GitHub Actions Contracts in the South East

GitHub Actions
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 152 188 217
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 7 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.31% 0.086%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.24% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 3
10th Percentile £432 £290 £655
25th Percentile £461 £350 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £378 £700
Median % change year-on-year +37.75% -46.07% +47.37%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £713
90th Percentile £646 £613 £720
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +42 3 £650 +13.04% 7
Berkshire - 3 £650 - 2
Surrey - 2 £425 - 3
Hampshire +23 1 £520 +73.33% 3
East Sussex - 1 - -
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Celery
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) New Relic
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk