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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 216 306
Rank change year-on-year +84 +90 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 361 132 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 1.07% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.81% 2.52% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 90 57
10th Percentile £391 £445 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £573 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +6.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £732 £650
90th Percentile £710 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 7,498 5,244 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.45% 42.42% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,174 3,623 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
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% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 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 13 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 +17 47 £600 +6.43% 26
West London -15 13 £605 +7.08% 4
South London - 8 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 7
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 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.49%) Apache
4 7 (1.94%) Confluence
4 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 361 (100.00%) GitHub
2 195 (54.02%) Azure
3 194 (53.74%) AWS
4 125 (34.63%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (20.50%) Serverless
6 64 (17.73%) AWS Lambda
7 55 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (15.24%) GCP
8 54 (14.96%) Amazon S3
9 45 (12.47%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.97%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (9.70%) Azure AKS
13 33 (9.14%) AWS CodePipeline
13 33 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (6.37%) Power Platform
16 20 (5.54%) Azure Key Vault
17 19 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.93%) Firewall
2 18 (4.99%) DNS
3 17 (4.71%) Network Security
4 7 (1.94%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) DSL
5 2 (0.55%) HTTP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
5 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.76%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.54%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.99%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.99%) Power BI
6 16 (4.43%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.60%) Big Data
9 12 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (3.05%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.77%) Redis
12 9 (2.49%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.94%) MySQL
15 6 (1.66%) Metadata
16 5 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 128 (35.46%) Jenkins
2 77 (21.33%) GitLab
3 46 (12.74%) Git
4 20 (5.54%) JUnit
5 18 (4.99%) MLflow
6 16 (4.43%) JIRA
7 14 (3.88%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.88%) Mockito
8 11 (3.05%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.05%) Selenium
9 10 (2.77%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.77%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.22%) Postman
11 7 (1.94%) Gatling
11 7 (1.94%) Gradle
11 7 (1.94%) JMeter
11 7 (1.94%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.94%) Snyk
12 5 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.51%) Finance
3 37 (10.25%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.09%) Banking
6 9 (2.49%) Retail
7 8 (2.22%) Front Office
8 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.55%) Law
12 2 (0.55%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Police
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (19.39%) Developer
1 70 (19.39%) Senior
2 57 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 38 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (8.86%) Lead
6 29 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (7.20%) Architect
8 25 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 21 (5.82%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.54%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.88%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.32%) Azure Developer
14 12 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.32%) Python Developer
15 10 (2.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.79%) Kafka
2 46 (12.74%) REST
3 42 (11.63%) React
4 39 (10.80%) Spring Boot
5 38 (10.53%) Spring
6 34 (9.42%) .NET
7 32 (8.86%) RESTful
8 30 (8.31%) PySpark
9 21 (5.82%) Playwright
10 20 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 20 (5.54%) Node.js
10 20 (5.54%) Pandas
11 16 (4.43%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.16%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.88%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.88%) AWS CDK
14 12 (3.32%) Flask
14 12 (3.32%) Web Services
15 11 (3.05%) pytest
15 11 (3.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 84 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.49%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) IoT
10 2 (0.55%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.25%) Linux
2 16 (4.43%) Unix
2 16 (4.43%) Windows
3 11 (3.05%) VMS
4 5 (1.39%) Android
5 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (89.20%) CI/CD
2 229 (63.43%) DevOps
3 179 (49.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (30.75%) Agile
5 106 (29.36%) Containerisation
6 98 (27.15%) Observability
7 71 (19.67%) Test Automation
8 69 (19.11%) Microservices
9 61 (16.90%) Analytics
9 61 (16.90%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (16.34%) AI
11 56 (15.51%) Data Engineering
12 55 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (14.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 46 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (10.80%) Migration
17 38 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
18 36 (9.97%) Event-Driven
19 35 (9.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 163 (45.15%) Python
2 102 (28.25%) SQL
3 61 (16.90%) Java
4 52 (14.40%) C#
5 40 (11.08%) JavaScript
6 38 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 38 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 33 (9.14%) Bicep
8 32 (8.86%) Bash
9 21 (5.82%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.77%) Go
11 7 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.94%) Ruby
12 6 (1.66%) Scala
13 5 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.55%) Swift
15 2 (0.55%) XPath
16 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 109 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.32%) Degree
5 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.49%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.86%) QA
2 19 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.83%) 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 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 146 (40.44%) Docker
2 13 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.55%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 214 (59.28%) Terraform
2 155 (42.94%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.80%) Ansible
4 35 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 33 (9.14%) Grafana
6 14 (3.88%) Argo
7 9 (2.49%) Istio
8 8 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.22%) Puppet
9 7 (1.94%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.42%) Databricks
3 24 (6.65%) Google
4 13 (3.60%) Splunk
5 10 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.49%) Oracle
7 8 (2.22%) New Relic
8 7 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.66%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.66%) SAP
10 5 (1.39%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.11%) Confluent
11 4 (1.11%) Foundry
11 4 (1.11%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.83%) Sybase
13 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.55%) VMware
14 1 (0.28%) Perforce