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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 191 306
Rank change year-on-year +60 +115 +48
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 415 186 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.37% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 3.19% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 112 58
10th Percentile £400 £401 £421
25th Percentile £450 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +8.11% -11.34%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £744
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 8,233 5,829 6,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.87% 40.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,994 4,860
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 83 53
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.60 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -44.39%
75th Percentile £55.56 £45.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £67.11 £65.30
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% +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 29 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 29 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 +14 51 £600 -4.95% 13
South London - 11 £518 - 1
West London -8 9 £560 -0.88% 3
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 27 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.54%) Confluence
3 15 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.17%) Apache
6 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.72%) nginx
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.24%) Mendix
10 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.72%) Trello
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Findur
2 3 (0.72%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.48%) 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
1 415 (100.00%) GitHub
2 240 (57.83%) Azure
3 226 (54.46%) AWS
4 154 (37.11%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (14.94%) Serverless
6 61 (14.70%) Amazon S3
7 56 (13.49%) GCP
8 52 (12.53%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (11.33%) Azure Monitor
11 43 (10.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (9.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (9.16%) Azure AKS
14 32 (7.71%) Entra ID
15 30 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (6.27%) Snowflake
17 25 (6.02%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (5.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.82%) VPN
2 16 (3.86%) Firewall
3 15 (3.61%) DNS
4 12 (2.89%) Network Security
5 5 (1.20%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.72%) SSH
6 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.48%) DSL
7 2 (0.48%) HTTP
7 2 (0.48%) SSL
7 2 (0.48%) WAN
8 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.24%) NFC
8 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.02%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.78%) Data Lake
3 24 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.58%) Power BI
6 18 (4.34%) Delta Lake
6 18 (4.34%) Redis
7 15 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.13%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.41%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.17%) Big Data
11 9 (2.17%) Metadata
12 8 (1.93%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 152 (36.63%) Jenkins
2 107 (25.78%) GitLab
3 56 (13.49%) Git
4 30 (7.23%) JIRA
5 26 (6.27%) JUnit
6 24 (5.78%) Selenium
7 23 (5.54%) CircleCI
8 18 (4.34%) Cypress.io
9 13 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.13%) Gradle
9 13 (3.13%) MLflow
9 13 (3.13%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.89%) Mockito
11 11 (2.65%) SonarQube
12 10 (2.41%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.93%) JMeter
13 8 (1.93%) Snyk
14 7 (1.69%) XCUITest
15 6 (1.45%) Postman
15 6 (1.45%) TestNG
General
1 82 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.80%) Finance
3 61 (14.70%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.51%) Banking
6 12 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.89%) Law
6 12 (2.89%) Retail
7 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Legal
10 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Front Office
11 3 (0.72%) Local Government
11 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.72%) Police
12 2 (0.48%) Back Office
12 2 (0.48%) Billing
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (20.96%) Senior
2 78 (18.80%) Developer
3 74 (17.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (8.67%) Lead
6 33 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (6.99%) Data Engineer
9 27 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (6.27%) Architect
11 24 (5.78%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.06%) Java Developer
13 20 (4.82%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.10%) Python Developer
15 16 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (3.61%) Test Engineer
17 14 (3.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 13 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (18.07%) REST
2 59 (14.22%) Kafka
3 55 (13.25%) RESTful
4 40 (9.64%) React
5 39 (9.40%) Spring
6 36 (8.67%) Spring Boot
7 30 (7.23%) .NET
8 27 (6.51%) Playwright
9 26 (6.27%) PySpark
10 22 (5.30%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.86%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.61%) Pandas
13 14 (3.37%) Flask
13 14 (3.37%) Node.js
14 13 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.13%) OAuth
14 13 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.89%) ARM Templates
15 12 (2.89%) OAuth2
15 12 (2.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 9 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.16%) Linux
2 16 (3.86%) Unix
2 16 (3.86%) Windows
3 11 (2.65%) Android
3 11 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (91.33%) CI/CD
2 274 (66.02%) DevOps
3 211 (50.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (37.35%) Agile
5 121 (29.16%) Containerisation
6 113 (27.23%) Test Automation
7 104 (25.06%) Observability
8 91 (21.93%) Microservices
9 74 (17.83%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (14.46%) AI
11 56 (13.49%) Analytics
12 55 (13.25%) Event-Driven
13 54 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (13.01%) Software Engineering
14 52 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (11.81%) DevSecOps
16 47 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (10.84%) Mentoring
18 44 (10.60%) Scrum
19 43 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 196 (47.23%) Python
2 110 (26.51%) SQL
3 80 (19.28%) Java
4 71 (17.11%) Bash
5 60 (14.46%) PowerShell
6 49 (11.81%) C#
6 49 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 41 (9.88%) Bicep
8 39 (9.40%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.30%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.61%) Go
10 15 (3.61%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.17%) Ruby
11 9 (2.17%) Swift
12 7 (1.69%) Objective-C
13 5 (1.20%) Groovy
13 5 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.96%) Scala
15 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 158 (38.07%) Security Cleared
2 147 (35.42%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.47%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.86%) Degree
5 12 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
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 59 (14.22%) QA
2 25 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.69%) GDPR
5 6 (1.45%) NIST
6 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.20%) WCAG
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 171 (41.20%) Docker
2 11 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 237 (57.11%) Terraform
2 181 (43.61%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.14%) Grafana
4 63 (15.18%) Prometheus
5 39 (9.40%) Ansible
6 19 (4.58%) Argo
7 8 (1.93%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.93%) Puppet
8 5 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.72%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.72%) SELinux
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Istio
10 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.48%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) Cilium
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.24%) linkerd
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.43%) Databricks
3 21 (5.06%) Splunk
4 17 (4.10%) Oracle
5 16 (3.86%) Google
6 14 (3.37%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.93%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.93%) Foundry
9 8 (1.93%) New Relic
10 7 (1.69%) SAP
11 6 (1.45%) VMware
12 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.96%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.96%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.96%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.96%) Palantir
13 4 (0.96%) Sybase