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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 275 381
Rank change year-on-year +74 +106 +95
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 101 74 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 1.33% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 57 62
10th Percentile £400 £398 £463
25th Percentile £461 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -14.29% -3.92%
75th Percentile £670 £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 3,947 5,544 10,183
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.86% 36.19% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,891 3,975 7,474
10th Percentile £350 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -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 89 126
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.52
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 £75.50
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 2 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 (2.97%) Apache
1 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.99%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) GitHub
2 67 (66.34%) AWS
3 50 (49.50%) Azure
4 27 (26.73%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (16.83%) GCP
6 17 (16.83%) Serverless
7 15 (14.85%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (12.87%) dbt
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (7.92%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (7.92%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.92%) Entra ID
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.94%) Datadog
13 5 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) DNS
1 4 (3.96%) Network Security
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.93%) Metadata
3 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.94%) Redis
5 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.98%) MySQL
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.99%) ObjectStore
9 1 (0.99%) Power BI
9 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (36.63%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.88%) GitLab
3 11 (10.89%) CircleCI
4 10 (9.90%) Git
5 8 (7.92%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.94%) JIRA
7 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.95%) REST Assured
8 4 (3.96%) Postman
8 4 (3.96%) Storybook
9 3 (2.97%) Gatling
9 3 (2.97%) JMeter
9 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.98%) MLflow
10 2 (1.98%) TestRail
11 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.99%) git-flow
11 1 (0.99%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.83%) Finance
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Front Office
7 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Marketing
9 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.98%) Legal
9 2 (1.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) Developer
2 19 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (18.81%) Senior
3 18 (17.82%) Lead
4 14 (13.86%) Architect
5 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Python Developer
7 9 (8.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (6.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Python Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) REST
2 13 (12.87%) Jinja
2 13 (12.87%) React
3 12 (11.88%) Node.js
3 12 (11.88%) OAuth
4 10 (9.90%) Kafka
5 7 (6.93%) CSS
5 7 (6.93%) Express.js
5 7 (6.93%) Jest
5 7 (6.93%) OAuth2
5 7 (6.93%) OpenID
5 7 (6.93%) Playwright
5 7 (6.93%) RESTful
6 6 (5.94%) Django
6 6 (5.94%) NumPy
6 6 (5.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (5.94%) Pandas
6 6 (5.94%) Play Framework
7 5 (4.95%) FastAPI
7 5 (4.95%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) MPEG
6 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
1 5 (4.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (81.19%) CI/CD
2 58 (57.43%) DevOps
3 38 (37.62%) Agile
4 36 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (21.78%) Containerisation
6 21 (20.79%) Analytics
6 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (20.79%) Test Automation
7 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
8 16 (15.84%) Data Modelling
8 16 (15.84%) Data Science
8 16 (15.84%) Microservices
9 14 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (10.89%) Data Engineering
11 11 (10.89%) Machine Learning
11 11 (10.89%) SDLC
12 10 (9.90%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (63.37%) Python
2 29 (28.71%) SQL
3 18 (17.82%) JavaScript
4 16 (15.84%) Bash
5 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.89%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.92%) C#
8 7 (6.93%) Java
9 6 (5.94%) Scala
10 5 (4.95%) Go
11 3 (2.97%) Bicep
12 2 (1.98%) C++
13 1 (0.99%) Groovy
13 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.99%) Perl
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
13 1 (0.99%) Ruby
13 1 (0.99%) Rust
13 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.98%) Degree
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.99%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (34.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (52.48%) Terraform
2 42 (41.58%) Kubernetes
3 14 (13.86%) Ansible
4 13 (12.87%) Grafana
5 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.98%) Argo
6 2 (1.98%) Consul
6 2 (1.98%) Istio
6 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.99%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.99%) linkerd
7 1 (0.99%) logstash
7 1 (0.99%) Nessus
7 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Databricks
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.95%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle
5 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.99%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.99%) Confluent
6 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.99%) New Relic
6 1 (0.99%) Qualys
6 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce