GitHub Actions Contracts in London

GitHub Actions
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 332 448
Rank change year-on-year +28 +116 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 90 163 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.60% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.54% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 86 124
10th Percentile £413 £466 £463
25th Percentile £463 £550 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +39.78%
75th Percentile £638 £686 £700
90th Percentile £742 £806 £750
England median daily rate £525 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +32.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -

All Cloud Skills
London

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,676 10,565 16,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.02% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,715 12,114
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.00 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +44 20 £545 +9.00% 1
South London - 2 £500 -
West London +14 1 £425 -34.62% 1
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 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) WordPress
3 2 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.11%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.11%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.11%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) GitHub
2 56 (62.22%) AWS
3 33 (36.67%) Azure
4 27 (30.00%) Serverless
5 13 (14.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (12.22%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 9 (10.00%) Azure Functions
8 9 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (6.67%) GCP
11 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Intranet
1 3 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (2.22%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) DHCP
3 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.33%) Big Data
4 3 (3.33%) Flink
4 3 (3.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.22%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.22%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.11%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.11%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.11%) Redis
6 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) CircleCI
1 14 (15.56%) Git
2 12 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 12 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.00%) JMeter
4 7 (7.78%) GitLab
5 6 (6.67%) JUnit
6 5 (5.56%) Mercurial
7 3 (3.33%) Gradle
7 3 (3.33%) JIRA
7 3 (3.33%) Poetry
8 2 (2.22%) Jaeger
8 2 (2.22%) Mocha
8 2 (2.22%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.11%) Appium
9 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.11%) Darcs
9 1 (1.11%) Selenium
9 1 (1.11%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Finance
3 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.44%) Banking
4 4 (4.44%) Retail
5 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Local Government
7 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (28.89%) Developer
3 14 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Senior
4 12 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Lead
8 5 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Android Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.22%) React
2 15 (16.67%) Node.js
3 13 (14.44%) HTML
3 13 (14.44%) REST
4 12 (13.33%) Kafka
4 12 (13.33%) RESTful
5 10 (11.11%) CSS
6 9 (10.00%) .NET
7 7 (7.78%) OAuth
8 6 (6.67%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
8 6 (6.67%) Django
8 6 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
8 6 (6.67%) OAuth2
8 6 (6.67%) RxJava
9 5 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (4.44%) pytest
10 4 (4.44%) RAML
10 4 (4.44%) Web Services
11 3 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Machine to Machine
2 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.44%) Legacy Code
3 4 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.33%) PKI
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.22%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.11%) CBDC
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Android
3 2 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 52 (57.78%) DevOps
3 22 (24.44%) Agile
4 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (17.78%) Containerisation
7 12 (13.33%) Open Source
7 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (13.33%) TDD
8 11 (12.22%) Architectural Design
8 11 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (11.11%) Microservices
9 10 (11.11%) Observability
9 10 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (8.89%) Computer Science
11 8 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (8.89%) Front End Development
11 8 (8.89%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (8.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Python
2 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.44%) SQL
4 10 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.78%) Bash
5 7 (7.78%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.44%) Go
7 4 (4.44%) Ruby
8 2 (2.22%) Java
8 2 (2.22%) PHP
8 2 (2.22%) Swift
9 1 (1.11%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) C#
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.11%) Rust
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) CEH
5 2 (2.22%) CISM
5 2 (2.22%) CISSP
5 2 (2.22%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.22%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) NIST
3 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.33%) WCAG
4 2 (2.22%) COBIT
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (34.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.11%) Ceph
2 1 (1.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 53 (58.89%) Terraform
2 38 (42.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.22%) Argo
4 5 (5.56%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Grafana
5 2 (2.22%) Nessus
5 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.11%) Consul
6 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.11%) Istio
6 1 (1.11%) Kibana
6 1 (1.11%) logstash
6 1 (1.11%) Mesos
6 1 (1.11%) PingFederate
6 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) NEC
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle
3 2 (2.22%) Qualys
3 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.11%) Aareon
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe
4 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.11%) Capita
4 1 (1.11%) Civica
4 1 (1.11%) Dell
4 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Intel
4 1 (1.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk