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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 148 295
Rank change year-on-year +20 +147 +58
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 457 260 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 1.93% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 4.45% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 174 70
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.15%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £726
England median daily rate £513 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -6.82% +1.15% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,325 5,844 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.39% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,736 3,967 4,542
10th Percentile £358 £339 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.34%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -7 53 £575 -11.13% 39
South London +9 16 £485 +7.78% 3
West London - 5 £738 - 11
East London - 1 - - 1
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 24 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.03%) Confluence
3 10 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.09%) Apache
6 4 (0.88%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) GitHub
2 264 (57.77%) Azure
3 243 (53.17%) AWS
4 164 (35.89%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (16.63%) Amazon S3
5 76 (16.63%) GCP
5 76 (16.63%) Serverless
6 73 (15.97%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (10.94%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (9.63%) Azure AKS
11 40 (8.75%) Snowflake
12 39 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (8.10%) Entra ID
14 35 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (7.00%) Power Platform
16 23 (5.03%) dbt
17 21 (4.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.47%) DNS
2 20 (4.38%) VPN
3 16 (3.50%) Firewall
4 11 (2.41%) Network Security
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.66%) SSH
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.22%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.13%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.47%) Power BI
5 21 (4.60%) Redis
6 20 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 19 (4.16%) Data Lake
8 18 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.28%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.06%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.84%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.41%) Metadata
14 10 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.75%) Data Vault
17 7 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (1.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 171 (37.42%) Jenkins
2 119 (26.04%) GitLab
3 71 (15.54%) Git
4 28 (6.13%) Selenium
5 26 (5.69%) JIRA
6 22 (4.81%) CircleCI
7 21 (4.60%) JUnit
8 18 (3.94%) SonarQube
9 17 (3.72%) Gradle
10 16 (3.50%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.50%) Cypress.io
11 15 (3.28%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.63%) JMeter
13 11 (2.41%) Postman
13 11 (2.41%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.97%) Mockito
15 7 (1.53%) Terragrunt
15 7 (1.53%) TestNG
15 7 (1.53%) XCTest
15 7 (1.53%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (20.57%) Finance
2 93 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 60 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.56%) Banking
6 17 (3.72%) Retail
7 16 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.41%) Law
9 8 (1.75%) Marketing
9 8 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.53%) Back Office
10 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.31%) Local Government
12 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.88%) Front Office
13 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.66%) Legal
14 3 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (23.63%) Senior
2 88 (19.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (16.19%) Developer
4 42 (9.19%) Lead
5 41 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (7.22%) Architect
9 30 (6.56%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.81%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 21 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.94%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (57.77%) Terraform
2 92 (20.13%) REST
3 67 (14.66%) Kafka
4 59 (12.91%) RESTful
5 41 (8.97%) Spring
6 38 (8.32%) React
7 37 (8.10%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.56%) .NET
9 26 (5.69%) Playwright
10 25 (5.47%) FastAPI
10 25 (5.47%) PySpark
11 21 (4.60%) OAuth
12 19 (4.16%) pytest
13 18 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (3.72%) Node.js
14 17 (3.72%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.50%) Flask
16 15 (3.28%) Loki
16 15 (3.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 113 (24.73%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.84%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.50%) Linux
2 19 (4.16%) Windows
3 12 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.19%) Android
5 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.53%) Unix
5 7 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (91.03%) CI/CD
2 312 (68.27%) DevOps
3 238 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (36.76%) Agile
5 125 (27.35%) Test Automation
6 124 (27.13%) Observability
7 123 (26.91%) Containerisation
8 96 (21.01%) AI
8 96 (21.01%) Microservices
9 78 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
10 76 (16.63%) Software Engineering
11 68 (14.88%) Event-Driven
12 60 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (12.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 55 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
15 54 (11.82%) DevSecOps
15 54 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (11.38%) Scrum
17 51 (11.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 236 (51.64%) Python
2 109 (23.85%) SQL
3 86 (18.82%) Bash
3 86 (18.82%) Java
4 57 (12.47%) PowerShell
5 55 (12.04%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.85%) Bicep
6 45 (9.85%) JavaScript
7 41 (8.97%) C#
8 19 (4.16%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.72%) Go
10 12 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.41%) Swift
12 9 (1.97%) Objective-C
13 8 (1.75%) Ruby
14 5 (1.09%) Groovy
15 4 (0.88%) C
15 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.88%) Scala
16 3 (0.66%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 177 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 167 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 18 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.06%) Degree
5 14 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
12 1 (0.22%) CCNP
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.75%) QA
2 34 (7.44%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.16%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.75%) NIST
5 7 (1.53%) GDPR
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.88%) WCAG
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 188 (41.14%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 213 (46.61%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.51%) Grafana
3 71 (15.54%) Prometheus
4 49 (10.72%) Ansible
5 22 (4.81%) Argo
6 7 (1.53%) Karpenter
6 7 (1.53%) Puppet
7 6 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.88%) Cilium
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 78 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.07%) Databricks
3 27 (5.91%) Google
4 23 (5.03%) Splunk
5 21 (4.60%) Dynatrace
5 21 (4.60%) Oracle
6 19 (4.16%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.19%) Foundry
8 10 (2.19%) New Relic
9 9 (1.97%) VMware
10 8 (1.75%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.75%) SAP
11 7 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.09%) Checkmarx
13 5 (1.09%) IBM
13 5 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.88%) Confluent
14 4 (0.88%) Okta