GitHub Actions Contracts in the West Midlands

GitHub Actions
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 110 134
Rank change year-on-year +17 +24 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.051% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 0.21% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £700
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -50.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the West Midlands

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the West Midlands

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry - 2 £488 - 6
Birmingham +17 1 £475 +35.71% 3
Shropshire - 1 - -
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Snyk
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat