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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 220 301
Rank change year-on-year +92 +81 +34
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 402 137 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.12% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 2.60% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 84 62
10th Percentile £401 £432 £414
25th Percentile £455 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +3.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £799 £650
90th Percentile £688 £850 £758
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 7,935 5,269 6,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.14% 43.02% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,566 5,088
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £426 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.60 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -50.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £72.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%

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 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 12 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 +9 49 £600 +4.35% 7
West London -15 9 £530 -6.19% 3
South London - 5 £445 -
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 33 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.49%) Confluence
4 9 (2.24%) Apache
5 8 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) 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
1 402 (100.00%) GitHub
2 217 (53.98%) AWS
3 207 (51.49%) Azure
4 137 (34.08%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (18.91%) Serverless
6 64 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
7 62 (15.42%) Amazon S3
8 58 (14.43%) GCP
9 52 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (11.44%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
14 37 (9.20%) Azure AKS
15 30 (7.46%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (5.72%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.22%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.72%) Firewall
2 16 (3.98%) DNS
2 16 (3.98%) Network Security
3 13 (3.23%) VPN
4 3 (0.75%) Internet
5 2 (0.50%) DSL
5 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 2 (0.50%) WAN
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.46%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.22%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.22%) Delta Lake
5 20 (4.98%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (4.23%) Power BI
7 17 (4.23%) Redis
8 16 (3.98%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.23%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.99%) Big Data
12 10 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.99%) Metadata
13 8 (1.99%) MySQL
14 7 (1.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 143 (35.57%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.38%) GitLab
3 51 (12.69%) Git
4 26 (6.47%) JUnit
5 19 (4.73%) JIRA
6 18 (4.48%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.73%) MLflow
7 15 (3.73%) Mockito
8 14 (3.48%) Gradle
9 13 (3.23%) Selenium
10 12 (2.99%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 10 (2.49%) JMeter
13 9 (2.24%) REST Assured
13 9 (2.24%) Snyk
14 8 (1.99%) Gatling
15 7 (1.74%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.74%) Postman
16 5 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 77 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.42%) Finance
3 41 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.47%) Banking
6 15 (3.73%) Retail
7 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.49%) Law
9 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.00%) Front Office
12 3 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Military
12 3 (0.75%) Police
13 2 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Billing
14 1 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (19.65%) Senior
2 71 (17.66%) Developer
3 65 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (12.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.21%) Lead
7 29 (7.21%) Architect
8 27 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.72%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.98%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.48%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (2.99%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.16%) Kafka
2 63 (15.67%) REST
3 49 (12.19%) RESTful
4 46 (11.44%) React
4 46 (11.44%) Spring
4 46 (11.44%) Spring Boot
5 34 (8.46%) PySpark
6 30 (7.46%) .NET
7 20 (4.98%) Pandas
7 20 (4.98%) Playwright
8 19 (4.73%) FastAPI
8 19 (4.73%) Node.js
8 19 (4.73%) OAuth
8 19 (4.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.23%) OAuth2
10 16 (3.98%) AWS CDK
11 15 (3.73%) .NET Framework
12 12 (2.99%) Flask
12 12 (2.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 94 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 8 (1.99%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.50%) IoT
11 2 (0.50%) IVR
11 2 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.96%) Linux
2 20 (4.98%) Windows
3 15 (3.73%) Unix
4 8 (1.99%) Android
4 8 (1.99%) VMS
5 7 (1.74%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (89.30%) CI/CD
2 257 (63.93%) DevOps
3 202 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (31.59%) Agile
5 111 (27.61%) Containerisation
6 108 (26.87%) Observability
7 85 (21.14%) Microservices
8 84 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 77 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (16.17%) AI
11 60 (14.93%) Analytics
12 56 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 53 (13.18%) Data Engineering
16 51 (12.69%) Mentoring
17 49 (12.19%) Event-Driven
18 46 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
19 42 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
19 42 (10.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 184 (45.77%) Python
2 113 (28.11%) SQL
3 72 (17.91%) Java
4 49 (12.19%) PowerShell
5 48 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 47 (11.69%) Bash
6 47 (11.69%) C#
7 40 (9.95%) JavaScript
8 37 (9.20%) Bicep
9 23 (5.72%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.49%) Go
10 10 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.74%) Ruby
12 6 (1.49%) Scala
12 6 (1.49%) Swift
13 5 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 128 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 117 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.22%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.23%) Degree
5 12 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.50%) 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 50 (12.44%) QA
2 26 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.99%) NIST
4 8 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (39.05%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 236 (58.71%) Terraform
2 169 (42.04%) Kubernetes
3 52 (12.94%) Prometheus
4 50 (12.44%) Grafana
5 44 (10.95%) Ansible
6 13 (3.23%) Argo
7 10 (2.49%) Istio
8 8 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.99%) Puppet
9 6 (1.49%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.25%) Karpenter
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 59 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.46%) Databricks
3 24 (5.97%) Google
4 16 (3.98%) Splunk
5 13 (3.23%) Oracle
6 10 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.24%) New Relic
7 9 (2.24%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.74%) Foundry
9 6 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.49%) SAP
10 5 (1.24%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.24%) Sybase
11 4 (1.00%) Confluent
11 4 (1.00%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.00%) Palantir
12 3 (0.75%) Checkmarx
12 3 (0.75%) OpenLink