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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 330 464
Rank change year-on-year +24 +134 -20
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 89 151 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.50% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 87 112
10th Percentile £413 £494 £488
25th Percentile £463 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -3.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £747 £800 £757
England median daily rate £544 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +24.39%
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 6,754 10,067 15,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.65% 38.97% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,982 7,384 11,994
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
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 83 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.93
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.75 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +18.01% +20.15%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.80
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +1.53%

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 17 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 17 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 +55 19 £525 +5.00% 2
West London +21 5 £650 - 2
South London - 2 £500 -
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 7 (7.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (3.37%) WordPress
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.25%) nginx
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.12%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.12%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.12%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) GitHub
2 48 (53.93%) AWS
3 30 (33.71%) Azure
4 26 (29.21%) Serverless
5 13 (14.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.36%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (10.11%) Amazon S3
8 9 (10.11%) Azure AKS
8 9 (10.11%) Azure Functions
8 9 (10.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.74%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (6.74%) GCP
12 4 (4.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) Intranet
2 3 (3.37%) Network Security
3 2 (2.25%) DNS
4 1 (1.12%) DHCP
4 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.25%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.25%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.25%) MySQL
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.12%) Big Data
6 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.12%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.12%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.12%) Flink
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Git
2 12 (13.48%) CircleCI
2 12 (13.48%) Cypress.io
2 12 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.11%) JMeter
4 7 (7.87%) JUnit
5 6 (6.74%) GitLab
6 5 (5.62%) Mercurial
7 4 (4.49%) JIRA
8 3 (3.37%) Gradle
9 2 (2.25%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.25%) Mocha
9 2 (2.25%) Terragrunt
10 1 (1.12%) Darcs
10 1 (1.12%) ESLint
10 1 (1.12%) Poetry
10 1 (1.12%) Postman
10 1 (1.12%) Spinnaker
10 1 (1.12%) XCTest
10 1 (1.12%) XCUITest
General
1 16 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.49%) Banking
4 4 (4.49%) Retail
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.25%) Aviation
6 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.25%) Marketing
6 2 (2.25%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Local Government
7 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (25.84%) Developer
3 15 (16.85%) Senior
4 13 (14.61%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Architect
8 6 (6.74%) Python Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Android Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Lead
10 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) React
2 15 (16.85%) Node.js
3 14 (15.73%) REST
4 12 (13.48%) Kafka
5 11 (12.36%) RESTful
6 9 (10.11%) .NET
6 9 (10.11%) HTML
7 7 (7.87%) Android Jetpack
7 7 (7.87%) Jetpack Compose
7 7 (7.87%) OAuth
7 7 (7.87%) RxJava
8 6 (6.74%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.74%) CSS
8 6 (6.74%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.49%) Django
9 4 (4.49%) pytest
9 4 (4.49%) RAML
9 4 (4.49%) Web Services
10 3 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (3.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Machine to Machine
2 6 (6.74%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.49%) Legacy Code
4 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.37%) PKI
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.25%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.12%) CBDC
7 1 (1.12%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Replication
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Linux
2 7 (7.87%) Android
3 2 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.81%) DevOps
3 21 (23.60%) Agile
4 17 (19.10%) Test Automation
5 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (13.48%) Open Source
6 12 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (13.48%) TDD
7 11 (12.36%) Architectural Design
7 11 (12.36%) Runbook
7 11 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (11.24%) Containerisation
8 10 (11.24%) Microservices
8 10 (11.24%) Observability
8 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
9 8 (8.99%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (8.99%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (8.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (53.93%) Python
2 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
3 11 (12.36%) SQL
4 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.99%) Kotlin
6 6 (6.74%) Bash
7 5 (5.62%) Go
8 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.49%) Ruby
9 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.25%) Java
10 2 (2.25%) Swift
11 1 (1.12%) Bicep
11 1 (1.12%) C
11 1 (1.12%) C#
11 1 (1.12%) C++
11 1 (1.12%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.12%) PHP
11 1 (1.12%) Rust
11 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.24%) Degree
4 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) CEH
6 2 (2.25%) CISM
6 2 (2.25%) CISSP
6 2 (2.25%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.25%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) NIST
3 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) COBIT
4 2 (2.25%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (31.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) Ceph
2 1 (1.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 55 (61.80%) Terraform
2 32 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) Argo
4 5 (5.62%) Ansible
4 5 (5.62%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.25%) Nessus
6 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.12%) Consul
7 1 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.12%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.12%) Istio
7 1 (1.12%) Kibana
7 1 (1.12%) logstash
7 1 (1.12%) Mesos
7 1 (1.12%) PingFederate
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.74%) NEC
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle
3 2 (2.25%) Qualys
3 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.12%) Aareon
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe
4 1 (1.12%) Capita
4 1 (1.12%) Civica
4 1 (1.12%) Dell
4 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) Intel
4 1 (1.12%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.12%) Splunk