GitHub Actions Contracts in the South East

GitHub Actions
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 209 254
Rank change year-on-year +24 +45 -28
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 15 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £290 £505 -
25th Percentile £335 £569 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -49.64% +47.37% +35.71%
75th Percentile £472 £713 £550
90th Percentile £609 £720 £644
England median daily rate £550 £624 £625
% change year-on-year -11.82% -0.20% +19.05%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,652 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 29.17% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,195 1,805
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £408 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £614
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 47 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.83 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.43
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the South East

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hampshire - 5 £300 - 2
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £575 -
Thames Valley +10 4 £575 -2.13% 1
West Sussex - 4 £353 -
Sussex - 2 £350 -
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) dbt
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (26.67%) BigQuery
3 4 (26.67%) Couchbase
3 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (26.67%) Metadata
3 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) CircleCI
5 2 (13.33%) Gradle
5 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Appium
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) PHPUnit
6 1 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Android Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (6.67%) Dagger
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Ktor
4 1 (6.67%) OkHttp
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) RAML
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Retrofit
4 1 (6.67%) RxJava
4 1 (6.67%) WireMock
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Code
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Open Source
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Data Munging
4 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Time Management
7 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Atlassian