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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 226 302
Rank change year-on-year +94 +76 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 368 133 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.07% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 2.51% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 91 57
10th Percentile £392 £447 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +6.05% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £729 £650
90th Percentile £713 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 £74.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -37.04% +15.71%

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 7,542 5,295 6,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.48% 42.42% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,206 3,671 4,992
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.58 £17.63
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% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 May 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 May 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 +11 47 £600 +6.43% 24
West London -14 13 £605 +7.08% 5
South London - 8 £500 - 1
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 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.43%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.45%) Apache
4 7 (1.90%) Confluence
4 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) GitHub
2 198 (53.80%) AWS
2 198 (53.80%) Azure
3 127 (34.51%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (20.11%) Serverless
5 64 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (14.95%) GCP
7 54 (14.67%) Amazon S3
8 48 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (10.05%) Azure AKS
10 37 (10.05%) Azure Monitor
11 36 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (8.97%) AWS CodePipeline
12 33 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 29 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (6.25%) Power Platform
15 21 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
16 19 (5.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.07%) Firewall
2 18 (4.89%) DNS
3 17 (4.62%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) VPN
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.61%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.43%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.89%) Power BI
6 16 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (3.53%) Big Data
10 12 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.99%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.72%) Redis
13 9 (2.45%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.90%) MySQL
16 6 (1.63%) Metadata
17 5 (1.36%) Flink
Development Applications
1 130 (35.33%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.20%) GitLab
3 47 (12.77%) Git
4 20 (5.43%) JUnit
5 18 (4.89%) MLflow
6 16 (4.35%) JIRA
7 14 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.80%) Mockito
8 11 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.99%) Selenium
9 10 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.72%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.17%) Postman
11 7 (1.90%) Gatling
11 7 (1.90%) Gradle
11 7 (1.90%) JMeter
11 7 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.90%) Snyk
12 5 (1.36%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.03%) Finance
3 37 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.25%) Banking
6 9 (2.45%) Front Office
6 9 (2.45%) Retail
7 7 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.54%) Law
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Police
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Aviation
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (20.11%) Senior
2 70 (19.02%) Developer
3 59 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.41%) Data Engineer
5 41 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (8.70%) Lead
7 30 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 26 (7.07%) Architect
10 21 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.43%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.62%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.53%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.26%) Azure Developer
14 12 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.26%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.99%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.03%) Kafka
2 46 (12.50%) REST
3 42 (11.41%) React
4 41 (11.14%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.87%) Spring
6 34 (9.24%) .NET
7 32 (8.70%) RESTful
8 30 (8.15%) PySpark
9 21 (5.71%) Playwright
10 20 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 20 (5.43%) Node.js
10 20 (5.43%) Pandas
11 16 (4.35%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.80%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.80%) AWS CDK
14 12 (3.26%) Flask
14 12 (3.26%) OAuth
14 12 (3.26%) Web Services
15 11 (2.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.45%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) IoT
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.05%) Linux
2 16 (4.35%) Unix
2 16 (4.35%) Windows
3 11 (2.99%) VMS
4 5 (1.36%) Android
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (89.40%) CI/CD
2 235 (63.86%) DevOps
3 185 (50.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (30.71%) Agile
5 110 (29.89%) Containerisation
6 101 (27.45%) Observability
7 71 (19.29%) Microservices
7 71 (19.29%) Test Automation
8 64 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
9 61 (16.58%) Analytics
10 60 (16.30%) AI
11 57 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 56 (15.22%) Data Engineering
13 55 (14.95%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (10.87%) Migration
17 38 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
18 37 (10.05%) Event-Driven
19 36 (9.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 167 (45.38%) Python
2 103 (27.99%) SQL
3 64 (17.39%) Java
4 52 (14.13%) C#
5 40 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.60%) PowerShell
7 38 (10.33%) TypeScript
8 33 (8.97%) Bicep
9 32 (8.70%) Bash
10 21 (5.71%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.53%) Go
12 8 (2.17%) Ruby
13 7 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.63%) Scala
15 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) Swift
17 2 (0.54%) XPath
18 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 120 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 112 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.26%) Degree
5 11 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.70%) QA
2 19 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) WCAG
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (40.22%) Docker
2 14 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 220 (59.78%) Terraform
2 161 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.60%) Ansible
4 37 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 36 (9.78%) Grafana
6 18 (4.89%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Istio
8 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.17%) Puppet
9 7 (1.90%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.51%) Databricks
3 25 (6.79%) Google
4 15 (4.08%) Splunk
5 10 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle
7 8 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.17%) New Relic
8 7 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.63%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.63%) SAP
10 4 (1.09%) Confluent
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
10 4 (1.09%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.82%) Qualys
11 3 (0.82%) Sybase
12 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.54%) VMware