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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 177 303
Rank change year-on-year +44 +126 +49
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 434 209 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 1.56% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.21% 3.61% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 129 61
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% - -4.15%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £670
90th Percentile £675 £820 £738
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 8,337 5,789 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 43.10% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,706 3,960 4,768
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £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 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 20 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 20 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 +13 52 £594 -5.00% 13
South London +5 11 £490 +8.89% 1
West London -13 9 £650 +15.04% 4
East London - 1 £432 - 3
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 28 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.76%) Confluence
3 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.30%) Apache
6 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.92%) nginx
7 4 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.46%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Trello
2 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.69%) Findur
3 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.46%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 434 (100.00%) GitHub
2 257 (59.22%) Azure
3 233 (53.69%) AWS
4 164 (37.79%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (15.44%) GCP
6 65 (14.98%) Serverless
7 62 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 55 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (11.75%) Azure Monitor
10 45 (10.37%) Azure AKS
11 42 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (8.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (8.06%) Entra ID
14 31 (7.14%) Snowflake
15 29 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (6.68%) Power Platform
16 26 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (4.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.84%) VPN
2 17 (3.92%) DNS
2 17 (3.92%) Firewall
3 11 (2.53%) Network Security
4 5 (1.15%) Internet
5 3 (0.69%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.69%) SSH
5 3 (0.69%) SSL
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.46%) DSL
6 2 (0.46%) HTTP
6 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.22%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.53%) Power BI
4 23 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.38%) Redis
6 18 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.92%) Delta Lake
8 16 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.00%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.00%) Metadata
10 12 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.84%) Big Data
12 8 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 162 (37.33%) Jenkins
2 120 (27.65%) GitLab
3 59 (13.59%) Git
4 28 (6.45%) JIRA
5 25 (5.76%) CircleCI
5 25 (5.76%) Selenium
6 24 (5.53%) JUnit
7 18 (4.15%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.46%) SonarQube
9 13 (3.00%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.00%) Gradle
10 12 (2.76%) REST Assured
11 11 (2.53%) Mockito
12 10 (2.30%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.07%) JMeter
13 9 (2.07%) MLflow
13 9 (2.07%) Snyk
13 9 (2.07%) XCUITest
14 8 (1.84%) Postman
15 7 (1.61%) XCTest
General
1 87 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.59%) Finance
3 62 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.22%) Banking
6 13 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.76%) Law
8 11 (2.53%) Retail
9 9 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Legal
12 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Back Office
13 3 (0.69%) Billing
13 3 (0.69%) Front Office
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
13 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.69%) Police
13 3 (0.69%) Publishing
14 2 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 88 (20.28%) Senior
2 79 (18.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (17.97%) Developer
4 41 (9.45%) Lead
5 38 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (7.37%) Architect
9 29 (6.68%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.30%) Senior Developer
12 22 (5.07%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.38%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.15%) Python Developer
15 16 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (57.37%) Terraform
2 79 (18.20%) REST
3 66 (15.21%) Kafka
4 58 (13.36%) RESTful
5 39 (8.99%) React
5 39 (8.99%) Spring
6 35 (8.06%) Spring Boot
7 33 (7.60%) .NET
8 28 (6.45%) PySpark
9 26 (5.99%) Playwright
10 21 (4.84%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.46%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.46%) Node.js
12 14 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.23%) Flask
12 14 (3.23%) OAuth
12 14 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (3.00%) ARM Templates
13 13 (3.00%) Pandas
13 13 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.46%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.07%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.68%) Linux
2 18 (4.15%) Windows
3 16 (3.69%) Unix
4 13 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.53%) Android
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (91.71%) CI/CD
2 290 (66.82%) DevOps
3 225 (51.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (36.18%) Agile
5 125 (28.80%) Containerisation
6 122 (28.11%) Test Automation
7 111 (25.58%) Observability
8 94 (21.66%) Microservices
9 77 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (16.13%) AI
11 62 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 60 (13.82%) Software Engineering
13 56 (12.90%) Analytics
13 56 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
14 55 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (12.21%) Mentoring
16 52 (11.98%) DevSecOps
17 48 (11.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (10.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 205 (47.24%) Python
2 115 (26.50%) SQL
3 80 (18.43%) Java
4 74 (17.05%) Bash
5 64 (14.75%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.21%) TypeScript
7 51 (11.75%) C#
8 45 (10.37%) Bicep
9 42 (9.68%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.61%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.69%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.76%) Go
13 11 (2.53%) Swift
14 9 (2.07%) Objective-C
14 9 (2.07%) Ruby
15 5 (1.15%) Groovy
16 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (38.48%) Security Cleared
2 157 (36.18%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.23%) Degree
5 13 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.29%) QA
2 29 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) NIST
6 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.15%) WCAG
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 176 (40.55%) Docker
2 13 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 194 (44.70%) Kubernetes
2 72 (16.59%) Grafana
3 65 (14.98%) Prometheus
4 42 (9.68%) Ansible
5 19 (4.38%) Argo
6 8 (1.84%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.84%) Puppet
7 4 (0.92%) Karpenter
7 4 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.69%) Istio
8 3 (0.69%) Packer
8 3 (0.69%) SELinux
8 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) Cilium
10 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.37%) Databricks
3 23 (5.30%) Splunk
4 20 (4.61%) Google
5 18 (4.15%) Oracle
6 16 (3.69%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.30%) New Relic
8 10 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.84%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.84%) Foundry
10 6 (1.38%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.38%) SAP
10 6 (1.38%) VMware
11 4 (0.92%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.92%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.92%) Palantir