GitHub Actions Contracts in Scotland

GitHub Actions
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 117 163
Rank change year-on-year +23 +46 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 21 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.27% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £553 - £538
90th Percentile £613 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -12.04% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 594 706 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.96% 33.93% 36.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 480 733
10th Percentile £304 £212 £260
25th Percentile £411 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £547
90th Percentile £589 £627 £622
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £25.06 £21.64 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £30.09 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% -37.14% +59.09%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Scotland

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in Scotland

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in Scotland

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Edinburgh +18 12 £600 - 10
Glasgow - 6 £500 - 30
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) GitHub
2 20 (95.24%) AWS
3 10 (47.62%) AWS CodePipeline
4 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (38.10%) Serverless
5 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 5 (23.81%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (23.81%) Azure
6 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (19.05%) SaaS
8 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (14.29%) Firebase
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (9.52%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
9 2 (9.52%) CloudFront
9 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Cypress.io
2 8 (38.10%) Storybook
3 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
3 4 (19.05%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) IntelliJ
3 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 4 (19.05%) PyCharm
3 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
3 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (14.29%) Newman
5 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 2 (9.52%) Selenium
6 1 (4.76%) GitLab
6 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) React Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer in Test
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Jest
2 9 (42.86%) React
3 8 (38.10%) CSS
3 8 (38.10%) Tailwind CSS
4 7 (33.33%) AWS CDK
5 4 (19.05%) RESTful
6 3 (14.29%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Amplify
6 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 3 (14.29%) Node.js
6 3 (14.29%) Nunjucks
6 3 (14.29%) Prisma
7 2 (9.52%) Express.js
7 2 (9.52%) Gherkin
7 2 (9.52%) hapi
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) Playwright
7 2 (9.52%) Sass
8 1 (4.76%) .NET
8 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
6 5 (23.81%) Clean Code
6 5 (23.81%) OWASP
6 5 (23.81%) Secure Coding
7 4 (19.05%) Build Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Microservices
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (19.05%) SDLC
7 4 (19.05%) User Experience
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
8 3 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) C#
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (23.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk