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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 218 302
Rank change year-on-year +90 +84 +32
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 372 133 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.06% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 2.50% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 90 58
10th Percentile £390 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +8.24% -11.46%
75th Percentile £639 £725 £638
90th Percentile £713 £805 £744
England median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% -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 £72.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +182.35% -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 7,601 5,314 6,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 42.36% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,693 4,977
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 71
10th Percentile £19.21 £22.40 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £38.44
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%

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 1 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 1 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 +15 48 £575 +2.00% 23
West London -9 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 10 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 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 31 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.38%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.69%) Apache
4 9 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.61%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.81%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 372 (100.00%) GitHub
2 202 (54.30%) Azure
3 201 (54.03%) AWS
4 129 (34.68%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (21.51%) Serverless
6 68 (18.28%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (15.86%) Amazon S3
7 59 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (15.32%) GCP
9 49 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (12.37%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (11.02%) Azure AKS
11 41 (11.02%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 33 (8.87%) AWS CodePipeline
14 29 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (7.26%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (6.45%) Entra ID
17 23 (6.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.99%) Firewall
2 19 (5.11%) Network Security
3 18 (4.84%) DNS
4 8 (2.15%) VPN
5 3 (0.81%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.54%) DSL
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.80%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.38%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.30%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.30%) Power BI
7 15 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (3.76%) Big Data
9 12 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.42%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.42%) Redis
12 8 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.15%) MySQL
13 7 (1.88%) Flink
13 7 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 128 (34.41%) Jenkins
2 74 (19.89%) GitLab
3 53 (14.25%) Git
4 19 (5.11%) Cypress.io
4 19 (5.11%) JUnit
5 18 (4.84%) JIRA
5 18 (4.84%) MLflow
6 13 (3.49%) Mockito
6 13 (3.49%) Selenium
7 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.69%) Postman
8 10 (2.69%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.42%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.88%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.88%) Snyk
11 6 (1.61%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.34%) Gatling
12 5 (1.34%) Gradle
12 5 (1.34%) JMeter
12 5 (1.34%) TestRail
General
1 68 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.59%) Finance
3 40 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.45%) Banking
5 23 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.69%) Front Office
7 9 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.42%) Retail
8 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (19.62%) Developer
2 69 (18.55%) Senior
3 59 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.60%) Lead
6 30 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (7.26%) Architect
9 24 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.38%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.57%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.30%) Azure Developer
14 13 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.23%) AWS Developer
15 12 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.23%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.59%) Kafka
2 48 (12.90%) React
3 44 (11.83%) REST
4 39 (10.48%) Spring Boot
5 38 (10.22%) .NET
5 38 (10.22%) Spring
6 35 (9.41%) RESTful
7 30 (8.06%) Node.js
8 28 (7.53%) PySpark
9 23 (6.18%) AngularJS
10 22 (5.91%) Playwright
11 19 (5.11%) Pandas
12 16 (4.30%) FastAPI
13 15 (4.03%) .NET Framework
13 15 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.76%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.76%) OAuth
15 12 (3.23%) Flask
15 12 (3.23%) JSON
15 12 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.96%) AI Agents
3 11 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.15%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
11 1 (0.27%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.95%) Linux
2 16 (4.30%) Windows
3 15 (4.03%) Unix
4 11 (2.96%) VMS
5 4 (1.08%) Android
6 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (89.52%) CI/CD
2 239 (64.25%) DevOps
3 183 (49.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (31.99%) Agile
5 111 (29.84%) Containerisation
6 103 (27.69%) Observability
7 73 (19.62%) Microservices
8 69 (18.55%) Test Automation
9 66 (17.74%) AI
10 64 (17.20%) Analytics
11 61 (16.40%) Platform Engineering
12 57 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 56 (15.05%) Data Engineering
13 56 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
14 49 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (11.56%) Migration
17 41 (11.02%) Machine Learning
18 38 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
19 36 (9.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 175 (47.04%) Python
2 109 (29.30%) SQL
3 66 (17.74%) Java
4 56 (15.05%) C#
5 47 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 42 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 40 (10.75%) PowerShell
8 35 (9.41%) Bicep
9 31 (8.33%) Bash
10 20 (5.38%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.76%) Go
12 9 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (2.42%) Ruby
13 6 (1.61%) Scala
14 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.81%) JSX
15 3 (0.81%) XPath
16 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 107 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.11%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.23%) Degree
5 11 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.60%) QA
2 19 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) 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
8 2 (0.54%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (40.05%) Docker
2 15 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 221 (59.41%) Terraform
2 163 (43.82%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.48%) Ansible
4 34 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.87%) Grafana
6 18 (4.84%) Argo
7 10 (2.69%) Istio
8 8 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.15%) Puppet
9 7 (1.88%) Kibana
10 3 (0.81%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.22%) Databricks
3 25 (6.72%) Google
4 15 (4.03%) OpenAI
4 15 (4.03%) Splunk
5 9 (2.42%) Oracle
6 8 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.15%) New Relic
7 7 (1.88%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.61%) SAP
9 5 (1.34%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.34%) Confluent
10 4 (1.08%) Foundry
10 4 (1.08%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.81%) Qualys
11 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.81%) Sybase
12 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg