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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 220 301
Rank change year-on-year +96 +81 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 359 136 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 1.05% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.06% 2.51% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 103 62
10th Percentile £370 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £643 £653 £650
90th Percentile £713 £799 £737
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 7,099 5,426 6,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 42.03% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,876 3,750 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £52.56 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +8 45 £575 +2.00% 35
South London - 12 £500 - 2
West London -13 8 £650 +36.84% 7
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 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.95%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 359 (100.00%) GitHub
2 193 (53.76%) Azure
3 186 (51.81%) AWS
4 117 (32.59%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (21.45%) Serverless
6 60 (16.71%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (15.60%) GCP
8 54 (15.04%) Amazon S3
9 52 (14.48%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (14.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (12.81%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (11.42%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (10.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (9.47%) Azure AKS
16 31 (8.64%) Entra ID
17 29 (8.08%) Azure Key Vault
18 26 (7.24%) AWS CodePipeline
19 25 (6.96%) Azure Service Bus
20 24 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.69%) Firewall
2 18 (5.01%) Network Security
3 15 (4.18%) DNS
4 5 (1.39%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) HTTP
5 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) DSL
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.24%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (7.24%) Data Lake
3 20 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.74%) Delta Lake
6 13 (3.62%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.34%) Redis
8 11 (3.06%) Big Data
8 11 (3.06%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.06%) Power BI
9 10 (2.79%) MySQL
10 9 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.51%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.51%) Flink
11 8 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 112 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 57 (15.88%) GitLab
3 48 (13.37%) Git
4 23 (6.41%) JUnit
5 18 (5.01%) Cypress.io
6 17 (4.74%) JIRA
7 16 (4.46%) MLflow
8 14 (3.90%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.62%) Mockito
9 13 (3.62%) Selenium
10 11 (3.06%) Postman
11 9 (2.51%) JMeter
12 8 (2.23%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.95%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.67%) Gatling
14 6 (1.67%) Gradle
14 6 (1.67%) SonarQube
15 5 (1.39%) Maven
15 5 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 69 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.48%) Finance
3 39 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.80%) Banking
5 17 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Retail
7 10 (2.79%) Front Office
8 7 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.84%) Military
11 2 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Games
12 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (21.17%) Developer
2 60 (16.71%) Senior
3 52 (14.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 32 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (8.08%) Lead
8 26 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.96%) Architect
10 24 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.29%) Azure Developer
13 18 (5.01%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.74%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
16 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.62%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (3.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.43%) Kafka
2 51 (14.21%) React
3 48 (13.37%) REST
4 45 (12.53%) Node.js
5 43 (11.98%) .NET
6 35 (9.75%) Spring
7 32 (8.91%) RESTful
7 32 (8.91%) Spring Boot
8 26 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 25 (6.96%) Playwright
10 23 (6.41%) OAuth
11 22 (6.13%) CSS
11 22 (6.13%) PySpark
12 16 (4.46%) PyTorch
13 15 (4.18%) Microsoft Graph
13 15 (4.18%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.90%) LangChain
15 13 (3.62%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.62%) HTML
15 13 (3.62%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.34%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.95%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.11%) Replication
9 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.84%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.56%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.56%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.52%) Linux
2 11 (3.06%) VMS
2 11 (3.06%) Windows
3 5 (1.39%) Android
4 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (88.30%) CI/CD
2 224 (62.40%) DevOps
3 163 (45.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (29.25%) Agile
5 99 (27.58%) Containerisation
5 99 (27.58%) Observability
6 81 (22.56%) AI
7 69 (19.22%) Analytics
8 63 (17.55%) Microservices
9 60 (16.71%) Test Automation
10 58 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (14.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 50 (13.93%) Data Engineering
14 47 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (12.81%) Machine Learning
15 46 (12.81%) Migration
16 45 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
17 37 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 32 (8.91%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 156 (43.45%) Python
2 103 (28.69%) SQL
3 69 (19.22%) Java
4 54 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 54 (15.04%) TypeScript
5 48 (13.37%) C#
6 33 (9.19%) Bicep
7 31 (8.64%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.13%) Bash
9 17 (4.74%) Go
10 13 (3.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.95%) JSX
11 7 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.67%) Ruby
12 6 (1.67%) Scala
13 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.84%) Swift
14 3 (0.84%) XPath
15 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 94 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.74%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.62%) Degree
5 10 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.36%) QA
2 15 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.39%) WCAG
7 4 (1.11%) GDPR
7 4 (1.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
8 2 (0.56%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 132 (36.77%) Docker
2 14 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.56%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (56.55%) Terraform
2 152 (42.34%) Kubernetes
3 34 (9.47%) Ansible
4 26 (7.24%) Grafana
5 23 (6.41%) Argo
5 23 (6.41%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.79%) Istio
7 7 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.39%) Kibana
9 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.84%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.84%) Puppet
9 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 74 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.14%) Databricks
3 29 (8.08%) Google
4 23 (6.41%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.51%) New Relic
6 6 (1.67%) Splunk
7 5 (1.39%) Confluent
7 5 (1.39%) Oracle
7 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.39%) SAP
7 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.39%) VMware
8 4 (1.11%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.11%) Foundry
9 3 (0.84%) Adobe
9 3 (0.84%) Qualys
9 3 (0.84%) Sybase
10 2 (0.56%) Veracode
11 1 (0.28%) Workday