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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 157 278
Rank change year-on-year +26 +121 +81
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 457 245 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 1.82% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.52% 4.20% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 162 68
10th Percentile £376 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £448 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £683 £813 £728
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - -8.33%
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 8,280 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.99% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,684 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 46
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +4 54 £594 -8.44% 35
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 5 £738 - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 5
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 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (5.25%) Confluence
2 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.31%) Apache
5 4 (0.88%) nginx
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.44%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) GitHub
2 261 (57.11%) Azure
3 250 (54.70%) AWS
4 165 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (16.85%) GCP
5 77 (16.85%) Serverless
6 75 (16.41%) Amazon S3
7 68 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (12.91%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.94%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (10.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (10.28%) Azure AKS
12 39 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (8.53%) Snowflake
13 38 (8.32%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (8.10%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (7.66%) Entra ID
16 31 (6.78%) Power Platform
17 24 (5.25%) dbt
18 23 (5.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.81%) DNS
2 20 (4.38%) VPN
3 16 (3.50%) Firewall
4 11 (2.41%) Network Security
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.66%) SSH
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) HTTP
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.00%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.91%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.47%) Power BI
5 24 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.60%) Redis
7 19 (4.16%) Data Lake
7 19 (4.16%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.72%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.50%) Delta Lake
10 14 (3.06%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.41%) Metadata
12 10 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.75%) Data Vault
14 7 (1.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 172 (37.64%) Jenkins
2 123 (26.91%) GitLab
3 71 (15.54%) Git
4 26 (5.69%) JIRA
5 24 (5.25%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.25%) Selenium
6 22 (4.81%) JUnit
7 20 (4.38%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.72%) Cypress.io
9 16 (3.50%) Bitbucket
10 15 (3.28%) Gradle
11 12 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.63%) JMeter
12 11 (2.41%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.97%) Mockito
14 8 (1.75%) Postman
14 8 (1.75%) Snyk
15 7 (1.53%) Terragrunt
15 7 (1.53%) TestNG
15 7 (1.53%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.35%) Finance
3 59 (12.91%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.69%) Banking
6 16 (3.50%) Retail
7 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.63%) Law
9 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.31%) Back Office
10 6 (1.31%) Marketing
11 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.09%) Local Government
12 4 (0.88%) Front Office
12 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Police
13 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (23.41%) Senior
2 88 (19.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (16.85%) Developer
4 44 (9.63%) Lead
5 39 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.32%) AWS Engineer
7 35 (7.66%) Architect
8 31 (6.78%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.03%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.16%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (4.16%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.94%) Java Developer
13 18 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (58.64%) Terraform
2 84 (18.38%) REST
3 68 (14.88%) Kafka
4 61 (13.35%) RESTful
5 43 (9.41%) React
6 41 (8.97%) Spring
7 37 (8.10%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.56%) .NET
9 27 (5.91%) PySpark
10 26 (5.69%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.25%) Playwright
12 20 (4.38%) OAuth
13 18 (3.94%) Node.js
13 18 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.72%) Flask
14 17 (3.72%) pytest
15 16 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (3.50%) OAuth2
16 15 (3.28%) Loki
17 14 (3.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.84%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.72%) Linux
2 18 (3.94%) Windows
3 12 (2.63%) Unix
4 11 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.97%) Android
6 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (90.59%) CI/CD
2 312 (68.27%) DevOps
3 245 (53.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (35.67%) Agile
5 130 (28.45%) Containerisation
6 125 (27.35%) Observability
7 122 (26.70%) Test Automation
8 100 (21.88%) Microservices
9 92 (20.13%) AI
10 80 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (16.19%) Software Engineering
12 71 (15.54%) Event-Driven
13 59 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (12.04%) DevSecOps
14 55 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (11.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 53 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
17 52 (11.38%) Mentoring
18 51 (11.16%) Analytics
18 51 (11.16%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 236 (51.64%) Python
2 111 (24.29%) SQL
3 88 (19.26%) Bash
4 84 (18.38%) Java
5 60 (13.13%) PowerShell
5 60 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 47 (10.28%) Bicep
6 47 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 43 (9.41%) C#
8 18 (3.94%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.72%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.28%) Go
11 10 (2.19%) Swift
12 9 (1.97%) Objective-C
12 9 (1.97%) Ruby
13 5 (1.09%) Groovy
14 4 (0.88%) C
14 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.66%) ABAP
15 3 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (38.29%) Security Cleared
2 165 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.32%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.63%) Degree
7 10 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.22%) CCNA
13 1 (0.22%) CCNP
13 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.54%) QA
2 33 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.75%) NIST
5 7 (1.53%) GDPR
5 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) WCAG
7 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 195 (42.67%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 214 (46.83%) Kubernetes
2 82 (17.94%) Grafana
3 73 (15.97%) Prometheus
4 55 (12.04%) Ansible
5 22 (4.81%) Argo
6 11 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 11 (2.41%) Puppet
7 7 (1.53%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.88%) Cilium
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) 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 74 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.72%) Databricks
3 27 (5.91%) Google
4 25 (5.47%) Splunk
5 21 (4.60%) Oracle
6 20 (4.38%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.72%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.41%) New Relic
8 11 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.19%) Foundry
10 9 (1.97%) VMware
11 8 (1.75%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.75%) SAP
12 7 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.09%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.88%) Confluent
15 4 (0.88%) Okta
15 4 (0.88%) SaltStack