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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 152 287
Rank change year-on-year +22 +135 +70
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 449 247 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 1.85% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 4.25% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 166 67
10th Percentile £376 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £447 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £684 £813 £729
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,236 5,809 6,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.89% 43.46% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,958 4,674
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +7 55 £588 -9.41% 32
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 5 £738 - 9
East London - 1 - - 4
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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 24 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.90%) Confluence
3 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.34%) Apache
6 4 (0.89%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.45%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Trello
2 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 449 (100.00%) GitHub
2 260 (57.91%) Azure
3 246 (54.79%) AWS
4 161 (35.86%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (17.15%) GCP
6 75 (16.70%) Amazon S3
6 75 (16.70%) Serverless
7 70 (15.59%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (10.91%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (10.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (9.80%) Azure AKS
12 39 (8.69%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (8.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (8.69%) Snowflake
13 35 (7.80%) Entra ID
14 34 (7.57%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (6.90%) Power Platform
16 24 (5.35%) dbt
17 22 (4.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.90%) DNS
2 20 (4.45%) VPN
3 16 (3.56%) Firewall
4 11 (2.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.89%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.67%) SSH
6 3 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.35%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.01%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.57%) Power BI
5 24 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.68%) Redis
7 20 (4.45%) SQL Server
8 19 (4.23%) Data Lake
9 18 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (3.56%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.12%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.12%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.45%) Metadata
13 10 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.78%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 168 (37.42%) Jenkins
2 118 (26.28%) GitLab
3 68 (15.14%) Git
4 25 (5.57%) Selenium
5 24 (5.35%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.35%) JIRA
6 22 (4.90%) JUnit
7 20 (4.45%) SonarQube
8 16 (3.56%) Bitbucket
8 16 (3.56%) Gradle
9 15 (3.34%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.90%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.67%) JMeter
12 11 (2.45%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.23%) Mockito
14 9 (2.00%) Postman
15 8 (1.78%) Snyk
16 7 (1.56%) Maven
16 7 (1.56%) Terragrunt
16 7 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 91 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 90 (20.04%) Finance
3 58 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.01%) Banking
6 16 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.56%) Retail
7 12 (2.67%) Law
8 7 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.34%) Back Office
9 6 (1.34%) Marketing
10 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.11%) Local Government
11 4 (0.89%) Front Office
11 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Legal
12 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.67%) Police
12 3 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (23.16%) Senior
2 83 (18.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (16.70%) Developer
4 44 (9.80%) Lead
5 39 (8.69%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
7 35 (7.80%) Architect
8 31 (6.90%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.45%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.45%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.23%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.01%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.79%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (57.68%) Terraform
2 84 (18.71%) REST
3 69 (15.37%) Kafka
4 61 (13.59%) RESTful
5 42 (9.35%) Spring
6 40 (8.91%) React
7 38 (8.46%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.68%) .NET
9 27 (6.01%) PySpark
10 26 (5.79%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.35%) Playwright
12 20 (4.45%) OAuth
13 19 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (4.01%) Node.js
15 17 (3.79%) Flask
15 17 (3.79%) pytest
16 16 (3.56%) OAuth2
17 15 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (3.34%) Loki
18 14 (3.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 110 (24.50%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.12%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.56%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.69%) Linux
2 19 (4.23%) Windows
3 11 (2.45%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.45%) Unix
4 9 (2.00%) Android
5 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (90.87%) CI/CD
2 307 (68.37%) DevOps
3 237 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (35.63%) Agile
5 126 (28.06%) Containerisation
6 125 (27.84%) Observability
7 119 (26.50%) Test Automation
8 97 (21.60%) Microservices
9 93 (20.71%) AI
10 76 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (16.48%) Software Engineering
12 70 (15.59%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (12.03%) DevSecOps
14 54 (12.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 53 (11.80%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (11.58%) Scrum
16 52 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (11.36%) Analytics
17 51 (11.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 229 (51.00%) Python
2 110 (24.50%) SQL
3 85 (18.93%) Java
4 83 (18.49%) Bash
5 57 (12.69%) PowerShell
5 57 (12.69%) TypeScript
6 45 (10.02%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.80%) Bicep
8 43 (9.58%) C#
9 19 (4.23%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.56%) Go
10 16 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.23%) Swift
12 9 (2.00%) Objective-C
13 8 (1.78%) Ruby
14 5 (1.11%) Groovy
15 4 (0.89%) C
15 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.89%) Scala
16 3 (0.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 172 (38.31%) Security Cleared
2 162 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.57%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.90%) Degree
5 13 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) CCNA
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.59%) QA
2 33 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.78%) NIST
5 7 (1.56%) GDPR
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.89%) WCAG
7 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 190 (42.32%) Docker
2 14 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 210 (46.77%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.82%) Grafana
3 71 (15.81%) Prometheus
4 51 (11.36%) Ansible
5 22 (4.90%) Argo
6 8 (1.78%) Puppet
7 7 (1.56%) Karpenter
7 7 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.89%) Cilium
8 4 (0.89%) Kibana
9 3 (0.67%) SELinux
9 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) Istio
10 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.45%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.24%) Databricks
3 26 (5.79%) Google
4 23 (5.12%) Splunk
5 22 (4.90%) Oracle
6 20 (4.45%) Dynatrace
7 18 (4.01%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.45%) New Relic
8 11 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.23%) Foundry
10 9 (2.00%) VMware
11 8 (1.78%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.78%) SAP
12 7 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.11%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.11%) IBM
14 5 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.89%) Confluent
15 4 (0.89%) Okta