GitHub Actions Contracts in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 444 593
Rank change year-on-year +40 +149 +7
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 127 200 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.14% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 124 141
10th Percentile £350 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £548 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £611 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% -4.12% +24.39%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £688
90th Percentile £689 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -11.67% -5.88% +29.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £32.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -
75th Percentile £46.13 - -
90th Percentile £48.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,687 17,571 27,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.09% 36.46% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,435 12,880 19,964
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 289 332
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.64
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +40 89 £538 -14.00% 57
South East +42 15 £353 -49.64% 11
North of England +18 10 £550 +3.29% 12
North West +23 6 £525 +4.90% 5
Yorkshire -2 4 £569 -5.21% 7
South West +5 3 £500 -23.20% 5
West Midlands +20 1 £350 -50.00% 1
Midlands +20 1 £350 -50.00% 2
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (3.15%) Confluence
4 3 (2.36%) nginx
4 3 (2.36%) WordPress
5 2 (1.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.79%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.79%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.79%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) GitHub
2 61 (48.03%) AWS
3 39 (30.71%) Azure
4 29 (22.83%) Serverless
5 19 (14.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (14.17%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.60%) GCP
9 14 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (8.66%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.66%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (7.09%) Azure Functions
12 9 (7.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.72%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (3.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.72%) Firewall
2 4 (3.15%) Network Security
3 3 (2.36%) Intranet
4 2 (1.57%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) DHCP
5 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) VLAN
5 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.24%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.87%) DynamoDB
3 9 (7.09%) BigQuery
3 9 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (6.30%) MySQL
5 7 (5.51%) Couchbase
5 7 (5.51%) Metadata
6 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.57%) Big Data
9 2 (1.57%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.79%) Redis
10 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (21.26%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.96%) Git
2 19 (14.96%) GitLab
3 17 (13.39%) CircleCI
4 12 (9.45%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.87%) JMeter
6 9 (7.09%) JUnit
7 7 (5.51%) JIRA
8 6 (4.72%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.94%) Gradle
9 5 (3.94%) Mercurial
10 4 (3.15%) AppScan
10 4 (3.15%) Burp Suite
11 2 (1.57%) Appium
11 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.57%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.57%) Mocha
11 2 (1.57%) Selenium
11 2 (1.57%) Snyk
11 2 (1.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (13.39%) Finance
1 17 (13.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.15%) Banking
3 4 (3.15%) Retail
4 2 (1.57%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.57%) Aviation
4 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.57%) Marketing
4 2 (1.57%) Multimedia
4 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.79%) Law
5 1 (0.79%) Legal
5 1 (0.79%) Local Government
5 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
5 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (27.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (24.41%) Developer
3 20 (15.75%) Senior
4 18 (14.17%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (12.60%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (12.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Architect
8 9 (7.09%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (6.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) GCP Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Site Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.15%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) REST
2 22 (17.32%) React
3 17 (13.39%) Node.js
4 14 (11.02%) Kafka
5 13 (10.24%) HTML
6 12 (9.45%) RESTful
7 11 (8.66%) .NET
8 10 (7.87%) CSS
9 8 (6.30%) Android Jetpack
9 8 (6.30%) Jetpack Compose
9 8 (6.30%) OAuth
9 8 (6.30%) RxJava
10 6 (4.72%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.72%) OAuth2
11 5 (3.94%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.94%) RAML
12 4 (3.15%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (3.15%) pytest
12 4 (3.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) Virtual Team
2 7 (5.51%) Machine to Machine
3 6 (4.72%) Legacy Code
3 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) PKI
6 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.57%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.79%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) IoT
8 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.11%) Linux
2 9 (7.09%) Android
3 3 (2.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.91%) CI/CD
2 70 (55.12%) DevOps
3 33 (25.98%) Agile
4 32 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (16.54%) Test Automation
6 19 (14.96%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (14.96%) Open Source
7 17 (13.39%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.60%) Microservices
8 16 (12.60%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (11.02%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (9.45%) Architectural Design
10 12 (9.45%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.45%) Runbook
10 12 (9.45%) TDD
11 11 (8.66%) Observability
11 11 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.66%) Software Engineering
11 11 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (7.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (50.39%) Python
2 22 (17.32%) SQL
3 16 (12.60%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.81%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.24%) Go
6 12 (9.45%) Bash
7 11 (8.66%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.09%) Java
8 9 (7.09%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.15%) Bicep
9 4 (3.15%) Ruby
10 3 (2.36%) Scala
10 3 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.57%) Swift
12 1 (0.79%) C
12 1 (0.79%) C#
12 1 (0.79%) C++
12 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.81%) Degree
4 11 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CEH
6 2 (1.57%) CISM
6 2 (1.57%) CISSP
6 2 (1.57%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.57%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) NIST
3 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.57%) COBIT
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (29.92%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) Ceph
4 1 (0.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (62.99%) Terraform
2 44 (34.65%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.81%) Ansible
4 12 (9.45%) Argo
5 10 (7.87%) Grafana
6 8 (6.30%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.72%) Nessus
7 6 (4.72%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.72%) Puppet
8 4 (3.15%) Graylog
8 4 (3.15%) HP Fortify
8 4 (3.15%) WebInspect
9 2 (1.57%) Istio
10 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.79%) Consul
10 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.79%) Packer
10 1 (0.79%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.79%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) NEC
2 6 (4.72%) Splunk
3 4 (3.15%) Checkmarx
3 4 (3.15%) Veracode
4 3 (2.36%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.36%) Google
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle
5 2 (1.57%) Qualys
5 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.57%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.79%) Capita
6 1 (0.79%) Citrix
6 1 (0.79%) Civica
6 1 (0.79%) Dell
6 1 (0.79%) Intel
6 1 (0.79%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.79%) webMethods