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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 163 296
Rank change year-on-year +34 +133 +58
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 435 220 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 1.64% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.18% 3.80% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 138 58
10th Percentile £400 £389 £425
25th Percentile £450 £467 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - -4.15%
75th Percentile £626 £698 £665
90th Percentile £675 £824 £744
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.30% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,399 5,797 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.65% 43.20% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,741 3,967 4,767
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +3 52 £594 -5.94% 13
South London +6 11 £490 +8.89% 3
West London -14 9 £650 +15.04% 6
East London - 1 £432 - 4
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 27 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.75%) Confluence
3 13 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.30%) Apache
6 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.92%) nginx
7 4 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.46%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Trello
2 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.69%) Findur
3 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 435 (100.00%) GitHub
2 256 (58.85%) Azure
3 231 (53.10%) AWS
4 163 (37.47%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (15.40%) GCP
5 67 (15.40%) Serverless
6 62 (14.25%) Amazon S3
7 55 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (11.72%) Azure Monitor
9 46 (10.57%) Azure AKS
10 42 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (8.05%) Entra ID
13 31 (7.13%) Snowflake
14 30 (6.90%) Power Platform
15 29 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (4.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.83%) VPN
2 17 (3.91%) DNS
2 17 (3.91%) Firewall
3 11 (2.53%) Network Security
4 5 (1.15%) Internet
5 3 (0.69%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.69%) SSH
5 3 (0.69%) SSL
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.46%) DSL
6 2 (0.46%) HTTP
6 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.44%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.52%) Power BI
4 23 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.37%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.37%) Redis
6 18 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.91%) Delta Lake
8 15 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.99%) Metadata
11 12 (2.76%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.84%) Big Data
13 8 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 165 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 122 (28.05%) GitLab
3 58 (13.33%) Git
4 28 (6.44%) JIRA
5 25 (5.75%) CircleCI
6 24 (5.52%) JUnit
6 24 (5.52%) Selenium
7 18 (4.14%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.22%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.99%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.99%) Gradle
10 12 (2.76%) REST Assured
11 11 (2.53%) Mockito
12 10 (2.30%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.07%) JMeter
13 9 (2.07%) MLflow
13 9 (2.07%) Snyk
13 9 (2.07%) XCUITest
14 7 (1.61%) Postman
14 7 (1.61%) XCTest
General
1 87 (20.00%) Finance
1 87 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.21%) Banking
5 13 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.76%) Law
7 11 (2.53%) Retail
8 9 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.15%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Back Office
12 3 (0.69%) Billing
12 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.69%) Police
12 3 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 88 (20.23%) Senior
2 80 (18.39%) Developer
2 80 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (9.20%) Lead
4 38 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.36%) Architect
8 28 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.52%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.06%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.37%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.37%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (57.70%) Terraform
2 81 (18.62%) REST
3 66 (15.17%) Kafka
4 59 (13.56%) RESTful
5 41 (9.43%) React
6 39 (8.97%) Spring
7 35 (8.05%) Spring Boot
8 34 (7.82%) .NET
9 28 (6.44%) PySpark
10 25 (5.75%) Playwright
11 21 (4.83%) FastAPI
12 16 (3.68%) Node.js
12 16 (3.68%) OAuth
13 15 (3.45%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.22%) ARM Templates
14 14 (3.22%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (3.22%) Flask
14 14 (3.22%) OAuth2
14 14 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.84%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.89%) Linux
2 18 (4.14%) Windows
3 16 (3.68%) Unix
4 13 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.53%) Android
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (91.72%) CI/CD
2 290 (66.67%) DevOps
3 226 (51.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (36.55%) Agile
5 126 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 121 (27.82%) Test Automation
7 112 (25.75%) Observability
8 94 (21.61%) Microservices
9 78 (17.93%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (15.86%) AI
11 62 (14.25%) Event-Driven
12 60 (13.79%) Software Engineering
13 55 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (12.18%) DevSecOps
14 53 (12.18%) Mentoring
15 52 (11.95%) Analytics
16 48 (11.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 47 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 208 (47.82%) Python
2 116 (26.67%) SQL
3 81 (18.62%) Java
4 75 (17.24%) Bash
5 64 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 56 (12.87%) TypeScript
7 50 (11.49%) C#
8 46 (10.57%) Bicep
9 44 (10.11%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.60%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.68%) Kotlin
12 13 (2.99%) Go
13 11 (2.53%) Swift
14 9 (2.07%) Objective-C
14 9 (2.07%) Ruby
15 5 (1.15%) Groovy
16 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 158 (36.32%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.99%) Degree
4 13 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.02%) QA
2 29 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.38%) GDPR
4 6 (1.38%) NIST
5 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.92%) WCAG
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 177 (40.69%) Docker
2 13 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 196 (45.06%) Kubernetes
2 73 (16.78%) Grafana
3 66 (15.17%) Prometheus
4 43 (9.89%) Ansible
5 20 (4.60%) Argo
6 8 (1.84%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.84%) Puppet
7 4 (0.92%) Karpenter
7 4 (0.92%) Kibana
8 3 (0.69%) Istio
8 3 (0.69%) Packer
8 3 (0.69%) SELinux
8 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) Cilium
9 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 76 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.57%) Databricks
3 23 (5.29%) Splunk
4 21 (4.83%) Google
5 18 (4.14%) Oracle
6 16 (3.68%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.76%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.30%) New Relic
10 8 (1.84%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.84%) Foundry
10 8 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.38%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.38%) VMware
12 5 (1.15%) SAP
13 4 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.92%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.92%) Palantir