GitHub Actions Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 400 475
Rank change year-on-year +60 +75 -39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 45 46 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.20% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.60% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 27
10th Percentile £350 £450 -
25th Percentile £409 £476 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £566 £613 £659
90th Percentile £613 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -11.67% -5.88% +28.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,269 7,610 9,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.93% 33.12% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 5,614 7,256
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 220 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +35.26% -4.39%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.63 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.92
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK excluding London

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Wales +34 15 £515 -11.97% 3
South East +25 15 £353 -49.64% 12
North of England +12 10 £550 +3.29% 12
North West +19 6 £525 +4.90% 5
Yorkshire -4 4 £569 -5.21% 7
South West 0 3 £500 -23.20% 6
Scotland +45 1 - -
Midlands +27 1 £350 -50.00% 2
West Midlands +22 1 £350 -50.00% 1
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) GitHub
2 15 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (22.22%) AWS
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.44%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.22%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Route 53
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) MySQL
2 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (11.11%) Couchbase
3 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
4 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.89%) Metadata
4 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) Big Data
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) GitLab
3 8 (17.78%) Cypress.io
4 6 (13.33%) Git
4 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 6 (13.33%) Storybook
5 5 (11.11%) JIRA
6 4 (8.89%) AppScan
6 4 (8.89%) Burp Suite
7 3 (6.67%) CircleCI
7 3 (6.67%) Postman
8 2 (4.44%) Gradle
8 2 (4.44%) JUnit
8 2 (4.44%) Snyk
9 1 (2.22%) Appium
9 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.22%) JMeter
9 1 (2.22%) Selenium
9 1 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 3 (6.67%) Finance
1 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Migration Manager
2 6 (13.33%) Migration Project Manager
2 6 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Playwright
1 8 (17.78%) REST
2 7 (15.56%) Vue
3 4 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.67%) CSS
4 3 (6.67%) HTML
4 3 (6.67%) Jest
4 3 (6.67%) Laravel
4 3 (6.67%) React
4 3 (6.67%) Spring
4 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
5 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.22%) .NET
6 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.22%) Ember.js
6 1 (2.22%) HTML5
6 1 (2.22%) OAuth
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (35.56%) DevOps
5 14 (31.11%) Project Management
6 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 9 (20.00%) Scrum
10 7 (15.56%) Migration
10 7 (15.56%) Open Source
11 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 6 (13.33%) Objectives and Key Results
11 6 (13.33%) SDLC
11 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
12 5 (11.11%) Analytics
12 5 (11.11%) Microservices
12 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (8.89%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) Python
1 10 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 6 (13.33%) Java
3 6 (13.33%) PHP
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) Go
5 4 (8.89%) Bash
6 3 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Terraform
2 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.78%) Argo
4 6 (13.33%) Ansible
5 4 (8.89%) Grafana
5 4 (8.89%) Graylog
5 4 (8.89%) HP Fortify
5 4 (8.89%) Nessus
5 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.89%) Puppet
5 4 (8.89%) WebInspect
6 1 (2.22%) Istio
6 1 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.89%) Checkmarx
3 4 (8.89%) Splunk
3 4 (8.89%) Veracode
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix