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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 403 481
Rank change year-on-year +107 +78 +126
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 242 185 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.32% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 133 143
10th Percentile £409 £395 £463
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £688
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 11,009 14,039 21,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.34% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,641 9,976 15,834
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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 343 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £33.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +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 3 May 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 3 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
England +119 188 £535 +1.86% 323
London +86 136 £575 +9.52% 207
Work from Home +69 101 £545 +3.81% 218
UK excluding London +61 53 £475 -7.77% 174
North of England +23 22 £475 -13.64% 50
North West +22 18 £475 -5.00% 32
Scotland +23 13 £534 - 6
South East +26 7 £520 +37.75% 66
Midlands +24 7 £475 +35.71% 14
West Midlands +16 4 £475 +35.71% 10
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
South West +28 2 £588 +4.44% 16
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -16.48% 14
North East - 2 £281 - 5
Wales -11 1 £586 +13.79% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 5

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 9 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.07%) Apache
3 4 (1.65%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.24%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 242 (100.00%) GitHub
2 150 (61.98%) AWS
3 107 (44.21%) Azure
4 53 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (17.77%) Serverless
6 36 (14.88%) GCP
7 35 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (11.57%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (9.50%) dbt
10 18 (7.44%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.44%) AWS CodePipeline
11 16 (6.61%) Datadog
12 15 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (6.20%) Azure AKS
13 14 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (5.79%) Entra ID
14 13 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.07%) Network Security
3 4 (1.65%) Firewall
4 2 (0.83%) DSL
4 2 (0.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (5.37%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.72%) Metadata
8 8 (3.31%) Power BI
9 7 (2.89%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.89%) Redis
10 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.24%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.24%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.24%) MySQL
12 3 (1.24%) ObjectStore
13 2 (0.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 73 (30.17%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.22%) Git
3 23 (9.50%) GitLab
4 21 (8.68%) CircleCI
5 14 (5.79%) Cypress.io
5 14 (5.79%) JIRA
6 9 (3.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.31%) Postman
7 8 (3.31%) REST Assured
7 8 (3.31%) Storybook
8 7 (2.89%) JMeter
8 7 (2.89%) Selenium
9 6 (2.48%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.07%) MLflow
11 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.65%) git-flow
12 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.24%) Gatling
12 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.12%) Finance
3 37 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.96%) Banking
6 8 (3.31%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.31%) Retail
7 6 (2.48%) Front Office
8 5 (2.07%) Military
9 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Marketing
10 3 (1.24%) Legal
10 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (23.14%) Developer
2 44 (18.18%) Senior
3 40 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (14.05%) Architect
5 32 (13.22%) Lead
6 24 (9.92%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (8.68%) Python Developer
8 16 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.20%) Data Engineer
10 14 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (5.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.96%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.72%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.88%) React
2 32 (13.22%) Kafka
3 29 (11.98%) Node.js
4 26 (10.74%) OAuth
5 24 (9.92%) REST
5 24 (9.92%) RESTful
6 21 (8.68%) Jinja
7 18 (7.44%) OAuth2
7 18 (7.44%) pytest
8 17 (7.02%) OpenID
8 17 (7.02%) Pandas
9 16 (6.61%) NumPy
9 16 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (6.20%) CSS
11 12 (4.96%) Jest
12 11 (4.55%) .NET
12 11 (4.55%) FastAPI
13 10 (4.13%) AWS CDK
13 10 (4.13%) HTML
13 10 (4.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Derivative
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Solar Panel
8 2 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (80.17%) CI/CD
2 122 (50.41%) DevOps
3 91 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (33.88%) Agile
5 60 (24.79%) Test Automation
6 55 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 47 (19.42%) Software Engineering
8 46 (19.01%) Analytics
9 41 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (16.12%) Microservices
11 35 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (11.98%) Data Modelling
12 29 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (10.33%) Observability
14 24 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
15 23 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (9.50%) Mentoring
15 23 (9.50%) Performance Testing
16 22 (9.09%) Data Engineering
17 21 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (56.61%) Python
2 54 (22.31%) SQL
3 45 (18.60%) TypeScript
4 44 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 29 (11.98%) Java
6 28 (11.57%) Bash
7 23 (9.50%) C#
8 18 (7.44%) PowerShell
9 16 (6.61%) Go
10 7 (2.89%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.48%) Rust
11 6 (2.48%) Scala
12 5 (2.07%) Bicep
12 5 (2.07%) C++
13 4 (1.65%) R
13 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.83%) PHP
15 2 (0.83%) Ruby
15 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.13%) Degree
4 9 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) CEH
7 1 (0.41%) CISSP
7 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.50%) QA
2 13 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.48%) GDPR
5 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.24%) WCAG
8 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.41%) GxP
9 1 (0.41%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (30.17%) Docker
2 6 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 130 (53.72%) Terraform
2 111 (45.87%) Kubernetes
3 26 (10.74%) Ansible
4 24 (9.92%) Grafana
5 21 (8.68%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.72%) Argo
7 6 (2.48%) Istio
8 5 (2.07%) Puppet
9 4 (1.65%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.83%) Consul
10 2 (0.83%) Salt
11 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.41%) Kibana
11 1 (0.41%) linkerd
11 1 (0.41%) logstash
11 1 (0.41%) Nagios
11 1 (0.41%) Nessus
11 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (6.61%) Databricks
2 14 (5.79%) Google
3 12 (4.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.89%) Splunk
5 6 (2.48%) New Relic
5 6 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.07%) Confluent
7 4 (1.65%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) SAP
8 3 (1.24%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.24%) DataRobot
8 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.83%) Adobe
9 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.83%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.41%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.41%) Informatica
10 1 (0.41%) Qualys
10 1 (0.41%) Sage