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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 108 124
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.053% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 0.22% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £700
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -50.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -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 444 458 849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.06% 24.22% 37.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 352 599
10th Percentile £200 £208 £286
25th Percentile £391 £349 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 4
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.10 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.02 £14.69 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £21.23 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +4.87% +7.95%
75th Percentile £19.31 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £39.80 £29.35 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.23%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 16 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 - 6 £525 - 4
Birmingham +9 1 £475 +35.71% 5
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (37.50%) Collibra
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (12.50%) SonarCloud
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) GIS
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Snyk
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) IoT
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (37.50%) Batch Processing
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
6 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bicep
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 3 (37.50%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat