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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 219 309
Rank change year-on-year +87 +90 +35
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 365 134 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.08% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.81% 2.55% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 89 57
10th Percentile £400 £443 £413
25th Percentile £455 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +6.05% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £799 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -11.04%
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 £74.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -37.04% +15.71%

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 7,589 5,263 6,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.16% 42.48% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,628 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.71 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £71.88 £59.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +9 47 £600 +6.43% 18
West London -12 12 £560 -0.88% 2
South London - 7 £500 -
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 31 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.47%) Apache
4 7 (1.92%) Confluence
5 6 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) Findur
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) GitHub
2 198 (54.25%) AWS
3 194 (53.15%) Azure
4 127 (34.79%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (20.82%) Serverless
6 66 (18.08%) AWS Lambda
7 55 (15.07%) Amazon S3
8 54 (14.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (14.79%) GCP
9 42 (11.51%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (11.51%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (9.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (9.59%) Azure AKS
12 33 (9.04%) AWS CodePipeline
12 33 (9.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (9.04%) Azure Monitor
13 31 (8.49%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (5.75%) Power Platform
15 18 (4.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (4.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.03%) Firewall
2 19 (5.21%) DNS
3 16 (4.38%) Network Security
4 7 (1.92%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) DSL
5 2 (0.55%) HTTP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
5 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.40%) Data Lake
2 26 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.03%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.48%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.38%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.38%) Power BI
6 14 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (3.84%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.01%) Big Data
8 11 (3.01%) Redis
9 9 (2.47%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.92%) MySQL
12 6 (1.64%) Metadata
13 5 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 131 (35.89%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.37%) GitLab
3 47 (12.88%) Git
4 20 (5.48%) JUnit
5 18 (4.93%) MLflow
6 17 (4.66%) JIRA
7 16 (4.38%) Cypress.io
8 14 (3.84%) Mockito
9 13 (3.56%) Selenium
10 11 (3.01%) CircleCI
10 11 (3.01%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.74%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.47%) JMeter
12 9 (2.47%) Postman
13 7 (1.92%) Gatling
13 7 (1.92%) Gradle
13 7 (1.92%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.92%) Snyk
14 5 (1.37%) Zephyr
15 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.79%) Finance
3 37 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.75%) Banking
6 11 (3.01%) Retail
7 8 (2.19%) Front Office
8 7 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Law
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (19.18%) Developer
2 68 (18.63%) Senior
3 58 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (10.96%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (8.77%) Lead
7 28 (7.67%) Architect
8 25 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (6.03%) Java Developer
9 22 (6.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (5.21%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.56%) AWS Developer
12 13 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.56%) Test Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.29%) Python Developer
13 12 (3.29%) Site Engineer
14 11 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.16%) Kafka
2 47 (12.88%) REST
3 43 (11.78%) React
3 43 (11.78%) Spring Boot
4 42 (11.51%) Spring
5 36 (9.86%) RESTful
6 35 (9.59%) .NET
7 31 (8.49%) PySpark
8 21 (5.75%) Node.js
8 21 (5.75%) Pandas
9 20 (5.48%) AngularJS
9 20 (5.48%) Playwright
10 17 (4.66%) FastAPI
10 17 (4.66%) OpenTelemetry
11 15 (4.11%) .NET Framework
12 14 (3.84%) AWS CDK
13 13 (3.56%) OAuth
13 13 (3.56%) pytest
14 12 (3.29%) Flask
15 11 (3.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 80 (21.92%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.47%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.19%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) IoT
10 2 (0.55%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.41%) Linux
2 16 (4.38%) Unix
2 16 (4.38%) Windows
3 10 (2.74%) VMS
4 5 (1.37%) Android
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (89.86%) CI/CD
2 234 (64.11%) DevOps
3 178 (48.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (31.23%) Agile
5 103 (28.22%) Containerisation
6 99 (27.12%) Observability
7 76 (20.82%) Test Automation
8 73 (20.00%) Microservices
9 61 (16.71%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (16.44%) AI
11 57 (15.62%) Analytics
12 54 (14.79%) Data Engineering
13 53 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (11.51%) Event-Driven
18 39 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
19 37 (10.14%) Mentoring
20 35 (9.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 164 (44.93%) Python
2 103 (28.22%) SQL
3 64 (17.53%) Java
4 53 (14.52%) C#
5 40 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 40 (10.96%) TypeScript
6 39 (10.68%) PowerShell
7 35 (9.59%) Bicep
8 33 (9.04%) Bash
9 21 (5.75%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.47%) Go
11 8 (2.19%) Ruby
12 6 (1.64%) Scala
13 5 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.55%) Swift
15 2 (0.55%) XPath
16 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 116 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 107 (29.32%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.21%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.01%) Degree
5 10 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.68%) QA
2 20 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) WCAG
8 2 (0.55%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (41.37%) Docker
2 11 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 212 (58.08%) Terraform
2 162 (44.38%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.96%) Ansible
4 37 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 35 (9.59%) Grafana
6 14 (3.84%) Argo
7 9 (2.47%) Istio
8 8 (2.19%) Kibana
8 8 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.19%) Puppet
9 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.27%) linkerd
10 1 (0.27%) Packer
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.04%) Databricks
3 24 (6.58%) Google
4 13 (3.56%) Splunk
5 11 (3.01%) Oracle
6 10 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.19%) New Relic
8 8 (2.19%) SAP
9 7 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.37%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.37%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.37%) Foundry
11 4 (1.10%) Confluent
11 4 (1.10%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.82%) Sybase
12 3 (0.82%) Workday
13 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.55%) VMware