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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 498 616
Rank change year-on-year +89 +118 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 184 227 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.04% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 140 195
10th Percentile £394 £463 £438
25th Percentile £463 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +29.44%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £688 £788 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.17% +14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +32 130 £525 -12.50% 89
London +31 90 £525 -16.00% 46
Work from Home +113 75 £525 -16.00% 41
UK excluding London +74 52 £515 -14.17% 39
Wales +32 19 £515 -11.97% 3
South East +34 17 £378 -46.07% 8
North of England +11 10 £550 +1.85% 15
North West +22 6 £500 -0.10% 4
South West +22 4 £563 -13.59% 8
Yorkshire +3 4 £569 -5.21% 10
Scotland +40 1 - -
Midlands +25 1 £350 -50.00% 3
West Midlands +21 1 £350 -50.00% 1

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 15 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.72%) Confluence
3 4 (2.17%) Apache
4 3 (1.63%) nginx
4 3 (1.63%) WordPress
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.54%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.54%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (51.63%) AWS
3 68 (36.96%) Azure
4 32 (17.39%) Serverless
5 31 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (12.50%) GCP
8 15 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (8.15%) PaaS
9 14 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (7.61%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (6.52%) SaaS
11 11 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.98%) Azure AKS
11 11 (5.98%) IaaS
12 10 (5.43%) Azure Functions
13 9 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) DNS
1 3 (1.63%) Firewall
1 3 (1.63%) Intranet
1 3 (1.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.54%) DHCP
2 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.54%) VLAN
2 1 (0.54%) VPN
2 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) MySQL
2 15 (8.15%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.52%) BigQuery
4 12 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.52%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.43%) Metadata
6 9 (4.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (4.35%) Couchbase
8 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.17%) Big Data
10 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.63%) Flink
12 2 (1.09%) CouchDB
12 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.67%) Git
3 22 (11.96%) GitLab
4 20 (10.87%) Cypress.io
5 18 (9.78%) CircleCI
6 16 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 10 (5.43%) JIRA
7 10 (5.43%) JMeter
7 10 (5.43%) JUnit
8 6 (3.26%) Gradle
8 6 (3.26%) Storybook
9 5 (2.72%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.17%) AppScan
10 4 (2.17%) Burp Suite
10 4 (2.17%) Postman
11 3 (1.63%) Appium
11 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.63%) Poetry
11 3 (1.63%) Selenium
12 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
General
1 20 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.24%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.70%) Finance
4 9 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.72%) Retail
6 4 (2.17%) Banking
6 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.09%) Legal
7 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.09%) Marketing
7 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Wearables
8 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Local Government
8 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (23.37%) Developer
3 26 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (11.41%) Senior
6 14 (7.61%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Migration Manager
8 12 (6.52%) Migration Project Manager
8 12 (6.52%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (4.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Lead
11 7 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.13%) React
1 26 (14.13%) REST
2 19 (10.33%) Node.js
3 17 (9.24%) HTML
4 16 (8.70%) Kafka
5 15 (8.15%) CSS
5 15 (8.15%) RESTful
6 12 (6.52%) .NET
7 10 (5.43%) ARM Templates
7 10 (5.43%) Azure Blueprints
8 9 (4.89%) OAuth
9 8 (4.35%) Playwright
10 7 (3.80%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.80%) Android Jetpack
10 7 (3.80%) Jetpack Compose
10 7 (3.80%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.80%) RxJava
10 7 (3.80%) Vue
11 6 (3.26%) AWS CDK
11 6 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.98%) Management Information System
1 11 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.80%) Machine to Machine
6 6 (3.26%) Legacy Code
6 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.17%) PKI
9 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.63%) Social Media
10 2 (1.09%) Genomics
10 2 (1.09%) Life Science
10 2 (1.09%) NHS
10 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.09%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.35%) Android
3 7 (3.80%) Windows
4 3 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (53.80%) CI/CD
1 99 (53.80%) DevOps
2 55 (29.89%) Agile
3 43 (23.37%) Containerisation
3 43 (23.37%) Test Automation
4 35 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (15.76%) Software Engineering
6 28 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (15.22%) Project Management
7 23 (12.50%) Migration
8 21 (11.41%) Open Source
9 19 (10.33%) Scrum
10 18 (9.78%) Microservices
10 18 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
11 16 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
11 16 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (8.70%) Unit Testing
12 15 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.15%) Front End Development
12 15 (8.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (42.39%) Python
2 27 (14.67%) SQL
3 23 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 23 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 17 (9.24%) Bash
5 15 (8.15%) Go
6 13 (7.07%) PHP
7 12 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.98%) Java
9 8 (4.35%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.26%) Ruby
11 5 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.63%) Bicep
12 3 (1.63%) Scala
13 2 (1.09%) C++
13 2 (1.09%) Swift
14 1 (0.54%) C
14 1 (0.54%) C#
14 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.22%) Degree
4 12 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) CEH
6 2 (1.09%) CISM
6 2 (1.09%) CISSP
6 2 (1.09%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.09%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) QA
2 11 (5.98%) NCSC
3 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.72%) NIST
5 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.17%) WCAG
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.09%) COBIT
7 2 (1.09%) GDPR
7 2 (1.09%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (29.89%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) Ceph
3 1 (0.54%) NFS
Systems Management
1 101 (54.89%) Terraform
2 66 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.22%) Ansible
4 25 (13.59%) Argo
5 10 (5.43%) Grafana
6 9 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.89%) Puppet
7 8 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.26%) Nessus
9 4 (2.17%) Graylog
9 4 (2.17%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.17%) WebInspect
10 2 (1.09%) Istio
10 2 (1.09%) Packer
11 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.54%) Consul
11 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.54%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.80%) NEC
4 6 (3.26%) Google
4 6 (3.26%) Splunk
5 4 (2.17%) Checkmarx
5 4 (2.17%) Veracode
6 3 (1.63%) Facebook
6 3 (1.63%) Instagram
6 3 (1.63%) Twitter
6 3 (1.63%) UiPath
6 3 (1.63%) YouTube
7 2 (1.09%) New Relic
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle
7 2 (1.09%) Qualys
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) VMware
8 1 (0.54%) Aareon
8 1 (0.54%) Confluent
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace