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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 367 498
Rank change year-on-year +114 +131 -48
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 86 82 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.87% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 58 109
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £469 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.96% +28.79%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile - £750 £900
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 - -

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 5,411 9,414 18,038
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.62% 39.44% 41.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,907 7,011 13,531
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £17.16 £21.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £51.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.02% +27.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £51.63 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 10 June 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 (8.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 6 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.65%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) GitHub
2 47 (54.65%) AWS
3 24 (27.91%) Azure
4 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (16.28%) GCP
6 13 (15.12%) PaaS
7 12 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (13.95%) SaaS
8 11 (12.79%) IaaS
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.14%) Serverless
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.49%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (3.49%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.49%) Fivetran
12 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) Network Security
3 2 (2.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) Intranet
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) Internet
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.16%) VLAN
4 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.14%) BigQuery
2 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.98%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (6.98%) Metadata
4 5 (5.81%) Couchbase
4 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.49%) MySQL
7 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.16%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.16%) Redis
8 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.28%) SonarQube
3 12 (13.95%) Git
4 11 (12.79%) GitLab
5 6 (6.98%) JIRA
6 4 (4.65%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.33%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.33%) Snyk
7 2 (2.33%) Storybook
8 1 (1.16%) Darcs
8 1 (1.16%) ESLint
8 1 (1.16%) Lerna
8 1 (1.16%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.16%) Postman
8 1 (1.16%) Selenium
8 1 (1.16%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.16%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.16%) TestNG
8 1 (1.16%) Vite
General
1 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.98%) Finance
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Retail
5 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.33%) Aviation
5 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.33%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (23.26%) Senior
3 15 (17.44%) Developer
4 13 (15.12%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (12.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Architect
8 9 (10.47%) Data Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.81%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
13 3 (3.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 3 (3.49%) Full Stack Developer
13 3 (3.49%) Security Engineer
13 3 (3.49%) Technical Architect
14 2 (2.33%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) ARM Templates
2 10 (11.63%) Azure Blueprints
2 10 (11.63%) CSS
2 10 (11.63%) REST
3 9 (10.47%) HTML
3 9 (10.47%) React
4 7 (8.14%) Node.js
5 4 (4.65%) .NET
6 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.49%) Jest
6 3 (3.49%) RESTful
6 3 (3.49%) Vue
7 2 (2.33%) Celery
7 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.33%) Ember.js
7 2 (2.33%) HTML5
7 2 (2.33%) OAuth
7 2 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Management Information System
1 10 (11.63%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Social Media
4 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.16%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.16%) CBDC
5 1 (1.16%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (61.63%) DevOps
2 32 (37.21%) CI/CD
3 23 (26.74%) Test Automation
4 21 (24.42%) Agile
5 19 (22.09%) Containerisation
6 18 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (18.60%) Mentoring
9 13 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (15.12%) Project Management
10 12 (13.95%) Static Application Security Testing
11 11 (12.79%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (12.79%) DevSecOps
11 11 (12.79%) Functional Testing
11 11 (12.79%) Release Management
12 10 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (11.63%) Non-Functional Testing
12 10 (11.63%) Performance Analysis
12 10 (11.63%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.72%) Python
2 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
3 13 (15.12%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.30%) Go
6 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 3 (3.49%) Bicep
6 3 (3.49%) Java
6 3 (3.49%) PHP
7 2 (2.33%) Ruby
7 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) C#
8 1 (1.16%) C++
8 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (43.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.30%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.33%) CEH
6 2 (2.33%) CISM
6 2 (2.33%) CISSP
6 2 (2.33%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.33%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) NCSC
2 5 (5.81%) QA
3 4 (4.65%) NIST
4 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.33%) COBIT
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (25.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (67.44%) Terraform
2 25 (29.07%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.44%) Ansible
4 6 (6.98%) Argo
5 5 (5.81%) Grafana
5 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.49%) Nessus
7 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.33%) Puppet
8 1 (1.16%) Graylog
8 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.16%) Istio
8 1 (1.16%) Kibana
8 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.16%) logstash
8 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.49%) Facebook
3 3 (3.49%) Instagram
3 3 (3.49%) Twitter
3 3 (3.49%) YouTube
4 2 (2.33%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) Qualys
4 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.33%) Splunk
4 2 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.16%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.16%) NEC
5 1 (1.16%) Veracode