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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 225 302
Rank change year-on-year +96 +77 +42
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 367 136 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.08% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 2.55% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 92 58
10th Percentile £392 £449 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +9.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £727 £638
90th Percentile £713 £845 £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 7,606 5,330 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 42.40% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,240 3,707 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £439 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 53 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.58 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £72.50 £59.88
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +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 6 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 6 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 48 £588 +4.21% 20
West London -14 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 10 £500 - 1
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 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.72%) Apache
4 8 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.91%) Confluence
5 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) 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
1 367 (100.00%) GitHub
2 198 (53.95%) Azure
3 196 (53.41%) AWS
4 128 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (19.89%) Serverless
6 62 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (14.99%) GCP
9 53 (14.44%) Amazon S3
10 48 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.99%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (11.17%) Azure AKS
13 40 (10.90%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (9.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (9.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (8.99%) AWS CodePipeline
17 28 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (6.81%) Azure Key Vault
19 23 (6.27%) Entra ID
19 23 (6.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.08%) Firewall
2 18 (4.90%) Network Security
3 17 (4.63%) DNS
4 7 (1.91%) VPN
5 3 (0.82%) HTTP
6 2 (0.54%) DSL
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.63%) Data Lake
2 24 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.45%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.36%) Power BI
7 15 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (4.09%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.54%) Big Data
9 11 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.72%) Redis
11 9 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.91%) Flink
13 7 (1.91%) MySQL
13 7 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 130 (35.42%) Jenkins
2 75 (20.44%) GitLab
3 48 (13.08%) Git
4 18 (4.90%) JIRA
4 18 (4.90%) JUnit
4 18 (4.90%) MLflow
5 14 (3.81%) Cypress.io
6 13 (3.54%) Mockito
7 12 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 12 (3.27%) Selenium
8 10 (2.72%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.45%) Postman
10 7 (1.91%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.91%) Snyk
11 6 (1.63%) Gatling
11 6 (1.63%) JMeter
11 6 (1.63%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.36%) Gradle
12 5 (1.36%) TestRail
General
1 67 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.08%) Finance
3 38 (10.35%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.54%) Banking
5 23 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.72%) Front Office
7 9 (2.45%) Retail
8 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (19.62%) Senior
2 71 (19.35%) Developer
3 59 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.72%) Lead
6 30 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (7.36%) Architect
9 23 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.45%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.63%) Site Engineer
12 15 (4.09%) Azure Developer
13 13 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.27%) AWS Developer
14 12 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.27%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.08%) Kafka
2 44 (11.99%) REST
3 42 (11.44%) React
4 40 (10.90%) Spring Boot
5 39 (10.63%) Spring
6 36 (9.81%) .NET
7 30 (8.17%) RESTful
8 28 (7.63%) PySpark
9 23 (6.27%) Node.js
10 22 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 22 (5.99%) Playwright
11 19 (5.18%) Pandas
12 15 (4.09%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.81%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.81%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.54%) OAuth
15 12 (3.27%) Web Services
16 11 (3.00%) JSON
16 11 (3.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.72%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.18%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) 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
11 1 (0.27%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.81%) Linux
2 16 (4.36%) Windows
3 15 (4.09%) Unix
4 11 (3.00%) VMS
5 4 (1.09%) Android
6 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (89.37%) CI/CD
2 237 (64.58%) DevOps
3 185 (50.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (31.06%) Agile
5 110 (29.97%) Containerisation
6 101 (27.52%) Observability
7 73 (19.89%) Microservices
8 70 (19.07%) Test Automation
9 65 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
10 63 (17.17%) AI
11 61 (16.62%) Analytics
12 57 (15.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 55 (14.99%) Data Engineering
13 55 (14.99%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (11.17%) Migration
16 39 (10.63%) Machine Learning
17 37 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
18 36 (9.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 172 (46.87%) Python
2 104 (28.34%) SQL
3 65 (17.71%) Java
4 53 (14.44%) C#
5 42 (11.44%) JavaScript
6 40 (10.90%) PowerShell
7 37 (10.08%) TypeScript
8 35 (9.54%) Bicep
9 33 (8.99%) Bash
10 20 (5.45%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.54%) Go
12 8 (2.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.18%) Ruby
13 6 (1.63%) Scala
14 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.82%) XPath
16 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.54%) Swift
17 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 115 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 107 (29.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.27%) Degree
5 11 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.09%) 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 (8.72%) QA
2 19 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) 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
1 147 (40.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 221 (60.22%) Terraform
2 161 (43.87%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.35%) Ansible
4 35 (9.54%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.26%) Grafana
6 19 (5.18%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Istio
8 8 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.18%) Puppet
9 7 (1.91%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.82%) 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 69 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.08%) Databricks
3 25 (6.81%) Google
4 15 (4.09%) Splunk
5 14 (3.81%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle
7 8 (2.18%) New Relic
8 7 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.63%) SAP
10 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.36%) Confluent
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.82%) Qualys
12 3 (0.82%) Sybase
13 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.54%) VMware