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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 167 300
Rank change year-on-year +34 +133 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 440 221 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 1.66% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 3.85% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 140 57
10th Percentile £385 £396 £425
25th Percentile £450 £477 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £626 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £816 £725
England median daily rate £519 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -5.64% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 8,267 5,739 6,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.23% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,926 4,744
10th Percentile £360 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 53
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 2 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 2 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 +5 49 £600 -4.95% 18
South London -2 13 £488 +8.33% 2
West London -7 9 £650 +15.04% 12
East London - 2 £432 - 4
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 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.68%) Confluence
3 13 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.27%) Apache
5 9 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.91%) nginx
6 4 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.45%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Trello
2 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.68%) Findur
3 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 440 (100.00%) GitHub
2 257 (58.41%) Azure
3 240 (54.55%) AWS
4 165 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (17.05%) Serverless
6 68 (15.45%) Amazon S3
6 68 (15.45%) GCP
7 58 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
8 57 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (10.00%) Azure AKS
11 43 (9.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (8.41%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (7.73%) Snowflake
15 32 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (7.27%) Entra ID
16 30 (6.82%) Power Platform
17 25 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.77%) VPN
2 18 (4.09%) DNS
2 18 (4.09%) Firewall
3 11 (2.50%) Network Security
4 4 (0.91%) Internet
5 3 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.68%) SSH
5 3 (0.68%) SSL
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.45%) HTTP
6 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) DHCP
7 1 (0.23%) DSL
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
7 1 (0.23%) VLAN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.36%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.14%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.68%) Power BI
5 22 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.77%) Data Lake
6 21 (4.77%) Redis
7 20 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.09%) Delta Lake
8 18 (4.09%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.18%) Metadata
11 13 (2.95%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.82%) Big Data
14 8 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 166 (37.73%) Jenkins
2 119 (27.05%) GitLab
3 63 (14.32%) Git
4 27 (6.14%) JIRA
5 25 (5.68%) Selenium
6 24 (5.45%) CircleCI
7 22 (5.00%) JUnit
8 18 (4.09%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.18%) Gradle
10 13 (2.95%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.95%) SonarQube
11 12 (2.73%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.50%) Cucumber
13 10 (2.27%) JMeter
14 9 (2.05%) Mockito
14 9 (2.05%) Postman
15 8 (1.82%) MLflow
15 8 (1.82%) Snyk
15 8 (1.82%) XCUITest
16 7 (1.59%) XCTest
General
1 87 (19.77%) Finance
1 87 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.18%) Public Sector
3 35 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.59%) Banking
5 14 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.73%) Law
6 12 (2.73%) Retail
7 7 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.14%) Marketing
10 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.91%) Local Government
11 3 (0.68%) Back Office
11 3 (0.68%) Billing
11 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.68%) Police
11 3 (0.68%) Publishing
12 2 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (21.82%) Senior
2 79 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (17.50%) Developer
4 43 (9.77%) Lead
5 37 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.27%) Architect
8 29 (6.59%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.23%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.09%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.18%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (57.95%) Terraform
2 78 (17.73%) REST
3 67 (15.23%) Kafka
4 61 (13.86%) RESTful
5 43 (9.77%) React
6 39 (8.86%) Spring
7 35 (7.95%) Spring Boot
8 32 (7.27%) .NET
9 29 (6.59%) PySpark
10 24 (5.45%) FastAPI
10 24 (5.45%) Playwright
11 19 (4.32%) Node.js
11 19 (4.32%) OAuth
12 17 (3.86%) Flask
12 17 (3.86%) OAuth2
13 15 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (3.41%) YAML
14 14 (3.18%) Loki
14 14 (3.18%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 110 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 51 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.18%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.82%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.68%) Linux
2 17 (3.86%) Unix
3 15 (3.41%) Windows
4 12 (2.73%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.27%) Android
6 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (91.82%) CI/CD
2 295 (67.05%) DevOps
3 231 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (37.95%) Agile
5 129 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 121 (27.50%) Test Automation
7 116 (26.36%) Observability
8 95 (21.59%) Microservices
9 78 (17.73%) Platform Engineering
10 76 (17.27%) AI
11 66 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 64 (14.55%) Software Engineering
13 54 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (12.27%) DevSecOps
14 53 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
15 52 (11.82%) Mentoring
16 50 (11.36%) Analytics
16 50 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
18 47 (10.68%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 229 (52.05%) Python
2 114 (25.91%) SQL
3 85 (19.32%) Java
4 82 (18.64%) Bash
5 58 (13.18%) TypeScript
6 57 (12.95%) PowerShell
7 46 (10.45%) Bicep
7 46 (10.45%) JavaScript
8 43 (9.77%) C#
9 22 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 18 (4.09%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.41%) Go
12 11 (2.50%) Swift
13 9 (2.05%) Objective-C
13 9 (2.05%) Ruby
14 5 (1.14%) Groovy
15 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.68%) Scala
17 2 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 159 (36.14%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.18%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.41%) Degree
5 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) CCNP
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.32%) QA
2 30 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.82%) NIST
5 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.36%) GDPR
7 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.91%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.91%) WCAG
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 191 (43.41%) Docker
2 14 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 200 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 77 (17.50%) Grafana
3 69 (15.68%) Prometheus
4 45 (10.23%) Ansible
5 22 (5.00%) Argo
6 8 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (0.91%) Karpenter
7 4 (0.91%) Kibana
8 3 (0.68%) Cilium
8 3 (0.68%) Istio
8 3 (0.68%) Packer
8 3 (0.68%) SELinux
8 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 76 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.68%) Databricks
3 26 (5.91%) Splunk
4 23 (5.23%) Google
5 20 (4.55%) Oracle
6 17 (3.86%) Dynatrace
7 15 (3.41%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.27%) New Relic
10 9 (2.05%) Foundry
11 8 (1.82%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.59%) VMware
13 6 (1.36%) Checkmarx
13 6 (1.36%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.14%) SAP
15 4 (0.91%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.91%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.91%) Palantir