GitHub Actions Contracts in the North of England

GitHub Actions
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 187 238
Rank change year-on-year +15 +51 -50
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 11 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.44% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 1.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 8
10th Percentile £400 £450 £468
25th Percentile £488 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £644
90th Percentile £598 £660 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +27.50%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,367 2,076 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.23% 36.51% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,548 1,888
10th Percentile £263 £300 £194
25th Percentile £383 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £681 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +111.20% -1.32%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West +19 7 £525 +4.90% 4
Yorkshire +1 4 £569 -5.21% 9
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) AppScan
2 4 (36.36%) Burp Suite
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Mockito
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Retail
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Site Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 1 (9.09%) Ember.js
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Change Control
5 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) OWASP
5 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
7 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
7 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
7 1 (9.09%) Kanban
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (9.09%) TDD
7 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) Graylog
3 4 (36.36%) HP Fortify
3 4 (36.36%) Nessus
3 4 (36.36%) Progress Chef
3 4 (36.36%) Puppet
3 4 (36.36%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Checkmarx
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
1 4 (36.36%) Veracode
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Confluent
3 1 (9.09%) New Relic