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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 214 308
Rank change year-on-year +87 +94 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 373 135 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.08% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.90% 2.53% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 91 58
10th Percentile £393 £447 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +8.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £729 £638
90th Percentile £711 £850 £744
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%
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 7,615 5,326 6,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.65% 42.46% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,705 5,029
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 53 69
10th Percentile £19.12 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%
75th Percentile £53.94 £48.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.55 £72.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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 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 7 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 48 £588 +4.21% 27
West London -12 13 £605 +7.08% 5
South London - 10 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 6
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 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.88%) Confluence
4 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.80%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 373 (100.00%) GitHub
2 202 (54.16%) Azure
3 199 (53.35%) AWS
4 130 (34.85%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (20.11%) Serverless
6 64 (17.16%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (15.01%) GCP
8 54 (14.48%) Amazon S3
9 48 (12.87%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (12.06%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (10.72%) Azure AKS
12 39 (10.46%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (9.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (9.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (8.85%) AWS CodePipeline
15 29 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (6.43%) Azure Key Vault
17 23 (6.17%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.97%) Firewall
2 18 (4.83%) DNS
2 18 (4.83%) Network Security
3 7 (1.88%) VPN
4 3 (0.80%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.77%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.90%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.36%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.83%) Power BI
6 16 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.29%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.49%) Big Data
9 12 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.95%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.68%) Redis
12 9 (2.41%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.88%) MySQL
15 6 (1.61%) Flink
15 6 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 132 (35.39%) Jenkins
2 78 (20.91%) GitLab
3 48 (12.87%) Git
4 20 (5.36%) JUnit
5 18 (4.83%) MLflow
6 17 (4.56%) JIRA
7 14 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.75%) Mockito
8 12 (3.22%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.22%) Selenium
9 10 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.68%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.41%) Postman
11 7 (1.88%) Gatling
11 7 (1.88%) Gradle
11 7 (1.88%) JMeter
11 7 (1.88%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.88%) Snyk
12 6 (1.61%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.34%) TestRail
General
1 69 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.82%) Finance
3 38 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.17%) Banking
6 9 (2.41%) Front Office
6 9 (2.41%) Retail
7 7 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.54%) Law
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Police
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Aviation
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (20.11%) Senior
2 73 (19.57%) Developer
3 59 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (11.26%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.58%) Lead
6 30 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 27 (7.24%) Architect
9 22 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.63%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.36%) Java Developer
12 19 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.56%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.02%) Azure Developer
15 13 (3.49%) AWS Developer
15 13 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (3.22%) Python Developer
17 11 (2.95%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.09%) Kafka
2 47 (12.60%) REST
3 44 (11.80%) React
4 41 (10.99%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.72%) Spring
6 37 (9.92%) .NET
7 32 (8.58%) RESTful
8 30 (8.04%) PySpark
9 23 (6.17%) Node.js
10 22 (5.90%) AngularJS
10 22 (5.90%) Playwright
11 20 (5.36%) Pandas
12 16 (4.29%) FastAPI
13 15 (4.02%) .NET Framework
13 15 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.75%) AWS CDK
15 12 (3.22%) Flask
15 12 (3.22%) OAuth
15 12 (3.22%) Web Services
16 11 (2.95%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 88 (23.59%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.95%) AI Agents
3 11 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.41%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.92%) Linux
2 16 (4.29%) Unix
2 16 (4.29%) Windows
3 11 (2.95%) VMS
4 5 (1.34%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (89.54%) CI/CD
2 239 (64.08%) DevOps
3 186 (49.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (31.10%) Agile
5 112 (30.03%) Containerisation
6 102 (27.35%) Observability
7 75 (20.11%) Microservices
8 72 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 64 (17.16%) Platform Engineering
10 63 (16.89%) AI
10 63 (16.89%) Analytics
11 57 (15.28%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 56 (15.01%) Data Engineering
13 49 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.99%) Migration
16 39 (10.46%) Machine Learning
17 38 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
18 37 (9.92%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 172 (46.11%) Python
2 106 (28.42%) SQL
3 65 (17.43%) Java
4 56 (15.01%) C#
5 42 (11.26%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.46%) PowerShell
7 38 (10.19%) TypeScript
8 35 (9.38%) Bicep
9 32 (8.58%) Bash
10 21 (5.63%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.49%) Go
12 8 (2.14%) Ruby
13 7 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.61%) Scala
15 5 (1.34%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.80%) XPath
17 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.54%) Swift
18 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 119 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 111 (29.76%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.22%) Degree
5 11 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.58%) QA
2 19 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.07%) NIST
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (40.21%) Docker
2 14 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (59.79%) Terraform
2 164 (43.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.46%) Ansible
4 37 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 36 (9.65%) Grafana
6 18 (4.83%) Argo
7 9 (2.41%) Istio
8 8 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.14%) Puppet
9 7 (1.88%) Kibana
10 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.19%) Databricks
3 25 (6.70%) Google
4 16 (4.29%) Splunk
5 13 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.41%) Oracle
7 8 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.14%) New Relic
8 7 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.61%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.61%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.61%) SAP
10 5 (1.34%) Confluent
11 4 (1.07%) Foundry
11 4 (1.07%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.80%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.80%) Qualys
12 3 (0.80%) Sybase
13 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.54%) VMware