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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 221 314
Rank change year-on-year +93 +93 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 398 139 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.12% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 2.60% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 85 61
10th Percentile £403 £418 £413
25th Percentile £454 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £625 £775 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.02%
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 7,961 5,341 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.99% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 3,627 5,108
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +10 49 £588 +2.17% 4
West London -16 9 £530 -6.19% 4
South London - 5 £445 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 3
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 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.02%) Confluence
4 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.01%) Apache
5 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) 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
1 398 (100.00%) GitHub
2 216 (54.27%) AWS
3 210 (52.76%) Azure
4 141 (35.43%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (19.10%) Serverless
6 62 (15.58%) Amazon S3
6 62 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (13.32%) GCP
8 51 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (11.06%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (10.55%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (10.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (9.30%) Azure AKS
14 28 (7.04%) AWS CodePipeline
14 28 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (6.03%) Power Platform
17 23 (5.78%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.53%) Firewall
2 20 (5.03%) Network Security
3 16 (4.02%) DNS
4 15 (3.77%) VPN
5 4 (1.01%) 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 31 (7.79%) Data Lake
1 31 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.53%) Delta Lake
5 19 (4.77%) Redis
6 18 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.52%) Power BI
7 16 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (2.51%) Big Data
11 10 (2.51%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.01%) Metadata
12 8 (2.01%) MySQL
13 7 (1.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 141 (35.43%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.62%) GitLab
3 51 (12.81%) Git
4 27 (6.78%) JUnit
5 22 (5.53%) JIRA
6 18 (4.52%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.52%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.77%) MLflow
7 15 (3.77%) Mockito
8 14 (3.52%) Gradle
9 13 (3.27%) Selenium
10 12 (3.02%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.76%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.26%) JMeter
12 9 (2.26%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.26%) Snyk
13 8 (2.01%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.76%) Gatling
14 7 (1.76%) Postman
15 5 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 77 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.58%) Finance
3 48 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.78%) Banking
6 12 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.76%) Law
7 11 (2.76%) Retail
8 7 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.75%) Front Office
10 3 (0.75%) Legal
10 3 (0.75%) Local Government
10 3 (0.75%) Military
10 3 (0.75%) Police
11 2 (0.50%) Marketing
11 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 81 (20.35%) Senior
2 71 (17.84%) Developer
3 65 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (12.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.30%) Data Engineer
6 31 (7.79%) Architect
6 31 (7.79%) Lead
7 29 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (6.03%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.28%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.52%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.02%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.59%) Kafka
2 65 (16.33%) REST
3 52 (13.07%) RESTful
4 43 (10.80%) Spring
4 43 (10.80%) Spring Boot
5 41 (10.30%) React
6 33 (8.29%) PySpark
7 29 (7.29%) .NET
8 21 (5.28%) FastAPI
9 20 (5.03%) Pandas
9 20 (5.03%) Playwright
10 19 (4.77%) OAuth
11 17 (4.27%) OAuth2
12 16 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (3.77%) .NET Framework
13 15 (3.77%) Node.js
14 14 (3.52%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.52%) Flask
15 13 (3.27%) AngularJS
15 13 (3.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 95 (23.87%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.81%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.01%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.01%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.75%) NHS
11 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.50%) IoT
11 2 (0.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.79%) Linux
2 20 (5.03%) Windows
3 15 (3.77%) Unix
4 8 (2.01%) Android
5 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.51%) VMS
6 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (89.70%) CI/CD
2 257 (64.57%) DevOps
3 199 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (33.17%) Agile
5 113 (28.39%) Containerisation
6 104 (26.13%) Observability
7 89 (22.36%) Test Automation
8 87 (21.86%) Microservices
9 80 (20.10%) Platform Engineering
10 63 (15.83%) Analytics
11 59 (14.82%) AI
12 56 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (13.82%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (13.32%) Event-Driven
15 52 (13.07%) Data Engineering
16 51 (12.81%) Mentoring
17 47 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 42 (10.55%) Software Engineering
19 41 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 182 (45.73%) Python
2 115 (28.89%) SQL
3 72 (18.09%) Java
4 50 (12.56%) PowerShell
5 48 (12.06%) Bash
6 47 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 46 (11.56%) C#
8 41 (10.30%) Bicep
9 39 (9.80%) JavaScript
10 21 (5.28%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.26%) Go
13 7 (1.76%) Ruby
14 6 (1.51%) Swift
15 5 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.26%) Scala
16 4 (1.01%) Objective-C
16 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 129 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 118 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.53%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.52%) Degree
5 12 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.25%) PMP
12 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.81%) QA
2 26 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.26%) NIST
5 8 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.51%) GDPR
7 5 (1.26%) WCAG
8 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.75%) PSD2
9 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.50%) SEPA
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 155 (38.94%) Docker
2 11 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.26%) 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
1 231 (58.04%) Terraform
2 168 (42.21%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.32%) Prometheus
4 50 (12.56%) Grafana
5 40 (10.05%) Ansible
6 9 (2.26%) Argo
7 8 (2.01%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.01%) Puppet
8 6 (1.51%) Istio
9 5 (1.26%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.25%) linkerd
11 1 (0.25%) Nagios
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.54%) Databricks
3 18 (4.52%) Google
4 16 (4.02%) Splunk
5 13 (3.27%) Oracle
6 11 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.26%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.01%) New Relic
9 6 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.51%) Foundry
9 6 (1.51%) SAP
10 5 (1.26%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) Sybase
11 4 (1.01%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.01%) Palantir
12 3 (0.75%) Checkmarx
12 3 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.75%) VMware