GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in the City of London

GitHub Actions
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 118 138
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 +37
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 26 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.50% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 1.29% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile £370 - £583
25th Percentile £575 £425 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £508 £625
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -18.80% -13.79%
75th Percentile £725 £611 £675
90th Percentile £832 £679 £683
Central London median daily rate £649 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +36.53% -24.00% -13.79%

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 697 850 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.27% 40.32% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 560 847
10th Percentile £335 £384 £325
25th Percentile £435 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% -1.74%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £555
% change year-on-year -1.79% +0.86% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £23.75 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.71 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +30.12% -17.00%
75th Percentile £61.16 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub Actions

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 21 September 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 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) GitHub
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
3 14 (53.85%) Azure
4 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
5 5 (19.23%) Serverless
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (15.38%) GCP
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Run
7 3 (11.54%) Google Gemini
7 3 (11.54%) Vertex AI
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Snyk
4 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Ant
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.85%) Postman
5 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) GraphQL
2 4 (15.38%) Node.js
2 4 (15.38%) React
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) CSS3
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) HTML5
3 2 (7.69%) JWT
3 2 (7.69%) LangChain
3 2 (7.69%) Next.js
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth
3 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 2 (7.69%) Redux
3 2 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (7.69%) WebSockets
3 2 (7.69%) Zustand
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) AI Agents
1 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 18 (69.23%) DevOps
3 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 7 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) Task Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Secure Coding
8 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
8 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) RBAC
9 3 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (11.54%) Microservices
9 3 (11.54%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Bicep
4 4 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) Go
5 3 (11.54%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) CodeQL
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) PromQL
6 1 (3.85%) Rust
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) MCP
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
3 3 (11.54%) EU AI Act
3 3 (11.54%) NIST
4 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Grafana
3 6 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) Istio
6 1 (3.85%) Argo
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Tenable