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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 150 289
Rank change year-on-year +17 +139 +73
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 461 259 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 1.92% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 4.42% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 174 72
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.08%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.33% -2.27%
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 8,337 5,855 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.96% 43.44% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,747 3,968 4,569
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 95 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.80% -22.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 2 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 2 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 -5 53 £575 -11.13% 36
South London +6 16 £485 +7.78% 3
West London - 5 £738 - 11
East London - 1 - - 2
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 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (5.21%) Confluence
2 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.08%) Apache
5 4 (0.87%) nginx
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Trello
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) 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
1 461 (100.00%) GitHub
2 268 (58.13%) Azure
3 246 (53.36%) AWS
4 166 (36.01%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (16.92%) Serverless
6 77 (16.70%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (16.70%) Amazon S3
7 76 (16.49%) GCP
8 61 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (11.06%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (9.54%) Azure AKS
12 40 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (8.68%) Snowflake
13 39 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (8.03%) Entra ID
15 36 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (6.94%) Power Platform
17 23 (4.99%) dbt
18 21 (4.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.42%) DNS
2 20 (4.34%) VPN
3 16 (3.47%) Firewall
4 11 (2.39%) Network Security
5 4 (0.87%) Internet
6 3 (0.65%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.65%) SSH
6 3 (0.65%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.43%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 1 (0.22%) NFC
8 1 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.16%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.07%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.42%) Power BI
5 21 (4.56%) Redis
5 21 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 19 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (3.25%) Delta Lake
10 14 (3.04%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.82%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.39%) Metadata
13 10 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.74%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 171 (37.09%) Jenkins
2 120 (26.03%) GitLab
3 72 (15.62%) Git
4 28 (6.07%) Selenium
5 26 (5.64%) JIRA
6 22 (4.77%) CircleCI
7 21 (4.56%) JUnit
8 18 (3.90%) SonarQube
9 17 (3.69%) Gradle
10 16 (3.47%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.47%) Cypress.io
11 15 (3.25%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.60%) JMeter
13 11 (2.39%) Postman
13 11 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.95%) Mockito
15 7 (1.52%) Maven
15 7 (1.52%) Terragrunt
15 7 (1.52%) TestNG
15 7 (1.52%) XCUITest
General
1 96 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.39%) Finance
3 62 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.51%) Banking
6 17 (3.69%) Retail
7 16 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.39%) Law
9 8 (1.74%) Marketing
9 8 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.52%) Back Office
10 7 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.52%) Local Government
11 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.87%) Billing
12 4 (0.87%) Front Office
12 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (23.64%) Senior
2 90 (19.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (16.05%) Developer
4 43 (9.33%) Lead
5 41 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (7.16%) Architect
8 30 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Automation Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Software Engineer
11 21 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.34%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.69%) Java Developer
15 15 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (58.13%) Terraform
2 93 (20.17%) REST
3 67 (14.53%) Kafka
4 59 (12.80%) RESTful
5 40 (8.68%) Spring
6 39 (8.46%) React
7 36 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 31 (6.72%) .NET
9 26 (5.64%) FastAPI
9 26 (5.64%) Playwright
10 25 (5.42%) PySpark
11 21 (4.56%) OAuth
12 19 (4.12%) pytest
13 18 (3.90%) Loki
13 18 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (3.69%) Flask
14 17 (3.69%) Node.js
14 17 (3.69%) OAuth2
15 15 (3.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.08%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.87%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.41%) Linux
2 19 (4.12%) Windows
3 12 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.17%) Android
5 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.52%) Unix
5 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (91.11%) CI/CD
2 315 (68.33%) DevOps
3 242 (52.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (36.66%) Agile
5 128 (27.77%) Observability
6 125 (27.11%) Test Automation
7 124 (26.90%) Containerisation
8 98 (21.26%) AI
9 97 (21.04%) Microservices
10 79 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
11 77 (16.70%) Software Engineering
12 69 (14.97%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (12.58%) DevSecOps
15 57 (12.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 56 (12.15%) Deployment Automation
17 54 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
18 52 (11.28%) Scrum
19 51 (11.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 240 (52.06%) Python
2 110 (23.86%) SQL
3 89 (19.31%) Bash
4 85 (18.44%) Java
5 57 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 55 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 45 (9.76%) Bicep
7 45 (9.76%) JavaScript
8 42 (9.11%) C#
9 19 (4.12%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.69%) Go
11 12 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.39%) Swift
13 9 (1.95%) Objective-C
14 8 (1.74%) Ruby
15 5 (1.08%) Groovy
16 4 (0.87%) C
16 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.87%) Scala
17 3 (0.65%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 182 (39.48%) Security Cleared
2 172 (37.31%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.16%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.04%) Degree
7 11 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) MOS
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.62%) QA
2 34 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.74%) NIST
5 7 (1.52%) GDPR
6 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.87%) WCAG
7 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) 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
1 191 (41.43%) Docker
2 14 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 215 (46.64%) Kubernetes
2 83 (18.00%) Grafana
3 71 (15.40%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.85%) Ansible
5 25 (5.42%) Argo
6 7 (1.52%) Karpenter
6 7 (1.52%) Puppet
7 6 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.87%) Cilium
8 4 (0.87%) Kibana
9 3 (0.65%) SELinux
9 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.43%) Istio
10 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.43%) 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 82 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.98%) Databricks
3 27 (5.86%) Google
4 24 (5.21%) Oracle
5 23 (4.99%) Splunk
6 21 (4.56%) Dynatrace
7 19 (4.12%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.17%) Foundry
9 10 (2.17%) New Relic
10 9 (1.95%) VMware
11 8 (1.74%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.74%) SAP
12 7 (1.52%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.08%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.08%) IBM
14 5 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.87%) Confluent
15 4 (0.87%) Okta