GitHub Actions Contracts in the South West

GitHub Actions
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 166 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £475 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £651 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% - -
75th Percentile £656 £694 -
90th Percentile £690 £788 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +27.50%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 812 1,254 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.40% 34.63% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 1,014 858
10th Percentile £202 £286 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £591
90th Percentile £688 £719 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 54 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £19.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £51.68 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.94% +106.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.90% +45.24% -2.33%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the South West

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the South West.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the South West

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the South West

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Gloucestershire +12 3 £500 -16.67%
Wiltshire +4 1 £625 -9.09%
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Apigee
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Snyk
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware