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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 178 291
Rank change year-on-year +44 +113 +62
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 439 197 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.18% 1.45% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.27% 3.39% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 124 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
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 8,334 5,812 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.34% 42.82% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 3,993 4,780
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 52
10th Percentile £19.10 £23.00 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 11 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 11 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 +4 54 £594 -5.00% 16
South London +3 14 £495 +10.00% 3
West London -9 9 £560 -0.88% 8
East London - 1 £432 - 1
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 33 (7.52%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.47%) Confluence
3 13 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.73%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.28%) Apache
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.91%) nginx
7 4 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.46%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.91%) Trello
2 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.68%) Findur
2 3 (0.68%) 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
1 439 (100.00%) GitHub
2 263 (59.91%) Azure
3 239 (54.44%) AWS
4 168 (38.27%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (15.03%) Serverless
6 65 (14.81%) Amazon S3
7 63 (14.35%) GCP
8 57 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (10.25%) Azure AKS
12 44 (10.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (9.34%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (7.74%) Entra ID
16 33 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (7.06%) Snowflake
18 28 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (6.38%) Power Platform
19 21 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.78%) VPN
2 17 (3.87%) DNS
2 17 (3.87%) Firewall
3 11 (2.51%) Network Security
4 5 (1.14%) Internet
5 3 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.68%) SSH
5 3 (0.68%) SSL
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.46%) DSL
6 2 (0.46%) HTTP
6 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.15%) MongoDB
2 27 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.69%) Data Lake
4 24 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 23 (5.24%) Power BI
6 21 (4.78%) Redis
7 20 (4.56%) Delta Lake
8 19 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.19%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (2.51%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.51%) Metadata
13 10 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.82%) Big Data
16 7 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 166 (37.81%) Jenkins
2 119 (27.11%) GitLab
3 60 (13.67%) Git
4 29 (6.61%) JIRA
5 27 (6.15%) Selenium
6 26 (5.92%) JUnit
7 23 (5.24%) CircleCI
8 19 (4.33%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.42%) Bitbucket
9 15 (3.42%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.96%) Gradle
10 13 (2.96%) MLflow
10 13 (2.96%) REST Assured
11 12 (2.73%) Mockito
12 11 (2.51%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.05%) JMeter
13 9 (2.05%) Snyk
14 8 (1.82%) Postman
15 7 (1.59%) TestNG
15 7 (1.59%) XCUITest
General
1 86 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.36%) Finance
3 64 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.61%) Banking
6 13 (2.96%) Retail
7 12 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.73%) Law
8 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Billing
12 3 (0.68%) Front Office
12 3 (0.68%) Local Government
12 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.68%) Police
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (21.18%) Senior
2 80 (18.22%) Developer
3 76 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (9.79%) Lead
5 39 (8.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (6.61%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.69%) Architect
10 25 (5.69%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.01%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.78%) Java Developer
13 17 (3.87%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.42%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.77%) REST
2 65 (14.81%) Kafka
3 57 (12.98%) RESTful
4 41 (9.34%) React
4 41 (9.34%) Spring
5 37 (8.43%) Spring Boot
6 34 (7.74%) .NET
7 27 (6.15%) PySpark
8 26 (5.92%) Playwright
9 23 (5.24%) FastAPI
10 15 (3.42%) .NET Framework
10 15 (3.42%) Flask
10 15 (3.42%) Node.js
10 15 (3.42%) Pandas
11 14 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.19%) OAuth
11 14 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (2.96%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.96%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.28%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.05%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.68%) IoT
10 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.11%) Linux
2 18 (4.10%) Windows
3 16 (3.64%) Unix
4 11 (2.51%) Android
4 11 (2.51%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (91.12%) CI/CD
2 293 (66.74%) DevOps
3 222 (50.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (36.45%) Agile
5 129 (29.38%) Containerisation
6 122 (27.79%) Test Automation
7 111 (25.28%) Observability
8 99 (22.55%) Microservices
9 77 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (15.72%) AI
11 61 (13.90%) Software Engineering
12 60 (13.67%) Analytics
12 60 (13.67%) Event-Driven
13 57 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (12.07%) DevSecOps
16 51 (11.62%) Mentoring
17 48 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
18 46 (10.48%) Data Engineering
19 45 (10.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 212 (48.29%) Python
2 118 (26.88%) SQL
3 84 (19.13%) Java
4 74 (16.86%) Bash
5 64 (14.58%) PowerShell
6 54 (12.30%) C#
6 54 (12.30%) TypeScript
7 45 (10.25%) JavaScript
8 44 (10.02%) Bicep
9 23 (5.24%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.64%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.73%) Go
12 9 (2.05%) Ruby
12 9 (2.05%) Swift
13 7 (1.59%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.14%) Groovy
15 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 170 (38.72%) Security Cleared
2 157 (35.76%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.74%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.42%) Degree
5 13 (2.96%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.90%) QA
2 26 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.59%) GDPR
5 6 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.14%) WCAG
7 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
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
1 186 (42.37%) Docker
2 13 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 250 (56.95%) Terraform
2 197 (44.87%) Kubernetes
3 70 (15.95%) Grafana
4 63 (14.35%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.11%) Ansible
6 19 (4.33%) Argo
7 8 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.82%) Puppet
8 4 (0.91%) Kibana
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.68%) Packer
9 3 (0.68%) SELinux
9 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
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 75 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.79%) Databricks
3 23 (5.24%) Splunk
4 18 (4.10%) Google
5 17 (3.87%) Oracle
6 16 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.51%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.28%) New Relic
10 8 (1.82%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.82%) Foundry
11 7 (1.59%) SAP
12 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.37%) VMware
13 5 (1.14%) Checkmarx
14 4 (0.91%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.91%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.91%) Sybase