GitHub Actions Contracts in London

GitHub Actions
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 220 302 335
Rank change year-on-year +82 +33 +103
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 89 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.06% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.50% 1.32% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 58 86
10th Percentile £450 £413 £466
25th Percentile £500 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -11.46% -7.69%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £686
90th Percentile £805 £744 £806
England median daily rate £545 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.71% -12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.04% +15.71% -

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in London

GitHub Actions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub Actions in London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

GitHub Actions
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +5 21 £564 +3.44% 30
West London +14 3 £475 +11.76% 4
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.26%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 71 (53.38%) AWS
2 71 (53.38%) Azure
3 31 (23.31%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (16.54%) dbt
5 15 (11.28%) GCP
6 14 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 13 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (9.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (9.02%) Serverless
9 11 (8.27%) Azure AKS
9 11 (8.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.51%) Datadog
13 6 (4.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.50%) DSL
2 2 (1.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.50%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.77%) Metadata
5 7 (5.26%) Power BI
6 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.76%) Redis
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.50%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.28%) CircleCI
2 15 (11.28%) Git
3 11 (8.27%) GitLab
4 4 (3.01%) JIRA
4 4 (3.01%) JMeter
4 4 (3.01%) MLflow
4 4 (3.01%) Postman
4 4 (3.01%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.50%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.50%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.75%) Appium
6 1 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.75%) Snyk
6 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.75%) TestNG
6 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.56%) Finance
3 24 (18.05%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Front Office
6 6 (4.51%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Marketing
7 4 (3.01%) Retail
8 3 (2.26%) Legal
8 3 (2.26%) Military
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Developer
2 27 (20.30%) Senior
3 23 (17.29%) Lead
4 20 (15.04%) Software Engineer
5 16 (12.03%) Architect
6 15 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) Python Developer
8 11 (8.27%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Data Architect
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) React
2 19 (14.29%) Jinja
3 18 (13.53%) Node.js
3 18 (13.53%) OAuth
4 17 (12.78%) Kafka
4 17 (12.78%) REST
5 16 (12.03%) Pandas
6 15 (11.28%) NumPy
6 15 (11.28%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (11.28%) pytest
7 14 (10.53%) OAuth2
8 12 (9.02%) OpenID
9 11 (8.27%) RESTful
10 9 (6.77%) FastAPI
11 7 (5.26%) PySpark
12 6 (4.51%) .NET
12 6 (4.51%) Play Framework
13 5 (3.76%) CSS
13 5 (3.76%) Express.js
13 5 (3.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Cloud Native
1 11 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.51%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.50%) Derivative
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.50%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (78.20%) CI/CD
2 59 (44.36%) DevOps
3 48 (36.09%) Agile
4 42 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 35 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 34 (25.56%) Analytics
8 28 (21.05%) Data Modelling
9 27 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.54%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 18 (13.53%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (12.78%) Data Science
14 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 15 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (11.28%) Observability
15 15 (11.28%) Scrum
16 14 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
16 14 (10.53%) Event-Driven
16 14 (10.53%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (66.17%) Python
2 43 (32.33%) SQL
3 27 (20.30%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.78%) C#
6 15 (11.28%) Java
7 10 (7.52%) Go
8 9 (6.77%) Bash
9 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.51%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.51%) Rust
10 6 (4.51%) Scala
11 5 (3.76%) C++
12 4 (3.01%) Bicep
12 4 (3.01%) R
13 2 (1.50%) PHP
14 1 (0.75%) C
14 1 (0.75%) Perl
14 1 (0.75%) Ruby
14 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
1 27 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.26%) Degree
3 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.75%) CEH
5 1 (0.75%) CISSP
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.53%) QA
2 9 (6.77%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.01%) GDPR
4 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (27.82%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (50.38%) Terraform
2 57 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.28%) Grafana
4 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.77%) Ansible
6 5 (3.76%) Argo
7 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.50%) Puppet
7 2 (1.50%) Salt
8 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Databricks
2 7 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.01%) Google
3 4 (3.01%) SAP
4 3 (2.26%) New Relic
5 2 (1.50%) Adobe
5 2 (1.50%) Confluent
5 2 (1.50%) Dataiku
5 2 (1.50%) DataRobot
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.50%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.75%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.75%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.75%) Informatica
6 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.75%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.75%) Splunk