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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 169 302
Rank change year-on-year +39 +133 +40
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 442 222 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 1.65% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.33% 3.82% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 140 57
10th Percentile £385 £396 £425
25th Percentile £450 £477 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £626 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £816 £725
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 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,289 5,811 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 43.15% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,662 3,979 4,745
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 91 52
10th Percentile £19.18 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £30.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.97% -31.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.53
90th Percentile £76.06 £72.00 £65.65
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +3 49 £600 -4.95% 15
South London -1 13 £488 +8.33% 3
West London -11 9 £650 +15.04% 13
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 28 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.66%) Confluence
3 13 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.26%) Apache
6 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.90%) nginx
7 4 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.45%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Trello
2 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.68%) Findur
3 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 442 (100.00%) GitHub
2 261 (59.05%) Azure
3 235 (53.17%) AWS
4 167 (37.78%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (16.06%) Serverless
6 67 (15.16%) GCP
7 65 (14.71%) Amazon S3
8 57 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.22%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (10.86%) Azure AKS
11 41 (9.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (8.14%) Entra ID
13 35 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (7.69%) Snowflake
15 31 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (7.01%) Power Platform
16 25 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.75%) VPN
2 19 (4.30%) DNS
2 19 (4.30%) Firewall
3 11 (2.49%) Network Security
4 5 (1.13%) Internet
5 3 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.68%) SSH
5 3 (0.68%) SSL
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.45%) DSL
6 2 (0.45%) HTTP
6 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) DHCP
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
7 1 (0.23%) VLAN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.66%) Power BI
4 24 (5.43%) NoSQL
5 22 (4.98%) Data Lake
6 21 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.75%) Redis
6 21 (4.75%) SQL Server
7 19 (4.30%) Delta Lake
8 16 (3.62%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.94%) Metadata
11 12 (2.71%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.81%) Big Data
14 8 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 164 (37.10%) Jenkins
2 118 (26.70%) GitLab
3 59 (13.35%) Git
4 28 (6.33%) JIRA
5 25 (5.66%) Selenium
6 24 (5.43%) CircleCI
7 22 (4.98%) JUnit
8 18 (4.07%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.94%) Gradle
9 13 (2.94%) SonarQube
10 12 (2.71%) REST Assured
11 10 (2.26%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.26%) JMeter
12 9 (2.04%) Postman
12 9 (2.04%) XCUITest
13 8 (1.81%) MLflow
13 8 (1.81%) Mockito
13 8 (1.81%) Snyk
14 7 (1.58%) TestNG
General
1 88 (19.91%) Finance
2 87 (19.68%) Social Skills
3 61 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 34 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.56%) Banking
6 13 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.71%) Law
7 12 (2.71%) Retail
8 9 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.13%) Legal
11 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Local Government
11 4 (0.90%) Marketing
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Billing
12 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.68%) Police
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
13 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 92 (20.81%) Senior
2 80 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (17.42%) Developer
4 43 (9.73%) Lead
5 39 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (7.24%) Architect
9 28 (6.33%) Data Engineer
10 27 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.98%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.75%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.07%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.85%) Java Developer
15 16 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
17 14 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (58.60%) Terraform
2 77 (17.42%) REST
3 66 (14.93%) Kafka
4 60 (13.57%) RESTful
5 41 (9.28%) React
6 38 (8.60%) Spring
7 34 (7.69%) .NET
7 34 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 28 (6.33%) PySpark
9 24 (5.43%) Playwright
10 22 (4.98%) FastAPI
11 18 (4.07%) Node.js
12 17 (3.85%) OAuth
13 15 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.39%) Flask
13 15 (3.39%) OAuth2
14 14 (3.17%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.17%) ARM Templates
14 14 (3.17%) Loki
14 14 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 108 (24.43%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.81%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.41%) Linux
2 18 (4.07%) Windows
3 16 (3.62%) Unix
4 13 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.49%) Android
6 7 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.58%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (91.18%) CI/CD
2 296 (66.97%) DevOps
3 232 (52.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (37.10%) Agile
5 127 (28.73%) Containerisation
6 124 (28.05%) Test Automation
7 120 (27.15%) Observability
8 92 (20.81%) Microservices
9 79 (17.87%) Platform Engineering
10 75 (16.97%) AI
11 62 (14.03%) Event-Driven
11 62 (14.03%) Software Engineering
12 56 (12.67%) DevSecOps
13 54 (12.22%) Analytics
13 54 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (11.99%) Mentoring
15 48 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (10.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 46 (10.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 222 (50.23%) Python
2 117 (26.47%) SQL
3 83 (18.78%) Java
4 82 (18.55%) Bash
5 64 (14.48%) PowerShell
6 56 (12.67%) TypeScript
7 48 (10.86%) Bicep
7 48 (10.86%) C#
8 44 (9.95%) JavaScript
9 20 (4.52%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.85%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.39%) Go
12 11 (2.49%) Swift
13 9 (2.04%) Objective-C
13 9 (2.04%) Ruby
14 5 (1.13%) Groovy
14 5 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 170 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 160 (36.20%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.39%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.17%) Degree
6 13 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) CCNA
12 1 (0.23%) CCNP
12 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMP
12 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.25%) QA
2 30 (6.79%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.81%) NIST
5 7 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.36%) GDPR
7 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.90%) WCAG
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (41.63%) Docker
2 14 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 200 (45.25%) Kubernetes
2 76 (17.19%) Grafana
3 68 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 44 (9.95%) Ansible
5 22 (4.98%) Argo
6 8 (1.81%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.81%) Puppet
7 4 (0.90%) Karpenter
7 4 (0.90%) Kibana
8 3 (0.68%) Cilium
8 3 (0.68%) Istio
8 3 (0.68%) Packer
8 3 (0.68%) SELinux
8 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 80 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.63%) Databricks
3 25 (5.66%) Splunk
4 22 (4.98%) Google
5 19 (4.30%) Oracle
6 17 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.94%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.26%) New Relic
10 9 (2.04%) Foundry
11 8 (1.81%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.58%) VMware
13 6 (1.36%) Checkmarx
13 6 (1.36%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.13%) SAP
15 4 (0.90%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.90%) Hortonworks
15 4 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.90%) Palantir