GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Reading

GitHub Actions
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.57% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £544 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +33.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 252 374 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.90% 33.72% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 257 280
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £589
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +2.76% +16.82%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £673
90th Percentile £664 £670 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -12.96% - +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £31.63 £24.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £47.03 £35.17
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.52% +10.60% +49.66%
75th Percentile £16.25 £63.81 £67.85
90th Percentile £31.70 £67.21 £74.65
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +113.78%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Reading

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Reading over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in Reading

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
3 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 7 (77.78%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Python Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) FastAPI
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Laravel
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) CQRS
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) Generative AI
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
5 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 4 (44.44%) Virgin Media
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft