GitHub Actions Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 347 403 482
Rank change year-on-year +56 +79 -56
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 49 44 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.19% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 27
10th Percentile £350 £450 -
25th Percentile £438 £495 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £576 £613 £659
90th Percentile £634 £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 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

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 9 May 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 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
Wales +34 17 £515 -11.97% 2
South East +35 15 £353 -49.64% 3
North of England +15 11 £550 +1.85% 14
North West +19 7 £525 +4.90% 4
South West +14 4 £563 -13.59% 8
Yorkshire +1 4 £569 -5.21% 9
Scotland +41 1 - - 1
Midlands +31 1 £350 -50.00% 3
West Midlands +18 1 £350 -50.00% 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 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) GitHub
2 20 (40.82%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) AWS
4 7 (14.29%) GCP
5 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.08%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.04%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
1 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) MySQL
2 8 (16.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.20%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (10.20%) Couchbase
3 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.16%) BigQuery
4 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) Metadata
4 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) Big Data
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.45%) GitLab
3 7 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 7 (14.29%) Git
4 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
5 5 (10.20%) JIRA
5 5 (10.20%) Storybook
6 4 (8.16%) AppScan
6 4 (8.16%) Burp Suite
7 3 (6.12%) CircleCI
7 3 (6.12%) Gradle
7 3 (6.12%) JUnit
7 3 (6.12%) Postman
8 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.08%) Snyk
9 1 (2.04%) Appium
9 1 (2.04%) JMeter
9 1 (2.04%) Maven
9 1 (2.04%) Mockito
9 1 (2.04%) TestNG
General
1 3 (6.12%) Finance
1 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Migration Manager
2 9 (18.37%) Migration Project Manager
2 9 (18.37%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Site Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.12%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) REST
2 7 (14.29%) Playwright
3 6 (12.24%) Vue
4 4 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.12%) CSS
5 3 (6.12%) HTML
5 3 (6.12%) Jest
5 3 (6.12%) Kafka
5 3 (6.12%) React
5 3 (6.12%) Spring
6 2 (4.08%) Laravel
6 2 (4.08%) Node.js
6 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.04%) .NET
7 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.04%) Ember.js
7 1 (2.04%) HTML5
7 1 (2.04%) OAuth
7 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Android
3 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Agile
1 25 (51.02%) CI/CD
2 18 (36.73%) DevOps
3 17 (34.69%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
4 13 (26.53%) Project Management
5 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (24.49%) Scrum
5 12 (24.49%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.41%) Migration
7 9 (18.37%) SDLC
8 7 (14.29%) Open Source
9 6 (12.24%) Microservices
10 5 (10.20%) Analytics
10 5 (10.20%) Front End Development
10 5 (10.20%) Objectives and Key Results
10 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
10 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
11 4 (8.16%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Python
1 10 (20.41%) TypeScript
2 9 (18.37%) PHP
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
5 5 (10.20%) Go
6 3 (6.12%) Bicep
6 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.08%) Scala
8 1 (2.04%) C++
8 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Terraform
2 13 (26.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.45%) Argo
4 7 (14.29%) Ansible
5 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.20%) Puppet
6 4 (8.16%) Grafana
6 4 (8.16%) Graylog
6 4 (8.16%) HP Fortify
6 4 (8.16%) Nessus
6 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
6 4 (8.16%) WebInspect
7 2 (4.08%) Packer
8 1 (2.04%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.49%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.16%) Checkmarx
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
3 4 (8.16%) Veracode
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Citrix
5 1 (2.04%) Confluent
5 1 (2.04%) New Relic