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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 210 309
Rank change year-on-year +81 +99 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 401 137 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 1.11% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 2.58% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 85 61
10th Percentile £401 £434 £413
25th Percentile £451 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £625 £799 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.02%
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 7,951 5,311 6,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.06% 43.07% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,461 3,600 5,073
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.58%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £776 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 68
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £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 £55.88 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
% change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%

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 16 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 16 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 48 £600 +4.35% 8
West London -15 9 £530 -6.19% 4
South London - 5 £445 -
North London - 1 £650 -
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 32 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.49%) Confluence
4 9 (2.24%) Apache
5 8 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Findur
2 3 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.50%) 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
1 401 (100.00%) GitHub
2 217 (54.11%) AWS
3 209 (52.12%) Azure
4 139 (34.66%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (18.70%) Serverless
6 62 (15.46%) Amazon S3
6 62 (15.46%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (14.21%) GCP
8 52 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (11.47%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (10.22%) Azure Monitor
13 38 (9.48%) Azure AKS
14 29 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (6.98%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (5.99%) Power Platform
17 22 (5.49%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.49%) Firewall
2 18 (4.49%) Network Security
3 16 (3.99%) DNS
4 13 (3.24%) VPN
5 4 (1.00%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.73%) Data Lake
1 31 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.23%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.49%) Delta Lake
4 21 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.74%) Redis
6 18 (4.49%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.49%) Power BI
7 17 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.99%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.99%) Big Data
12 11 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (2.00%) Metadata
14 8 (2.00%) MySQL
15 7 (1.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 143 (35.66%) Jenkins
2 96 (23.94%) GitLab
3 52 (12.97%) Git
4 26 (6.48%) JUnit
5 20 (4.99%) JIRA
6 18 (4.49%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.49%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.74%) MLflow
8 14 (3.49%) Gradle
8 14 (3.49%) Mockito
9 13 (3.24%) Selenium
10 12 (2.99%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.24%) JMeter
12 9 (2.24%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.24%) Snyk
13 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.75%) Gatling
13 7 (1.75%) Postman
14 5 (1.25%) Maven
General
1 77 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.71%) Finance
3 43 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.74%) Banking
6 15 (3.74%) Retail
7 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.74%) Law
9 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Legal
11 3 (0.75%) Military
11 3 (0.75%) Police
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (19.70%) Senior
2 72 (17.96%) Developer
3 63 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (12.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (10.47%) Data Engineer
6 33 (8.23%) Lead
7 30 (7.48%) Architect
8 26 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.74%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.99%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (3.49%) Test Engineer
16 13 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
16 13 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 12 (2.99%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.21%) Kafka
2 64 (15.96%) REST
3 50 (12.47%) RESTful
4 45 (11.22%) React
4 45 (11.22%) Spring
4 45 (11.22%) Spring Boot
5 35 (8.73%) PySpark
6 30 (7.48%) .NET
7 20 (4.99%) Node.js
7 20 (4.99%) Pandas
7 20 (4.99%) Playwright
8 19 (4.74%) FastAPI
8 19 (4.74%) OAuth
8 19 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.24%) OAuth2
10 15 (3.74%) .NET Framework
11 14 (3.49%) AWS CDK
12 13 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (2.99%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 97 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.50%) IoT
10 2 (0.50%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.73%) Linux
2 20 (4.99%) Windows
3 15 (3.74%) Unix
4 8 (2.00%) Android
5 7 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.50%) VMS
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (89.53%) CI/CD
2 256 (63.84%) DevOps
3 201 (50.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (31.92%) Agile
5 113 (28.18%) Containerisation
6 109 (27.18%) Observability
7 86 (21.45%) Microservices
8 85 (21.20%) Test Automation
9 77 (19.20%) Platform Engineering
10 64 (15.96%) AI
11 61 (15.21%) Analytics
12 56 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (13.22%) Data Engineering
14 52 (12.97%) Mentoring
15 51 (12.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 49 (12.22%) Event-Driven
17 48 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (10.72%) Software Engineering
19 41 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 183 (45.64%) Python
2 115 (28.68%) SQL
3 72 (17.96%) Java
4 49 (12.22%) PowerShell
5 48 (11.97%) Bash
5 48 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 47 (11.72%) C#
7 40 (9.98%) JavaScript
8 39 (9.73%) Bicep
9 21 (5.24%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.49%) Go
10 10 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.75%) Ruby
12 6 (1.50%) Scala
12 6 (1.50%) Swift
13 5 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 116 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.99%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.49%) Degree
5 12 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.75%) 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 50 (12.47%) QA
2 26 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.00%) NIST
4 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 5 (1.25%) WCAG
6 3 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (39.65%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 234 (58.35%) Terraform
2 171 (42.64%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.22%) Prometheus
4 50 (12.47%) Grafana
5 41 (10.22%) Ansible
6 13 (3.24%) Argo
7 10 (2.49%) Istio
8 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.00%) Puppet
9 6 (1.50%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.25%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.25%) linkerd
11 1 (0.25%) Nagios
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.48%) Databricks
3 22 (5.49%) Google
4 16 (3.99%) Splunk
5 13 (3.24%) Oracle
6 10 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.49%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.00%) New Relic
9 7 (1.75%) Foundry
10 6 (1.50%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 5 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.25%) Sybase
12 4 (1.00%) Hortonworks
12 4 (1.00%) Palantir
13 3 (0.75%) Checkmarx
13 3 (0.75%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.75%) VMware