GitHub Actions Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 205 271 384
Rank change year-on-year +66 +113 +101
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 99 74 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.33% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 57 61
10th Percentile £400 £398 £463
25th Percentile £460 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £672 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 - £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -12.46% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 £46.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.42% +38.57% -
75th Percentile £25.75 £50.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub Actions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GitHub Actions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.03%) Apache
1 3 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.01%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) GitHub
2 65 (65.66%) AWS
3 50 (50.51%) Azure
4 27 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (17.17%) GCP
7 15 (15.15%) Serverless
8 13 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.13%) dbt
9 10 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (8.08%) Azure AKS
10 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (6.06%) Datadog
12 5 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) DNS
1 4 (4.04%) Network Security
2 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.07%) Metadata
3 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.06%) Redis
5 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.02%) MySQL
8 1 (1.01%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.01%) ObjectStore
8 1 (1.01%) Power BI
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.12%) GitLab
3 11 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 10 (10.10%) Git
5 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.06%) JIRA
6 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.05%) REST Assured
7 4 (4.04%) Postman
8 3 (3.03%) Gatling
8 3 (3.03%) JMeter
8 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.02%) MLflow
9 2 (2.02%) Storybook
9 2 (2.02%) TestRail
10 1 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (1.01%) git-flow
10 1 (1.01%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.01%) Vite
10 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.17%) Finance
4 11 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (8.08%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.06%) Front Office
7 4 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Marketing
9 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.02%) Legal
9 2 (2.02%) Retail
10 1 (1.01%) Advertising
10 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Developer
2 19 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (19.19%) Senior
3 18 (18.18%) Lead
4 13 (13.13%) Architect
5 11 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) Python Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Data Architect
9 7 (7.07%) Python Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.15%) REST
2 13 (13.13%) Jinja
3 12 (12.12%) Node.js
3 12 (12.12%) OAuth
4 11 (11.11%) React
5 10 (10.10%) Kafka
6 7 (7.07%) Express.js
6 7 (7.07%) OAuth2
6 7 (7.07%) OpenID
7 6 (6.06%) Django
7 6 (6.06%) NumPy
7 6 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (6.06%) Pandas
7 6 (6.06%) Play Framework
7 6 (6.06%) Playwright
7 6 (6.06%) RESTful
8 5 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.05%) FastAPI
8 5 (5.05%) Jest
8 5 (5.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.01%) MPEG
5 1 (1.01%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (80.81%) CI/CD
2 57 (57.58%) DevOps
3 38 (38.38%) Agile
4 35 (35.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.21%) Analytics
6 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 19 (19.19%) Software Engineering
8 16 (16.16%) Data Modelling
8 16 (16.16%) Data Science
9 15 (15.15%) Microservices
10 14 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (14.14%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (13.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (11.11%) Data Engineering
12 11 (11.11%) Machine Learning
12 11 (11.11%) SDLC
13 10 (10.10%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (64.65%) Python
2 29 (29.29%) SQL
3 17 (17.17%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.16%) Bash
5 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.08%) C#
7 7 (7.07%) Java
8 6 (6.06%) Scala
9 5 (5.05%) Go
10 3 (3.03%) Bicep
11 2 (2.02%) C++
12 1 (1.01%) Groovy
12 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.01%) Perl
12 1 (1.01%) PHP
12 1 (1.01%) R
12 1 (1.01%) Ruby
12 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.02%) Degree
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) QA
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.03%) WCAG
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (35.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (53.54%) Terraform
2 42 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.14%) Ansible
4 13 (13.13%) Grafana
5 9 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.02%) Argo
6 2 (2.02%) Consul
6 2 (2.02%) Istio
6 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.01%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (1.01%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.01%) linkerd
7 1 (1.01%) logstash
7 1 (1.01%) Nessus
7 1 (1.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Databricks
2 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.05%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) Splunk
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.01%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.01%) Confluent
6 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.01%) New Relic
6 1 (1.01%) Qualys
6 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.01%) Salesforce