GitHub Actions Contracts

GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 482 627
Rank change year-on-year +85 +145 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 190 208 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.01% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 128 183
10th Percentile £400 £463 £438
25th Percentile £466 £534 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +28.79%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £674 £788 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -12.39% +11.43% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £37.88 - -
90th Percentile £45.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,929 20,504 33,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.52% 36.44% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,911 14,827 24,764
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 328 402
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%
75th Percentile £40.00 £67.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.05 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £19.63
% change year-on-year -33.08% +34.93% -1.88%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +44 132 £538 -12.07% 80
London +36 96 £531 -15.00% 43
Work from Home +100 82 £550 -12.00% 37
UK excluding London +35 44 £513 -12.39% 35
Wales +27 15 £515 -11.97% 2
South East +25 15 £353 -49.64% 5
North of England +13 9 £550 +4.76% 11
North West +24 5 £500 -0.10% 4
Yorkshire -1 4 £569 +1.11% 7
South West +3 3 £500 -23.20% 5
Scotland +38 1 - - 2
Midlands +20 1 £350 -50.00% 5
West Midlands +6 1 £350 -50.00% 4

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (5.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 6 (3.16%) Confluence
4 3 (1.58%) nginx
4 3 (1.58%) WordPress
5 2 (1.05%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.68%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.53%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.53%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 190 (100.00%) GitHub
2 96 (50.53%) AWS
3 61 (32.11%) Azure
4 32 (16.84%) Serverless
5 30 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.16%) GCP
7 24 (12.63%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (11.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (7.89%) PaaS
10 13 (6.84%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.32%) SaaS
12 11 (5.79%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.79%) IaaS
13 9 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.74%) Azure Functions
13 9 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.74%) Firewall
2 4 (2.11%) DNS
2 4 (2.11%) Network Security
3 3 (1.58%) Intranet
4 2 (1.05%) WAN
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.32%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.79%) MySQL
5 10 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.26%) Metadata
6 8 (4.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (4.21%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.68%) Couchbase
8 6 (3.16%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.05%) Big Data
12 2 (1.05%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.53%) Bigtable
13 1 (0.53%) Redis
13 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.21%) Git
3 22 (11.58%) GitLab
4 21 (11.05%) Cypress.io
5 18 (9.47%) CircleCI
6 16 (8.42%) SonarQube
7 12 (6.32%) JUnit
8 10 (5.26%) JIRA
8 10 (5.26%) JMeter
9 7 (3.68%) Gradle
9 7 (3.68%) Storybook
10 5 (2.63%) Mercurial
11 4 (2.11%) AppScan
11 4 (2.11%) Burp Suite
11 4 (2.11%) Postman
11 4 (2.11%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.58%) Appium
12 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.58%) Selenium
13 2 (1.05%) Mocha
General
1 24 (12.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.95%) Finance
4 11 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.63%) Banking
5 5 (2.63%) Retail
6 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.05%) Aviation
6 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.05%) Marketing
6 2 (1.05%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.05%) Wearables
7 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Legal
7 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (25.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (22.11%) Developer
3 28 (14.74%) Senior
4 26 (13.68%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (12.63%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (12.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.37%) Architect
6 14 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.37%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 10 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.68%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.16%) Migration Manager
10 6 (3.16%) Migration Project Manager
10 6 (3.16%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.16%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.68%) REST
2 24 (12.63%) React
3 19 (10.00%) Node.js
4 15 (7.89%) Kafka
5 14 (7.37%) HTML
6 13 (6.84%) RESTful
7 12 (6.32%) .NET
7 12 (6.32%) CSS
8 11 (5.79%) ARM Templates
9 10 (5.26%) Azure Blueprints
10 9 (4.74%) Android Jetpack
10 9 (4.74%) Jetpack Compose
10 9 (4.74%) OAuth
10 9 (4.74%) Playwright
11 8 (4.21%) RxJava
11 8 (4.21%) Vue
12 7 (3.68%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.68%) Django
12 7 (3.68%) OAuth2
13 6 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.74%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.21%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.68%) Legacy Code
6 7 (3.68%) Machine to Machine
7 4 (2.11%) PKI
8 3 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.58%) Social Media
9 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) Genomics
9 2 (1.05%) Life Science
9 2 (1.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.05%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.11%) Linux
2 10 (5.26%) Android
3 6 (3.16%) Windows
4 4 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (53.16%) DevOps
2 100 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.89%) Agile
4 43 (22.63%) Test Automation
5 40 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 29 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (15.26%) Software Engineering
8 25 (13.16%) Project Management
9 22 (11.58%) Open Source
10 19 (10.00%) Migration
11 17 (8.95%) Microservices
11 17 (8.95%) Performance Analysis
11 17 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (8.95%) Unit Testing
12 16 (8.42%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (7.89%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 82 (43.16%) Python
2 26 (13.68%) SQL
3 23 (12.11%) TypeScript
4 18 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.89%) Bash
5 15 (7.89%) Go
6 11 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.26%) Java
7 10 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.68%) PHP
9 6 (3.16%) Ruby
10 4 (2.11%) Bicep
10 4 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.58%) Scala
12 2 (1.05%) C++
12 2 (1.05%) Swift
13 1 (0.53%) C
13 1 (0.53%) C#
13 1 (0.53%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.11%) Degree
4 13 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) CEH
7 2 (1.05%) CISM
7 2 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.05%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.05%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.11%) QA
2 11 (5.79%) NCSC
3 5 (2.63%) NIST
4 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.05%) COBIT
5 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (28.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) Ceph
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 109 (57.37%) Terraform
2 60 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (14.21%) Ansible
4 19 (10.00%) Argo
5 12 (6.32%) Grafana
6 11 (5.79%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.21%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.21%) Puppet
8 6 (3.16%) Nessus
9 4 (2.11%) Graylog
9 4 (2.11%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.11%) WebInspect
10 2 (1.05%) Istio
10 2 (1.05%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.53%) Consul
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.74%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.68%) NEC
4 6 (3.16%) Google
4 6 (3.16%) Splunk
5 5 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.11%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.11%) UiPath
6 4 (2.11%) Veracode
7 3 (1.58%) Facebook
7 3 (1.58%) Instagram
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle
7 3 (1.58%) Twitter
7 3 (1.58%) YouTube
8 2 (1.05%) New Relic
8 2 (1.05%) Qualys
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.53%) Aareon
9 1 (0.53%) Confluent
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace