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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 148 293
Rank change year-on-year +21 +145 +66
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 452 246 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 1.85% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.46% 4.27% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 165 67
10th Percentile £377 £363 £413
25th Percentile £443 £447 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £681 £813 £729
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - -8.33%
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 8,279 5,766 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.44% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 3,926 4,623
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -21.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 22 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 22 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 +7 55 £588 -9.41% 35
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 5 £738 - 13
East London - 1 - - 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 24 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.87%) Confluence
3 10 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.33%) Apache
6 4 (0.88%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
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
1 452 (100.00%) GitHub
2 261 (57.74%) Azure
3 247 (54.65%) AWS
4 162 (35.84%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (17.04%) GCP
6 76 (16.81%) Serverless
7 75 (16.59%) Amazon S3
8 71 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (13.05%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (11.06%) Azure Monitor
11 49 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (9.73%) Azure AKS
13 40 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (8.63%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (8.63%) Snowflake
15 37 (8.19%) Entra ID
16 35 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (7.08%) Power Platform
18 24 (5.31%) dbt
19 22 (4.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.09%) DNS
2 20 (4.42%) VPN
3 16 (3.54%) Firewall
4 11 (2.43%) Network Security
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.66%) SSH
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) NFC
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.30%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.97%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.53%) Power BI
5 24 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.65%) Redis
7 20 (4.42%) SQL Server
8 19 (4.20%) Data Lake
9 18 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (3.54%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.10%) BigQuery
11 14 (3.10%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.43%) Metadata
13 10 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.77%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 169 (37.39%) Jenkins
2 119 (26.33%) GitLab
3 70 (15.49%) Git
4 25 (5.53%) Selenium
5 24 (5.31%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.31%) JIRA
6 22 (4.87%) JUnit
7 20 (4.42%) SonarQube
8 16 (3.54%) Bitbucket
8 16 (3.54%) Gradle
9 15 (3.32%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.88%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.65%) JMeter
12 11 (2.43%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.21%) Mockito
14 9 (1.99%) Postman
15 8 (1.77%) Snyk
16 7 (1.55%) Terragrunt
16 7 (1.55%) XCTest
16 7 (1.55%) XCUITest
General
1 91 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.91%) Finance
3 58 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.97%) Banking
6 16 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.54%) Retail
7 12 (2.65%) Law
8 7 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.33%) Back Office
9 6 (1.33%) Marketing
10 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.11%) Local Government
11 4 (0.88%) Front Office
11 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.66%) Billing
12 3 (0.66%) Legal
12 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (23.45%) Senior
2 85 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (16.81%) Developer
4 44 (9.73%) Lead
5 40 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
6 39 (8.63%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.74%) Architect
8 31 (6.86%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (4.87%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.42%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.20%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (57.74%) Terraform
2 86 (19.03%) REST
3 69 (15.27%) Kafka
4 61 (13.50%) RESTful
5 42 (9.29%) Spring
6 40 (8.85%) React
7 38 (8.41%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.64%) .NET
9 27 (5.97%) FastAPI
9 27 (5.97%) PySpark
10 24 (5.31%) Playwright
11 20 (4.42%) OAuth
12 19 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (3.98%) Flask
13 18 (3.98%) Node.js
14 17 (3.76%) pytest
15 16 (3.54%) OAuth2
16 15 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.32%) Loki
17 14 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 111 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.10%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.55%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.62%) Linux
2 19 (4.20%) Windows
3 11 (2.43%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.43%) Unix
4 9 (1.99%) Android
5 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (90.93%) CI/CD
2 309 (68.36%) DevOps
3 238 (52.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (35.84%) Agile
5 127 (28.10%) Containerisation
6 126 (27.88%) Observability
7 119 (26.33%) Test Automation
8 98 (21.68%) Microservices
9 95 (21.02%) AI
10 77 (17.04%) Platform Engineering
11 75 (16.59%) Software Engineering
12 71 (15.71%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (12.17%) DevSecOps
14 55 (12.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 53 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (11.50%) Deployment Automation
16 52 (11.50%) Scrum
16 52 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (11.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 231 (51.11%) Python
2 110 (24.34%) SQL
3 85 (18.81%) Java
4 83 (18.36%) Bash
5 57 (12.61%) PowerShell
5 57 (12.61%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.96%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.73%) Bicep
8 43 (9.51%) C#
9 19 (4.20%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.54%) Go
10 16 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.21%) Swift
12 9 (1.99%) Objective-C
13 8 (1.77%) Ruby
14 5 (1.11%) Groovy
15 4 (0.88%) C
15 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.88%) Scala
16 3 (0.66%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 174 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 164 (36.28%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.52%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.88%) Degree
7 10 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
12 1 (0.22%) CCNP
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.49%) QA
2 33 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.77%) NIST
5 7 (1.55%) GDPR
5 7 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) WCAG
7 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 191 (42.26%) Docker
2 14 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 211 (46.68%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.70%) Grafana
3 71 (15.71%) Prometheus
4 52 (11.50%) Ansible
5 22 (4.87%) Argo
6 8 (1.77%) Puppet
7 7 (1.55%) Karpenter
7 7 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.88%) Cilium
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 77 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.40%) Databricks
3 26 (5.75%) Google
4 23 (5.09%) Splunk
5 22 (4.87%) Oracle
6 20 (4.42%) Dynatrace
7 18 (3.98%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.43%) New Relic
8 11 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.21%) Foundry
10 9 (1.99%) VMware
11 8 (1.77%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.77%) SAP
12 7 (1.55%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.33%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.11%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.11%) IBM
14 5 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.88%) Confluent
15 4 (0.88%) Okta