GitHub Actions Contracts

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 420 488
Rank change year-on-year +113 +68 +129
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 230 182 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 1.29% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 135 139
10th Percentile £410 £396 £463
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -4.95%
75th Percentile £643 £632 £675
90th Percentile £799 £688 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -7.77% -14.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £26.63 £37.88 -
90th Percentile £27.15 £45.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +109 184 £547 +4.24% 269
London +78 134 £575 +9.52% 172
Work from Home +72 98 £540 +2.86% 180
UK excluding London +44 43 £475 -7.77% 110
North of England +39 21 £475 -13.64% 43
North West +23 18 £475 -5.00% 28
South East +33 7 £520 +37.75% 17
Midlands +28 6 £475 +20.25% 14
Scotland +13 5 £468 - 5
West Midlands +19 4 £475 +35.71% 11
South West +43 2 £588 +4.44% 12
Yorkshire +13 2 £475 -16.48% 12
East Midlands +11 2 £550 +25.00% 3
Wales -13 1 £586 +13.79% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 4
North East - 1 £363 - 4

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.74%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 230 (100.00%) GitHub
2 141 (61.30%) AWS
3 104 (45.22%) Azure
4 52 (22.61%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (15.22%) Serverless
6 34 (14.78%) GCP
7 31 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (12.17%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (9.57%) dbt
11 16 (6.96%) Datadog
12 15 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (6.52%) Azure AKS
13 14 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (6.09%) Amazon S3
13 14 (6.09%) Entra ID
14 13 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (4.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.39%) DNS
2 5 (2.17%) Network Security
3 4 (1.74%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) DSL
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.65%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.91%) Metadata
6 8 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.04%) Power BI
7 7 (3.04%) Redis
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.30%) MySQL
9 3 (1.30%) ObjectStore
10 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.87%) Flink
10 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 69 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.61%) Git
3 23 (10.00%) GitLab
4 21 (9.13%) CircleCI
5 13 (5.65%) JIRA
6 9 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.48%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.48%) Postman
7 8 (3.48%) REST Assured
8 7 (3.04%) JMeter
8 7 (3.04%) Selenium
9 6 (2.61%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.17%) MLflow
11 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.74%) git-flow
12 3 (1.30%) Gatling
12 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.30%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.87%) JUnit
13 2 (0.87%) Snyk
General
1 57 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.52%) Finance
3 37 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.22%) Banking
6 9 (3.91%) Retail
7 8 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.61%) Front Office
9 5 (2.17%) Military
10 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Marketing
11 3 (1.30%) Legal
11 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (22.17%) Developer
2 44 (19.13%) Senior
3 40 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.48%) Lead
5 29 (12.61%) Architect
6 24 (10.43%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (9.13%) Python Developer
8 16 (6.96%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (6.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Data Architect
11 12 (5.22%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.35%) Kafka
2 29 (12.61%) Node.js
3 27 (11.74%) React
4 26 (11.30%) OAuth
5 23 (10.00%) REST
6 21 (9.13%) Jinja
6 21 (9.13%) RESTful
7 18 (7.83%) OAuth2
7 18 (7.83%) pytest
8 17 (7.39%) OpenID
8 17 (7.39%) Pandas
9 16 (6.96%) NumPy
9 16 (6.96%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (5.22%) .NET
11 11 (4.78%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.91%) HTML
13 8 (3.48%) Express.js
13 8 (3.48%) PySpark
14 7 (3.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.74%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.87%) Derivative
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.87%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.87%) Solar Panel
8 2 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.65%) Linux
2 8 (3.48%) Windows
3 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (79.13%) CI/CD
2 118 (51.30%) DevOps
3 83 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (35.22%) Agile
5 57 (24.78%) Test Automation
6 54 (23.48%) Containerisation
7 47 (20.43%) Software Engineering
8 45 (19.57%) Analytics
9 40 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (14.78%) Microservices
11 28 (12.17%) Data Modelling
11 28 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (10.87%) Observability
13 23 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 23 (10.00%) Performance Testing
14 22 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (9.57%) Data Engineering
15 21 (9.13%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (58.26%) Python
2 53 (23.04%) SQL
3 42 (18.26%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.65%) TypeScript
5 29 (12.61%) Java
6 28 (12.17%) Bash
7 23 (10.00%) C#
8 17 (7.39%) PowerShell
9 15 (6.52%) Go
10 7 (3.04%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.61%) Rust
11 6 (2.61%) Scala
12 5 (2.17%) Bicep
12 5 (2.17%) C++
13 4 (1.74%) R
14 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.87%) Groovy
15 2 (0.87%) PHP
15 2 (0.87%) Ruby
15 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.35%) Degree
4 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) CEH
7 1 (0.43%) CISSP
7 1 (0.43%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.00%) QA
2 13 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.61%) GDPR
5 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
8 1 (0.43%) NCSC
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (31.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 127 (55.22%) Terraform
2 110 (47.83%) Kubernetes
3 25 (10.87%) Ansible
4 24 (10.43%) Grafana
5 21 (9.13%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.91%) Argo
7 6 (2.61%) Istio
8 4 (1.74%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) Consul
9 2 (0.87%) Salt
10 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) logstash
10 1 (0.43%) Nagios
10 1 (0.43%) Nessus
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
10 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (6.52%) Databricks
2 13 (5.65%) Google
3 12 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.04%) Splunk
5 6 (2.61%) New Relic
5 6 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.17%) Confluent
7 4 (1.74%) SAP
8 3 (1.30%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.30%) DataRobot
8 3 (1.30%) Oracle
8 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.43%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.43%) Qualys
10 1 (0.43%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds