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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 193 301
Rank change year-on-year +60 +108 +56
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 429 192 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.40% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.15% 3.26% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 118 62
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £595 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +4.39% -8.87%
75th Percentile £626 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £736
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,333 5,887 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.88% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,692 4,040 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 86 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.31 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 August 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 3 August 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 52 £600 -2.04% 23
South London - 11 £518 - 2
West London -10 9 £560 -0.88% 6
East London - 1 £432 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
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 33 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.59%) Confluence
3 14 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.03%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.56%) Apache
6 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 4 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.23%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.93%) Trello
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.70%) Findur
2 3 (0.70%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 429 (100.00%) GitHub
2 252 (58.74%) Azure
3 234 (54.55%) AWS
4 164 (38.23%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (14.92%) Amazon S3
6 62 (14.45%) Serverless
7 58 (13.52%) GCP
8 55 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (11.42%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (10.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (9.09%) Azure AKS
15 33 (7.69%) Entra ID
16 32 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (6.99%) Snowflake
18 27 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
18 27 (6.29%) Power Platform
19 22 (5.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.66%) VPN
2 17 (3.96%) Firewall
3 16 (3.73%) DNS
4 12 (2.80%) Network Security
5 5 (1.17%) Internet
6 3 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.70%) SSH
6 3 (0.70%) SSL
6 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.47%) DSL
7 2 (0.47%) HTTP
7 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.47%) WAN
8 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.29%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.83%) Data Lake
3 25 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.90%) Power BI
6 20 (4.66%) Redis
7 19 (4.43%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.26%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.56%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.33%) Metadata
13 8 (1.86%) Big Data
13 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.63%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 160 (37.30%) Jenkins
2 114 (26.57%) GitLab
3 60 (13.99%) Git
4 31 (7.23%) JIRA
5 26 (6.06%) JUnit
6 25 (5.83%) Selenium
7 23 (5.36%) CircleCI
8 18 (4.20%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.50%) Bitbucket
10 14 (3.26%) REST Assured
10 14 (3.26%) SonarQube
11 13 (3.03%) Gradle
11 13 (3.03%) MLflow
12 12 (2.80%) Mockito
13 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.86%) JMeter
14 8 (1.86%) Snyk
15 7 (1.63%) Appium
15 7 (1.63%) TestNG
15 7 (1.63%) XCUITest
General
1 83 (19.35%) Finance
1 83 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.69%) Public Sector
3 31 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.29%) Banking
5 13 (3.03%) Retail
6 12 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.80%) Law
7 7 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.17%) Legal
10 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Back Office
11 3 (0.70%) Billing
11 3 (0.70%) Front Office
11 3 (0.70%) Local Government
11 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.70%) Police
11 3 (0.70%) Publishing
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 89 (20.75%) Senior
2 80 (18.65%) Developer
3 75 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (9.56%) Lead
5 38 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (7.93%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (7.23%) Data Engineer
8 27 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.06%) Architect
10 24 (5.59%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.90%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.66%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.96%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.48%) REST
2 59 (13.75%) Kafka
3 55 (12.82%) RESTful
4 40 (9.32%) React
4 40 (9.32%) Spring
5 36 (8.39%) Spring Boot
6 30 (6.99%) .NET
7 28 (6.53%) Playwright
7 28 (6.53%) PySpark
8 22 (5.13%) FastAPI
9 16 (3.73%) .NET Framework
10 15 (3.50%) Node.js
10 15 (3.50%) Pandas
11 14 (3.26%) Flask
11 14 (3.26%) pytest
11 14 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (3.03%) OAuth
12 13 (3.03%) YAML
13 12 (2.80%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 101 (23.54%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.70%) IoT
10 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.09%) Linux
2 16 (3.73%) Unix
2 16 (3.73%) Windows
3 11 (2.56%) Android
3 11 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 286 (66.67%) DevOps
3 219 (51.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (37.06%) Agile
5 123 (28.67%) Containerisation
6 119 (27.74%) Test Automation
7 108 (25.17%) Observability
8 92 (21.45%) Microservices
9 77 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (15.15%) AI
11 62 (14.45%) Analytics
12 57 (13.29%) Event-Driven
13 56 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
14 55 (12.82%) Software Engineering
15 54 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (11.66%) DevSecOps
17 48 (11.19%) Mentoring
17 48 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (10.96%) Data Engineering
19 44 (10.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 206 (48.02%) Python
2 117 (27.27%) SQL
3 80 (18.65%) Java
4 74 (17.25%) Bash
5 62 (14.45%) PowerShell
6 50 (11.66%) TypeScript
7 49 (11.42%) C#
8 42 (9.79%) Bicep
9 39 (9.09%) JavaScript
10 23 (5.36%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.73%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.50%) Go
13 9 (2.10%) Ruby
13 9 (2.10%) Swift
14 7 (1.63%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.17%) Groovy
15 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 164 (38.23%) Security Cleared
2 152 (35.43%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.73%) Degree
5 12 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.99%) QA
2 27 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.63%) GDPR
5 6 (1.40%) NIST
6 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.17%) WCAG
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (41.96%) Docker
2 13 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 244 (56.88%) Terraform
2 189 (44.06%) Kubernetes
3 69 (16.08%) Grafana
4 65 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.32%) Ansible
6 20 (4.66%) Argo
7 8 (1.86%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.86%) Puppet
8 5 (1.17%) Kibana
9 3 (0.70%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.70%) SELinux
9 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.47%) Istio
10 2 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.23%) Cilium
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Nagios
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 69 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.32%) Databricks
3 21 (4.90%) Splunk
4 18 (4.20%) Oracle
5 17 (3.96%) Google
6 14 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.86%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.86%) Foundry
9 8 (1.86%) New Relic
10 7 (1.63%) SAP
11 6 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.40%) VMware
12 4 (0.93%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.93%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.93%) Palantir
12 4 (0.93%) Sybase