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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 212 301
Rank change year-on-year +84 +89 +33
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 382 140 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.15% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 2.68% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 87 60
10th Percentile £400 £438 £413
25th Percentile £455 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £628 £799 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -11.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +171.70% -34.57% -

All Cloud Computing 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 7,820 5,219 6,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.33% 42.89% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,409 3,554 5,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 May 2026.

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
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 30 May 2026. 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 47 £600 +4.35% 5
West London -17 11 £530 -6.19% 1
South London - 6 £500 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 1
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 32 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.97%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.62%) Confluence
4 9 (2.36%) Apache
5 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Findur
1 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.79%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) GitHub
2 210 (54.97%) AWS
3 201 (52.62%) Azure
4 134 (35.08%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (20.94%) Serverless
6 67 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (15.97%) Amazon S3
8 57 (14.92%) GCP
9 54 (14.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (10.73%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (9.42%) Azure Monitor
14 35 (9.16%) Azure AKS
15 32 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (8.38%) AWS CodePipeline
16 30 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (5.50%) Snowflake
18 20 (5.24%) Entra ID
18 20 (5.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.02%) Firewall
2 20 (5.24%) DNS
3 17 (4.45%) Network Security
4 10 (2.62%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) DSL
5 2 (0.52%) HTTP
5 2 (0.52%) Internet
5 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.85%) Data Lake
2 28 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.50%) Delta Lake
5 20 (5.24%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.45%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (4.19%) Power BI
8 15 (3.93%) MongoDB
9 13 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (3.40%) Redis
10 12 (3.14%) Big Data
10 12 (3.14%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (2.09%) MySQL
15 7 (1.83%) Metadata
16 6 (1.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 139 (36.39%) Jenkins
2 87 (22.77%) GitLab
3 51 (13.35%) Git
4 22 (5.76%) JUnit
5 20 (5.24%) JIRA
6 16 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.19%) MLflow
7 15 (3.93%) Mockito
8 14 (3.66%) CircleCI
9 13 (3.40%) Selenium
10 11 (2.88%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.88%) Gradle
11 10 (2.62%) JMeter
12 9 (2.36%) Postman
12 9 (2.36%) SonarQube
13 8 (2.09%) Gatling
14 7 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.83%) Snyk
15 5 (1.31%) Terragrunt
15 5 (1.31%) TestRail
General
1 72 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.45%) Finance
3 36 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.02%) Banking
6 13 (3.40%) Retail
7 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.57%) Front Office
9 5 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Aviation
12 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (19.11%) Senior
2 68 (17.80%) Developer
3 59 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (11.26%) Data Engineer
5 35 (9.16%) Lead
6 31 (8.12%) Architect
7 26 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.50%) Java Developer
9 20 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.66%) Test Engineer
12 13 (3.40%) AWS Developer
12 13 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.14%) Python Developer
13 12 (3.14%) Site Engineer
14 11 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.23%) Kafka
2 56 (14.66%) REST
3 45 (11.78%) Spring
3 45 (11.78%) Spring Boot
4 43 (11.26%) React
5 42 (10.99%) RESTful
6 33 (8.64%) .NET
7 32 (8.38%) PySpark
8 20 (5.24%) Pandas
8 20 (5.24%) Playwright
9 19 (4.97%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.97%) Node.js
10 18 (4.71%) OAuth
11 17 (4.45%) FastAPI
11 17 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.19%) OAuth2
13 15 (3.93%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.66%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (3.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.36%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.52%) IoT
11 2 (0.52%) IVR
11 2 (0.52%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.47%) Linux
2 18 (4.71%) Windows
3 16 (4.19%) Unix
4 10 (2.62%) VMS
5 7 (1.83%) Android
6 5 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (90.05%) CI/CD
2 247 (64.66%) DevOps
3 190 (49.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (30.63%) Agile
5 105 (27.49%) Observability
6 104 (27.23%) Containerisation
7 80 (20.94%) Test Automation
8 79 (20.68%) Microservices
9 67 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (15.71%) AI
10 60 (15.71%) Analytics
11 55 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (13.87%) Data Engineering
13 50 (13.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 49 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (12.30%) Mentoring
16 45 (11.78%) Event-Driven
17 44 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
19 36 (9.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 175 (45.81%) Python
2 110 (28.80%) SQL
3 65 (17.02%) Java
4 50 (13.09%) C#
5 48 (12.57%) PowerShell
6 44 (11.52%) Bash
7 42 (10.99%) TypeScript
8 40 (10.47%) JavaScript
9 36 (9.42%) Bicep
10 22 (5.76%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.36%) Go
12 8 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.09%) Ruby
13 6 (1.57%) Scala
14 5 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.05%) Swift
16 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.52%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 109 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.40%) Degree
5 10 (2.62%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.05%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMP
11 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.30%) QA
2 25 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.57%) NIST
7 5 (1.31%) GDPR
8 3 (0.79%) PSD2
8 3 (0.79%) WCAG
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (40.05%) Docker
2 10 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 225 (58.90%) Terraform
2 164 (42.93%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.26%) Ansible
3 43 (11.26%) Prometheus
4 41 (10.73%) Grafana
5 13 (3.40%) Argo
6 10 (2.62%) Istio
7 8 (2.09%) Kibana
7 8 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.09%) Puppet
8 3 (0.79%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.26%) linkerd
10 1 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.90%) Databricks
3 24 (6.28%) Google
4 14 (3.66%) Splunk
5 13 (3.40%) Oracle
6 10 (2.62%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.36%) New Relic
7 9 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.83%) SAP
9 6 (1.57%) Foundry
10 5 (1.31%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.31%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.31%) Sybase
11 4 (1.05%) Confluent
11 4 (1.05%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.79%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.79%) Palantir
12 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.79%) Workday