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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 182 305
Rank change year-on-year +52 +123 +52
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 437 204 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.18% 1.51% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.25% 3.51% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 128 59
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £601 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +0.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £660
90th Percentile £675 £850 £742
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -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 8,326 5,819 6,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 43.01% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,668 3,979 4,777
10th Percentile £363 £336 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 52
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.95 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.12 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £77.11 £72.68 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
% change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%

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 14 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 14 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 +7 55 £588 -6.00% 16
South London +2 12 £495 +10.00% 5
West London -9 9 £650 +15.04% 8
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 31 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.49%) Confluence
3 13 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.29%) Apache
6 7 (1.60%) 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
2 3 (0.69%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
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
1 437 (100.00%) GitHub
2 262 (59.95%) Azure
3 238 (54.46%) AWS
4 167 (38.22%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (15.33%) GCP
6 65 (14.87%) Amazon S3
6 65 (14.87%) Serverless
7 56 (12.81%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (12.13%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (11.67%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (10.07%) Azure AKS
11 43 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (8.01%) Entra ID
15 33 (7.55%) Snowflake
16 32 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 28 (6.41%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.81%) VPN
2 17 (3.89%) DNS
2 17 (3.89%) Firewall
3 12 (2.75%) Network Security
4 5 (1.14%) 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 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.49%) SQL Server
5 23 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 23 (5.26%) Power BI
6 20 (4.58%) Redis
7 19 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 18 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.20%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.97%) Metadata
12 11 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (2.52%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.83%) Big Data
16 7 (1.60%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 166 (37.99%) Jenkins
2 120 (27.46%) GitLab
3 58 (13.27%) Git
4 27 (6.18%) JIRA
5 26 (5.95%) JUnit
6 25 (5.72%) Selenium
7 23 (5.26%) CircleCI
8 18 (4.12%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.43%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.97%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.97%) Gradle
11 12 (2.75%) Mockito
11 12 (2.75%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.52%) MLflow
13 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
14 9 (2.06%) JMeter
14 9 (2.06%) Snyk
15 8 (1.83%) Postman
16 7 (1.60%) TestNG
16 7 (1.60%) XCUITest
General
1 87 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.99%) Finance
3 62 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.41%) Banking
6 13 (2.97%) Retail
7 12 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.75%) Law
8 8 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Back Office
12 3 (0.69%) Billing
12 3 (0.69%) Front Office
12 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.69%) Police
12 3 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (20.82%) Senior
2 79 (18.08%) Developer
3 78 (17.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.61%) Lead
5 40 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (6.64%) Architect
8 29 (6.64%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.72%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.81%) Java Developer
13 17 (3.89%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (17.62%) REST
2 68 (15.56%) Kafka
3 56 (12.81%) RESTful
4 41 (9.38%) Spring
5 40 (9.15%) React
6 37 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 33 (7.55%) .NET
8 27 (6.18%) PySpark
9 25 (5.72%) Playwright
10 23 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.43%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.43%) Flask
11 15 (3.43%) Node.js
12 14 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.97%) OAuth
13 13 (2.97%) Pandas
14 12 (2.75%) AngularJS
14 12 (2.75%) OAuth2
14 12 (2.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.29%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.06%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.69%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.61%) Linux
2 18 (4.12%) Windows
3 16 (3.66%) Unix
4 11 (2.52%) Android
4 11 (2.52%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 291 (66.59%) DevOps
3 225 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (35.93%) Agile
5 130 (29.75%) Containerisation
6 118 (27.00%) Test Automation
7 112 (25.63%) Observability
8 97 (22.20%) Microservices
9 79 (18.08%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (16.02%) AI
11 62 (14.19%) Event-Driven
12 60 (13.73%) Software Engineering
13 57 (13.04%) Analytics
14 56 (12.81%) Data Pipeline
15 54 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (11.67%) DevSecOps
17 50 (11.44%) Mentoring
18 48 (10.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 46 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
20 44 (10.07%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (46.91%) Python
2 116 (26.54%) SQL
3 82 (18.76%) Java
4 74 (16.93%) Bash
5 63 (14.42%) PowerShell
6 54 (12.36%) TypeScript
7 51 (11.67%) C#
8 44 (10.07%) Bicep
8 44 (10.07%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.81%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.66%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.97%) Go
12 9 (2.06%) Ruby
12 9 (2.06%) Swift
13 7 (1.60%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.14%) Groovy
15 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (38.44%) Security Cleared
2 157 (35.93%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.78%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.20%) Degree
5 13 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
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 59 (13.50%) QA
2 25 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.14%) 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
1 183 (41.88%) Docker
2 13 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 250 (57.21%) Terraform
2 200 (45.77%) Kubernetes
3 71 (16.25%) Grafana
4 64 (14.65%) Prometheus
5 41 (9.38%) Ansible
6 19 (4.35%) Argo
7 8 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.83%) Puppet
8 4 (0.92%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.69%) Istio
9 3 (0.69%) Packer
9 3 (0.69%) SELinux
9 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.23%) Cilium
11 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 74 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.84%) Databricks
3 23 (5.26%) Splunk
4 20 (4.58%) Google
5 17 (3.89%) Oracle
6 16 (3.66%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.29%) New Relic
10 8 (1.83%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.83%) Foundry
11 7 (1.60%) SAP
12 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.37%) VMware
13 5 (1.14%) Checkmarx
14 4 (0.92%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.92%) Confluent
14 4 (0.92%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.92%) Palantir