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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 212 307
Rank change year-on-year +82 +95 +41
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 411 161 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.19% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 2.78% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 94 60
10th Percentile £400 £404 £413
25th Percentile £450 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +9.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £626 £734 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% +6.19% -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 £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -47.74%

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 8,247 5,790 7,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.74% 42.84% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,933 5,162
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.44 £25.01 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +20 51 £600 +4.80% 15
West London -9 8 £560 -0.88% 4
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
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 30 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.62%) Confluence
3 17 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.95%) Apache
5 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.97%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Findur
2 3 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) GitHub
2 226 (54.99%) AWS
3 224 (54.50%) Azure
4 143 (34.79%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (16.55%) Serverless
6 67 (16.30%) Amazon S3
7 55 (13.38%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (13.14%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (11.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (11.44%) GCP
10 45 (10.95%) Azure Monitor
11 43 (10.46%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (8.27%) Azure AKS
14 29 (7.06%) Entra ID
15 28 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (6.81%) AWS CodePipeline
16 24 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (5.60%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.38%) VPN
2 16 (3.89%) Firewall
3 14 (3.41%) DNS
3 14 (3.41%) Network Security
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.49%) DSL
5 2 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.49%) WAN
6 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.24%) NFC
6 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.57%) Data Lake
3 22 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.38%) Delta Lake
7 17 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.89%) Power BI
9 14 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.41%) DynamoDB
9 14 (3.41%) Redis
10 13 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.43%) Big Data
14 9 (2.19%) BigQuery
14 9 (2.19%) Metadata
15 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 144 (35.04%) Jenkins
2 97 (23.60%) GitLab
3 51 (12.41%) Git
4 30 (7.30%) JUnit
5 26 (6.33%) JIRA
6 21 (5.11%) CircleCI
7 19 (4.62%) Selenium
8 17 (4.14%) Cypress.io
9 16 (3.89%) Gradle
10 15 (3.65%) MLflow
10 15 (3.65%) Mockito
11 13 (3.16%) REST Assured
12 12 (2.92%) Cucumber
13 11 (2.68%) SonarQube
14 10 (2.43%) Bitbucket
15 9 (2.19%) JMeter
16 7 (1.70%) Postman
16 7 (1.70%) Snyk
17 6 (1.46%) Maven
17 6 (1.46%) TestNG
General
1 89 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.03%) Finance
3 56 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.84%) Banking
6 13 (3.16%) Retail
7 12 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.68%) Law
9 7 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.97%) Legal
10 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.73%) Front Office
11 3 (0.73%) Local Government
11 3 (0.73%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.73%) Police
12 2 (0.49%) Back Office
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (20.44%) Senior
2 75 (18.25%) Developer
2 75 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (9.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (9.00%) Lead
5 35 (8.52%) Data Engineer
6 32 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (7.54%) Architect
8 28 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.84%) Java Developer
9 24 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.65%) Python Developer
11 15 (3.65%) Test Engineer
12 14 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.92%) AWS Developer
13 12 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.55%) REST
2 64 (15.57%) Kafka
3 51 (12.41%) RESTful
4 39 (9.49%) React
5 37 (9.00%) Spring
5 37 (9.00%) Spring Boot
6 30 (7.30%) .NET
7 28 (6.81%) PySpark
8 23 (5.60%) Playwright
9 20 (4.87%) FastAPI
10 16 (3.89%) Pandas
11 15 (3.65%) .NET Framework
12 14 (3.41%) AWS CDK
12 14 (3.41%) Node.js
12 14 (3.41%) OAuth
13 13 (3.16%) AngularJS
14 12 (2.92%) Flask
14 12 (2.92%) OAuth2
14 12 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (2.92%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 100 (24.33%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.92%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.19%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.73%) IoT
12 3 (0.73%) NHS
12 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.00%) Linux
2 21 (5.11%) Windows
3 16 (3.89%) Unix
4 10 (2.43%) Android
5 9 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.46%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (90.02%) CI/CD
2 265 (64.48%) DevOps
3 210 (51.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (33.58%) Agile
5 118 (28.71%) Containerisation
6 104 (25.30%) Observability
7 99 (24.09%) Test Automation
8 82 (19.95%) Microservices
9 80 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
10 61 (14.84%) Analytics
11 55 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
13 52 (12.65%) Event-Driven
14 51 (12.41%) AI
15 47 (11.44%) Mentoring
16 46 (11.19%) Data Engineering
17 44 (10.71%) Software Engineering
18 43 (10.46%) DevSecOps
19 41 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
20 37 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (45.50%) Python
2 113 (27.49%) SQL
3 73 (17.76%) Java
4 60 (14.60%) Bash
5 54 (13.14%) PowerShell
6 49 (11.92%) C#
7 47 (11.44%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.49%) JavaScript
9 38 (9.25%) Bicep
10 22 (5.35%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.92%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.43%) Go
13 9 (2.19%) Ruby
14 8 (1.95%) Swift
15 6 (1.46%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.46%) Scala
16 5 (1.22%) Groovy
16 5 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 153 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 142 (34.55%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.35%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.89%) Degree
5 10 (2.43%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.90%) QA
2 24 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
5 5 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.97%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.49%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 168 (40.88%) Docker
2 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 239 (58.15%) Terraform
2 174 (42.34%) Kubernetes
3 59 (14.36%) Grafana
4 55 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 32 (7.79%) Ansible
6 15 (3.65%) Argo
7 8 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.95%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.97%) Istio
10 3 (0.73%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.24%) linkerd
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.79%) Databricks
3 20 (4.87%) Splunk
4 19 (4.62%) Oracle
5 13 (3.16%) Google
6 12 (2.92%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.95%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.95%) Foundry
9 8 (1.95%) New Relic
10 7 (1.70%) SAP
11 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.22%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.22%) Sybase
13 4 (0.97%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.97%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.97%) Palantir
14 3 (0.73%) Perfecto Mobile
14 3 (0.73%) Zscaler