GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in West Wales

GitHub Actions
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.67% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile £424 - -
Wales median daily rate £525 £650 £509
% change year-on-year -19.23% +27.83% -10.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 21.33% 29.17% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 12
10th Percentile £368 £336 £228
25th Percentile £391 £563 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +25.00% +31.15%
75th Percentile £563 £638 £535
90th Percentile £575 £668 £549
Wales median daily rate £413 £446 £500
% change year-on-year -7.51% -10.80% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £17.83 -
25th Percentile - £17.94 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £18.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile - £19.44 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.48 -
Wales median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -7.14% -20.00% +45.83%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in West Wales

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Swansea - 2 £419 - 4
GitHub Actions
Wales

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle