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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 166 308
Rank change year-on-year +33 +142 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 458 233 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 1.73% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.48% 3.98% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 152 57
10th Percentile £384 £364 £425
25th Percentile £450 £459 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £689 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
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 8,356 5,848 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.12% 43.31% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,977 4,689
10th Percentile £360 £342 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -3.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 50
10th Percentile £18.44 £23.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £67.03
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 10 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 10 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 +5 51 £594 -6.86% 25
South London +4 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 9 £650 - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 32 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.46%) Confluence
3 13 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.18%) Apache
5 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.87%) nginx
6 4 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) Findur
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 458 (100.00%) GitHub
2 265 (57.86%) Azure
3 248 (54.15%) AWS
4 169 (36.90%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (16.81%) Serverless
6 76 (16.59%) Amazon S3
7 68 (14.85%) GCP
8 62 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (10.92%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (9.61%) Azure AKS
13 40 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (8.52%) Snowflake
15 38 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (8.30%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (7.21%) Entra ID
17 31 (6.77%) Power Platform
18 28 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (5.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.37%) DNS
1 20 (4.37%) VPN
2 17 (3.71%) Firewall
3 12 (2.62%) Network Security
4 5 (1.09%) Internet
5 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.66%) SSH
5 3 (0.66%) SSL
5 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.44%) DHCP
6 2 (0.44%) HTTP
6 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.44%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) DSL
7 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.22%) INAP
7 1 (0.22%) RTP
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) Wireless
7 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (6.99%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.90%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.68%) Power BI
5 24 (5.24%) Data Lake
5 24 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.59%) Redis
7 19 (4.15%) Delta Lake
7 19 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (3.71%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.06%) Metadata
11 13 (2.84%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.75%) Big Data
15 7 (1.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 170 (37.12%) Jenkins
2 121 (26.42%) GitLab
3 68 (14.85%) Git
4 28 (6.11%) JIRA
5 25 (5.46%) Selenium
6 24 (5.24%) CircleCI
7 23 (5.02%) JUnit
8 17 (3.71%) Cypress.io
9 16 (3.49%) SonarQube
10 15 (3.28%) Gradle
11 14 (3.06%) Bitbucket
12 12 (2.62%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.62%) JMeter
12 12 (2.62%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.18%) Mockito
14 9 (1.97%) Postman
15 8 (1.75%) Snyk
15 8 (1.75%) XCUITest
16 7 (1.53%) Terragrunt
16 7 (1.53%) XCTest
General
1 94 (20.52%) Finance
2 92 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 58 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.33%) Banking
6 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.28%) Retail
7 12 (2.62%) Law
8 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.31%) Marketing
10 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.87%) Back Office
11 4 (0.87%) Front Office
11 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.87%) Legal
11 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 3 (0.66%) Billing
12 3 (0.66%) Police
12 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (23.14%) Senior
2 82 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (16.81%) Developer
4 46 (10.04%) Lead
5 39 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (7.86%) Data Engineer
8 31 (6.77%) Architect
9 26 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.02%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.80%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.37%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.71%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
16 16 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 15 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (56.77%) Terraform
2 81 (17.69%) REST
3 70 (15.28%) Kafka
4 63 (13.76%) RESTful
5 42 (9.17%) React
5 42 (9.17%) Spring
6 38 (8.30%) Spring Boot
7 33 (7.21%) PySpark
8 31 (6.77%) .NET
9 26 (5.68%) FastAPI
10 24 (5.24%) Playwright
11 19 (4.15%) OAuth
12 18 (3.93%) Flask
12 18 (3.93%) Node.js
13 17 (3.71%) OAuth2
13 17 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.28%) Loki
14 15 (3.28%) pytest
14 15 (3.28%) YAML
15 14 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.06%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.75%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.70%) Linux
2 17 (3.71%) Unix
3 15 (3.28%) Windows
4 12 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.18%) Android
6 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (91.48%) CI/CD
2 309 (67.47%) DevOps
3 237 (51.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (36.68%) Agile
5 132 (28.82%) Containerisation
6 126 (27.51%) Test Automation
7 123 (26.86%) Observability
8 98 (21.40%) Microservices
9 84 (18.34%) AI
10 79 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
11 70 (15.28%) Software Engineering
12 69 (15.07%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
14 57 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (12.45%) DevSecOps
15 56 (12.23%) Analytics
16 53 (11.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 52 (11.35%) Performance Optimisation
18 51 (11.14%) Deployment Automation
19 50 (10.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 239 (52.18%) Python
2 120 (26.20%) SQL
3 87 (19.00%) Java
4 85 (18.56%) Bash
5 58 (12.66%) TypeScript
6 57 (12.45%) PowerShell
7 46 (10.04%) JavaScript
8 45 (9.83%) Bicep
9 43 (9.39%) C#
10 22 (4.80%) Shell Script
11 19 (4.15%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.28%) Go
13 11 (2.40%) Swift
14 9 (1.97%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.97%) Ruby
15 5 (1.09%) Groovy
16 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.87%) Scala
17 3 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 175 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 165 (36.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.08%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.71%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.49%) Degree
6 13 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.22%) CCNA
14 1 (0.22%) CCNP
14 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (15.07%) QA
2 36 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.75%) NIST
5 7 (1.53%) GDPR
5 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.87%) WCAG
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) GRC
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 198 (43.23%) Docker
2 14 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (44.98%) Kubernetes
2 78 (17.03%) Grafana
3 69 (15.07%) Prometheus
4 47 (10.26%) Ansible
5 22 (4.80%) Argo
6 8 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.75%) Puppet
7 7 (1.53%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.87%) Cilium
8 4 (0.87%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 78 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.14%) Databricks
3 25 (5.46%) Splunk
4 24 (5.24%) Google
5 21 (4.59%) Oracle
6 17 (3.71%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.71%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.40%) Foundry
7 11 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.18%) New Relic
9 8 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.53%) SAP
11 6 (1.31%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.31%) VMware
12 5 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.87%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.87%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.87%) Palantir