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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 174 205
Rank change year-on-year +29 +31 +70
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 18 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.51% 0.26% 0.089%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.09% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 4
10th Percentile £400 £290 £458
25th Percentile £411 £313 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -27.66% +2.17%
75th Percentile £600 £450 £706
90th Percentile - £552 £718
England median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -7.69%

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 1,037 1,191 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.46% 24.21% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 846 1,133
10th Percentile £220 £300 £213
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £584 £629 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 33 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £48.55 £61.49 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +19 12 £575 +35.29% 17
Berkshire - 10 £600 - 3
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £423 -0.59% 5
Surrey - 2 £425 - 2
Hampshire +9 1 £520 +30.00% 2
East Sussex -2 1 - -
Kent - 1 £375 -
Middlesex - 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) GitHub
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) Akamai
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (5.56%) Datadog
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) ObjectStore
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Python Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Release Manager
6 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) FastAPI
3 3 (16.67%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) PySpark
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (5.56%) Blazor
5 1 (5.56%) Celery
5 1 (5.56%) Django
5 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.56%) Flask
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Laravel
5 1 (5.56%) Playwright
5 1 (5.56%) pytest
5 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Design Patterns
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) CQRS
3 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.11%) Observability
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Release Management
5 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Databricks
2 4 (22.22%) Virgin Media
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) New Relic