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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 224 299
Rank change year-on-year +92 +75 +33
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 361 135 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 1.07% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.78% 2.53% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 91 58
10th Percentile £387 £449 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £729 £638
90th Percentile £713 £850 £744
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%
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 £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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 47 £588 +4.21% 27
West London -13 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 9 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 3
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 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.77%) Apache
4 8 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.66%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 361 (100.00%) GitHub
2 198 (54.85%) Azure
3 194 (53.74%) AWS
4 127 (35.18%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (20.22%) Serverless
6 62 (17.17%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (15.24%) GCP
9 53 (14.68%) Amazon S3
10 47 (13.02%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (12.19%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (11.08%) Azure AKS
13 39 (10.80%) Azure Monitor
14 35 (9.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (8.86%) AWS CodePipeline
16 27 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (6.93%) Azure Key Vault
18 23 (6.37%) Power Platform
19 22 (6.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.20%) Firewall
2 18 (4.99%) Network Security
3 17 (4.71%) DNS
4 7 (1.94%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) HTTP
6 2 (0.55%) DSL
6 2 (0.55%) Internet
6 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.76%) Data Lake
2 22 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.82%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.54%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.99%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.43%) Power BI
7 15 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.60%) Big Data
9 11 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.49%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.49%) Redis
11 8 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.94%) Flink
12 7 (1.94%) MySQL
12 7 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 126 (34.90%) Jenkins
2 74 (20.50%) GitLab
3 48 (13.30%) Git
4 19 (5.26%) JUnit
5 18 (4.99%) MLflow
6 17 (4.71%) JIRA
7 15 (4.16%) Cypress.io
8 13 (3.60%) Mockito
8 13 (3.60%) Selenium
9 12 (3.32%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.77%) Postman
10 10 (2.77%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.49%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.94%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.94%) Snyk
13 6 (1.66%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.39%) Gatling
14 5 (1.39%) Gradle
14 5 (1.39%) JMeter
14 5 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 65 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.07%) Finance
3 39 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.37%) Banking
5 10 (2.77%) Front Office
6 9 (2.49%) Retail
7 8 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Law
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (19.67%) Developer
2 69 (19.11%) Senior
3 57 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.36%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.86%) Lead
6 29 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 27 (7.48%) Architect
8 23 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.43%) Site Engineer
13 15 (4.16%) Azure Developer
14 13 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.32%) AWS Developer
15 12 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (16.07%) Kafka
2 43 (11.91%) React
2 43 (11.91%) REST
3 39 (10.80%) Spring Boot
4 38 (10.53%) Spring
5 36 (9.97%) .NET
6 31 (8.59%) RESTful
7 28 (7.76%) PySpark
8 25 (6.93%) Node.js
9 22 (6.09%) AngularJS
9 22 (6.09%) Playwright
10 19 (5.26%) Pandas
11 16 (4.43%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.16%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.88%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.88%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.88%) OAuth
14 12 (3.32%) Flask
15 11 (3.05%) pytest
15 11 (3.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 85 (23.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.77%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.55%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.55%) IoT
10 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.97%) Linux
2 16 (4.43%) Windows
3 15 (4.16%) Unix
4 11 (3.05%) 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
1 323 (89.47%) CI/CD
2 234 (64.82%) DevOps
3 181 (50.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (31.58%) Agile
5 108 (29.92%) Containerisation
6 100 (27.70%) Observability
7 72 (19.94%) Microservices
8 68 (18.84%) Test Automation
9 65 (18.01%) AI
10 62 (17.17%) Analytics
11 60 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (15.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 55 (15.24%) Data Engineering
13 55 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.36%) Migration
17 40 (11.08%) Machine Learning
18 37 (10.25%) Full-Stack Development
19 36 (9.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 170 (47.09%) Python
2 104 (28.81%) SQL
3 65 (18.01%) Java
4 54 (14.96%) C#
5 42 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.80%) PowerShell
7 38 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 34 (9.42%) Bicep
9 30 (8.31%) Bash
10 20 (5.54%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.60%) Go
12 8 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.22%) Ruby
13 6 (1.66%) Scala
14 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.83%) XPath
16 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.55%) Swift
17 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 112 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 104 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.32%) Degree
5 11 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.86%) QA
2 19 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
8 2 (0.55%) WCAG
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 146 (40.44%) Docker
2 14 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.55%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 216 (59.83%) Terraform
2 160 (44.32%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.53%) Ansible
4 33 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 32 (8.86%) Grafana
6 18 (4.99%) Argo
7 9 (2.49%) Istio
8 8 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.22%) Puppet
9 7 (1.94%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) 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 68 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.25%) Databricks
3 24 (6.65%) Google
4 15 (4.16%) Splunk
5 14 (3.88%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.49%) Oracle
7 8 (2.22%) New Relic
8 7 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.66%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.66%) SAP
10 5 (1.39%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.39%) Confluent
11 4 (1.11%) Foundry
11 4 (1.11%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.83%) Qualys
12 3 (0.83%) Sybase
13 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.55%) VMware