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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 194 291
Rank change year-on-year +57 +97 +64
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 430 191 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.13% 1.40% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.15% 3.27% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 118 62
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% -8.94%
75th Percentile £626 £697 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £736
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 8,354 5,837 6,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.93% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,702 4,005 4,824
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 84 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.65 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £44.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £66.92 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.12 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +47.59% +5.67% -29.79%

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 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 6 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 +12 53 £600 -4.00% 19
South London - 12 £518 - 3
West London -7 9 £560 -0.88% 4
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 32 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.58%) Confluence
3 14 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.56%) Apache
6 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 4 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.23%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.93%) Trello
2 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.70%) Findur
2 3 (0.70%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.47%) 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
1 430 (100.00%) GitHub
2 254 (59.07%) Azure
3 234 (54.42%) AWS
4 165 (38.37%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (14.88%) Amazon S3
6 63 (14.65%) Serverless
7 59 (13.72%) GCP
8 55 (12.79%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (10.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (9.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (9.77%) Azure AKS
13 41 (9.53%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (7.67%) Entra ID
15 28 (6.51%) Snowflake
16 27 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 26 (6.05%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.88%) VPN
2 17 (3.95%) Firewall
3 16 (3.72%) DNS
4 12 (2.79%) Network Security
5 5 (1.16%) Internet
6 3 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.70%) SSH
6 3 (0.70%) SSL
6 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.47%) DSL
7 2 (0.47%) HTTP
7 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.47%) WAN
8 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.28%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.58%) Data Lake
5 23 (5.35%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.88%) Power BI
7 20 (4.65%) Redis
8 19 (4.42%) Delta Lake
9 17 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (3.26%) DynamoDB
12 13 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (2.56%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.56%) Metadata
14 10 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (1.86%) Big Data
16 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
17 7 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 161 (37.44%) Jenkins
2 116 (26.98%) GitLab
3 58 (13.49%) Git
4 31 (7.21%) JIRA
5 26 (6.05%) JUnit
5 26 (6.05%) Selenium
6 23 (5.35%) CircleCI
7 19 (4.42%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.49%) Bitbucket
9 14 (3.26%) REST Assured
9 14 (3.26%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.02%) Gradle
10 13 (3.02%) MLflow
11 12 (2.79%) Mockito
12 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.86%) JMeter
13 8 (1.86%) Snyk
14 7 (1.63%) Appium
14 7 (1.63%) TestNG
14 7 (1.63%) XCUITest
General
1 84 (19.53%) Finance
2 82 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 62 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.28%) Banking
6 13 (3.02%) Retail
7 12 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.79%) Law
8 7 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.16%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Back Office
12 3 (0.70%) Billing
12 3 (0.70%) Front Office
12 3 (0.70%) Local Government
12 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.70%) Police
12 3 (0.70%) Publishing
13 2 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (20.93%) Senior
2 80 (18.60%) Developer
3 76 (17.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.77%) Lead
5 39 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 26 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.81%) Architect
10 25 (5.81%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.88%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.65%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.95%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.67%) REST
2 61 (14.19%) Kafka
3 56 (13.02%) RESTful
4 41 (9.53%) Spring
5 40 (9.30%) React
6 37 (8.60%) Spring Boot
7 32 (7.44%) .NET
8 28 (6.51%) Playwright
9 27 (6.28%) PySpark
10 22 (5.12%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.49%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.49%) Node.js
11 15 (3.49%) Pandas
12 14 (3.26%) Flask
12 14 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (3.02%) OAuth
13 13 (3.02%) pytest
13 13 (3.02%) YAML
14 12 (2.79%) AngularJS
14 12 (2.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.02%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.09%) Hedge funds
5 9 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.70%) IoT
10 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.84%) Linux
2 16 (3.72%) Unix
2 16 (3.72%) Windows
3 11 (2.56%) Android
3 11 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (91.16%) CI/CD
2 287 (66.74%) DevOps
3 218 (50.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (36.74%) Agile
5 126 (29.30%) Containerisation
6 119 (27.67%) Test Automation
7 108 (25.12%) Observability
8 94 (21.86%) Microservices
9 76 (17.67%) Platform Engineering
10 64 (14.88%) AI
11 59 (13.72%) Analytics
12 57 (13.26%) Event-Driven
13 56 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
13 56 (13.02%) Software Engineering
14 54 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (11.86%) DevSecOps
16 48 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (10.93%) Mentoring
18 45 (10.47%) Data Engineering
19 44 (10.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 202 (46.98%) Python
2 113 (26.28%) SQL
3 82 (19.07%) Java
4 72 (16.74%) Bash
5 61 (14.19%) PowerShell
6 52 (12.09%) C#
7 51 (11.86%) TypeScript
8 44 (10.23%) Bicep
9 40 (9.30%) JavaScript
10 23 (5.35%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.72%) Kotlin
12 14 (3.26%) Go
13 9 (2.09%) Ruby
13 9 (2.09%) Swift
14 7 (1.63%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.16%) Groovy
16 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 163 (37.91%) Security Cleared
2 151 (35.12%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.91%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.72%) Degree
5 13 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMP
12 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.42%) QA
2 26 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.63%) GDPR
5 6 (1.40%) NIST
6 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.16%) WCAG
7 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 182 (42.33%) Docker
2 13 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 245 (56.98%) Terraform
2 190 (44.19%) Kubernetes
3 68 (15.81%) Grafana
4 63 (14.65%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.30%) Ansible
6 19 (4.42%) Argo
7 8 (1.86%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.86%) Puppet
8 4 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.70%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.70%) SELinux
9 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.47%) Istio
10 2 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.23%) Cilium
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Nagios
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 71 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.30%) Databricks
3 21 (4.88%) Splunk
4 17 (3.95%) Google
4 17 (3.95%) Oracle
5 14 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.86%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.86%) Foundry
8 8 (1.86%) New Relic
9 7 (1.63%) SAP
10 6 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.40%) VMware
11 4 (0.93%) Checkmarx
11 4 (0.93%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.93%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.93%) Palantir
11 4 (0.93%) Sybase