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 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 418 445 613
Rank change year-on-year +27 +168 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 193 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.12% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 117 135
10th Percentile £357 £450 £443
25th Percentile £463 £538 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% -0.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £699 £793 £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 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 11,806 17,214 27,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.26% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,506 12,625 20,019
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 £745 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 287 322
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
% change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%

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 1 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 1 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 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
London +46 98 £555 -11.20% 43
South East +21 15 £353 -49.64% 5
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
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 4 (3.01%) Confluence
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
4 3 (2.26%) 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 65 (48.87%) AWS
3 39 (29.32%) Azure
4 28 (21.05%) Serverless
5 19 (14.29%) GCP
6 18 (13.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (8.27%) Azure AKS
10 10 (7.52%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.77%) Azure Functions
11 9 (6.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (6.02%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.76%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (3.76%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) Network Security
3 3 (2.26%) DNS
3 3 (2.26%) Intranet
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) Internet
4 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.77%) BigQuery
2 9 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.77%) DynamoDB
2 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 7 (5.26%) Metadata
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%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.54%) GitLab
3 20 (15.04%) Git
4 18 (13.53%) CircleCI
5 11 (8.27%) Cypress.io
5 11 (8.27%) JUnit
6 10 (7.52%) JMeter
7 8 (6.02%) JIRA
8 7 (5.26%) Gradle
9 6 (4.51%) SonarQube
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%) Snyk
12 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.75%) Mockito
13 1 (0.75%) TestNG
General
1 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.76%) Banking
4 5 (3.76%) Retail
5 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.50%) Aviation
6 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.50%) Marketing
6 2 (1.50%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Local Government
7 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (24.06%) Developer
3 26 (19.55%) Senior
4 18 (13.53%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (12.78%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (12.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (12.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Architect
8 9 (6.77%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Android Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.01%) AWS Developer
12 4 (3.01%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.55%) REST
2 22 (16.54%) React
3 17 (12.78%) Node.js
4 15 (11.28%) Kafka
5 14 (10.53%) HTML
6 12 (9.02%) RESTful
7 11 (8.27%) .NET
7 11 (8.27%) CSS
8 9 (6.77%) Android Jetpack
8 9 (6.77%) Jetpack Compose
9 8 (6.02%) OAuth
9 8 (6.02%) RxJava
10 6 (4.51%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.51%) OAuth2
11 5 (3.76%) Dagger
11 5 (3.76%) Django
11 5 (3.76%) RAML
12 4 (3.01%) Web Services
12 4 (3.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Virtual Team
2 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.26%) Legacy Code
3 7 (5.26%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (4.51%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.01%) PKI
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.50%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.75%) CBDC
9 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.75%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.54%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Android
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.89%) DevOps
2 72 (54.14%) CI/CD
3 36 (27.07%) Agile
4 33 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (15.04%) Containerisation
6 20 (15.04%) Open Source
6 20 (15.04%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.78%) Microservices
8 15 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (11.28%) Runbook
9 13 (9.77%) Computer Science
9 13 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (9.77%) Observability
9 13 (9.77%) TDD
10 12 (9.02%) Architectural Design
11 11 (8.27%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.27%) Software Engineering
11 11 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (7.52%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.12%) Python
2 21 (15.79%) SQL
3 16 (12.03%) TypeScript
4 15 (11.28%) Go
5 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.02%) Bash
7 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.77%) Java
8 9 (6.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.01%) Bicep
9 4 (3.01%) Ruby
10 3 (2.26%) Scala
10 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) C
11 1 (0.75%) C#
11 1 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.03%) Degree
4 12 (9.02%) 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%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
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 40 (30.08%) 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 81 (60.90%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
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%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.26%) Google
4 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
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%) Adobe
6 1 (0.75%) Capita
6 1 (0.75%) Civica
6 1 (0.75%) Dell
6 1 (0.75%) Intel
6 1 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.75%) webMethods