GitHub Actions Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 375 495
Rank change year-on-year +120 +120 -38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 87 82 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 0.87% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 58 109
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £472 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.96% +28.79%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile - £750 £900
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

GitHub Actions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

GitHub Actions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

GitHub Actions daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (8.05%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) GitHub
2 49 (56.32%) AWS
3 26 (29.89%) Azure
4 16 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (16.09%) GCP
6 13 (14.94%) PaaS
7 12 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (13.79%) SaaS
8 11 (12.64%) IaaS
9 9 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (10.34%) Serverless
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.45%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.45%) Fivetran
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (2.30%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) Firewall
2 3 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) Intranet
4 1 (1.15%) DHCP
4 1 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.15%) VLAN
4 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.05%) BigQuery
2 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.90%) Metadata
3 6 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.60%) Couchbase
5 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.45%) MySQL
7 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (26.44%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.09%) SonarQube
3 13 (14.94%) Git
4 10 (11.49%) GitLab
5 7 (8.05%) JIRA
6 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.30%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.30%) JUnit
7 2 (2.30%) Snyk
7 2 (2.30%) Storybook
8 1 (1.15%) AppScan
8 1 (1.15%) JMeter
8 1 (1.15%) jMock
8 1 (1.15%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.15%) Mockito
8 1 (1.15%) Moq
8 1 (1.15%) NUnit
8 1 (1.15%) Selenium
8 1 (1.15%) TestNG
General
1 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Retail
5 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.30%) Aviation
5 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.30%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (24.14%) Senior
3 17 (19.54%) Developer
4 13 (14.94%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (12.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Architect
8 9 (10.34%) Data Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 3 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
13 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Technical Architect
14 2 (2.30%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) ARM Templates
2 10 (11.49%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (11.49%) CSS
3 9 (10.34%) HTML
3 9 (10.34%) React
3 9 (10.34%) REST
4 7 (8.05%) Node.js
5 5 (5.75%) .NET
6 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.45%) Jest
6 3 (3.45%) RESTful
6 3 (3.45%) Swagger
6 3 (3.45%) Vue
7 2 (2.30%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.30%) Celery
7 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.30%) Ember.js
7 2 (2.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Management Information System
1 10 (11.49%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.60%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Social Media
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.15%) CBDC
5 1 (1.15%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.15%) IoT
5 1 (1.15%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.15%) PKI
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.92%) DevOps
2 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.29%) Agile
3 22 (25.29%) Test Automation
4 19 (21.84%) Containerisation
5 18 (20.69%) Software Engineering
6 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (18.39%) Mentoring
8 13 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (14.94%) Project Management
9 12 (13.79%) Static Application Security Testing
10 11 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (12.64%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (12.64%) DevSecOps
10 11 (12.64%) Functional Testing
10 11 (12.64%) Release Management
11 10 (11.49%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (11.49%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (11.49%) Performance Analysis
11 10 (11.49%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (16.09%) SQL
2 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
3 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.05%) Go
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 3 (3.45%) Bash
6 3 (3.45%) Bicep
6 3 (3.45%) PHP
7 2 (2.30%) C#
7 2 (2.30%) Ruby
7 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.15%) C
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 32 (36.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.20%) Degree
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) CEH
6 2 (2.30%) CISM
6 2 (2.30%) CISSP
6 2 (2.30%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.30%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) NCSC
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) COBIT
4 2 (2.30%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (66.67%) Terraform
2 26 (29.89%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.24%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Argo
5 5 (5.75%) Grafana
5 5 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) Nessus
7 2 (2.30%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Graylog
8 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.15%) Istio
8 1 (1.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.15%) logstash
8 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.15%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.45%) Facebook
2 3 (3.45%) Instagram
2 3 (3.45%) Twitter
2 3 (3.45%) YouTube
3 2 (2.30%) Apiary
3 2 (2.30%) Google
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle
3 2 (2.30%) Qualys
3 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.30%) Splunk
3 2 (2.30%) VMware
4 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.15%) NEC
4 1 (1.15%) Veracode