GitHub Actions Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 357 386 473
Rank change year-on-year +29 +87 -41
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 44 44 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.59% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 27
10th Percentile £350 £450 -
25th Percentile £406 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £659
90th Percentile £598 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +28.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Wales +35 16 £515 -11.97% 4
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
Scotland +49 1 - - 1
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) GitHub
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Apigee
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) dbt
7 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Network Security
1 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) MySQL
2 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 4 (9.09%) Couchbase
4 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.09%) Metadata
4 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Cypress.io
4 7 (15.91%) Storybook
5 6 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 5 (11.36%) Git
6 5 (11.36%) JIRA
7 4 (9.09%) AppScan
7 4 (9.09%) Burp Suite
7 4 (9.09%) Postman
8 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (4.55%) Gradle
9 2 (4.55%) JUnit
9 2 (4.55%) Selenium
9 2 (4.55%) Snyk
10 1 (2.27%) Appium
10 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.27%) JMeter
10 1 (2.27%) PHPUnit
10 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 3 (6.82%) Finance
1 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
1 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 6 (13.64%) Migration Manager
2 6 (13.64%) Migration Project Manager
2 6 (13.64%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Automation Tester
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Tester
6 1 (2.27%) Data Modeller
6 1 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Playwright
2 8 (18.18%) Vue
3 7 (15.91%) REST
4 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.09%) Jest
4 4 (9.09%) Laravel
5 3 (6.82%) CSS
5 3 (6.82%) HTML
5 3 (6.82%) React
5 3 (6.82%) Spring
5 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.55%) Kafka
6 2 (4.55%) Node.js
6 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.27%) Ember.js
7 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.27%) Ktor
7 1 (2.27%) RxJava
7 1 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Android
3 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 21 (47.73%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (34.09%) Project Management
5 14 (31.82%) DevOps
5 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (20.45%) Scrum
8 7 (15.91%) Front End Development
8 7 (15.91%) Migration
8 7 (15.91%) Objectives and Key Results
8 7 (15.91%) Unit Testing
9 6 (13.64%) Analytics
9 6 (13.64%) Open Source
9 6 (13.64%) SDLC
9 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Data Analytics
11 4 (9.09%) Change Control
11 4 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.45%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) Java
5 6 (13.64%) PHP
6 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.09%) Bash
7 4 (9.09%) Go
8 3 (6.82%) Bicep
8 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.55%) Scala
10 1 (2.27%) C++
10 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (38.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Terraform
2 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (18.18%) Argo
4 5 (11.36%) Ansible
5 4 (9.09%) Grafana
5 4 (9.09%) Graylog
5 4 (9.09%) HP Fortify
5 4 (9.09%) Nessus
5 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.09%) Puppet
5 4 (9.09%) WebInspect
6 1 (2.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 4 (9.09%) Checkmarx
3 4 (9.09%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) Veracode
4 2 (4.55%) VMware