GitHub Actions Contracts in the North West

GitHub Actions
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 132 155 176
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 -34
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 6 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.35% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £400 £484 £538
25th Percentile £419 £490 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £619
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -19.11% +23.75%
75th Percentile £569 £520 £644
90th Percentile £606 £532 -
England median daily rate £544 £611 £638
% change year-on-year -11.04% -4.12% +24.39%

All Cloud Skills
North 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 North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 860 1,153 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.22% 37.45% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 850 1,080
10th Percentile £300 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £596
90th Percentile £650 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.86 £14.63
25th Percentile - £17.09 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £31.25 £25.70
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% +21.61% +47.60%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the North West

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester +14 5 £500 -0.10% 5
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 6 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure App Service
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) Ember.js
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft