GitHub Actions Contracts in Wales

GitHub Actions
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 42 25 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +34 -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 1 19 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% 4.81% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 13.38% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 2
10th Percentile - £498 £564
25th Percentile - £505 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £515 £585
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -11.97% -
75th Percentile - £536 £595
90th Percentile - £572 £598
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -12.46% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Wales

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in Wales

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales -10 1 £586 +13.79% 5
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft