GitHub Actions Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 288 347 418
Rank change year-on-year +59 +71 +65
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 48 52 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.96% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 36
10th Percentile £400 £350 £450
25th Percentile £457 £416 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% -14.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £613
90th Percentile £600 £617 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -12.46% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +30 21 £475 -13.64% 45
North West +29 18 £475 -5.00% 29
Scotland +21 9 £600 - 5
South East +36 7 £520 +37.75% 61
Midlands +28 7 £475 +35.71% 15
West Midlands +17 4 £475 +35.71% 11
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
South West +44 2 £588 +4.44% 12
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -16.48% 13
Wales -17 1 £586 +13.79% 8
North East - 1 £363 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 4
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.08%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) GitHub
2 40 (83.33%) AWS
3 15 (31.25%) Serverless
4 14 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (27.08%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (27.08%) Azure
6 9 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (14.58%) GCP
8 6 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (8.33%) Datadog
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
2 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.25%) ObjectStore
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.08%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.08%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.58%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) GitLab
3 6 (12.50%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.33%) Storybook
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.17%) JUnit
6 2 (4.17%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.08%) Gradle
7 1 (2.08%) Maven
7 1 (2.08%) Mockito
7 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.08%) Snyk
7 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Retail
4 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Software Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) Kafka
2 9 (18.75%) React
3 8 (16.67%) RESTful
4 6 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 5 (10.42%) Jest
5 5 (10.42%) Node.js
5 5 (10.42%) OAuth
5 5 (10.42%) SAML
6 4 (8.33%) CSS
6 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 4 (8.33%) OpenID
6 4 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (6.25%) .NET
7 3 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.25%) YAML
8 2 (4.17%) ADO
8 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.17%) pytest
8 2 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 23 (47.92%) DevOps
3 21 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 16 (33.33%) Agile
6 15 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (27.08%) Microservices
8 12 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 10 (20.83%) Analytics
10 9 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
10 9 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (18.75%) Digital Twin
10 9 (18.75%) Visualisation
11 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
11 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.58%) RBAC
12 6 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) Clojure
7 1 (2.08%) DataWeave
7 1 (2.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) CSSLP
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (54.17%) Terraform
3 9 (18.75%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) Istio
4 3 (6.25%) Kustomize
4 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.17%) Argo
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) New Relic
3 2 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow