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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 214 308
Rank change year-on-year +86 +94 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 373 135 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.08% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 2.55% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 91 55
10th Percentile £393 £447 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +8.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £729 £644
90th Percentile £711 £850 £751
England median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.14% - -12.50%
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 7,570 5,284 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 42.41% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 3,666 4,994
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 69
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -42.94%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

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 8 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 8 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 +13 48 £588 +4.21% 21
West London -15 13 £605 +7.08% 6
South London - 10 £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 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.88%) Confluence
4 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.80%) 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
1 373 (100.00%) GitHub
2 202 (54.16%) Azure
3 200 (53.62%) AWS
4 130 (34.85%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (20.11%) Serverless
6 64 (17.16%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (15.01%) GCP
8 54 (14.48%) Amazon S3
9 48 (12.87%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (12.06%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (10.46%) Azure AKS
11 39 (10.46%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (9.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (8.85%) AWS CodePipeline
15 29 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (6.17%) Azure Key Vault
16 23 (6.17%) Power Platform
17 21 (5.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.97%) Firewall
2 18 (4.83%) DNS
2 18 (4.83%) Network Security
3 7 (1.88%) VPN
4 3 (0.80%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.77%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.90%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.36%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.83%) Power BI
6 16 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.49%) Big Data
9 12 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.95%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.68%) Redis
12 9 (2.41%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.88%) MySQL
15 6 (1.61%) Flink
15 6 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 132 (35.39%) Jenkins
2 78 (20.91%) GitLab
3 48 (12.87%) Git
4 20 (5.36%) JUnit
5 18 (4.83%) MLflow
6 17 (4.56%) JIRA
7 14 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.75%) Mockito
8 12 (3.22%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.22%) Selenium
9 10 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.68%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.41%) Postman
11 7 (1.88%) Gatling
11 7 (1.88%) Gradle
11 7 (1.88%) JMeter
11 7 (1.88%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.88%) Snyk
12 6 (1.61%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.34%) TestRail
General
1 69 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.82%) Finance
3 38 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.17%) Banking
6 9 (2.41%) Front Office
6 9 (2.41%) Retail
7 7 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.34%) 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 75 (20.11%) Senior
2 72 (19.30%) Developer
3 59 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (11.26%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.58%) Lead
6 30 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 27 (7.24%) Architect
9 22 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.63%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.36%) Java Developer
11 20 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.56%) Site Engineer
13 14 (3.75%) Azure Developer
14 13 (3.49%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.22%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.95%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.09%) Kafka
2 47 (12.60%) REST
3 44 (11.80%) React
4 41 (10.99%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.72%) Spring
6 36 (9.65%) .NET
7 32 (8.58%) RESTful
8 30 (8.04%) PySpark
9 22 (5.90%) AngularJS
9 22 (5.90%) Node.js
9 22 (5.90%) Playwright
10 20 (5.36%) Pandas
11 16 (4.29%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.02%) .NET Framework
12 15 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.75%) AWS CDK
14 12 (3.22%) Flask
14 12 (3.22%) OAuth
14 12 (3.22%) Web Services
15 11 (2.95%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 88 (23.59%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.41%) Hedge funds
5 9 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.34%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) 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 (9.92%) Linux
2 16 (4.29%) Unix
2 16 (4.29%) Windows
3 11 (2.95%) VMS
4 5 (1.34%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (89.28%) CI/CD
2 239 (64.08%) DevOps
3 186 (49.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (31.10%) Agile
5 112 (30.03%) Containerisation
6 102 (27.35%) Observability
7 74 (19.84%) Microservices
8 72 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 65 (17.43%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (16.62%) AI
10 62 (16.62%) Analytics
11 57 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 56 (15.01%) Data Engineering
13 49 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.99%) Migration
16 38 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (10.19%) Machine Learning
17 37 (9.92%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 171 (45.84%) Python
2 105 (28.15%) SQL
3 65 (17.43%) Java
4 55 (14.75%) C#
5 42 (11.26%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.46%) PowerShell
7 38 (10.19%) TypeScript
8 35 (9.38%) Bicep
9 32 (8.58%) Bash
10 21 (5.63%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.49%) Go
12 8 (2.14%) Ruby
13 7 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.61%) Scala
15 5 (1.34%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.80%) XPath
17 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) Swift
18 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 120 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 112 (30.03%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.22%) Degree
5 11 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.07%) 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 (8.58%) QA
2 19 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.07%) NIST
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) 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
1 150 (40.21%) Docker
2 14 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 224 (60.05%) Terraform
2 164 (43.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.46%) Ansible
4 37 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 36 (9.65%) Grafana
6 18 (4.83%) Argo
7 9 (2.41%) Istio
8 8 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.14%) Puppet
9 7 (1.88%) Kibana
10 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.80%) 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 66 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.92%) Databricks
3 25 (6.70%) Google
4 16 (4.29%) Splunk
5 12 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.41%) Oracle
7 8 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.14%) New Relic
8 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.61%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.61%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.61%) SAP
10 5 (1.34%) Confluent
11 4 (1.07%) Foundry
11 4 (1.07%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.80%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.80%) Qualys
12 3 (0.80%) Sybase
13 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.54%) VMware