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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 227 293
Rank change year-on-year +101 +66 +57
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 358 128 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.00% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.96% 2.38% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 94 60
10th Percentile £383 £458 £413
25th Percentile £433 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £643 £667 £650
90th Percentile £713 £800 £734
England median daily rate £509 £550 £521
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.57% -13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £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 7,217 5,372 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.75% 42.10% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,946 3,728 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £447 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £777 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 79
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -2.19% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +8 44 £556 -1.33% 33
West London -10 12 £650 +36.84% 6
South London - 12 £500 -
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 34 (9.50%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.75%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.19%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
4 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.12%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Findur
1 3 (0.84%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) GitHub
2 193 (53.91%) Azure
3 187 (52.23%) AWS
4 120 (33.52%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (22.35%) Serverless
6 63 (17.60%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.64%) Amazon S3
8 54 (15.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (14.80%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (14.25%) GCP
11 44 (12.29%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (11.73%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (10.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (10.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (9.22%) Azure AKS
15 30 (8.38%) Entra ID
16 28 (7.82%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (7.82%) Azure Key Vault
17 26 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (6.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.42%) Firewall
2 19 (5.31%) Network Security
3 15 (4.19%) DNS
4 5 (1.40%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) HTTP
5 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) DSL
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.38%) Data Lake
3 26 (7.26%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.59%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.59%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.63%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.35%) Big Data
7 12 (3.35%) Redis
8 11 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.07%) Power BI
9 10 (2.79%) MySQL
10 9 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.51%) Flink
11 8 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 113 (31.56%) Jenkins
2 58 (16.20%) GitLab
3 54 (15.08%) Git
4 19 (5.31%) JUnit
5 18 (5.03%) Cypress.io
5 18 (5.03%) JIRA
5 18 (5.03%) MLflow
6 13 (3.63%) Mockito
6 13 (3.63%) Selenium
7 11 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.07%) Postman
8 8 (2.23%) REST Assured
9 7 (1.96%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.68%) Gatling
10 6 (1.68%) Gradle
10 6 (1.68%) JMeter
10 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.40%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.40%) Maven
11 5 (1.40%) TestRail
General
1 70 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.97%) Finance
3 38 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.26%) Banking
5 20 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.07%) Front Office
6 11 (3.07%) Retail
7 10 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.84%) Military
11 2 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Games
12 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.11%) Developer
2 60 (16.76%) Senior
3 50 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 31 (8.66%) Lead
7 26 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.42%) Architect
8 23 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.03%) Azure Developer
11 17 (4.75%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.47%) Java Developer
13 14 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.64%) Kafka
2 50 (13.97%) React
3 44 (12.29%) REST
4 42 (11.73%) Node.js
5 40 (11.17%) .NET
6 32 (8.94%) Spring
6 32 (8.94%) Spring Boot
7 30 (8.38%) RESTful
8 26 (7.26%) AngularJS
9 24 (6.70%) Playwright
10 23 (6.42%) PySpark
11 21 (5.87%) CSS
11 21 (5.87%) OAuth
12 15 (4.19%) JSON
12 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.91%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.91%) Pandas
13 14 (3.91%) PyTorch
14 13 (3.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.07%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.12%) Replication
10 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.38%) Linux
2 12 (3.35%) Windows
3 11 (3.07%) VMS
4 7 (1.96%) Unix
5 4 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (88.27%) CI/CD
2 223 (62.29%) DevOps
3 160 (44.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (31.01%) Agile
5 98 (27.37%) Observability
6 95 (26.54%) Containerisation
7 76 (21.23%) AI
8 68 (18.99%) Analytics
9 60 (16.76%) Microservices
10 59 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
11 58 (16.20%) Test Automation
12 55 (15.36%) Data Engineering
13 54 (15.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 51 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
16 47 (13.13%) Machine Learning
17 40 (11.17%) Migration
18 34 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
19 33 (9.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 168 (46.93%) Python
2 106 (29.61%) SQL
3 63 (17.60%) Java
4 51 (14.25%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.41%) C#
6 46 (12.85%) TypeScript
7 33 (9.22%) PowerShell
8 29 (8.10%) Bicep
9 26 (7.26%) Bash
10 18 (5.03%) Go
11 13 (3.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (3.35%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.96%) JSX
13 7 (1.96%) Scala
14 6 (1.68%) Ruby
15 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.84%) Swift
15 3 (0.84%) XPath
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 102 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 90 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.91%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.63%) Degree
5 10 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.12%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.38%) QA
2 18 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.40%) WCAG
6 4 (1.12%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
8 2 (0.56%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 132 (36.87%) Docker
2 13 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.56%) HDFS
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 201 (56.15%) Terraform
2 146 (40.78%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.94%) Ansible
4 28 (7.82%) Grafana
5 25 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.42%) Argo
7 10 (2.79%) Istio
8 5 (1.40%) Kibana
9 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.84%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.84%) Puppet
10 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 74 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.89%) Databricks
3 26 (7.26%) Google
4 20 (5.59%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.51%) New Relic
6 7 (1.96%) Splunk
7 6 (1.68%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.40%) Confluent
8 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.40%) Oracle
8 5 (1.40%) SAP
8 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.12%) Foundry
10 3 (0.84%) Adobe
10 3 (0.84%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.84%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.84%) Qualys
10 3 (0.84%) Sybase
11 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg