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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 218 294
Rank change year-on-year +81 +76 +58
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 363 132 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.04% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 2.45% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 91 62
10th Percentile £379 £450 £413
25th Percentile £433 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £544
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.75% -11.22%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £638
90th Percentile £713 £800 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -12.50%
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 7,520 5,391 6,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.47% 42.58% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,761 4,924
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 52 78
10th Percentile £18.10 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +13 47 £575 +0.88% 34
West London -12 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 11 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.75%) Apache
5 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 363 (100.00%) GitHub
2 198 (54.55%) Azure
3 189 (52.07%) AWS
4 128 (35.26%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (21.49%) Serverless
6 64 (17.63%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (15.15%) Amazon S3
9 52 (14.33%) GCP
10 48 (13.22%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
12 43 (11.85%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 38 (10.47%) Azure AKS
15 35 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (8.54%) Entra ID
17 30 (8.26%) AWS CodePipeline
18 29 (7.99%) Azure Key Vault
19 26 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
20 25 (6.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.34%) Firewall
2 19 (5.23%) Network Security
3 14 (3.86%) DNS
4 4 (1.10%) HTTP
4 4 (1.10%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.55%) DSL
6 2 (0.55%) Internet
6 2 (0.55%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.71%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.51%) Delta Lake
5 19 (5.23%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.96%) SQL Server
7 16 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (3.31%) Big Data
10 11 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.03%) Power BI
11 9 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.48%) Flink
11 9 (2.48%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.48%) MySQL
11 9 (2.48%) Redis
12 8 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 120 (33.06%) Jenkins
2 63 (17.36%) GitLab
3 53 (14.60%) Git
4 19 (5.23%) Cypress.io
4 19 (5.23%) JIRA
4 19 (5.23%) JUnit
5 18 (4.96%) MLflow
6 14 (3.86%) Selenium
7 13 (3.58%) Mockito
8 12 (3.31%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.03%) Postman
10 9 (2.48%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.20%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.93%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.65%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.65%) Gatling
13 6 (1.65%) Gradle
13 6 (1.65%) JMeter
14 5 (1.38%) Snyk
14 5 (1.38%) TestRail
General
1 66 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.60%) Finance
3 36 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.89%) Banking
5 20 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.31%) Front Office
7 9 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.48%) Retail
8 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (20.94%) Developer
2 62 (17.08%) Senior
3 55 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.29%) Data Engineer
5 37 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (9.09%) Lead
7 31 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 27 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.89%) Architect
10 22 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.96%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.68%) Azure Developer
13 17 (4.68%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.86%) Python Engineer
14 14 (3.86%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.70%) Kafka
2 47 (12.95%) React
3 42 (11.57%) REST
4 41 (11.29%) .NET
5 37 (10.19%) Node.js
6 33 (9.09%) Spring
6 33 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 31 (8.54%) RESTful
8 25 (6.89%) AngularJS
9 24 (6.61%) PySpark
10 23 (6.34%) Playwright
11 20 (5.51%) OAuth
12 17 (4.68%) Pandas
13 15 (4.13%) AWS CDK
13 15 (4.13%) CSS
13 15 (4.13%) Microsoft Graph
13 15 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.58%) JSON
15 12 (3.31%) .NET Framework
15 12 (3.31%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.31%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.65%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.37%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) Unix
2 12 (3.31%) Windows
3 11 (3.03%) VMS
4 4 (1.10%) Android
4 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (88.98%) CI/CD
2 232 (63.91%) DevOps
3 167 (46.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (30.58%) Agile
5 99 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.45%) Observability
7 76 (20.94%) AI
8 72 (19.83%) Analytics
9 68 (18.73%) Microservices
10 63 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
11 59 (16.25%) Test Automation
12 54 (14.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 53 (14.60%) Data Engineering
14 52 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
15 50 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (11.57%) Machine Learning
18 40 (11.02%) Migration
19 36 (9.92%) Full-Stack Development
20 32 (8.82%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 172 (47.38%) Python
2 106 (29.20%) SQL
3 64 (17.63%) Java
4 50 (13.77%) C#
5 45 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 45 (12.40%) TypeScript
6 38 (10.47%) PowerShell
7 33 (9.09%) Bicep
8 29 (7.99%) Bash
9 17 (4.68%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.86%) Go
11 12 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.93%) Ruby
12 7 (1.93%) Scala
13 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.83%) JSX
14 3 (0.83%) Swift
14 3 (0.83%) XPath
15 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 95 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.23%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.31%) Degree
5 11 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.54%) QA
2 19 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
6 4 (1.10%) WCAG
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (38.02%) Docker
2 14 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.55%) HDFS
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 206 (56.75%) Terraform
2 151 (41.60%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.47%) Ansible
4 25 (6.89%) Grafana
4 25 (6.89%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.79%) Argo
6 10 (2.75%) Istio
7 9 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.20%) Puppet
9 5 (1.38%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.67%) Databricks
3 26 (7.16%) Google
4 20 (5.51%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.20%) New Relic
5 8 (2.20%) Splunk
6 7 (1.93%) Oracle
6 7 (1.93%) SAP
7 6 (1.65%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.38%) Confluent
8 5 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.10%) Foundry
10 3 (0.83%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.83%) Qualys
10 3 (0.83%) Sybase
11 2 (0.55%) Adobe
11 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg