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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 220 308
Rank change year-on-year +89 +88 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 360 133 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.04% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.75% 2.46% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 90 61
10th Percentile £390 £447 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £642 £725 £638
90th Percentile £713 £800 £725
England median daily rate £520 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -5.07% +4.24% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £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 7,577 5,400 6,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 42.42% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,221 3,746 4,944
10th Percentile £350 £356 £327
25th Percentile £425 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 75
10th Percentile £18.84 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £53.35 £53.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.50
England median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
% change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +12 45 £575 +2.00% 15
West London -16 12 £650 +36.84% 3
South London - 11 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 1
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 32 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.78%) Apache
5 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.67%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 360 (100.00%) GitHub
2 193 (53.61%) Azure
3 191 (53.06%) AWS
4 123 (34.17%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (22.22%) Serverless
6 67 (18.61%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (16.39%) Amazon S3
8 57 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (14.17%) GCP
10 48 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (12.78%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (12.78%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (11.39%) Azure AKS
13 39 (10.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (8.61%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (8.06%) Azure Key Vault
16 29 (8.06%) Entra ID
17 27 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.11%) Firewall
2 19 (5.28%) Network Security
3 14 (3.89%) DNS
4 4 (1.11%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) HTTP
5 3 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.56%) DSL
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.06%) Data Lake
2 26 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 18 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.72%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.61%) Big Data
9 11 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.06%) Power BI
10 9 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.50%) Redis
11 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.22%) Flink
11 8 (2.22%) MySQL
12 6 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 121 (33.61%) Jenkins
2 63 (17.50%) GitLab
3 52 (14.44%) Git
4 19 (5.28%) Cypress.io
4 19 (5.28%) JIRA
5 18 (5.00%) JUnit
5 18 (5.00%) MLflow
6 13 (3.61%) Selenium
7 12 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 12 (3.33%) Mockito
8 10 (2.78%) Postman
8 10 (2.78%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.94%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.67%) Snyk
10 6 (1.67%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.39%) Gatling
11 5 (1.39%) Gradle
11 5 (1.39%) JMeter
11 5 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 66 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.28%) Finance
3 37 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.67%) Banking
5 20 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Front Office
7 10 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.50%) Retail
9 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (20.28%) Developer
2 64 (17.78%) Senior
3 55 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.39%) Data Engineer
5 31 (8.61%) Lead
6 30 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 27 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.94%) Architect
9 24 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (5.28%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.72%) Azure Developer
11 17 (4.72%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (3.61%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.00%) Kafka
2 46 (12.78%) React
3 43 (11.94%) REST
4 39 (10.83%) .NET
5 36 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 35 (9.72%) Spring
7 32 (8.89%) Node.js
8 30 (8.33%) RESTful
9 25 (6.94%) PySpark
10 24 (6.67%) AngularJS
11 21 (5.83%) Playwright
12 18 (5.00%) Pandas
13 17 (4.72%) OAuth
14 15 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.89%) AWS CDK
16 13 (3.61%) .NET Framework
16 13 (3.61%) FastAPI
16 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
16 13 (3.61%) Web Services
17 12 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.94%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.72%) Linux
2 16 (4.44%) Windows
3 14 (3.89%) Unix
4 11 (3.06%) VMS
5 4 (1.11%) Android
6 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 226 (62.78%) DevOps
3 171 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (31.39%) Agile
5 102 (28.33%) Containerisation
6 95 (26.39%) Observability
7 71 (19.72%) AI
8 68 (18.89%) Analytics
8 68 (18.89%) Microservices
9 64 (17.78%) Test Automation
10 59 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (15.00%) Data Engineering
12 53 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (14.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 47 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (11.39%) Machine Learning
15 40 (11.11%) Migration
16 36 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
17 32 (8.89%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 173 (48.06%) Python
2 107 (29.72%) SQL
3 63 (17.50%) Java
4 55 (15.28%) C#
5 45 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 41 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 40 (11.11%) PowerShell
8 33 (9.17%) Bicep
9 28 (7.78%) Bash
10 19 (5.28%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.89%) Go
12 11 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.94%) Ruby
14 6 (1.67%) Scala
15 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.83%) JSX
16 3 (0.83%) XPath
17 2 (0.56%) Swift
18 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
18 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 111 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 102 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.28%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.33%) Degree
5 11 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.61%) QA
2 20 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
8 2 (0.56%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (39.72%) Docker
2 15 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.56%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (58.33%) Terraform
2 153 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.56%) Ansible
4 25 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.67%) Grafana
6 19 (5.28%) Argo
7 10 (2.78%) Istio
8 8 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.22%) Puppet
9 5 (1.39%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.39%) Databricks
3 25 (6.94%) Google
4 18 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.78%) Splunk
6 8 (2.22%) New Relic
7 7 (1.94%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.94%) Oracle
7 7 (1.94%) SAP
8 6 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.39%) Confluent
10 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.11%) Foundry
10 4 (1.11%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.83%) Qualys
11 3 (0.83%) Sybase
12 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.56%) VMware