GitHub Actions Contracts in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 447 621
Rank change year-on-year +30 +174 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 191 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.12% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 114 136
10th Percentile £356 £450 £456
25th Percentile £459 £516 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £624 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -0.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £699 £796 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £46.13 - -
90th Percentile £48.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +37 98 £563 -10.00% 33
South East +24 15 £353 -49.64% 6
North of England +4 9 £550 +4.76% 13
North West +16 5 £500 -0.10% 3
Yorkshire 0 4 £569 +8.33% 8
South West +1 3 £500 -25.29% 6
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.02%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) nginx
4 2 (1.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.75%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.75%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.75%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 67 (50.38%) AWS
3 40 (30.08%) Azure
4 29 (21.80%) Serverless
5 19 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (14.29%) GCP
6 18 (13.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.27%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.27%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.77%) Azure Functions
9 9 (6.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (4.51%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (4.51%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) Network Security
3 3 (2.26%) DNS
4 2 (1.50%) Intranet
5 1 (0.75%) DHCP
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.75%) VLAN
5 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.52%) DynamoDB
3 9 (6.77%) BigQuery
3 9 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (5.26%) Metadata
5 6 (4.51%) Couchbase
5 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.51%) MySQL
5 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.50%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.75%) Big Data
9 1 (0.75%) Bigtable
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
9 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (15.79%) GitLab
3 19 (14.29%) Git
4 17 (12.78%) CircleCI
5 11 (8.27%) Cypress.io
6 10 (7.52%) JMeter
6 10 (7.52%) JUnit
7 8 (6.02%) JIRA
8 7 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 6 (4.51%) Gradle
10 5 (3.76%) Mercurial
11 4 (3.01%) AppScan
11 4 (3.01%) Burp Suite
12 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.50%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.50%) Mocha
12 2 (1.50%) Postman
12 2 (1.50%) Selenium
12 2 (1.50%) Snyk
12 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.76%) Banking
4 5 (3.76%) Retail
5 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.50%) Aviation
5 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.50%) Marketing
5 2 (1.50%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Law
6 1 (0.75%) Legal
6 1 (0.75%) Local Government
6 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (23.31%) Developer
3 26 (19.55%) Senior
4 19 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) AWS DevOps
5 18 (13.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (8.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Architect
9 9 (6.77%) Data Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.76%) Software Developer
14 4 (3.01%) Android Developer
14 4 (3.01%) Site Engineer
14 4 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.05%) REST
2 22 (16.54%) React
3 17 (12.78%) Node.js
4 15 (11.28%) Kafka
5 13 (9.77%) HTML
5 13 (9.77%) RESTful
6 10 (7.52%) .NET
6 10 (7.52%) CSS
7 8 (6.02%) Android Jetpack
7 8 (6.02%) Jetpack Compose
7 8 (6.02%) OAuth
8 7 (5.26%) RxJava
9 6 (4.51%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.51%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.76%) Django
11 4 (3.01%) Dagger
11 4 (3.01%) pytest
11 4 (3.01%) Web Services
11 4 (3.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
1 8 (6.02%) Virtual Team
2 7 (5.26%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (4.51%) Legacy Code
3 6 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.01%) PKI
6 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.50%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) CBDC
8 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.75%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.54%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Android
3 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) DevOps
2 73 (54.89%) CI/CD
3 35 (26.32%) Agile
4 34 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (15.04%) Test Automation
6 19 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 18 (13.53%) Open Source
8 16 (12.03%) Microservices
9 15 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (11.28%) Runbook
10 13 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
10 13 (9.77%) Observability
10 13 (9.77%) TDD
11 12 (9.02%) Architectural Design
12 11 (8.27%) Computer Science
12 11 (8.27%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.27%) Service Catalogue
12 11 (8.27%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (49.62%) Python
2 22 (16.54%) SQL
3 17 (12.78%) TypeScript
4 14 (10.53%) Go
4 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.02%) Bash
6 10 (7.52%) Java
6 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.02%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.01%) Bicep
9 3 (2.26%) Ruby
9 3 (2.26%) Scala
9 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) C
10 1 (0.75%) C#
10 1 (0.75%) C++
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
10 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.53%) Degree
4 10 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) CEH
6 2 (1.50%) CISM
6 2 (1.50%) CISSP
6 2 (1.50%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.50%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 5 (3.76%) NIST
3 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.50%) COBIT
4 2 (1.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.50%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) Ceph
4 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 83 (62.41%) Terraform
2 46 (34.59%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.53%) Ansible
4 12 (9.02%) Argo
4 12 (9.02%) Grafana
5 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.51%) Nessus
6 6 (4.51%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.51%) Puppet
7 4 (3.01%) Graylog
7 4 (3.01%) HP Fortify
7 4 (3.01%) WebInspect
8 2 (1.50%) Istio
9 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.75%) Consul
9 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.75%) Mesos
9 1 (0.75%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.75%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.51%) NEC
2 6 (4.51%) Splunk
3 4 (3.01%) Checkmarx
3 4 (3.01%) Veracode
4 3 (2.26%) Google
4 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.50%) New Relic
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) Qualys
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Aareon
6 1 (0.75%) Capita
6 1 (0.75%) Civica
6 1 (0.75%) Confluent
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.75%) webMethods