GitHub Actions Contracts in the South East

GitHub Actions
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 219 259
Rank change year-on-year +37 +40 -47
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 17 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.086% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 8
10th Percentile £290 £655 -
25th Percentile £350 £663 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +47.37% +35.71%
75th Percentile £550 £713 £550
90th Percentile £613 £720 £644
England median daily rate £525 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +37.10%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,395 1,706 2,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.14% 29.24% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 1,252 1,796
10th Percentile £243 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.10 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%
75th Percentile £58.06 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

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 26 April 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 26 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
West Sussex - 6 £378 - 2
Buckinghamshire +33 4 £575 -
Thames Valley +15 4 £575 -17.86% 1
Hampshire - 4 £300 - 3
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 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (23.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (35.29%) Couchbase
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
4 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
4 4 (23.53%) Metadata
5 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.88%) Big Data
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (11.76%) JUnit
5 1 (5.88%) Appium
5 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.88%) JMeter
5 1 (5.88%) Selenium
5 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Android Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.88%) Dagger
4 1 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Ktor
4 1 (5.88%) OkHttp
4 1 (5.88%) RAML
4 1 (5.88%) Retrofit
4 1 (5.88%) RxJava
4 1 (5.88%) WireMock
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Code
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (41.18%) Open Source
2 6 (35.29%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Data Munging
4 4 (23.53%) Data Science
4 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Go
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Atlassian