GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

GitHub Actions
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 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 59 51 77
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 26 20 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.89% 2.66% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.63% 5.80% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 5
10th Percentile £493 £396 £472
25th Percentile £500 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.45% -17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £547 £488 £519
90th Percentile £579 £497 £598
Yorkshire median daily rate £509 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +23.33% -17.50% -16.67%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 392 345 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.56% 45.88% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 227 275
10th Percentile £324 £350 £281
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £626 £711 £661
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.67 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £131.50 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.88 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.50% -11.11%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in West Yorkshire

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -6 26 £518 +25.45% 15
GitHub Actions
Yorkshire

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) GitHub
2 20 (76.92%) AWS
3 13 (50.00%) Azure
4 9 (34.62%) Serverless
5 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (23.08%) GCP
8 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
9 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
9 3 (11.54%) Slack
10 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (7.69%) Apigee
10 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
10 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (7.69%) PaaS
11 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) CircleCI
3 4 (15.38%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
5 2 (7.69%) MSI
6 1 (3.85%) Mocha
6 1 (3.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Lead
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
9 1 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Power Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) React
2 6 (23.08%) Node.js
3 5 (19.23%) REST
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 2 (7.69%) Blazor
4 2 (7.69%) Jest
4 2 (7.69%) Next.js
4 2 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) Django
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.85%) Playwright
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (34.62%) NHS
3 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) DevOps
2 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 21 (80.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (46.15%) Agile
4 12 (46.15%) Observability
5 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
6 8 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (15.38%) Secure Coding
10 3 (11.54%) API Management
10 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
10 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (7.69%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Bash
3 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) Bicep
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.69%) SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Grafana
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Cribl.io
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI