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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 346 403
Rank change year-on-year +79 +57 +88
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 102 45 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 0.82% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 39 32
10th Percentile £401 £350 £463
25th Percentile £463 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £557 £600
90th Percentile £694 £598 £700
UK median daily rate £547 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.24% -12.50% -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 4,681 5,476 7,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.42% 26.33% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 3,779 5,550
10th Percentile £250 £230 £237
25th Percentile £381 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 269 240
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.89 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -20.72% +37.63%
75th Percentile £34.50 £46.18 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.15% -36.71% +55.56%

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 12 July 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 12 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
Scotland +34 36 £513 - 29
North of England +20 26 £525 -4.55% 63
Midlands - 18 £475 - 33
South East +42 15 £600 +69.01% 53
West Midlands - 15 £463 - 21
Yorkshire +10 13 £599 +5.32% 31
North West +11 11 £500 - 29
South West +37 5 £600 +20.00% 30
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 11
North East -3 2 £375 - 4
Wales -7 2 £650 +26.21% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 8
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 9 (8.82%) WebLogic
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.96%) CMS
3 2 (1.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (0.98%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) GitHub
2 78 (76.47%) AWS
3 37 (36.27%) Azure
4 28 (27.45%) Serverless
5 27 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (25.49%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (17.65%) Amazon S3
8 16 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (15.69%) GCP
9 12 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (10.78%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (8.82%) SaaS
13 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (4.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) Firewall
2 5 (4.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.92%) SSL
4 3 (2.94%) VPN
5 2 (1.96%) Network Security
5 2 (1.96%) SSH
6 1 (0.98%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.82%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.82%) Oracle Database
3 9 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.88%) Delta Lake
5 5 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.92%) Power BI
6 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.94%) GIS
7 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.96%) Big Data
8 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.96%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.96%) MySQL
8 2 (1.96%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 47 (46.08%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.67%) Git
3 15 (14.71%) GitLab
4 13 (12.75%) JIRA
5 12 (11.76%) Cypress.io
6 11 (10.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (9.80%) Bitbucket
7 10 (9.80%) CircleCI
7 10 (9.80%) PyCharm
8 9 (8.82%) IntelliJ
8 9 (8.82%) Visual Studio
9 8 (7.84%) Storybook
10 7 (6.86%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (3.92%) Selenium
11 4 (3.92%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.94%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.94%) Gradle
12 3 (2.94%) MLflow
12 3 (2.94%) Newman
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.92%) Retail
5 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Banking
6 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
7 1 (0.98%) Military
7 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Developer
2 24 (23.53%) Architect
3 16 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.73%) Lead
5 12 (11.76%) Senior
6 10 (9.80%) Python Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Technical Architect
7 8 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Lead Architect
8 7 (6.86%) React Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Data Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) React
1 14 (13.73%) RESTful
2 13 (12.75%) Jest
3 12 (11.76%) Node.js
4 10 (9.80%) Kafka
5 9 (8.82%) AWS CDK
6 8 (7.84%) CSS
6 8 (7.84%) REST
6 8 (7.84%) Tailwind CSS
7 7 (6.86%) .NET
8 6 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.88%) Playwright
9 5 (4.90%) FastAPI
9 5 (4.90%) Next.js
10 4 (3.92%) AWS Amplify
10 4 (3.92%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.92%) HTML
10 4 (3.92%) YAML
11 3 (2.94%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
11 3 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 10 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.86%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.94%) IoT
5 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.94%) SCADA
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.98%) PKI
7 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.67%) Linux
2 12 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Android
4 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (89.22%) CI/CD
2 56 (54.90%) DevOps
3 43 (42.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (35.29%) Agile
5 20 (19.61%) Test Automation
6 19 (18.63%) Containerisation
7 18 (17.65%) Microservices
8 17 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.69%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (13.73%) DevSecOps
11 14 (13.73%) TDD
12 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (9.80%) Cost Optimisation
14 10 (9.80%) SDLC
14 10 (9.80%) Software Engineering
14 10 (9.80%) Technology Strategy
15 9 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (43.14%) Python
2 42 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 18 (17.65%) Java
4 16 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.75%) SQL
6 11 (10.78%) Bash
6 11 (10.78%) C#
7 6 (5.88%) Bicep
8 5 (4.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.94%) Groovy
9 3 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.96%) Go
10 2 (1.96%) JSX
10 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.98%) C
11 1 (0.98%) C++
11 1 (0.98%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 22 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.92%) Degree
5 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.88%) QA
3 5 (4.90%) GDPR
4 3 (2.94%) NIST
4 3 (2.94%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.96%) NCSC
6 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.98%) JSP 440
System Software
1 32 (31.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (58.82%) Terraform
2 51 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (22.55%) Ansible
4 17 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 16 (15.69%) Grafana
6 3 (2.94%) Argo
6 3 (2.94%) Puppet
7 2 (1.96%) Istio
7 2 (1.96%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Oracle
2 11 (10.78%) Databricks
3 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.90%) Splunk
5 4 (3.92%) Google
5 4 (3.92%) Virgin Media
6 3 (2.94%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.94%) SAP
7 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.96%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.98%) New Relic
8 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow