GitHub Actions Contracts

GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 480 623
Rank change year-on-year +91 +143 +17
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 191 207 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.01% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 127 176
10th Percentile £405 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +28.79%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £694
90th Percentile £683 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -12.18% +11.43% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £37.88 - -
90th Percentile £45.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +27 133 £550 -11.65% 71
London +46 98 £555 -11.20% 37
Work from Home +113 85 £550 -12.00% 35
UK excluding London +39 43 £514 -12.18% 36
Wales +31 15 £515 -11.97% 2
South East +21 15 £353 -49.64% 4
North of England +9 9 £550 +4.76% 14
North West +22 5 £500 -0.10% 5
Yorkshire +3 4 £569 +8.33% 8
South West +5 3 £500 -25.29% 4
Scotland +37 1 - - 2

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (6.28%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (3.14%) Confluence
4 3 (1.57%) nginx
4 3 (1.57%) WordPress
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.66%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.52%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.52%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) GitHub
2 98 (51.31%) AWS
3 60 (31.41%) Azure
4 32 (16.75%) Serverless
5 29 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.09%) GCP
7 24 (12.57%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (7.85%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.85%) PaaS
11 12 (6.28%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.28%) SaaS
12 11 (5.76%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.76%) IaaS
13 9 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.71%) Azure Functions
13 9 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.19%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) Firewall
2 4 (2.09%) DNS
2 4 (2.09%) Network Security
3 3 (1.57%) Intranet
4 2 (1.05%) WAN
5 1 (0.52%) DHCP
5 1 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
1 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.28%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.76%) MySQL
4 10 (5.24%) Metadata
5 9 (4.71%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (4.19%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.66%) Couchbase
8 6 (3.14%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.57%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.52%) Big Data
13 1 (0.52%) Bigtable
13 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (17.80%) Jenkins
2 26 (13.61%) Git
3 22 (11.52%) GitLab
4 20 (10.47%) Cypress.io
5 18 (9.42%) CircleCI
6 16 (8.38%) SonarQube
7 12 (6.28%) JUnit
8 10 (5.24%) JIRA
8 10 (5.24%) JMeter
9 7 (3.66%) Gradle
9 7 (3.66%) Storybook
10 5 (2.62%) Mercurial
11 4 (2.09%) AppScan
11 4 (2.09%) Burp Suite
11 4 (2.09%) Postman
11 4 (2.09%) Terragrunt
12 2 (1.05%) Appium
12 2 (1.05%) ESLint
12 2 (1.05%) Snyk
12 2 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 24 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.90%) Finance
4 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.62%) Banking
5 5 (2.62%) Retail
6 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.05%) Aviation
6 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.05%) Marketing
6 2 (1.05%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Wearables
7 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Law
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (26.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (21.99%) Developer
3 30 (15.71%) Senior
4 28 (14.66%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (13.61%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (13.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.33%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.81%) Architect
9 12 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (5.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.14%) Migration Manager
14 6 (3.14%) Migration Project Manager
14 6 (3.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.61%) REST
2 24 (12.57%) React
3 19 (9.95%) Node.js
4 15 (7.85%) Kafka
5 14 (7.33%) HTML
6 13 (6.81%) RESTful
7 12 (6.28%) .NET
7 12 (6.28%) CSS
8 11 (5.76%) ARM Templates
9 10 (5.24%) Azure Blueprints
10 9 (4.71%) Android Jetpack
10 9 (4.71%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (4.71%) OAuth
11 8 (4.19%) Playwright
11 8 (4.19%) RxJava
11 8 (4.19%) Vue
12 7 (3.66%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.66%) Django
12 7 (3.66%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.28%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.71%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.19%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.66%) Legacy Code
6 7 (3.66%) Machine to Machine
7 4 (2.09%) PKI
8 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.57%) Social Media
9 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) Genomics
9 2 (1.05%) Life Science
9 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.05%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.52%) Linux
2 10 (5.24%) Android
3 6 (3.14%) Windows
4 4 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (53.40%) DevOps
2 97 (50.79%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.75%) Agile
4 41 (21.47%) Test Automation
5 39 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (19.90%) Containerisation
7 29 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (15.18%) Software Engineering
8 24 (12.57%) Project Management
9 22 (11.52%) Open Source
10 19 (9.95%) Migration
11 18 (9.42%) Runbook
12 17 (8.90%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.90%) Microservices
12 17 (8.90%) Performance Analysis
12 17 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (8.90%) Unit Testing
13 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.33%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (42.93%) Python
2 26 (13.61%) TypeScript
3 25 (13.09%) SQL
4 17 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.85%) Bash
5 15 (7.85%) Go
6 10 (5.24%) Java
6 10 (5.24%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.71%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.66%) PHP
9 6 (3.14%) Ruby
10 4 (2.09%) Bicep
11 3 (1.57%) Scala
11 3 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.05%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) C
13 1 (0.52%) C#
13 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.04%) Degree
4 13 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) CEH
7 2 (1.05%) CISM
7 2 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.05%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.05%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) QA
2 11 (5.76%) NCSC
3 5 (2.62%) NIST
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.05%) COBIT
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 54 (28.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) Ceph
4 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 111 (58.12%) Terraform
2 60 (31.41%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.61%) Ansible
4 19 (9.95%) Argo
5 12 (6.28%) Grafana
6 11 (5.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.19%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.19%) Puppet
8 6 (3.14%) Nessus
9 4 (2.09%) Graylog
9 4 (2.09%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.09%) WebInspect
10 2 (1.05%) Istio
10 2 (1.05%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Consul
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.52%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.71%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.66%) NEC
4 6 (3.14%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) Splunk
5 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.09%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.09%) UiPath
6 4 (2.09%) Veracode
7 3 (1.57%) Facebook
7 3 (1.57%) Instagram
7 3 (1.57%) Oracle
7 3 (1.57%) Twitter
7 3 (1.57%) YouTube
8 2 (1.05%) New Relic
8 2 (1.05%) Qualys
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) Aareon
9 1 (0.52%) Confluent
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace