GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

GitHub Actions
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.79% 2.22% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% 4.48% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £336 £403
25th Percentile - £372 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.22% +8.82% -
75th Percentile - £572 £456
90th Percentile - £619 £468
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -23.08%

All Cloud Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 74 67 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 29.25% 49.63% 49.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 80
10th Percentile £196 £170 £211
25th Percentile £293 £200 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -8.30% +5.71%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £578
90th Percentile £638 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in West Sussex

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Burgess Hill -2 2 £295 -9.23% 1
GitHub Actions
South East

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian