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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 203 309
Rank change year-on-year +71 +106 +46
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 151 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.17% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 2.73% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 89 59
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £650
90th Percentile £674 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
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 £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -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 8,074 5,525 6,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.90% 42.86% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,553 3,740 5,097
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 75 66
10th Percentile £20.61 £22.70 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.08 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.11 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 July 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 July 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 +18 50 £581 +1.09% 27
West London -10 8 £530 -6.19% 8
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 4
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 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.00%) Confluence
4 9 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.00%) Apache
5 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Findur
2 3 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 221 (55.25%) AWS
3 213 (53.25%) Azure
4 141 (35.25%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (18.00%) Serverless
6 63 (15.75%) Amazon S3
7 58 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (12.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (12.25%) GCP
10 45 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (10.50%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (8.75%) Azure AKS
15 28 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (7.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 26 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (6.25%) Entra ID
18 23 (5.75%) Power Platform
19 21 (5.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.50%) Firewall
2 17 (4.25%) Network Security
3 16 (4.00%) VPN
4 14 (3.50%) DNS
5 5 (1.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.25%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.00%) Delta Lake
6 19 (4.75%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (4.25%) Power BI
8 15 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 15 (3.75%) Redis
9 14 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.50%) Big Data
13 9 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.25%) Metadata
14 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 143 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 97 (24.25%) GitLab
3 51 (12.75%) Git
4 28 (7.00%) JUnit
5 24 (6.00%) JIRA
6 19 (4.75%) CircleCI
7 17 (4.25%) Cypress.io
7 17 (4.25%) Selenium
8 15 (3.75%) MLflow
8 15 (3.75%) Mockito
9 14 (3.50%) Gradle
10 12 (3.00%) Cucumber
10 12 (3.00%) REST Assured
11 11 (2.75%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.25%) JMeter
13 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.00%) Snyk
14 7 (1.75%) Postman
15 6 (1.50%) Gatling
15 6 (1.50%) Maven
General
1 80 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.25%) Finance
3 51 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.25%) Banking
6 12 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.00%) Retail
7 11 (2.75%) Law
8 8 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Legal
11 3 (0.75%) Local Government
11 3 (0.75%) Marketing
11 3 (0.75%) Police
12 2 (0.50%) Military
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (20.50%) Senior
2 73 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (17.75%) Developer
4 46 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.50%) Data Engineer
6 31 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (7.75%) Lead
7 30 (7.50%) Architect
8 28 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.50%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.50%) Test Engineer
13 13 (3.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.00%) Kafka
2 62 (15.50%) REST
3 50 (12.50%) RESTful
4 39 (9.75%) Spring
4 39 (9.75%) Spring Boot
5 38 (9.50%) React
6 31 (7.75%) PySpark
7 29 (7.25%) .NET
8 22 (5.50%) Playwright
9 19 (4.75%) FastAPI
10 18 (4.50%) Pandas
11 16 (4.00%) OAuth
12 15 (3.75%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.50%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.50%) Node.js
13 14 (3.50%) OAuth2
14 13 (3.25%) AngularJS
14 13 (3.25%) Flask
15 12 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 100 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.75%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.25%) Hedge funds
5 9 (2.25%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.75%) NHS
12 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.50%) IoT
12 2 (0.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.50%) Linux
2 21 (5.25%) Windows
3 16 (4.00%) Unix
4 8 (2.00%) Android
4 8 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (89.50%) CI/CD
2 260 (65.00%) DevOps
3 200 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (34.00%) Agile
5 117 (29.25%) Containerisation
6 99 (24.75%) Observability
7 95 (23.75%) Test Automation
8 84 (21.00%) Microservices
9 81 (20.25%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (15.50%) Analytics
11 57 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (13.75%) AI
13 53 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
14 51 (12.75%) Event-Driven
15 50 (12.50%) Mentoring
16 48 (12.00%) Data Engineering
17 45 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (10.75%) Software Engineering
19 41 (10.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 38 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 179 (44.75%) Python
2 113 (28.25%) SQL
3 73 (18.25%) Java
4 54 (13.50%) PowerShell
5 52 (13.00%) Bash
6 48 (12.00%) C#
7 46 (11.50%) TypeScript
8 40 (10.00%) Bicep
9 39 (9.75%) JavaScript
10 22 (5.50%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.50%) Go
11 10 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.25%) Ruby
13 7 (1.75%) Swift
14 5 (1.25%) Groovy
14 5 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.25%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.25%) Scala
15 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 139 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 129 (32.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.25%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.75%) Degree
5 10 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMP
10 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.75%) QA
2 25 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.50%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.00%) WCAG
7 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.50%) PSD2
8 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 160 (40.00%) Docker
2 11 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 232 (58.00%) Terraform
2 173 (43.25%) Kubernetes
3 54 (13.50%) Prometheus
4 51 (12.75%) Grafana
5 36 (9.00%) Ansible
6 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.00%) Puppet
7 7 (1.75%) Argo
8 5 (1.25%) Kibana
9 4 (1.00%) Istio
10 3 (0.75%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.50%) Packer
12 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.25%) Databricks
3 19 (4.75%) Splunk
4 14 (3.50%) Google
4 14 (3.50%) Oracle
5 11 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.25%) New Relic
7 9 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.50%) Foundry
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.25%) Sybase
11 4 (1.00%) Checkmarx
11 4 (1.00%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.00%) Palantir
12 3 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.75%) Zscaler