GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

GitHub Actions
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.42% 0.50% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 1.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £600 - -

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 133 65 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 47.16% 32.50% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 29 46
10th Percentile £300 £186 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -28.89%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £540
90th Percentile £675 £620 £600
North East median daily rate £488 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +12.72% +8.13% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £37.70 - £18.65
25th Percentile £40.25 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £53.25 - £32.88
90th Percentile £54.30 - £33.40
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.94% +42.09% +44.44%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -12 4 £600 - 3
GitHub Actions
North East

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Mocha
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat