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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 216 303
Rank change year-on-year +86 +87 +34
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 394 135 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 1.10% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 2.56% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 83 61
10th Percentile £401 £429 £413
25th Percentile £455 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £626 £799 £650
90th Percentile £688 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -11.82%
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 7,907 5,279 6,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.29% 43.18% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,459 3,570 5,043
10th Percentile £354 £356 £350
25th Percentile £429 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 64 69
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.34 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
% change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -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 9 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 9 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 +18 47 £600 +4.35% 15
West London -7 9 £530 -6.19% 2
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 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.54%) Confluence
4 9 (2.28%) Apache
5 8 (2.03%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Findur
2 3 (0.76%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.51%) 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
1 394 (100.00%) GitHub
2 215 (54.57%) AWS
3 202 (51.27%) Azure
4 129 (32.74%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (19.80%) Serverless
6 66 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (15.48%) Amazon S3
8 60 (15.23%) GCP
9 53 (13.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.15%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
14 35 (8.88%) Azure AKS
15 31 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (7.87%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (5.33%) Entra ID
17 21 (5.33%) Power Platform
17 21 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.35%) Firewall
2 20 (5.08%) DNS
3 16 (4.06%) Network Security
4 13 (3.30%) VPN
5 3 (0.76%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) DSL
6 2 (0.51%) HTTP
6 2 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.61%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.33%) Delta Lake
5 20 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (4.31%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.31%) Power BI
7 15 (3.81%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.81%) Redis
8 13 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (3.30%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.05%) Big Data
10 10 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (2.03%) MySQL
12 7 (1.78%) Metadata
13 6 (1.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 140 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 89 (22.59%) GitLab
3 49 (12.44%) Git
4 23 (5.84%) JUnit
5 19 (4.82%) JIRA
6 18 (4.57%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.57%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.81%) MLflow
8 14 (3.55%) Mockito
9 12 (3.05%) Gradle
10 11 (2.79%) Selenium
11 10 (2.54%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.54%) JMeter
11 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.03%) Gatling
12 8 (2.03%) Snyk
13 7 (1.78%) Postman
13 7 (1.78%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 77 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.97%) Finance
3 40 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.33%) Banking
6 15 (3.81%) Retail
7 9 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.27%) Law
11 4 (1.02%) Front Office
12 3 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.76%) Military
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
13 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Police
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (19.29%) Senior
2 71 (18.02%) Developer
3 62 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (10.66%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.63%) Lead
7 32 (8.12%) Architect
8 26 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.33%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.82%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.55%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.30%) AWS Developer
16 12 (3.05%) Python Developer
17 11 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (2.79%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.75%) Kafka
2 60 (15.23%) REST
3 47 (11.93%) RESTful
4 46 (11.68%) React
5 45 (11.42%) Spring
5 45 (11.42%) Spring Boot
6 33 (8.38%) PySpark
7 31 (7.87%) .NET
8 20 (5.08%) Pandas
8 20 (5.08%) Playwright
9 19 (4.82%) FastAPI
9 19 (4.82%) Node.js
10 18 (4.57%) OAuth
10 18 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (4.31%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.06%) OAuth2
13 15 (3.81%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.55%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 92 (23.35%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.28%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.03%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.51%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.51%) IoT
9 2 (0.51%) IVR
9 2 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.14%) Linux
2 19 (4.82%) Windows
3 15 (3.81%) Unix
4 10 (2.54%) VMS
5 8 (2.03%) Android
6 7 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (89.09%) CI/CD
2 248 (62.94%) DevOps
3 197 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (31.22%) Agile
5 108 (27.41%) Observability
6 105 (26.65%) Containerisation
7 81 (20.56%) Microservices
8 80 (20.30%) Test Automation
9 71 (18.02%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (15.74%) AI
11 60 (15.23%) Analytics
12 56 (14.21%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (13.45%) Data Engineering
14 51 (12.94%) Mentoring
15 50 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 47 (11.93%) Event-Driven
17 44 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
19 37 (9.39%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 176 (44.67%) Python
2 112 (28.43%) SQL
3 66 (16.75%) Java
4 49 (12.44%) TypeScript
5 48 (12.18%) PowerShell
6 47 (11.93%) C#
7 44 (11.17%) Bash
8 42 (10.66%) JavaScript
9 36 (9.14%) Bicep
10 23 (5.84%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.54%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.03%) Go
12 8 (2.03%) Ruby
13 6 (1.52%) Scala
13 6 (1.52%) Swift
14 5 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.02%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 116 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.84%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.30%) Degree
5 11 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.02%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.94%) QA
2 26 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.78%) NIST
6 5 (1.27%) GDPR
6 5 (1.27%) WCAG
7 3 (0.76%) PSD2
8 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.51%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.51%) GRC
8 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.51%) SEPA
8 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (38.83%) Docker
2 11 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 230 (58.38%) Terraform
2 165 (41.88%) Kubernetes
3 47 (11.93%) Prometheus
4 46 (11.68%) Ansible
4 46 (11.68%) Grafana
5 12 (3.05%) Argo
6 10 (2.54%) Istio
7 9 (2.28%) Kibana
8 8 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.03%) Puppet
9 3 (0.76%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.25%) linkerd
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.38%) Databricks
3 25 (6.35%) Google
4 16 (4.06%) Splunk
5 13 (3.30%) Oracle
6 10 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.28%) New Relic
8 8 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.52%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.52%) Foundry
9 6 (1.52%) SAP
10 5 (1.27%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.27%) Sybase
11 4 (1.02%) Confluent
11 4 (1.02%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.76%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.76%) Palantir
12 3 (0.76%) VMware