GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in Wales

GitHub Actions
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.43% 0.66% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 2.38% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £603 £520 £506
25th Percentile £606 £531 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.76% -10.29%
75th Percentile £656 - £625
90th Percentile £668 - £640
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -12.00%

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 130 126 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.72% 27.69% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 91 128
10th Percentile £185 £180 £157
25th Percentile £290 £338 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -13.92%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £555
90th Percentile £688 £638 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 8
10th Percentile £15.72 £20.58 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.01 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +45.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.50 £31.82 £24.31
90th Percentile £28.57 £35.10 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Wales

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitHub Actions

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 15 November 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 +1 1 £650 +18.18% 8
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk