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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 214 303
Rank change year-on-year +81 +89 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 396 138 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.11% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.96% 2.57% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 84 63
10th Percentile £403 £416 £415
25th Percentile £453 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +5.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £781 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £756
England median daily rate £525 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -11.04%
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 £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -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 7,976 5,360 6,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.95% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,474 3,638 5,135
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £514 £514 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 66 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.75 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +21.77% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £70.63 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%

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 19 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 19 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 +9 49 £588 +2.17% 6
West London -16 9 £530 -6.19% 4
South London - 5 £445 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.03%) Confluence
4 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.02%) Apache
5 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Findur
2 3 (0.76%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) GitHub
2 217 (54.80%) AWS
3 209 (52.78%) Azure
4 139 (35.10%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (19.19%) Serverless
6 62 (15.66%) Amazon S3
6 62 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (13.13%) GCP
8 51 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (11.87%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (10.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (9.09%) Azure AKS
14 28 (7.07%) AWS CodePipeline
15 27 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (5.81%) Entra ID
16 23 (5.81%) Power Platform
17 21 (5.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.56%) Firewall
2 20 (5.05%) Network Security
3 16 (4.04%) DNS
4 15 (3.79%) VPN
5 4 (1.01%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) DSL
6 2 (0.51%) HTTP
6 2 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.58%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 23 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.30%) Delta Lake
6 19 (4.80%) Redis
7 18 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.29%) Power BI
9 16 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (4.04%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.53%) Big Data
14 9 (2.27%) BigQuery
15 8 (2.02%) Metadata
15 8 (2.02%) MySQL
16 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 140 (35.35%) Jenkins
2 94 (23.74%) GitLab
3 51 (12.88%) Git
4 27 (6.82%) JUnit
5 22 (5.56%) JIRA
6 18 (4.55%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.79%) MLflow
7 15 (3.79%) Mockito
8 14 (3.54%) Gradle
9 13 (3.28%) Selenium
10 12 (3.03%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.78%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.27%) JMeter
12 9 (2.27%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.27%) Snyk
13 8 (2.02%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.77%) Gatling
14 7 (1.77%) Postman
15 5 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 77 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.66%) Finance
3 48 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.06%) Banking
6 12 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.78%) Law
8 10 (2.53%) Retail
9 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Front Office
11 3 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.76%) Local Government
11 3 (0.76%) Military
11 3 (0.76%) Police
12 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (19.95%) Senior
2 71 (17.93%) Developer
3 65 (16.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (10.10%) Data Engineer
6 32 (8.08%) Architect
7 30 (7.58%) Lead
8 29 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 24 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.30%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.54%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.03%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.68%) Kafka
2 63 (15.91%) REST
3 52 (13.13%) RESTful
4 42 (10.61%) Spring
4 42 (10.61%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.10%) React
6 32 (8.08%) PySpark
7 29 (7.32%) .NET
8 21 (5.30%) FastAPI
9 20 (5.05%) Playwright
10 19 (4.80%) OAuth
10 19 (4.80%) Pandas
11 17 (4.29%) OAuth2
12 15 (3.79%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.54%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.54%) Flask
14 13 (3.28%) Node.js
14 13 (3.28%) OpenID
15 12 (3.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 94 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.87%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.02%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.76%) NHS
11 2 (0.51%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.51%) IoT
11 2 (0.51%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.84%) Linux
2 20 (5.05%) Windows
3 15 (3.79%) Unix
4 8 (2.02%) Android
5 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.52%) VMS
6 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (89.65%) CI/CD
2 254 (64.14%) DevOps
3 198 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (33.33%) Agile
5 112 (28.28%) Containerisation
6 103 (26.01%) Observability
7 89 (22.47%) Test Automation
8 86 (21.72%) Microservices
9 80 (20.20%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (15.66%) Analytics
11 57 (14.39%) AI
12 56 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (13.38%) Event-Driven
15 51 (12.88%) Data Engineering
16 50 (12.63%) Mentoring
17 47 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
18 46 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 41 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 41 (10.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 181 (45.71%) Python
2 115 (29.04%) SQL
3 72 (18.18%) Java
4 49 (12.37%) PowerShell
5 47 (11.87%) Bash
5 47 (11.87%) TypeScript
6 46 (11.62%) C#
7 39 (9.85%) Bicep
7 39 (9.85%) JavaScript
8 21 (5.30%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.27%) Go
11 7 (1.77%) Ruby
12 6 (1.52%) Swift
13 5 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (1.26%) Scala
14 4 (1.01%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 129 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 118 (29.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.30%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.54%) Degree
5 12 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.88%) QA
2 25 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.27%) NIST
5 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.52%) GDPR
7 5 (1.26%) WCAG
8 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.76%) PSD2
9 2 (0.51%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.51%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.51%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.51%) SEPA
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (38.64%) Docker
2 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 228 (57.58%) Terraform
2 166 (41.92%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.38%) Prometheus
4 50 (12.63%) Grafana
5 40 (10.10%) Ansible
6 8 (2.02%) Argo
6 8 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.02%) Puppet
7 5 (1.26%) Kibana
8 4 (1.01%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.25%) linkerd
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
10 1 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.33%) Databricks
3 17 (4.29%) Google
4 16 (4.04%) Splunk
5 13 (3.28%) Oracle
6 10 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.02%) New Relic
9 6 (1.52%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.52%) Foundry
9 6 (1.52%) SAP
10 5 (1.26%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) Sybase
11 4 (1.01%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.01%) Palantir
12 3 (0.76%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.76%) VMware
12 3 (0.76%) Zscaler