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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 221 301
Rank change year-on-year +86 +80 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 367 132 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 1.05% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 2.47% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 93 60
10th Percentile £380 £452 £413
25th Percentile £436 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £641
90th Percentile £713 £800 £703
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -37.04% +15.71%

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 7,407 5,352 6,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.65% 42.50% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,088 3,739 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 51 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%

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 April 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 April 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 48 £575 +2.00% 34
West London -16 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 11 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 (8.72%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.09%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.00%) Apache
5 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) Findur
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 367 (100.00%) GitHub
2 199 (54.22%) Azure
3 194 (52.86%) AWS
4 127 (34.60%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (21.80%) Serverless
6 66 (17.98%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (15.53%) Amazon S3
7 57 (15.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (14.17%) GCP
9 51 (13.90%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (12.26%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (11.99%) Azure Monitor
12 39 (10.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (10.35%) Azure AKS
14 36 (9.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (8.72%) Entra ID
16 30 (8.17%) AWS CodePipeline
17 29 (7.90%) Azure Key Vault
18 26 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
19 25 (6.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.27%) Firewall
2 19 (5.18%) Network Security
3 14 (3.81%) DNS
4 5 (1.36%) VPN
5 4 (1.09%) HTTP
6 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.54%) Internet
7 2 (0.54%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) DSL
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.63%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.45%) Delta Lake
5 19 (5.18%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.90%) SQL Server
7 16 (4.36%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.27%) Big Data
10 11 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.00%) Power BI
11 9 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.45%) Flink
11 9 (2.45%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.45%) MySQL
11 9 (2.45%) Redis
12 8 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 120 (32.70%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.44%) GitLab
3 57 (15.53%) Git
4 20 (5.45%) Cypress.io
5 19 (5.18%) JIRA
5 19 (5.18%) JUnit
6 18 (4.90%) MLflow
7 14 (3.81%) Selenium
8 13 (3.54%) Mockito
9 12 (3.27%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.00%) Postman
11 9 (2.45%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.18%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.91%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.63%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.63%) Gatling
14 6 (1.63%) JMeter
15 5 (1.36%) Gradle
15 5 (1.36%) Snyk
15 5 (1.36%) TestRail
General
1 68 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.44%) Finance
3 40 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.08%) Banking
5 20 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.27%) Front Office
7 9 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.45%) Retail
8 7 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (20.98%) Developer
2 61 (16.62%) Senior
3 56 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (8.99%) Lead
7 31 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.81%) Architect
10 23 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.90%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.63%) Azure Developer
13 17 (4.63%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.81%) Python Engineer
14 14 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.53%) Kafka
2 51 (13.90%) React
3 42 (11.44%) REST
4 41 (11.17%) .NET
4 41 (11.17%) Node.js
5 33 (8.99%) RESTful
5 33 (8.99%) Spring
5 33 (8.99%) Spring Boot
6 25 (6.81%) AngularJS
7 24 (6.54%) PySpark
8 23 (6.27%) Playwright
9 20 (5.45%) OAuth
10 18 (4.90%) CSS
11 16 (4.36%) AWS CDK
11 16 (4.36%) Pandas
12 15 (4.09%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.81%) JSON
14 12 (3.27%) .NET Framework
14 12 (3.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.27%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.18%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.36%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.26%) Linux
2 12 (3.27%) Windows
3 11 (3.00%) Unix
3 11 (3.00%) VMS
4 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.82%) Android
6 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (88.83%) CI/CD
2 233 (63.49%) DevOps
3 169 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (31.06%) Agile
5 102 (27.79%) Containerisation
6 98 (26.70%) Observability
7 76 (20.71%) AI
8 72 (19.62%) Analytics
9 67 (18.26%) Microservices
10 64 (17.44%) Platform Engineering
11 59 (16.08%) Test Automation
12 54 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 53 (14.44%) Data Engineering
14 52 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
15 50 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (11.72%) Machine Learning
18 40 (10.90%) Migration
19 36 (9.81%) Full-Stack Development
20 32 (8.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 173 (47.14%) Python
2 108 (29.43%) SQL
3 64 (17.44%) Java
4 49 (13.35%) C#
4 49 (13.35%) JavaScript
4 49 (13.35%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.08%) PowerShell
6 33 (8.99%) Bicep
7 29 (7.90%) Bash
8 16 (4.36%) Go
8 16 (4.36%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.91%) Ruby
10 7 (1.91%) Scala
11 6 (1.63%) JSX
12 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.82%) Swift
12 3 (0.82%) XPath
13 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 108 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 97 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.18%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.27%) Degree
5 11 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.45%) QA
2 19 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (1.09%) WCAG
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 141 (38.42%) Docker
2 14 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
4 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 208 (56.68%) Terraform
2 154 (41.96%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.35%) Ansible
4 27 (7.36%) Grafana
4 27 (7.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.99%) Argo
6 10 (2.72%) Istio
7 9 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.18%) Puppet
9 5 (1.36%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 77 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.53%) Databricks
3 26 (7.08%) Google
4 20 (5.45%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.18%) New Relic
5 8 (2.18%) Splunk
6 7 (1.91%) Oracle
6 7 (1.91%) SAP
7 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.36%) Confluent
8 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.09%) Foundry
10 3 (0.82%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.82%) Qualys
10 3 (0.82%) Sybase
11 2 (0.54%) Adobe
11 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg