GitHub Actions Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 265 374 492
Rank change year-on-year +109 +118 -46
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 78 92 137
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 0.95% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 66 112
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £543 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.96% +29.44%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £706
90th Percentile - £747 £900
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -11.67% -5.88% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 17 May 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 (8.97%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.85%) Confluence
3 3 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) GitHub
2 40 (51.28%) AWS
3 24 (30.77%) Azure
4 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.67%) PaaS
6 12 (15.38%) GCP
7 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (14.10%) IaaS
7 11 (14.10%) SaaS
8 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.41%) Serverless
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.85%) Fivetran
12 2 (2.56%) Datadog
12 2 (2.56%) dbt
12 2 (2.56%) Route 53
12 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) Intranet
2 3 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) VLAN
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) BigQuery
1 7 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (7.69%) Metadata
2 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) Couchbase
3 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.28%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Redis
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 13 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 10 (12.82%) Git
4 8 (10.26%) GitLab
5 6 (7.69%) JIRA
6 4 (5.13%) CircleCI
6 4 (5.13%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.56%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.56%) Snyk
7 2 (2.56%) Storybook
8 1 (1.28%) Appium
8 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.28%) Darcs
8 1 (1.28%) ESLint
8 1 (1.28%) Lerna
8 1 (1.28%) Postman
8 1 (1.28%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.28%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.28%) Vite
General
1 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.41%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.85%) Retail
5 2 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Aviation
5 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.56%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Developer
3 13 (16.67%) Senior
4 12 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (12.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Architect
8 7 (8.97%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (8.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.85%) WordPress Developer
12 2 (2.56%) Data Analyst
12 2 (2.56%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.10%) ARM Templates
2 10 (12.82%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (12.82%) CSS
3 9 (11.54%) HTML
3 9 (11.54%) React
3 9 (11.54%) REST
4 7 (8.97%) Node.js
5 5 (6.41%) .NET
6 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.85%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.85%) Jest
6 3 (3.85%) Vue
7 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.56%) Ember.js
7 2 (2.56%) HTML5
7 2 (2.56%) OAuth
7 2 (2.56%) Playwright
7 2 (2.56%) RESTful
8 1 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Management Information System
1 10 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.85%) Social Media
4 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.28%) CBDC
5 1 (1.28%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.28%) IoT
5 1 (1.28%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.28%) PKI
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (60.26%) DevOps
2 29 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 22 (28.21%) Test Automation
4 19 (24.36%) Agile
5 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
6 16 (20.51%) Containerisation
7 14 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 13 (16.67%) Project Management
9 12 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (14.10%) DevSecOps
10 11 (14.10%) Functional Testing
10 11 (14.10%) Release Management
11 10 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (12.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 10 (12.82%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (12.82%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.33%) Python
2 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.38%) SQL
2 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 8 (10.26%) Go
4 4 (5.13%) Java
5 3 (3.85%) Bash
5 3 (3.85%) Bicep
5 3 (3.85%) PHP
5 3 (3.85%) Ruby
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) C#
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) Rust
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (10.26%) Degree
5 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.56%) CEH
6 2 (2.56%) CISM
6 2 (2.56%) CISSP
6 2 (2.56%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.56%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) NCSC
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 4 (5.13%) NIST
4 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.56%) COBIT
5 2 (2.56%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 19 (24.36%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (66.67%) Terraform
2 20 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 15 (19.23%) Ansible
4 6 (7.69%) Argo
5 3 (3.85%) Grafana
5 3 (3.85%) Nessus
5 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.56%) Puppet
7 1 (1.28%) Graylog
7 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.28%) Istio
7 1 (1.28%) Kibana
7 1 (1.28%) logstash
7 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.28%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.85%) Facebook
3 3 (3.85%) Instagram
3 3 (3.85%) Twitter
3 3 (3.85%) YouTube
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) Qualys
4 2 (2.56%) Splunk
4 2 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.28%) NEC
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.28%) Veracode