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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 189 297
Rank change year-on-year +56 +108 +63
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 435 194 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 1.43% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.20% 3.34% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 121 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 8,371 5,814 6,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,717 3,991 4,796
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 86 51
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -46.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.63
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%

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 7 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 7 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 +13 55 £600 -4.00% 15
South London - 12 £518 - 3
West London -10 9 £560 -0.88% 5
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 32 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.52%) Confluence
3 14 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.53%) 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%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.92%) Trello
2 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.69%) Findur
2 3 (0.69%) SAP BPC
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 435 (100.00%) GitHub
2 259 (59.54%) Azure
3 235 (54.02%) AWS
4 168 (38.62%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (14.71%) Amazon S3
6 63 (14.48%) Serverless
7 60 (13.79%) GCP
8 55 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (11.95%) Azure Monitor
10 51 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 44 (10.11%) Azure AKS
12 42 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (7.82%) Entra ID
15 33 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (6.44%) Snowflake
17 27 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (6.21%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.83%) VPN
2 17 (3.91%) Firewall
3 16 (3.68%) DNS
4 12 (2.76%) Network Security
5 5 (1.15%) Internet
6 3 (0.69%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.69%) SSH
6 3 (0.69%) SSL
6 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.46%) DSL
7 2 (0.46%) HTTP
7 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.46%) WAN
8 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.75%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 24 (5.52%) Data Lake
5 22 (5.06%) Power BI
6 20 (4.60%) Redis
7 19 (4.37%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.22%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (2.53%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.53%) Metadata
13 10 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.84%) Big Data
15 8 (1.84%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (37.24%) Jenkins
2 117 (26.90%) GitLab
3 58 (13.33%) Git
4 31 (7.13%) JIRA
5 26 (5.98%) JUnit
5 26 (5.98%) Selenium
6 23 (5.29%) CircleCI
7 19 (4.37%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 15 (3.45%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.22%) REST Assured
10 13 (2.99%) Gradle
10 13 (2.99%) MLflow
11 12 (2.76%) Mockito
12 10 (2.30%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.07%) Snyk
14 8 (1.84%) JMeter
15 7 (1.61%) Appium
15 7 (1.61%) TestNG
15 7 (1.61%) XCUITest
General
1 86 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.54%) Finance
3 63 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.44%) Banking
6 13 (2.99%) Retail
7 12 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.76%) Law
8 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
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%) Front Office
12 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.69%) Police
12 3 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 92 (21.15%) Senior
2 80 (18.39%) Developer
3 77 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.66%) Lead
5 40 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Architect
9 26 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.75%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.83%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.91%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.22%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.16%) REST
2 61 (14.02%) Kafka
3 56 (12.87%) RESTful
4 41 (9.43%) Spring
5 40 (9.20%) React
6 37 (8.51%) Spring Boot
7 33 (7.59%) .NET
8 28 (6.44%) Playwright
9 27 (6.21%) PySpark
10 22 (5.06%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.45%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.45%) Node.js
11 15 (3.45%) Pandas
12 14 (3.22%) Flask
12 14 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.99%) OAuth
13 13 (2.99%) pytest
13 13 (2.99%) YAML
14 12 (2.76%) ARM Templates
14 12 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 103 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.07%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.69%) IoT
12 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.74%) Linux
2 18 (4.14%) Windows
3 16 (3.68%) Unix
4 11 (2.53%) Android
4 11 (2.53%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (91.26%) CI/CD
2 291 (66.90%) DevOps
3 220 (50.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (36.55%) Agile
5 126 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 121 (27.82%) Test Automation
7 108 (24.83%) Observability
8 96 (22.07%) Microservices
9 76 (17.47%) Platform Engineering
10 65 (14.94%) AI
11 59 (13.56%) Analytics
12 58 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 58 (13.33%) Software Engineering
13 56 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
14 52 (11.95%) DevSecOps
15 49 (11.26%) Mentoring
16 48 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (10.34%) Data Engineering
18 44 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 204 (46.90%) Python
2 115 (26.44%) SQL
3 82 (18.85%) Java
4 72 (16.55%) Bash
5 63 (14.48%) PowerShell
6 55 (12.64%) C#
7 53 (12.18%) TypeScript
8 44 (10.11%) Bicep
9 42 (9.66%) JavaScript
10 23 (5.29%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.68%) Kotlin
12 14 (3.22%) Go
13 9 (2.07%) Ruby
13 9 (2.07%) Swift
14 7 (1.61%) Objective-C
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
17 3 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 166 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 154 (35.40%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.82%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.68%) Degree
5 13 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMP
12 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.25%) QA
2 26 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) NIST
6 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.15%) WCAG
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 184 (42.30%) 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%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 247 (56.78%) Terraform
2 194 (44.60%) Kubernetes
3 68 (15.63%) Grafana
4 63 (14.48%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.20%) Ansible
6 19 (4.37%) Argo
7 8 (1.84%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.84%) Puppet
8 4 (0.92%) Kibana
9 3 (0.69%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.69%) Packer
9 3 (0.69%) SELinux
9 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.46%) Istio
10 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.23%) Cilium
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Nagios
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 72 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.20%) Databricks
3 21 (4.83%) Splunk
4 17 (3.91%) Google
4 17 (3.91%) Oracle
5 14 (3.22%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.30%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.84%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.84%) Foundry
9 8 (1.84%) New Relic
10 7 (1.61%) SAP
11 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.38%) VMware
12 5 (1.15%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.92%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.92%) Palantir
13 4 (0.92%) Sybase