GitHub Actions Contracts in Central London

GitHub Actions
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 113 157
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 21 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.82% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.44% 2.09% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £449 £375 £490
25th Percentile £501 £409 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +9.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £605 £612 £524
90th Percentile £677 £681 £567
London median daily rate £575 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +8.24% -11.46% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +38.57% -

All Cloud Skills
Central London

GitHub Actions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in Central London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in Central London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in Central London

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 20 £570 +4.59% 20
West End of London - 1 £425 - 6
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
GitHub Actions
London

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) GitHub
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
6 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.52%) Datadog
7 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
7 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 2 (9.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Postman
3 3 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 2 (9.52%) JIRA
4 2 (9.52%) JMeter
4 2 (9.52%) LoadRunner
4 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.76%) Snyk
5 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) OAuth
1 5 (23.81%) Pandas
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) NumPy
2 4 (19.05%) OpenID
2 4 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 3 (14.29%) React
3 3 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) .NET
4 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.52%) Jest
4 2 (9.52%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) PySpark
4 2 (9.52%) pytest
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.76%) Swagger
5 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) CUDA
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
3 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Observability
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) API Development
8 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Quantitative Finance
8 3 (14.29%) Scrum
8 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Go
4 3 (14.29%) Rust
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) Bicep
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Databricks
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Confluent
3 1 (4.76%) GoldenSource
3 1 (4.76%) Informatica
3 1 (4.76%) New Relic
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle