GitHub Actions Contract Job Trends in London

GitHub Actions
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 252 346
Rank change year-on-year +124 +94 +36
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 317 119 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 0.76% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.06% 1.86% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 85 52
10th Percentile £363 £413 £464
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £734 £699
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%

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 6,268 6,385 7,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.97% 40.83% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,261 4,353 5,480
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.38 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £26.15 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.28% +28.00% +11.11%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in London

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Hourly 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 3 December 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 +32 38 £563 +0.90% 17
South London - 8 £500 -
West London -13 4 £650 +36.84% 2
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (9.15%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.15%) Confluence
4 7 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.58%) Apache
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.63%) Traefik
7 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 317 (100.00%) GitHub
2 181 (57.10%) AWS
3 162 (51.10%) Azure
4 87 (27.44%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (17.03%) Serverless
6 49 (15.46%) Amazon S3
7 45 (14.20%) GCP
8 39 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (11.04%) Azure Monitor
11 30 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (8.83%) Entra ID
13 24 (7.57%) Azure AKS
14 23 (7.26%) Azure Key Vault
15 22 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (6.94%) Power Platform
16 21 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (5.68%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.73%) Firewall
2 11 (3.47%) DNS
3 9 (2.84%) Network Security
4 8 (2.52%) VPN
5 6 (1.89%) HTTP
6 5 (1.58%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.63%) Calico
7 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.10%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.15%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.84%) Star Schema
8 8 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.52%) Power BI
8 8 (2.52%) Redis
9 7 (2.21%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (2.21%) Big Data
9 7 (2.21%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.21%) Flink
10 6 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 85 (26.81%) Jenkins
2 66 (20.82%) Git
3 45 (14.20%) GitLab
4 21 (6.62%) CircleCI
5 18 (5.68%) JIRA
6 16 (5.05%) JUnit
7 15 (4.73%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.84%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.84%) Postman
8 9 (2.84%) Selenium
8 9 (2.84%) Snyk
9 7 (2.21%) JMeter
9 7 (2.21%) MLflow
9 7 (2.21%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.58%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.58%) Maven
10 5 (1.58%) Mockito
10 5 (1.58%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.58%) webpack
General
1 62 (19.56%) Finance
2 53 (16.72%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.20%) Banking
5 21 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.52%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.89%) Front Office
8 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.58%) Military
10 4 (1.26%) Marketing
10 4 (1.26%) Publishing
11 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Retail
12 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (19.87%) Developer
2 58 (18.30%) Senior
3 54 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (9.15%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (8.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 26 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
10 18 (5.68%) Architect
10 18 (5.68%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.36%) Lead
12 15 (4.73%) Site Engineer
12 15 (4.73%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Consultant
13 14 (4.42%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 12 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.46%) React
2 48 (15.14%) Node.js
3 41 (12.93%) REST
4 35 (11.04%) Kafka
5 31 (9.78%) .NET
6 25 (7.89%) CSS
6 25 (7.89%) RESTful
7 21 (6.62%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.68%) HTML
9 16 (5.05%) OAuth
10 15 (4.73%) GraphQL
10 15 (4.73%) Spring
11 14 (4.42%) pytest
12 13 (4.10%) Jest
12 13 (4.10%) Playwright
13 12 (3.79%) Sass
14 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (3.47%) PyTorch
14 11 (3.47%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.79%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.89%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.26%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.26%) Genomics
8 4 (1.26%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.26%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.26%) Replication
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.95%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.62%) Linux
2 6 (1.89%) Android
3 5 (1.58%) Windows
4 3 (0.95%) VMS
5 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (88.01%) CI/CD
2 198 (62.46%) DevOps
3 144 (45.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (30.28%) Agile
5 83 (26.18%) Containerisation
6 70 (22.08%) AI
7 60 (18.93%) Observability
8 53 (16.72%) Microservices
8 53 (16.72%) Migration
9 49 (15.46%) Analytics
9 49 (15.46%) Data Pipeline
10 46 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (14.51%) Software Engineering
11 43 (13.56%) Test Automation
12 42 (13.25%) Data Engineering
13 40 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (11.99%) Machine Learning
15 34 (10.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (10.09%) DevSecOps
17 29 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (47.63%) Python
2 81 (25.55%) SQL
3 63 (19.87%) TypeScript
4 61 (19.24%) Java
5 59 (18.61%) JavaScript
6 41 (12.93%) C#
7 38 (11.99%) Go
8 32 (10.09%) PowerShell
9 31 (9.78%) Bash
10 25 (7.89%) Bicep
11 9 (2.84%) Ruby
12 8 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (2.21%) JSX
14 5 (1.58%) Groovy
14 5 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.26%) PromQL
16 2 (0.63%) C++
16 2 (0.63%) Scala
16 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.63%) XPath
Qualifications
1 89 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.99%) Degree
4 15 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.63%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.31%) QA
3 14 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.10%) GDPR
5 12 (3.79%) NIST
6 11 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.89%) WCAG
8 3 (0.95%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 119 (37.54%) Docker
2 21 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) etcd
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 176 (55.52%) Terraform
2 145 (45.74%) Kubernetes
3 36 (11.36%) Grafana
4 34 (10.73%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.99%) Ansible
6 17 (5.36%) Argo
7 9 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.21%) Istio
8 7 (2.21%) Puppet
9 2 (0.63%) Consul
9 2 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.63%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.32%) Kibana
10 1 (0.32%) linkerd
10 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 59 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.09%) Databricks
3 25 (7.89%) OpenAI
4 24 (7.57%) Google
5 9 (2.84%) Splunk
6 6 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.58%) Oracle
7 5 (1.58%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.58%) VMware
8 3 (0.95%) Adobe
8 3 (0.95%) Amplitude
8 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.95%) New Relic
8 3 (0.95%) Qualys
8 3 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.63%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.63%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.63%) Solace
10 1 (0.32%) Intel