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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 219 305
Rank change year-on-year +83 +86 +25
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 388 135 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.11% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.94% 2.58% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 83 61
10th Percentile £400 £429 £413
25th Percentile £455 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £626 £799 £650
90th Percentile £688 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -11.82%
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 £72.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +171.70% -34.57% -

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 7,857 5,240 6,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 43.17% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,423 3,548 5,021
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 62 69
10th Percentile £21.02 £22.29 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.95 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +10 46 £600 +4.35% 19
West London -13 9 £530 -6.19% 2
South London - 5 £445 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.58%) Confluence
4 9 (2.32%) Apache
5 8 (2.06%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.77%) Findur
2 3 (0.77%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 388 (100.00%) GitHub
2 215 (55.41%) AWS
3 200 (51.55%) Azure
4 129 (33.25%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (19.85%) Serverless
6 65 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (15.46%) Amazon S3
8 58 (14.95%) GCP
9 52 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (11.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.31%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (8.76%) Azure AKS
15 31 (7.99%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (7.99%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (5.41%) Power Platform
18 20 (5.15%) Entra ID
18 20 (5.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.19%) Firewall
2 20 (5.15%) DNS
3 16 (4.12%) Network Security
4 12 (3.09%) VPN
5 3 (0.77%) Internet
6 2 (0.52%) DSL
6 2 (0.52%) HTTP
6 2 (0.52%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.73%) Data Lake
2 29 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.41%) Delta Lake
4 21 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.38%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.38%) Power BI
6 16 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.87%) Redis
8 13 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.09%) Big Data
9 12 (3.09%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.06%) MySQL
13 7 (1.80%) Metadata
14 6 (1.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 140 (36.08%) Jenkins
2 89 (22.94%) GitLab
3 50 (12.89%) Git
4 23 (5.93%) JUnit
5 19 (4.90%) JIRA
6 18 (4.64%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.64%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.87%) MLflow
8 14 (3.61%) Mockito
9 12 (3.09%) Gradle
10 11 (2.84%) Selenium
11 10 (2.58%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.58%) JMeter
11 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.06%) Gatling
12 8 (2.06%) Snyk
13 7 (1.80%) Postman
13 7 (1.80%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 75 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.46%) Finance
3 39 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.67%) Banking
6 15 (3.87%) Retail
7 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.29%) Front Office
9 5 (1.29%) Law
10 3 (0.77%) Legal
10 3 (0.77%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Aviation
12 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (19.59%) Senior
2 72 (18.56%) Developer
3 60 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (11.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.57%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.76%) Lead
7 31 (7.99%) Architect
8 25 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.41%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.61%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.09%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (2.84%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (17.27%) Kafka
2 60 (15.46%) REST
3 48 (12.37%) RESTful
4 45 (11.60%) Spring
4 45 (11.60%) Spring Boot
5 44 (11.34%) React
6 33 (8.51%) PySpark
7 32 (8.25%) .NET
8 20 (5.15%) Pandas
8 20 (5.15%) Playwright
9 19 (4.90%) FastAPI
9 19 (4.90%) Node.js
10 18 (4.64%) OAuth
10 18 (4.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 17 (4.38%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.12%) OAuth2
13 15 (3.87%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.61%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.09%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 91 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.32%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.32%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.55%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.52%) IoT
10 2 (0.52%) IVR
10 2 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.28%) Linux
2 18 (4.64%) Windows
3 15 (3.87%) Unix
4 10 (2.58%) VMS
5 8 (2.06%) Android
6 7 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (89.18%) CI/CD
2 246 (63.40%) DevOps
3 192 (49.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (31.44%) Agile
5 106 (27.32%) Observability
6 105 (27.06%) Containerisation
7 82 (21.13%) Microservices
8 79 (20.36%) Test Automation
9 67 (17.27%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (15.46%) AI
10 60 (15.46%) Analytics
11 56 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (13.40%) Data Engineering
14 50 (12.89%) Mentoring
14 50 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (12.37%) Event-Driven
16 44 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
18 36 (9.28%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 173 (44.59%) Python
2 110 (28.35%) SQL
3 66 (17.01%) Java
4 47 (12.11%) C#
4 47 (12.11%) PowerShell
4 47 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 44 (11.34%) Bash
6 42 (10.82%) JavaScript
7 35 (9.02%) Bicep
8 23 (5.93%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.06%) Go
10 8 (2.06%) Ruby
11 6 (1.55%) Scala
11 6 (1.55%) Swift
12 5 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.03%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 124 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 113 (29.12%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.93%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.35%) Degree
5 10 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
12 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.14%) QA
2 25 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.80%) NIST
6 5 (1.29%) GDPR
7 4 (1.03%) WCAG
8 3 (0.77%) PSD2
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.52%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.52%) SEPA
9 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (39.18%) Docker
2 9 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 224 (57.73%) Terraform
2 165 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 47 (12.11%) Prometheus
4 46 (11.86%) Ansible
4 46 (11.86%) Grafana
5 12 (3.09%) Argo
6 10 (2.58%) Istio
7 9 (2.32%) Kibana
8 8 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.06%) Puppet
9 3 (0.77%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.26%) linkerd
11 1 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.51%) Databricks
3 24 (6.19%) Google
4 15 (3.87%) Splunk
5 13 (3.35%) Oracle
6 9 (2.32%) New Relic
6 9 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.06%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.55%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.55%) Foundry
8 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 5 (1.29%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.29%) Sybase
10 4 (1.03%) Confluent
10 4 (1.03%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.77%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.77%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.77%) Palantir