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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 121 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 28 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.35% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.30% 1.49% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 5
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £509 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £595
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -20.17% -17.93%
75th Percentile £670 £573 £638
90th Percentile £720 £664 £675
London median daily rate £595 £570 £625
% change year-on-year +4.39% -8.87% -3.77%

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 849 940 1,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.03% 41.19% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 669 991
10th Percentile £358 £375 £288
25th Percentile £447 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £656 £688
90th Percentile £763 £751 £800
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £24.30 - £17.65
25th Percentile £26.45 - £23.13
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -22.86% -15.66%
75th Percentile £56.75 £59.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £93.25 £79.40 £65.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +7.67% -48.57% +23.53%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +14 26 £625 +23.15% 15
West End of London +1 1 £475 -
City of Westminster -1 1 £475 -
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 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) GitHub
2 18 (64.29%) AWS
3 16 (57.14%) Azure
4 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) SaaS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.57%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Postman
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.14%) JMeter
4 2 (7.14%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) Snyk
5 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
2 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 3 (10.71%) OAuth
2 3 (10.71%) OpenID
2 3 (10.71%) Pandas
2 3 (10.71%) pytest
3 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.14%) Jest
3 2 (7.14%) NumPy
3 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
3 2 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (7.14%) React
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.57%) boto
4 1 (3.57%) Flake8
4 1 (3.57%) mypy
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 19 (67.86%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (14.29%) High Availability
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Performance Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) Go
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) Bicep
5 3 (10.71%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) Rust
7 1 (3.57%) CodeQL
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) PromQL
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Terraform
2 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Grafana
4 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.29%) Ansible
6 2 (7.14%) Istio
7 1 (3.57%) Argo
7 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Confluent
4 1 (3.57%) GoldenSource
4 1 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable