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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 221 302
Rank change year-on-year +84 +81 +41
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 367 133 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 1.09% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 2.55% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 86 60
10th Percentile £400 £436 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +9.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £627 £793 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -15.83%
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 £74.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -37.04% -

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 7,641 5,211 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.08% 42.69% 38.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,579 5,005
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +10 46 £600 +6.43% 10
West London -17 12 £560 -0.88% 3
South London - 7 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 6
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 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.18%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.45%) Apache
4 7 (1.91%) Confluence
5 6 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) Findur
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 367 (100.00%) GitHub
2 203 (55.31%) AWS
3 195 (53.13%) Azure
4 129 (35.15%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (20.98%) Serverless
6 67 (18.26%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (15.53%) Amazon S3
8 55 (14.99%) GCP
9 54 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (11.44%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (11.17%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (10.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (9.54%) Azure AKS
14 33 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (8.99%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (8.72%) AWS CodePipeline
16 31 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (5.72%) Power Platform
18 18 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
18 18 (4.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.72%) Firewall
2 19 (5.18%) DNS
3 15 (4.09%) Network Security
4 7 (1.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.17%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.99%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.72%) Delta Lake
5 20 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.90%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.36%) Power BI
8 15 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (4.09%) MongoDB
9 13 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (3.54%) Redis
10 11 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (3.00%) Big Data
11 10 (2.72%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.18%) MySQL
14 6 (1.63%) Metadata
15 4 (1.09%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 133 (36.24%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.80%) GitLab
3 48 (13.08%) Git
4 19 (5.18%) JUnit
5 17 (4.63%) JIRA
5 17 (4.63%) MLflow
6 15 (4.09%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.81%) Mockito
8 12 (3.27%) Selenium
9 11 (3.00%) CircleCI
9 11 (3.00%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.72%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.45%) JMeter
12 8 (2.18%) Gradle
12 8 (2.18%) Postman
13 7 (1.91%) Gatling
13 7 (1.91%) Snyk
14 6 (1.63%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.36%) Zephyr
16 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.99%) Finance
3 35 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.99%) Banking
6 11 (3.00%) Retail
7 7 (1.91%) Front Office
7 7 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.82%) Law
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 2 (0.54%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Police
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Aviation
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (19.07%) Developer
2 68 (18.53%) Senior
3 56 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 39 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (9.26%) Lead
7 27 (7.36%) Architect
8 25 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (5.18%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.54%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.54%) Test Engineer
15 12 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.27%) Python Developer
15 12 (3.27%) Site Engineer
16 11 (3.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.35%) Kafka
2 50 (13.62%) REST
3 44 (11.99%) Spring Boot
4 43 (11.72%) React
4 43 (11.72%) Spring
5 39 (10.63%) RESTful
6 34 (9.26%) .NET
7 32 (8.72%) PySpark
8 21 (5.72%) Node.js
9 20 (5.45%) AngularJS
9 20 (5.45%) Pandas
10 19 (5.18%) Playwright
11 17 (4.63%) FastAPI
11 17 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.09%) .NET Framework
12 15 (4.09%) OAuth
13 14 (3.81%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.54%) OAuth2
14 13 (3.54%) pytest
15 12 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.45%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.18%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) IVR
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.08%) Linux
2 17 (4.63%) Windows
3 16 (4.36%) Unix
4 10 (2.72%) VMS
5 5 (1.36%) Android
6 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (89.65%) CI/CD
2 235 (64.03%) DevOps
3 181 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (30.79%) Agile
5 101 (27.52%) Containerisation
6 100 (27.25%) Observability
7 77 (20.98%) Test Automation
8 75 (20.44%) Microservices
9 61 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (16.35%) Analytics
11 58 (15.80%) AI
12 54 (14.71%) Data Engineering
12 54 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
13 49 (13.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 48 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (11.44%) Event-Driven
17 40 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
18 39 (10.63%) Mentoring
19 33 (8.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 166 (45.23%) Python
2 105 (28.61%) SQL
3 64 (17.44%) Java
4 51 (13.90%) C#
5 41 (11.17%) PowerShell
5 41 (11.17%) TypeScript
6 40 (10.90%) JavaScript
7 36 (9.81%) Bicep
8 35 (9.54%) Bash
9 22 (5.99%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.45%) Go
11 8 (2.18%) Ruby
12 6 (1.63%) Scala
13 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Swift
15 2 (0.54%) XPath
16 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 117 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 107 (29.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.27%) Degree
5 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.17%) QA
2 22 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) WCAG
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (40.87%) Docker
2 9 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (58.58%) Terraform
2 160 (43.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.17%) Ansible
4 39 (10.63%) Prometheus
5 37 (10.08%) Grafana
6 13 (3.54%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Istio
8 8 (2.18%) Kibana
8 8 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.18%) Puppet
9 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.54%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.27%) linkerd
11 1 (0.27%) Packer
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.26%) Databricks
3 24 (6.54%) Google
4 14 (3.81%) Splunk
5 12 (3.27%) Oracle
6 10 (2.72%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.45%) New Relic
7 9 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.18%) SAP
9 7 (1.91%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.09%) Confluent
11 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 4 (1.09%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.09%) Sybase
12 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.82%) Workday
13 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.54%) VMware