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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 159 291
Rank change year-on-year +27 +132 +67
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 454 238 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 1.78% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 4.12% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 156 66
10th Percentile £380 £356 £419
25th Percentile £447 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £819 £729
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -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 8,265 5,780 6,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.02% 43.30% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,654 3,929 4,695
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 48
10th Percentile £18.02 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -36.83%
75th Percentile £56.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 14 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 14 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 +2 50 £594 -8.44% 30
South London +3 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 7 £649 - 13
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 26 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.51%) Confluence
3 9 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.32%) Apache
6 4 (0.88%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Findur
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
1 454 (100.00%) GitHub
2 258 (56.83%) Azure
3 248 (54.63%) AWS
4 163 (35.90%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (16.96%) Serverless
6 75 (16.52%) Amazon S3
7 72 (15.86%) GCP
8 65 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (10.57%) Azure Monitor
11 46 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (10.13%) Azure AKS
12 39 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (8.37%) Snowflake
14 37 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (8.15%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (7.05%) Entra ID
16 31 (6.83%) Power Platform
17 24 (5.29%) dbt
18 22 (4.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.41%) DNS
1 20 (4.41%) VPN
2 16 (3.52%) Firewall
3 11 (2.42%) Network Security
4 4 (0.88%) Internet
5 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.66%) SSH
5 3 (0.66%) SSL
5 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.44%) DHCP
6 2 (0.44%) HTTP
6 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.44%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.22%) DSL
7 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.22%) INAP
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.05%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.95%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.51%) Power BI
5 24 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.63%) Redis
7 19 (4.19%) Data Lake
7 19 (4.19%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.52%) Delta Lake
10 15 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.42%) Metadata
13 10 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.54%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 171 (37.67%) Jenkins
2 120 (26.43%) GitLab
3 70 (15.42%) Git
4 27 (5.95%) JIRA
5 24 (5.29%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.29%) Selenium
6 22 (4.85%) JUnit
7 19 (4.19%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.74%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.30%) Gradle
10 14 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.64%) Cucumber
12 11 (2.42%) JMeter
12 11 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.98%) Mockito
14 8 (1.76%) Postman
14 8 (1.76%) Snyk
15 7 (1.54%) Terragrunt
15 7 (1.54%) TestNG
15 7 (1.54%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.04%) Finance
3 58 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.51%) Banking
6 16 (3.52%) Retail
7 15 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.64%) Law
9 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.32%) Marketing
10 6 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.88%) Back Office
11 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.88%) Local Government
12 3 (0.66%) Billing
12 3 (0.66%) Legal
12 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.66%) Police
12 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (23.13%) Senior
2 87 (19.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (16.96%) Developer
4 43 (9.47%) Lead
5 38 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
7 33 (7.27%) Architect
8 29 (6.39%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.07%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.41%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.96%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (57.49%) Terraform
2 81 (17.84%) REST
3 67 (14.76%) Kafka
4 62 (13.66%) RESTful
5 42 (9.25%) React
6 41 (9.03%) Spring
7 37 (8.15%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.61%) .NET
9 27 (5.95%) FastAPI
10 26 (5.73%) PySpark
11 24 (5.29%) Playwright
12 19 (4.19%) OAuth
13 18 (3.96%) Flask
14 17 (3.74%) Node.js
15 16 (3.52%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.52%) pytest
15 16 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.30%) Loki
17 14 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.76%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.88%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.01%) Linux
2 18 (3.96%) Windows
3 13 (2.86%) Unix
4 11 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.98%) Android
6 7 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.32%) 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
1 413 (90.97%) CI/CD
2 308 (67.84%) DevOps
3 239 (52.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (36.12%) Agile
5 130 (28.63%) Containerisation
6 124 (27.31%) Test Automation
7 122 (26.87%) Observability
8 99 (21.81%) Microservices
9 87 (19.16%) AI
10 79 (17.40%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (16.30%) Software Engineering
12 68 (14.98%) Event-Driven
13 59 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (12.11%) DevSecOps
15 54 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
17 52 (11.45%) Analytics
17 52 (11.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 51 (11.23%) Scrum
19 50 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (51.32%) Python
2 112 (24.67%) SQL
3 89 (19.60%) Bash
4 84 (18.50%) Java
5 60 (13.22%) PowerShell
6 59 (13.00%) TypeScript
7 46 (10.13%) JavaScript
8 45 (9.91%) Bicep
9 44 (9.69%) C#
10 18 (3.96%) Kotlin
10 18 (3.96%) Shell Script
11 15 (3.30%) Go
12 10 (2.20%) Swift
13 9 (1.98%) Objective-C
13 9 (1.98%) Ruby
14 5 (1.10%) Groovy
15 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.66%) ABAP
16 3 (0.66%) C
16 3 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 165 (36.34%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.15%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.86%) Degree
5 13 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) CCNA
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.64%) QA
2 32 (7.05%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.76%) NIST
5 7 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.32%) GDPR
7 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.88%) WCAG
8 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 196 (43.17%) Docker
2 14 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 210 (46.26%) Kubernetes
2 79 (17.40%) Grafana
3 71 (15.64%) Prometheus
4 53 (11.67%) Ansible
5 22 (4.85%) Argo
6 10 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.20%) Puppet
7 7 (1.54%) 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 75 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.13%) Databricks
3 26 (5.73%) Google
4 24 (5.29%) Splunk
5 21 (4.63%) Oracle
6 18 (3.96%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.74%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.20%) Foundry
9 10 (2.20%) New Relic
10 8 (1.76%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.76%) SAP
10 8 (1.76%) VMware
11 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.10%) Checkmarx
12 5 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.88%) Confluent
13 4 (0.88%) Okta
14 3 (0.66%) Zscaler