GitHub Actions Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitHub Actions
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 129 148
Rank change year-on-year +28 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 12 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £408 £425 £484
25th Percentile £425 £444 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile - £569 £666
90th Percentile £615 £595 £701
South East median daily rate £535 £400 £700
% change year-on-year +33.75% -42.86% +33.33%

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 607 725 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.26% 27.92% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 488 616
10th Percentile £263 £338 £316
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £659 £714
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 20
10th Percentile - £15.93 £16.78
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £42.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year -41.98% +83.59% +10.24%
75th Percentile £32.75 £59.95 £32.98
90th Percentile £47.02 £61.33 £65.97
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £23.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.76% -12.04% +35.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the Thames Valley

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the Thames Valley

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 £600 - 1
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £423 -15.50% 3
GitHub Actions
South East

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GitHub
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Laravel
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) CQRS
3 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
6 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) New Relic
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk