GitHub Actions Contracts in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 446 594
Rank change year-on-year +39 +148 -11
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 213 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.15% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 128 150
10th Percentile £352 £459 £438
25th Percentile £453 £513 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +32.12%
75th Percentile £625 £677 £692
90th Percentile £700 £791 £739
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +27.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £32.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -
75th Percentile £46.13 - -
90th Percentile £48.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,769 18,488 27,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.83% 36.63% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,478 13,522 20,053
10th Percentile £290 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 311 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +39 90 £525 -12.50% 53
South East +32 17 £378 -46.07% 8
North of England +17 10 £550 +1.85% 21
North West +26 6 £500 -0.10% 8
South West +14 4 £563 -13.59% 6
Yorkshire +5 4 £569 -5.21% 12
Midlands +24 2 £395 -43.57% 3
West Midlands +27 1 £350 -50.00%
East Midlands +17 1 £440 -37.14% 3
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 12 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.82%) Confluence
3 4 (3.05%) Apache
4 3 (2.29%) nginx
4 3 (2.29%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.76%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.76%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.76%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 70 (53.44%) AWS
3 43 (32.82%) Azure
4 31 (23.66%) Serverless
5 19 (14.50%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (12.98%) GCP
8 14 (10.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.92%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (8.40%) Azure AKS
12 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (7.63%) Azure Functions
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (5.34%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (4.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Intranet
1 3 (2.29%) Network Security
2 2 (1.53%) DNS
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) DHCP
3 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.16%) DynamoDB
2 12 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.87%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (6.87%) BigQuery
3 9 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.87%) MySQL
4 8 (6.11%) Couchbase
5 7 (5.34%) Metadata
6 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.58%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.05%) Big Data
8 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.29%) Flink
10 2 (1.53%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.79%) Git
2 22 (16.79%) GitLab
3 19 (14.50%) CircleCI
4 12 (9.16%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.63%) JMeter
5 10 (7.63%) JUnit
6 7 (5.34%) JIRA
7 6 (4.58%) Gradle
7 6 (4.58%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.82%) Mercurial
9 4 (3.05%) AppScan
9 4 (3.05%) Burp Suite
9 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.29%) Poetry
11 2 (1.53%) Appium
11 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.53%) Mocha
11 2 (1.53%) Snyk
11 2 (1.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (12.21%) Finance
1 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
3 5 (3.82%) Retail
4 4 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.05%) Banking
5 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.53%) Legal
5 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.53%) Marketing
5 2 (1.53%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Law
6 1 (0.76%) Local Government
6 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) Developer
1 36 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.50%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (11.45%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (11.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Lead
10 5 (3.82%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.85%) REST
2 24 (18.32%) React
3 17 (12.98%) HTML
3 17 (12.98%) Node.js
4 16 (12.21%) Kafka
5 14 (10.69%) CSS
5 14 (10.69%) RESTful
6 11 (8.40%) .NET
7 8 (6.11%) OAuth
8 7 (5.34%) Android Jetpack
8 7 (5.34%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (5.34%) RxJava
9 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.58%) Django
9 6 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.58%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (4.58%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.82%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.82%) RAML
11 4 (3.05%) OkHttp
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.34%) Machine to Machine
1 7 (5.34%) Virtual Team
2 6 (4.58%) Legacy Code
2 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.05%) PKI
5 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.53%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.76%) CBDC
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.61%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Android
3 4 (3.05%) Windows
4 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (61.83%) CI/CD
2 75 (57.25%) DevOps
3 36 (27.48%) Agile
4 33 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (17.56%) Test Automation
6 22 (16.79%) Containerisation
7 21 (16.03%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (14.50%) Open Source
9 18 (13.74%) Microservices
10 16 (12.21%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (10.69%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (9.92%) TDD
13 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
13 12 (9.16%) Software Engineering
14 11 (8.40%) Architectural Design
14 11 (8.40%) Observability
14 11 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (6.87%) Data Engineering
16 9 (6.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.38%) Python
2 23 (17.56%) SQL
3 20 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.21%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) Bash
5 14 (10.69%) Go
6 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.40%) Java
8 8 (6.11%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.05%) Ruby
11 3 (2.29%) Bicep
11 3 (2.29%) Scala
12 2 (1.53%) PHP
12 2 (1.53%) Swift
13 1 (0.76%) C
13 1 (0.76%) C#
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.21%) Degree
4 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.53%) CEH
7 2 (1.53%) CISM
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.53%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) NIST
4 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.05%) WCAG
5 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.53%) COBIT
6 2 (1.53%) GDPR
6 2 (1.53%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (32.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) Ceph
3 1 (0.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 77 (58.78%) Terraform
2 53 (40.46%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.21%) Ansible
4 13 (9.92%) Argo
5 10 (7.63%) Grafana
6 8 (6.11%) Prometheus
7 7 (5.34%) Puppet
8 6 (4.58%) Nessus
8 6 (4.58%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.05%) Graylog
9 4 (3.05%) HP Fortify
9 4 (3.05%) WebInspect
10 2 (1.53%) Istio
10 2 (1.53%) Packer
11 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.76%) Consul
11 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.76%) Mesos
11 1 (0.76%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.58%) NEC
2 6 (4.58%) Splunk
3 5 (3.82%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.05%) Checkmarx
4 4 (3.05%) Veracode
5 3 (2.29%) Google
6 2 (1.53%) New Relic
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle
6 2 (1.53%) Qualys
6 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.53%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe
7 1 (0.76%) Citrix
7 1 (0.76%) Civica
7 1 (0.76%) Dell
7 1 (0.76%) Intel
7 1 (0.76%) SAP
7 1 (0.76%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.76%) webMethods