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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 162 301
Rank change year-on-year +31 +139 +49
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 464 231 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 1.71% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.55% 3.96% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 150 58
10th Percentile £382 £361 £425
25th Percentile £448 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £692 £650
90th Percentile £675 £814 £728
England median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 -
% 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 8,363 5,830 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.14% 43.21% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,714 3,966 4,714
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 48
10th Percentile £18.30 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.38 £30.88
% change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%

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 12 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 12 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 +8 51 £594 -6.64% 31
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 9 £650 - 11
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 (6.68%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.39%) Confluence
3 10 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.72%) Apache
6 4 (0.86%) nginx
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.43%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Trello
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.65%) Findur
2 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.43%) 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
1 464 (100.00%) GitHub
2 264 (56.90%) Azure
3 253 (54.53%) AWS
4 169 (36.42%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (17.03%) Serverless
6 76 (16.38%) Amazon S3
7 72 (15.52%) GCP
8 66 (14.22%) Amazon EKS
9 61 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
11 47 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (9.91%) Azure AKS
13 41 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (8.41%) Snowflake
15 38 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (6.90%) Entra ID
17 31 (6.68%) Power Platform
18 25 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (5.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.31%) DNS
1 20 (4.31%) VPN
2 16 (3.45%) Firewall
3 12 (2.59%) Network Security
4 4 (0.86%) Internet
5 3 (0.65%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.65%) SSH
5 3 (0.65%) SSL
5 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.43%) DHCP
6 2 (0.43%) HTTP
6 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.43%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.22%) DSL
7 1 (0.22%) INAP
7 1 (0.22%) NFC
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.39%) Power BI
5 24 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (4.74%) Data Lake
7 21 (4.53%) Redis
8 19 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.88%) Delta Lake
10 17 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (3.66%) DynamoDB
11 16 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (2.80%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.80%) Metadata
13 11 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.51%) Big Data
16 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 174 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 122 (26.29%) GitLab
3 72 (15.52%) Git
4 27 (5.82%) JIRA
5 24 (5.17%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.17%) Selenium
6 22 (4.74%) JUnit
7 19 (4.09%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.66%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.23%) Gradle
10 14 (3.02%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.59%) Cucumber
12 11 (2.37%) JMeter
12 11 (2.37%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.94%) Mockito
14 8 (1.72%) Postman
14 8 (1.72%) Snyk
15 7 (1.51%) MLflow
15 7 (1.51%) XCTest
15 7 (1.51%) XCUITest
General
1 95 (20.47%) Finance
1 95 (20.47%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.72%) Public Sector
3 42 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.82%) Banking
5 16 (3.45%) Retail
6 15 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.59%) Law
8 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.29%) Marketing
9 6 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.86%) Back Office
11 4 (0.86%) Front Office
11 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.86%) Local Government
12 3 (0.65%) Billing
12 3 (0.65%) Legal
12 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 105 (22.63%) Senior
2 87 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (16.59%) Developer
4 45 (9.70%) Lead
5 38 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.33%) Architect
8 33 (7.11%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.88%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (57.11%) Terraform
2 81 (17.46%) REST
3 68 (14.66%) Kafka
4 62 (13.36%) RESTful
5 42 (9.05%) React
6 41 (8.84%) Spring
7 37 (7.97%) Spring Boot
8 31 (6.68%) .NET
9 30 (6.47%) PySpark
10 27 (5.82%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.17%) Playwright
12 19 (4.09%) OAuth
13 18 (3.88%) Flask
13 18 (3.88%) Node.js
14 16 (3.45%) OAuth2
14 16 (3.45%) pytest
14 16 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (3.23%) Loki
15 15 (3.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 114 (24.57%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.80%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.72%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (11.42%) Linux
2 18 (3.88%) Windows
3 16 (3.45%) Unix
4 11 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.94%) Android
6 7 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (91.16%) CI/CD
2 315 (67.89%) DevOps
3 242 (52.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (36.42%) Agile
5 132 (28.45%) Containerisation
6 126 (27.16%) Test Automation
7 125 (26.94%) Observability
8 99 (21.34%) Microservices
9 87 (18.75%) AI
10 80 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (15.95%) Software Engineering
12 70 (15.09%) Event-Driven
13 59 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (12.72%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (12.07%) DevSecOps
15 54 (11.64%) Analytics
15 54 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 54 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (10.99%) Scrum
16 51 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (52.16%) Python
2 120 (25.86%) SQL
3 90 (19.40%) Bash
4 85 (18.32%) Java
5 61 (13.15%) PowerShell
6 59 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 47 (10.13%) JavaScript
8 45 (9.70%) Bicep
9 44 (9.48%) C#
10 21 (4.53%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.88%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.23%) Go
13 10 (2.16%) Swift
14 9 (1.94%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.94%) Ruby
15 5 (1.08%) Groovy
16 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.86%) Scala
17 3 (0.65%) ABAP
17 3 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 179 (38.58%) Security Cleared
2 168 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.97%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.45%) Degree
6 13 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.22%) CCNA
14 1 (0.22%) CCNP
14 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.30%) QA
2 35 (7.54%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.72%) NIST
5 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.29%) GDPR
7 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.86%) WCAG
8 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 200 (43.10%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 212 (45.69%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.24%) Grafana
3 72 (15.52%) Prometheus
4 54 (11.64%) Ansible
5 22 (4.74%) Argo
6 10 (2.16%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.16%) Puppet
7 7 (1.51%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.86%) Cilium
8 4 (0.86%) Kibana
9 3 (0.65%) SELinux
9 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.43%) Istio
10 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.43%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 76 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.56%) Databricks
3 26 (5.60%) Google
4 25 (5.39%) Splunk
5 21 (4.53%) Oracle
6 19 (4.09%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.66%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.16%) Foundry
9 10 (2.16%) New Relic
10 8 (1.72%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.72%) SAP
10 8 (1.72%) VMware
11 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.08%) Checkmarx
12 5 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.86%) Confluent
13 4 (0.86%) Okta
14 3 (0.65%) PagerDuty