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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 217 304
Rank change year-on-year +82 +87 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 375 133 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 1.10% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 2.57% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 85 60
10th Percentile £400 £434 £413
25th Percentile £455 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £799 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +171.70% -34.57% -

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 7,765 5,180 6,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.87% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,537 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 57 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.75 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 28 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 28 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 +8 46 £600 +4.80% 18
West London -14 12 £560 -0.88% 2
South London - 6 £500 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 7
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 (8.53%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.40%) Apache
4 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.87%) Confluence
5 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.80%) Findur
2 3 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) GitHub
2 209 (55.73%) AWS
3 199 (53.07%) Azure
4 133 (35.47%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (20.80%) Serverless
6 67 (17.87%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (16.00%) Amazon S3
8 56 (14.93%) GCP
9 53 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (10.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.93%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (9.33%) Azure AKS
14 32 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (8.53%) AWS CodePipeline
15 31 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (5.60%) Power Platform
17 20 (5.33%) Entra ID
17 20 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.87%) Firewall
2 19 (5.07%) DNS
3 15 (4.00%) Network Security
4 9 (2.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) DSL
5 2 (0.53%) HTTP
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
5 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.87%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.60%) Delta Lake
5 20 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.80%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.53%) Power BI
8 16 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.47%) Redis
11 12 (3.20%) Big Data
12 11 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (2.93%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (2.13%) MySQL
16 7 (1.87%) Metadata
17 6 (1.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 136 (36.27%) Jenkins
2 85 (22.67%) GitLab
3 49 (13.07%) Git
4 19 (5.07%) JUnit
5 17 (4.53%) JIRA
6 16 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 16 (4.27%) MLflow
7 14 (3.73%) Mockito
8 13 (3.47%) Selenium
9 11 (2.93%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.93%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.67%) JMeter
10 10 (2.67%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.40%) Postman
12 8 (2.13%) Gatling
12 8 (2.13%) Gradle
13 7 (1.87%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.87%) Snyk
14 5 (1.33%) Terragrunt
14 5 (1.33%) TestRail
General
1 69 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.93%) Finance
3 36 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.13%) Banking
6 12 (3.20%) Retail
7 7 (1.87%) Front Office
7 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.80%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
10 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.53%) Police
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Local Government
11 1 (0.27%) Military
11 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (19.20%) Senior
2 69 (18.40%) Developer
3 59 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 41 (10.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (9.60%) Lead
7 29 (7.73%) Architect
8 26 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.87%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.07%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.73%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.47%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.20%) Python Developer
15 12 (3.20%) Site Engineer
16 11 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.53%) Kafka
2 52 (13.87%) REST
3 44 (11.73%) Spring Boot
4 43 (11.47%) Spring
5 42 (11.20%) React
6 39 (10.40%) RESTful
7 33 (8.80%) .NET
7 33 (8.80%) PySpark
8 20 (5.33%) Pandas
8 20 (5.33%) Playwright
9 19 (5.07%) AngularJS
9 19 (5.07%) Node.js
10 17 (4.53%) FastAPI
10 17 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
11 16 (4.27%) OAuth
12 15 (4.00%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.73%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.73%) OAuth2
14 13 (3.47%) pytest
15 12 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.13%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.40%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.53%) IoT
11 2 (0.53%) IVR
11 2 (0.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.13%) Linux
2 17 (4.53%) Windows
3 16 (4.27%) Unix
4 10 (2.67%) VMS
5 5 (1.33%) Android
6 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (89.33%) CI/CD
2 241 (64.27%) DevOps
3 185 (49.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (30.40%) Agile
5 102 (27.20%) Observability
6 101 (26.93%) Containerisation
7 78 (20.80%) Microservices
7 78 (20.80%) Test Automation
8 66 (17.60%) Platform Engineering
9 61 (16.27%) Analytics
10 58 (15.47%) AI
11 55 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
12 54 (14.40%) Data Engineering
13 49 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 44 (11.73%) Event-Driven
14 44 (11.73%) Mentoring
14 44 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 33 (8.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 173 (46.13%) Python
2 109 (29.07%) SQL
3 65 (17.33%) Java
4 50 (13.33%) C#
5 44 (11.73%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.93%) TypeScript
7 40 (10.67%) JavaScript
8 39 (10.40%) Bash
9 35 (9.33%) Bicep
10 22 (5.87%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.40%) Go
12 8 (2.13%) Ruby
13 6 (1.60%) Scala
14 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.80%) Swift
16 2 (0.53%) XPath
17 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 116 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.13%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.47%) Degree
5 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.20%) QA
2 24 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.60%) NIST
6 5 (1.33%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.53%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (40.27%) Docker
2 9 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 219 (58.40%) Terraform
2 163 (43.47%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.93%) Ansible
3 41 (10.93%) Prometheus
4 39 (10.40%) Grafana
5 14 (3.73%) Argo
6 10 (2.67%) Istio
7 8 (2.13%) Kibana
7 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.13%) Puppet
8 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.53%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.27%) linkerd
10 1 (0.27%) Packer
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.07%) Databricks
3 24 (6.40%) Google
4 14 (3.73%) Splunk
5 13 (3.47%) Oracle
6 10 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.40%) New Relic
7 9 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.13%) SAP
9 7 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.60%) Foundry
11 5 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.33%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.07%) Confluent
12 4 (1.07%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.07%) Sybase
13 3 (0.80%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.80%) Palantir
13 3 (0.80%) Workday
14 2 (0.53%) VMware