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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 194 306
Rank change year-on-year +61 +112 +47
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 410 179 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.32% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 3.08% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 107 59
10th Percentile £400 £400 £423
25th Percentile £451 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +9.77% -14.00%
75th Percentile £626 £690 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £742
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 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -47.74%

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 8,198 5,812 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 3,964 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%
75th Percentile £54.88 £46.56 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £67.31 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%

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 21 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 21 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 +11 53 £588 -2.08% 13
South London - 10 £518 - 1
West London -5 8 £560 -0.88% 2
East London - 1 £432 - 4
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 29 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.61%) Confluence
3 15 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.93%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.20%) Apache
6 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.73%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Findur
2 3 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.49%) 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
1 410 (100.00%) GitHub
2 233 (56.83%) Azure
3 222 (54.15%) AWS
4 148 (36.10%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (15.37%) Amazon S3
6 61 (14.88%) Serverless
7 52 (12.68%) GCP
8 50 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (11.95%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
11 39 (9.51%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (9.02%) Azure AKS
14 30 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (7.07%) Entra ID
16 26 (6.34%) Snowflake
17 23 (5.61%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (5.12%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.39%) VPN
2 16 (3.90%) Firewall
3 14 (3.41%) DNS
3 14 (3.41%) Network Security
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.73%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.73%) SSH
5 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.49%) DSL
6 2 (0.49%) HTTP
6 2 (0.49%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.24%) NFC
7 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.10%) Data Lake
3 23 (5.61%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.15%) Delta Lake
6 17 (4.15%) Power BI
6 17 (4.15%) Redis
7 16 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.17%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.44%) Metadata
12 9 (2.20%) Big Data
13 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.22%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 147 (35.85%) Jenkins
2 100 (24.39%) GitLab
3 57 (13.90%) Git
4 29 (7.07%) JIRA
5 27 (6.59%) JUnit
6 23 (5.61%) Selenium
7 22 (5.37%) CircleCI
8 20 (4.88%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.41%) Gradle
9 14 (3.41%) MLflow
10 13 (3.17%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.17%) Mockito
11 12 (2.93%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.93%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.68%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.95%) JMeter
14 7 (1.71%) Snyk
15 6 (1.46%) Appium
15 6 (1.46%) Postman
15 6 (1.46%) XCUITest
General
1 86 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.80%) Finance
3 60 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.34%) Banking
6 13 (3.17%) Retail
7 12 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.68%) Law
9 7 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.71%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.22%) Legal
11 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Front Office
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.73%) Police
13 2 (0.49%) Back Office
13 2 (0.49%) Billing
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (20.00%) Senior
2 75 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (18.05%) Developer
4 38 (9.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (9.27%) Lead
5 33 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 27 (6.59%) Architect
8 25 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (5.61%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.37%) Java Developer
11 17 (4.15%) Software Engineer
12 16 (3.90%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.66%) Test Engineer
14 14 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.32%) REST
2 59 (14.39%) Kafka
3 51 (12.44%) RESTful
4 39 (9.51%) React
5 37 (9.02%) Spring
6 35 (8.54%) Spring Boot
7 29 (7.07%) .NET
8 27 (6.59%) Playwright
9 25 (6.10%) PySpark
10 21 (5.12%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.90%) Pandas
12 15 (3.66%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.41%) Node.js
14 13 (3.17%) AngularJS
14 13 (3.17%) Flask
14 13 (3.17%) OAuth
15 12 (2.93%) ARM Templates
15 12 (2.93%) OAuth2
15 12 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.93%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 98 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.71%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.20%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.73%) IoT
11 3 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.54%) Linux
2 16 (3.90%) Unix
2 16 (3.90%) Windows
3 11 (2.68%) Android
4 10 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (90.73%) CI/CD
2 271 (66.10%) DevOps
3 208 (50.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (36.59%) Agile
5 119 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 114 (27.80%) Test Automation
7 101 (24.63%) Observability
8 90 (21.95%) Microservices
9 74 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (14.15%) AI
11 56 (13.66%) Analytics
12 55 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
14 52 (12.68%) Event-Driven
15 49 (11.95%) Software Engineering
16 47 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (10.98%) DevSecOps
18 44 (10.73%) Data Engineering
18 44 (10.73%) Mentoring
19 41 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 188 (45.85%) Python
2 109 (26.59%) SQL
3 73 (17.80%) Java
4 65 (15.85%) Bash
5 58 (14.15%) PowerShell
6 48 (11.71%) C#
6 48 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 39 (9.51%) JavaScript
8 37 (9.02%) Bicep
9 22 (5.37%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.41%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.44%) Go
12 9 (2.20%) Ruby
13 8 (1.95%) Swift
14 7 (1.71%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.22%) Groovy
15 5 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.98%) Scala
17 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 155 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 144 (35.12%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.15%) Degree
5 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
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 62 (15.12%) QA
2 25 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
5 5 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.98%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 170 (41.46%) Docker
2 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 233 (56.83%) Terraform
2 175 (42.68%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.37%) Grafana
4 56 (13.66%) Prometheus
5 34 (8.29%) Ansible
6 17 (4.15%) Argo
7 8 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.95%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.98%) Istio
10 3 (0.73%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.73%) SELinux
10 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.24%) linkerd
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.05%) Databricks
3 20 (4.88%) Splunk
4 18 (4.39%) Oracle
5 16 (3.90%) Google
6 12 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.95%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.95%) Foundry
11 7 (1.71%) SAP
12 5 (1.22%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.22%) New Relic
12 5 (1.22%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.98%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.98%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.98%) Palantir
13 4 (0.98%) Sybase
14 3 (0.73%) PagerDuty