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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 471 626
Rank change year-on-year +66 +155 -25
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 180 215 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.38% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.03% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 136 183
10th Percentile £388 £463 £438
25th Percentile £472 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% -5.88% +28.79%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £700
90th Percentile £679 £788 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.38% +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 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
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 £634 £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 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +47 126 £550 -8.33% 72
London +40 88 £544 -13.00% 41
Work from Home +108 78 £550 -12.00% 42
UK excluding London +56 45 £514 -14.38% 29
Wales +31 15 £515 -11.97% 2
South East +23 15 £353 -49.64% 2
North of England +12 10 £550 +3.29% 13
North West +22 6 £525 +4.90% 6
Yorkshire -3 4 £569 -5.21% 7
South West +8 3 £500 -23.20% 6
Scotland +35 1 - - 1
Midlands +24 1 £350 -50.00% 3
West Midlands +23 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 13 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (5.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (2.22%) Confluence
4 3 (1.67%) nginx
4 3 (1.67%) WordPress
5 2 (1.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.56%) Aareon QL
2 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.56%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) GitHub
2 90 (50.00%) AWS
3 60 (33.33%) Azure
4 30 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (16.67%) Serverless
5 24 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (12.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (12.22%) GCP
8 16 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.33%) PaaS
10 14 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (6.67%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.67%) SaaS
12 11 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.11%) Azure AKS
12 11 (6.11%) IaaS
13 9 (5.00%) Azure Functions
13 9 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (2.22%) Network Security
3 3 (1.67%) DNS
3 3 (1.67%) Intranet
4 2 (1.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.22%) MySQL
1 13 (7.22%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.56%) Metadata
5 8 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.89%) Couchbase
7 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.11%) Big Data
10 2 (1.11%) CouchDB
10 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.56%) Bigtable
11 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 34 (18.89%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.78%) Git
3 21 (11.67%) Cypress.io
4 19 (10.56%) GitLab
5 17 (9.44%) CircleCI
6 16 (8.89%) SonarQube
7 10 (5.56%) JMeter
8 9 (5.00%) JIRA
8 9 (5.00%) JUnit
9 7 (3.89%) Storybook
10 5 (2.78%) Gradle
10 5 (2.78%) Mercurial
11 4 (2.22%) AppScan
11 4 (2.22%) Burp Suite
11 4 (2.22%) Postman
12 3 (1.67%) Appium
12 3 (1.67%) Selenium
13 2 (1.11%) ESLint
13 2 (1.11%) Snyk
13 2 (1.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.44%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.89%) Finance
4 10 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.22%) Banking
5 4 (2.22%) Retail
6 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.11%) Aviation
6 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.11%) Marketing
6 2 (1.11%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.11%) Wearables
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (21.11%) Developer
3 28 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
4 25 (13.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (11.67%) Senior
6 14 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.78%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) Architect
8 9 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Migration Manager
10 6 (3.33%) Migration Project Manager
10 6 (3.33%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.33%) React
2 23 (12.78%) REST
3 19 (10.56%) Node.js
4 14 (7.78%) Kafka
5 13 (7.22%) HTML
5 13 (7.22%) RESTful
6 12 (6.67%) .NET
7 11 (6.11%) ARM Templates
7 11 (6.11%) CSS
8 10 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 9 (5.00%) OAuth
9 9 (5.00%) Playwright
10 8 (4.44%) Vue
11 7 (3.89%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.89%) Android Jetpack
11 7 (3.89%) Jetpack Compose
11 7 (3.89%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.89%) RxJava
12 6 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.78%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.44%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.89%) Machine to Machine
7 6 (3.33%) Legacy Code
7 6 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.22%) PKI
9 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.67%) Social Media
10 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.11%) Genomics
10 2 (1.11%) Life Science
10 2 (1.11%) NHS
10 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.11%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Android
3 7 (3.89%) Windows
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.89%) DevOps
2 93 (51.67%) CI/CD
3 48 (26.67%) Agile
4 42 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 35 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (18.33%) Containerisation
7 29 (16.11%) Software Engineering
8 27 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (13.89%) Project Management
10 21 (11.67%) Open Source
11 18 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (9.44%) Migration
12 17 (9.44%) Unit Testing
13 16 (8.89%) Microservices
13 16 (8.89%) Performance Analysis
14 15 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (8.33%) Mentoring
14 15 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 79 (43.89%) Python
2 26 (14.44%) SQL
3 25 (13.89%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.33%) Bash
6 13 (7.22%) Go
7 11 (6.11%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.56%) Java
9 8 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.89%) PHP
11 6 (3.33%) Ruby
12 4 (2.22%) Bicep
13 3 (1.67%) Scala
13 3 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.11%) C++
14 2 (1.11%) Swift
15 1 (0.56%) C
15 1 (0.56%) C#
15 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.22%) Degree
4 12 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.11%) CEH
6 2 (1.11%) CISM
6 2 (1.11%) CISSP
6 2 (1.11%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.11%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.78%) QA
2 11 (6.11%) NCSC
3 5 (2.78%) NIST
4 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.11%) COBIT
5 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.11%) GDPR
5 2 (1.11%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 50 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) Ceph
4 1 (0.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 108 (60.00%) Terraform
2 56 (31.11%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.00%) Ansible
4 19 (10.56%) Argo
5 10 (5.56%) Grafana
6 8 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.44%) Puppet
7 6 (3.33%) Nessus
8 4 (2.22%) Graylog
8 4 (2.22%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.22%) WebInspect
9 2 (1.11%) Istio
10 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.56%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.56%) Mesos
10 1 (0.56%) Packer
10 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.56%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.89%) NEC
4 6 (3.33%) Google
4 6 (3.33%) Splunk
5 4 (2.22%) Checkmarx
5 4 (2.22%) UiPath
5 4 (2.22%) Veracode
6 3 (1.67%) Facebook
6 3 (1.67%) Instagram
6 3 (1.67%) Twitter
6 3 (1.67%) YouTube
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle
7 2 (1.11%) Qualys
7 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.11%) VMware
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.56%) webMethods