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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 327 456
Rank change year-on-year +33 +129 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 88 159 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.55% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 87 118
10th Percentile £413 £473 £488
25th Percentile £463 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -3.85% +46.07%
75th Percentile £641 £694 £700
90th Percentile £749 £805 £752
England median daily rate £538 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -10.42% -5.88% +27.50%
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 6,776 10,235 16,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.30% 38.94% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,998 7,484 12,031
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
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 £788 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 85 85
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £47.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +17.28% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +48 19 £525 +5.00% 2
South London - 2 £500 -
West London +12 1 £425 -34.62% 2
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 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.41%) WordPress
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.14%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.14%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.14%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) GitHub
2 54 (61.36%) AWS
3 30 (34.09%) Azure
4 27 (30.68%) Serverless
5 13 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (11.36%) Amazon S3
9 9 (10.23%) Azure AKS
9 9 (10.23%) Azure Functions
9 9 (10.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (6.82%) GCP
13 4 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
13 4 (4.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
1 3 (3.41%) Intranet
1 3 (3.41%) Network Security
2 2 (2.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.14%) DHCP
3 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.27%) Big Data
6 2 (2.27%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.27%) CouchDB
6 2 (2.27%) Flink
6 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.14%) Bigtable
7 1 (1.14%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.14%) Redis
7 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Git
2 13 (14.77%) CircleCI
3 12 (13.64%) Cypress.io
3 12 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.23%) JMeter
5 7 (7.95%) GitLab
6 6 (6.82%) JUnit
7 5 (5.68%) Mercurial
8 4 (4.55%) JIRA
9 3 (3.41%) Gradle
10 2 (2.27%) Jaeger
10 2 (2.27%) Mocha
10 2 (2.27%) Poetry
10 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.14%) ESLint
11 1 (1.14%) Selenium
11 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.14%) XCTest
11 1 (1.14%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Banking
4 4 (4.55%) Retail
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 2 (2.27%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
7 1 (1.14%) Local Government
7 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (29.55%) Developer
3 15 (17.05%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Python Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Lead
9 5 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.41%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.73%) React
2 15 (17.05%) Node.js
3 13 (14.77%) HTML
3 13 (14.77%) REST
4 12 (13.64%) Kafka
5 11 (12.50%) RESTful
6 10 (11.36%) CSS
7 9 (10.23%) .NET
8 7 (7.95%) OAuth
9 6 (6.82%) .NET Core
9 6 (6.82%) Android Jetpack
9 6 (6.82%) Django
9 6 (6.82%) Jetpack Compose
9 6 (6.82%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.82%) RxJava
10 4 (4.55%) AWS CDK
10 4 (4.55%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (4.55%) pytest
10 4 (4.55%) RAML
10 4 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Machine to Machine
2 6 (6.82%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.27%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.14%) CBDC
7 1 (1.14%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
7 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) Android
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 49 (55.68%) DevOps
3 21 (23.86%) Agile
4 18 (20.45%) Test Automation
5 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (17.05%) Containerisation
7 12 (13.64%) Open Source
7 12 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (13.64%) TDD
8 11 (12.50%) Architectural Design
8 11 (12.50%) Observability
8 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (11.36%) Microservices
9 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 8 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (9.09%) Front End Development
10 8 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (54.55%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.64%) SQL
4 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.95%) Bash
5 7 (7.95%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.68%) Go
7 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.55%) Ruby
7 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.27%) Java
8 2 (2.27%) Swift
9 1 (1.14%) Bicep
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) C#
9 1 (1.14%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Rust
9 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) Degree
4 7 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CEH
6 2 (2.27%) CISM
6 2 (2.27%) CISSP
6 2 (2.27%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.27%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) NIST
3 3 (3.41%) WCAG
4 2 (2.27%) COBIT
4 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (34.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Ceph
2 1 (1.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 51 (57.95%) Terraform
2 38 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.36%) Argo
4 5 (5.68%) Ansible
4 5 (5.68%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.27%) Nessus
6 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.14%) Consul
7 1 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.14%) Istio
7 1 (1.14%) Kibana
7 1 (1.14%) logstash
7 1 (1.14%) Mesos
7 1 (1.14%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) NEC
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) Qualys
3 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.14%) Aareon
4 1 (1.14%) Adobe
4 1 (1.14%) Capita
4 1 (1.14%) Civica
4 1 (1.14%) Dell
4 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Intel
4 1 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.14%) Splunk