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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 147 288
Rank change year-on-year +13 +141 +67
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 473 267 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.99% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 4.55% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 180 76
10th Percentile £373 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £445 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -5.95%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £801 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% - -
75th Percentile £55.50 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,283 5,872 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.97% 43.86% 40.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,720 3,992 4,547
10th Percentile £362 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 101 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -14.29% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +2 52 £575 -8.00% 38
South London 0 18 £468 -1.58% 1
West London - 5 £738 - 9
East London - 1 - - 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 24 (5.07%) Confluence
2 23 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.85%) Apache
5 4 (0.85%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.42%) Mendix
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Trello
2 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 473 (100.00%) GitHub
2 272 (57.51%) Azure
3 252 (53.28%) AWS
4 165 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (17.12%) Amazon EKS
5 81 (17.12%) GCP
6 79 (16.70%) Amazon S3
7 78 (16.49%) Serverless
8 61 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (10.57%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (9.51%) Azure AKS
12 41 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (8.67%) Entra ID
12 41 (8.67%) Snowflake
13 40 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (7.82%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (6.55%) Power Platform
16 24 (5.07%) Datadog
17 23 (4.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.50%) DNS
2 20 (4.23%) VPN
3 16 (3.38%) Firewall
4 11 (2.33%) Network Security
5 4 (0.85%) Internet
6 3 (0.63%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.63%) SSH
6 3 (0.63%) SSL
6 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.42%) DHCP
7 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.42%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.21%) HTTP
8 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.21%) INAP
8 1 (0.21%) RTP
8 1 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.21%) VoIP
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 29 (6.13%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.29%) Power BI
5 22 (4.65%) Redis
5 22 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 20 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.75%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.33%) Metadata
13 10 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.90%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.69%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 172 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 123 (26.00%) GitLab
3 75 (15.86%) Git
4 28 (5.92%) Selenium
5 26 (5.50%) CircleCI
5 26 (5.50%) JIRA
6 24 (5.07%) JUnit
7 20 (4.23%) Gradle
8 18 (3.81%) SonarQube
9 16 (3.38%) Bitbucket
9 16 (3.38%) Cypress.io
10 15 (3.17%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.54%) JMeter
12 11 (2.33%) Postman
12 11 (2.33%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.11%) Mockito
14 8 (1.69%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.69%) Maven
14 8 (1.69%) XCTest
14 8 (1.69%) XCUITest
General
1 105 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 96 (20.30%) Finance
3 65 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.34%) Banking
6 17 (3.59%) Retail
7 16 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.33%) Law
9 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.69%) Marketing
9 8 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.48%) Back Office
10 7 (1.48%) Local Government
11 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.85%) Billing
12 4 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.63%) Legal
13 3 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (24.31%) Senior
2 96 (20.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (15.64%) Developer
4 42 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
4 42 (8.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (8.88%) Lead
5 40 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (6.98%) Architect
7 30 (6.34%) Data Engineer
8 25 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 22 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
10 22 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.23%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.81%) Java Developer
13 18 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (58.56%) Terraform
2 96 (20.30%) REST
3 69 (14.59%) Kafka
4 61 (12.90%) RESTful
5 42 (8.88%) Spring
6 41 (8.67%) React
7 38 (8.03%) Spring Boot
8 31 (6.55%) .NET
9 26 (5.50%) Playwright
9 26 (5.50%) PySpark
10 25 (5.29%) FastAPI
11 21 (4.44%) OAuth
12 19 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (3.81%) Loki
13 18 (3.81%) OAuth2
13 18 (3.81%) pytest
14 17 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (3.38%) Flask
15 16 (3.38%) Node.js
16 15 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 118 (24.95%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.36%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.59%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.96%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.57%) Linux
2 20 (4.23%) Windows
3 14 (2.96%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.54%) Android
5 7 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.27%) Unix
7 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 324 (68.50%) DevOps
3 248 (52.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (36.15%) Agile
5 135 (28.54%) Observability
6 129 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 128 (27.06%) Containerisation
8 100 (21.14%) AI
8 100 (21.14%) Microservices
9 86 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
10 79 (16.70%) Software Engineering
11 71 (15.01%) Event-Driven
12 65 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (13.32%) Deployment Automation
14 60 (12.68%) DevSecOps
15 58 (12.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 56 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (11.21%) Mentoring
18 53 (11.21%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 246 (52.01%) Python
2 109 (23.04%) SQL
3 91 (19.24%) Bash
4 87 (18.39%) Java
5 59 (12.47%) PowerShell
6 58 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 47 (9.94%) Bicep
8 46 (9.73%) JavaScript
9 41 (8.67%) C#
10 21 (4.44%) Kotlin
11 18 (3.81%) Go
12 12 (2.54%) Swift
13 11 (2.33%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.11%) Objective-C
15 8 (1.69%) Ruby
16 5 (1.06%) Groovy
17 4 (0.85%) C
17 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.85%) Scala
18 3 (0.63%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 185 (39.11%) Security Cleared
2 175 (37.00%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.98%) Azure Certification
4 22 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.96%) Degree
7 12 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMP
14 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (16.07%) QA
2 34 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.69%) GDPR
4 8 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.69%) NIST
5 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.85%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PSD2
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 197 (41.65%) Docker
2 14 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 223 (47.15%) Kubernetes
2 84 (17.76%) Grafana
3 71 (15.01%) Prometheus
4 51 (10.78%) Ansible
5 26 (5.50%) Argo
6 8 (1.69%) Karpenter
6 8 (1.69%) Puppet
7 7 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.85%) Cilium
8 4 (0.85%) Istio
8 4 (0.85%) Kibana
9 3 (0.63%) SELinux
9 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.42%) Packer
11 1 (0.21%) Control-M
11 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 90 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.30%) Databricks
3 29 (6.13%) Google
4 25 (5.29%) Oracle
5 23 (4.86%) Splunk
6 21 (4.44%) Dynatrace
7 19 (4.02%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.33%) New Relic
8 11 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.11%) Foundry
10 9 (1.90%) VMware
11 8 (1.69%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.69%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.48%) SAP
13 5 (1.06%) Checkmarx
13 5 (1.06%) IBM
13 5 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.85%) Confluent
14 4 (0.85%) Okta