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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 157 278
Rank change year-on-year +28 +121 +81
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 460 245 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 1.82% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.51% 4.20% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 162 68
10th Percentile £378 £363 £413
25th Percentile £445 £448 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £680 £813 £728
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,348 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.00% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 46
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +2 55 £588 -9.41% 35
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 5 £738 - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 4
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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 24 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (5.22%) Confluence
2 9 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.30%) Apache
5 4 (0.87%) nginx
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Trello
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.43%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 460 (100.00%) GitHub
2 264 (57.39%) Azure
3 252 (54.78%) AWS
4 165 (35.87%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (16.96%) GCP
5 78 (16.96%) Serverless
6 77 (16.74%) Amazon S3
7 70 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (10.22%) Azure AKS
12 40 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (8.48%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (8.48%) Snowflake
14 37 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (7.61%) Entra ID
16 31 (6.74%) Power Platform
17 24 (5.22%) dbt
18 23 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.78%) DNS
2 20 (4.35%) VPN
3 16 (3.48%) Firewall
4 11 (2.39%) Network Security
5 4 (0.87%) Internet
6 3 (0.65%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.65%) SSH
6 3 (0.65%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 2 (0.43%) HTTP
7 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.43%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.17%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.09%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.43%) Power BI
5 24 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.57%) Redis
7 20 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 19 (4.13%) Data Lake
9 18 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (3.70%) DynamoDB
11 16 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (3.48%) Delta Lake
12 14 (3.04%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (2.39%) Metadata
14 10 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.74%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 174 (37.83%) Jenkins
2 124 (26.96%) GitLab
3 72 (15.65%) Git
4 26 (5.65%) JIRA
5 25 (5.43%) Selenium
6 24 (5.22%) CircleCI
7 23 (5.00%) JUnit
8 20 (4.35%) SonarQube
9 17 (3.70%) Cypress.io
10 16 (3.48%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.48%) Gradle
11 14 (3.04%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.61%) JMeter
13 11 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 10 (2.17%) Mockito
15 9 (1.96%) Postman
16 8 (1.74%) Snyk
17 7 (1.52%) Terragrunt
17 7 (1.52%) XCTest
17 7 (1.52%) XCUITest
General
1 96 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.43%) Finance
3 59 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.87%) Banking
6 16 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.48%) Retail
7 12 (2.61%) Law
8 7 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.30%) Back Office
9 6 (1.30%) Marketing
10 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.09%) Local Government
11 4 (0.87%) Front Office
11 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Billing
12 3 (0.65%) Legal
12 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (23.26%) Senior
2 88 (19.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (16.96%) Developer
4 44 (9.57%) Lead
5 39 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 35 (7.61%) Architect
8 31 (6.74%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.78%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.13%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.13%) Python Developer
14 18 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (58.48%) Terraform
2 85 (18.48%) REST
3 70 (15.22%) Kafka
4 61 (13.26%) RESTful
5 43 (9.35%) React
6 42 (9.13%) Spring
7 38 (8.26%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.52%) .NET
9 27 (5.87%) PySpark
10 26 (5.65%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.22%) Playwright
12 20 (4.35%) OAuth
13 19 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (3.91%) Node.js
15 17 (3.70%) Flask
15 17 (3.70%) pytest
16 16 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (3.48%) OAuth2
17 15 (3.26%) Loki
18 14 (3.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 112 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.04%) AI Agents
4 14 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.52%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.87%) Linux
2 19 (4.13%) Windows
3 12 (2.61%) Unix
4 11 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.96%) Android
6 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (90.65%) CI/CD
2 313 (68.04%) DevOps
3 246 (53.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (35.87%) Agile
5 132 (28.70%) Containerisation
6 127 (27.61%) Observability
7 123 (26.74%) Test Automation
8 100 (21.74%) Microservices
9 93 (20.22%) AI
10 81 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (16.09%) Software Engineering
12 72 (15.65%) Event-Driven
13 61 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (11.96%) DevSecOps
14 55 (11.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 55 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (11.30%) Mentoring
16 52 (11.30%) Scrum
16 52 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 238 (51.74%) Python
2 111 (24.13%) SQL
3 89 (19.35%) Bash
4 86 (18.70%) Java
5 61 (13.26%) PowerShell
6 60 (13.04%) TypeScript
7 47 (10.22%) Bicep
7 47 (10.22%) JavaScript
8 43 (9.35%) C#
9 19 (4.13%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.48%) Go
12 10 (2.17%) Swift
13 9 (1.96%) Objective-C
13 9 (1.96%) Ruby
14 5 (1.09%) Groovy
15 4 (0.87%) C
15 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.87%) Scala
16 3 (0.65%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 177 (38.48%) Security Cleared
2 167 (36.30%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.83%) Degree
5 13 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) CCNA
10 1 (0.22%) CCNP
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.65%) QA
2 33 (7.17%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.74%) NIST
5 7 (1.52%) GDPR
5 7 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.87%) WCAG
7 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 197 (42.83%) Docker
2 14 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 217 (47.17%) Kubernetes
2 83 (18.04%) Grafana
3 74 (16.09%) Prometheus
4 55 (11.96%) Ansible
5 22 (4.78%) Argo
6 12 (2.61%) Puppet
7 11 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.52%) Karpenter
9 4 (0.87%) Cilium
9 4 (0.87%) Kibana
10 3 (0.65%) SELinux
10 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.43%) Istio
11 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.43%) Packer
12 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.65%) Databricks
3 27 (5.87%) Google
4 25 (5.43%) Splunk
5 22 (4.78%) Oracle
6 20 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 18 (3.91%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.39%) New Relic
8 11 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.17%) Foundry
10 9 (1.96%) VMware
11 8 (1.74%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.74%) SAP
12 7 (1.52%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.09%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.09%) IBM
14 5 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.87%) Okta
15 4 (0.87%) SaltStack