GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GitHub Actions
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 121 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +31
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 21 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.04% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 3
10th Percentile £406 - £458
25th Percentile £412 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £591 - £519
90th Percentile £600 - £538
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -23.08%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 777 717 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.41% 34.05% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 469 529
10th Percentile £255 £325 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £16.37 £21.70 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £35.75 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +6.21% +60.29%
75th Percentile £84.75 £60.86 £70.13
90th Percentile £97.75 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the Thames Valley

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Berkshire +10 14 £563 +25.00% 11
Buckinghamshire - 5 £550 - 8
Oxfordshire - 2 £300 - 4
GitHub Actions
South East

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) GitHub
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 13 (61.90%) AWS
4 11 (52.38%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) GCP
5 7 (33.33%) Serverless
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Functions
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
7 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (14.29%) Azure API Management
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) MySQL
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JUnit
2 3 (14.29%) Storybook
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (14.29%) Electronics
5 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 3 (14.29%) Marketing
5 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (9.52%) Billing
7 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 9 (42.86%) Developer
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Python Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Python Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Release Manager
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) RESTful
2 7 (33.33%) REST
3 6 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 5 (23.81%) .NET
4 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
4 5 (23.81%) FastAPI
4 5 (23.81%) OAuth
4 5 (23.81%) React
5 4 (19.05%) OAuth2
5 4 (19.05%) OpenID
6 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
6 3 (14.29%) CSS
6 3 (14.29%) HTML
6 3 (14.29%) SAML
6 3 (14.29%) Spring
6 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 3 (14.29%) Vitest
7 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
7 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (80.95%) DevOps
3 13 (61.90%) AI
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (28.57%) User Experience
8 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
8 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
8 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
8 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (23.81%) Generative AI
9 4 (19.05%) Analytics
9 4 (19.05%) API Management
9 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 4 (19.05%) CQRS
9 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
9 4 (19.05%) Identity Management
9 4 (19.05%) RBAC
10 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (23.81%) Bash
5 5 (23.81%) C#
5 5 (23.81%) PHP
5 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Argo
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Databricks
2 4 (19.05%) Virgin Media
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow