (2.50%) Appium
8 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.50%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (25.00%) Retail
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Mobile Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Principal Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) REST
2 8 (20.00%) React
3 7 (17.50%) Node.js
4 6 (15.00%) Next.js
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) Playwright
6 3 (7.50%) Kafka
7 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
7 2 (5.00%) JSON
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.50%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
8 1 (2.50%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (2.50%) MACH
8 1 (2.50%) OAuth
8 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.50%) RESTful
8 1 (2.50%) SwiftUI
8 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Culture of Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) CI/CD
2 32 (80.00%) DevOps
3 22 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (47.50%) Observability
5 18 (45.00%) Event-Driven
6 14 (35.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
7 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (30.00%) Agile
9 11 (27.50%) AI
9 11 (27.50%) Microservices
10 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 10 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (22.50%) Code Quality
12 8 (20.00%) DevSecOps
12 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
13 7 (17.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) Bash
2 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 9 (22.50%) Bicep
4 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 5 (12.50%) C#
6 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (7.50%) Java
8 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE
4 1 (2.50%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Terraform
2 21 (52.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Grafana
3 8 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.50%) Argo
5 4 (10.00%) Ansible
6 2 (5.00%) Istio
6 2 (5.00%) linkerd
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) Confluent
4 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Workday