GitHub Actions Contracts in the City of London

GitHub Actions
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 99 107 163
Rank change year-on-year +8 +56 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 20 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 0.91% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 2.34% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £494 £375 £490
25th Percentile £533 £409 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% +9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £622 £612 £524
90th Percentile £684 £681 £567
Central London median daily rate £564 £545 £500
% change year-on-year +3.44% +9.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the City of London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in the City of London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in the City of London

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) GitHub
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 8 (40.00%) AWS
4 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) JMeter
4 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Java Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) OAuth
1 5 (25.00%) Pandas
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) NumPy
2 4 (20.00%) OpenID
2 4 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.00%) Jest
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (10.00%) PySpark
4 2 (10.00%) pytest
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.00%) Swagger
5 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) CUDA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Observability
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Quantitative Finance
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) Go
4 3 (15.00%) Rust
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) C++
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) GoldenSource
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle