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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 303 349
Rank change year-on-year +97 +46 +110
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 157 93 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 1.32% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 60 76
10th Percentile £413 £413 £456
25th Percentile £481 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £749 £650 £728
90th Percentile £850 £760 £800
England median daily rate £550 £525 £611
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.11% -4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -34.57% -47.74% -

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 5,712 7,040 10,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.99% 40.01% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 5,164 7,503
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 76
10th Percentile £22.85 £18.00 £17.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.08 £24.63
Median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.00 £89.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +11 22 £575 +24.32% 77
West London +7 1 £565 -13.08% 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 15 (9.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Apache
2 4 (2.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (60.51%) AWS
3 72 (45.86%) Azure
4 32 (20.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (17.20%) GCP
7 16 (10.19%) dbt
8 14 (8.92%) Entra ID
9 11 (7.01%) Azure AKS
9 11 (7.01%) Serverless
10 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.46%) Datadog
12 7 (4.46%) SaaS
13 6 (3.82%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.64%) DNS
2 4 (2.55%) HTTP
2 4 (2.55%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) Firewall
3 3 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (1.91%) VPN
4 2 (1.27%) DSL
4 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) DHCP
5 1 (0.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.46%) Metadata
5 6 (3.82%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.18%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.55%) Redis
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.91%) Power BI
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (1.27%) Big Data
9 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.64%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 49 (31.21%) Jenkins
2 30 (19.11%) Git
3 20 (12.74%) GitLab
4 19 (12.10%) CircleCI
5 8 (5.10%) Artifactory
6 5 (3.18%) MLflow
6 5 (3.18%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.55%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (2.55%) JIRA
7 4 (2.55%) JMeter
7 4 (2.55%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.55%) Vite
7 4 (2.55%) webpack
8 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.91%) Postman
8 3 (1.91%) Selenium
9 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.27%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.27%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.27%) Maven
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.02%) Finance
3 23 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.64%) Banking
6 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.82%) Front Office
7 6 (3.82%) Military
8 5 (3.18%) Marketing
8 5 (3.18%) Retail
9 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.55%) Legal
10 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Publishing
11 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Advertising
12 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.64%) iGaming
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (22.29%) Senior
2 28 (17.83%) Architect
3 25 (15.92%) Developer
4 19 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (10.19%) Data Engineer
5 16 (10.19%) Lead
6 14 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Senior Architect
8 10 (6.37%) Technical Architect
9 9 (5.73%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (5.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Technical Architect
12 6 (3.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.10%) Node.js
2 16 (10.19%) Jinja
2 16 (10.19%) pytest
2 16 (10.19%) React
3 15 (9.55%) REST
4 14 (8.92%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (8.92%) Pandas
5 13 (8.28%) Kafka
5 13 (8.28%) NumPy
5 13 (8.28%) OAuth
6 10 (6.37%) OAuth2
7 9 (5.73%) OpenID
8 8 (5.10%) Jest
9 7 (4.46%) CSS
9 7 (4.46%) HTML
10 6 (3.82%) FastAPI
10 6 (3.82%) Play Framework
10 6 (3.82%) TensorFlow
11 5 (3.18%) Hugging Face
11 5 (3.18%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.46%) Public Cloud
2 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.37%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.82%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.91%) Clustering
7 3 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (84.08%) CI/CD
2 75 (47.77%) DevOps
3 74 (47.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (36.94%) Agile
5 31 (19.75%) Scrum
5 31 (19.75%) Test Automation
6 30 (19.11%) Containerisation
7 28 (17.83%) Analytics
7 28 (17.83%) Software Engineering
8 27 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (15.92%) Data Modelling
10 22 (14.01%) Microservices
11 21 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (13.38%) Data Science
12 20 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (12.74%) Data Engineering
13 19 (12.10%) Observability
14 18 (11.46%) Migration
15 16 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (10.19%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 87 (55.41%) Python
2 41 (26.11%) SQL
3 31 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.20%) Java
5 25 (15.92%) TypeScript
6 21 (13.38%) Go
7 20 (12.74%) PowerShell
8 19 (12.10%) Bash
9 15 (9.55%) C#
10 10 (6.37%) Kotlin
11 9 (5.73%) Groovy
12 8 (5.10%) Bicep
13 7 (4.46%) Scala
14 5 (3.18%) C++
15 4 (2.55%) Rust
16 3 (1.91%) R
17 1 (0.64%) C
17 1 (0.64%) Perl
17 1 (0.64%) PHP
17 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (26.11%) SC Cleared
1 41 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.46%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.55%) Degree
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.64%) CEH
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.46%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.73%) GDPR
3 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.55%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.55%) WCAG
7 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.64%) GxP
9 1 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (30.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.64%) iptables
Systems Management
1 100 (63.69%) Terraform
2 79 (50.32%) Kubernetes
3 23 (14.65%) Grafana
3 23 (14.65%) Prometheus
4 20 (12.74%) Ansible
5 11 (7.01%) Puppet
6 5 (3.18%) Argo
7 4 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.91%) HP Fortify
8 3 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.91%) Nessus
9 2 (1.27%) Salt
10 1 (0.64%) Consul
10 1 (0.64%) Istio
10 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Databricks
2 11 (7.01%) Google
3 10 (6.37%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.18%) Oracle
4 5 (3.18%) SAP
5 4 (2.55%) Amplitude
5 4 (2.55%) Splunk
6 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.91%) Dataiku
6 3 (1.91%) DataRobot
6 3 (1.91%) New Relic
6 3 (1.91%) Qualys
6 3 (1.91%) Refinitiv
6 3 (1.91%) Solace
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Confluent
7 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.64%) Atlassian