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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 128 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 11 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 0.57% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £375 - £484
25th Percentile £463 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -20.71%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £520
90th Percentile £668 £613 £532
England median daily rate £558 £525 £624
% change year-on-year +6.19% -15.83% -2.16%

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 681 875 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.38% 32.07% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 617 874
10th Percentile £311 £294 £300
25th Percentile £388 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £643 £656
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 58 42
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.75 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £21.68
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -25.92% -15.63%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.28 £62.34
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +21 10 £500 - 20
Cheshire - 1 £675 - 3
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 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) GitHub
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (63.64%) Serverless
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (27.27%) Azure
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (9.09%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
1 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) DocumentDB
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) MLflow
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (9.09%) Blazor
4 1 (9.09%) Express.js
4 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) Playwright
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) React Native
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) RBAC
7 1 (9.09%) Analytics
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian