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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 216 310
Rank change year-on-year +88 +94 +30
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 139 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.09% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.99% 2.54% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 84 61
10th Percentile £403 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +10.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £764 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -

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 8,024 5,462 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.97% 43.02% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,524 3,711 5,118
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 72 68
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.55 £19.33
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +13.22% -47.38%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +11 49 £588 +2.17% 5
West London -15 8 £530 -6.19% 6
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 4
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 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.00%) Confluence
4 9 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.00%) Apache
5 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Findur
2 3 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 220 (55.00%) AWS
3 215 (53.75%) Azure
4 140 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (18.50%) Serverless
6 64 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 60 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (12.75%) GCP
10 46 (11.50%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.00%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (10.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (9.00%) Azure AKS
14 28 (7.00%) AWS CodePipeline
15 26 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (6.25%) Entra ID
17 23 (5.75%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.50%) Firewall
2 20 (5.00%) Network Security
3 17 (4.25%) DNS
4 16 (4.00%) VPN
5 5 (1.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.25%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 19 (4.75%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.50%) Redis
7 17 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (4.25%) Power BI
8 14 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.50%) Big Data
12 9 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.00%) Metadata
13 8 (2.00%) MySQL
14 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 143 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 96 (24.00%) GitLab
3 50 (12.50%) Git
4 27 (6.75%) JUnit
5 22 (5.50%) JIRA
6 19 (4.75%) CircleCI
7 17 (4.25%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.75%) MLflow
8 15 (3.75%) Mockito
8 15 (3.75%) Selenium
9 14 (3.50%) Gradle
10 11 (2.75%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.75%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.75%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.25%) JMeter
12 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
12 8 (2.00%) Snyk
13 6 (1.50%) Gatling
13 6 (1.50%) Postman
14 5 (1.25%) Maven
General
1 78 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.25%) Finance
3 49 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.00%) Banking
6 12 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.00%) Retail
7 11 (2.75%) Law
8 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.75%) Front Office
10 3 (0.75%) Legal
10 3 (0.75%) Local Government
10 3 (0.75%) Marketing
10 3 (0.75%) Police
11 2 (0.50%) Military
11 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (20.25%) Senior
2 71 (17.75%) Developer
2 71 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (9.50%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.00%) Architect
6 30 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.25%) Lead
8 24 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 23 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.25%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.25%) Test Engineer
15 12 (3.00%) AWS Developer
15 12 (3.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.50%) Kafka
2 63 (15.75%) REST
3 53 (13.25%) RESTful
4 41 (10.25%) Spring
4 41 (10.25%) Spring Boot
5 38 (9.50%) React
6 31 (7.75%) PySpark
7 29 (7.25%) .NET
8 21 (5.25%) Playwright
9 19 (4.75%) FastAPI
9 19 (4.75%) OAuth
10 18 (4.50%) Pandas
11 17 (4.25%) OAuth2
12 15 (3.75%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.50%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.25%) Flask
14 13 (3.25%) Node.js
15 12 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 100 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.75%) NHS
12 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.50%) IoT
12 2 (0.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.25%) Linux
2 21 (5.25%) Windows
3 16 (4.00%) Unix
4 8 (2.00%) Android
4 8 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.25%) VMS
7 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (89.50%) CI/CD
2 260 (65.00%) DevOps
3 201 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (33.25%) Agile
5 114 (28.50%) Containerisation
6 101 (25.25%) Observability
7 92 (23.00%) Test Automation
8 85 (21.25%) Microservices
9 80 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (15.50%) Analytics
11 59 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (14.00%) AI
13 53 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (13.25%) Event-Driven
14 50 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 48 (12.00%) Data Engineering
16 47 (11.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 43 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
18 42 (10.50%) Software Engineering
19 38 (9.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 178 (44.50%) Python
2 116 (29.00%) SQL
3 74 (18.50%) Java
4 52 (13.00%) PowerShell
5 50 (12.50%) Bash
6 48 (12.00%) C#
7 45 (11.25%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.75%) Bicep
9 38 (9.50%) JavaScript
10 22 (5.50%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.50%) Go
11 10 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.00%) Ruby
13 7 (1.75%) Swift
14 5 (1.25%) Groovy
14 5 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.25%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.25%) Scala
15 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 137 (34.25%) Security Cleared
2 127 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.50%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.75%) Degree
5 11 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.00%) QA
2 24 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.25%) NIST
5 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.50%) GDPR
7 4 (1.00%) WCAG
8 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.50%) PSD2
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 159 (39.75%) Docker
2 12 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 234 (58.50%) Terraform
2 176 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 54 (13.50%) Prometheus
4 51 (12.75%) Grafana
5 39 (9.75%) Ansible
6 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.00%) Puppet
7 7 (1.75%) Argo
8 5 (1.25%) Kibana
9 4 (1.00%) Istio
10 3 (0.75%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.25%) linkerd
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Databricks
3 19 (4.75%) Splunk
4 17 (4.25%) Google
5 14 (3.50%) Oracle
6 11 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.25%) New Relic
7 9 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.50%) Foundry
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.25%) Sybase
11 4 (1.00%) Checkmarx
11 4 (1.00%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.00%) Palantir
12 3 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.75%) VMware