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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 159 294
Rank change year-on-year +24 +135 +62
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 439 220 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.18% 1.65% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.28% 3.81% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 138 59
10th Percentile £400 £389 £425
25th Percentile £450 £467 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £626 £698 £660
90th Percentile £675 £824 £742
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,313 5,773 6,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.25% 43.19% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 3,951 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 49
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +3.63% -43.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.25
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.90% -14.39%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -2 50 £594 -5.94% 21
South London 0 12 £488 +8.33% 3
West London -12 9 £650 +15.04% 15
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 28 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.69%) Confluence
3 13 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.28%) Apache
6 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.91%) nginx
7 4 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.46%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Trello
2 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.68%) Findur
3 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) GitHub
2 258 (58.77%) Azure
3 234 (53.30%) AWS
4 165 (37.59%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (15.95%) Serverless
6 68 (15.49%) GCP
7 64 (14.58%) Amazon S3
8 56 (12.76%) Amazon EKS
9 53 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (10.93%) Azure AKS
11 41 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (9.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (7.74%) Entra ID
13 34 (7.74%) Snowflake
14 30 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (6.83%) Power Platform
15 25 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.78%) VPN
2 17 (3.87%) DNS
2 17 (3.87%) Firewall
3 11 (2.51%) Network Security
4 5 (1.14%) Internet
5 3 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.68%) SSH
5 3 (0.68%) SSL
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.46%) DSL
6 2 (0.46%) HTTP
6 2 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.92%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.47%) Power BI
4 24 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.78%) Data Lake
5 21 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.78%) Redis
6 19 (4.33%) Delta Lake
7 16 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 15 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.96%) Metadata
10 12 (2.73%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.82%) Big Data
13 8 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 163 (37.13%) Jenkins
2 120 (27.33%) GitLab
3 59 (13.44%) Git
4 28 (6.38%) JIRA
5 24 (5.47%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.47%) JUnit
5 24 (5.47%) Selenium
6 18 (4.10%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.96%) Gradle
7 13 (2.96%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.73%) REST Assured
9 10 (2.28%) Mockito
10 9 (2.05%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.05%) XCUITest
11 8 (1.82%) JMeter
11 8 (1.82%) MLflow
11 8 (1.82%) Snyk
12 7 (1.59%) Postman
12 7 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 88 (20.05%) Finance
1 88 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.90%) Public Sector
3 33 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.38%) Banking
5 13 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.73%) Law
6 12 (2.73%) Retail
7 9 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.14%) Legal
10 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.91%) Marketing
11 3 (0.68%) Back Office
11 3 (0.68%) Billing
11 3 (0.68%) Local Government
11 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.68%) Police
11 3 (0.68%) Publishing
12 2 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 93 (21.18%) Senior
2 80 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (18.00%) Developer
4 41 (9.34%) Lead
5 38 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
5 38 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.29%) Architect
8 29 (6.61%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.47%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.01%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.33%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.10%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
17 14 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (58.77%) Terraform
2 80 (18.22%) REST
3 68 (15.49%) Kafka
4 59 (13.44%) RESTful
5 43 (9.79%) React
6 39 (8.88%) Spring
7 35 (7.97%) Spring Boot
8 34 (7.74%) .NET
9 28 (6.38%) PySpark
10 23 (5.24%) Playwright
11 22 (5.01%) FastAPI
12 18 (4.10%) Node.js
13 17 (3.87%) OAuth
14 15 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (3.42%) Flask
14 15 (3.42%) OAuth2
15 14 (3.19%) ARM Templates
15 14 (3.19%) Loki
15 14 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (3.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (24.37%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.42%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.51%) Virtual Team
5 8 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 8 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.48%) Linux
2 18 (4.10%) Windows
3 16 (3.64%) Unix
4 13 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.51%) Android
6 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (91.12%) CI/CD
2 293 (66.74%) DevOps
3 229 (52.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (37.36%) Agile
5 125 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 120 (27.33%) Test Automation
7 118 (26.88%) Observability
8 92 (20.96%) Microservices
9 78 (17.77%) Platform Engineering
10 72 (16.40%) AI
11 62 (14.12%) Event-Driven
11 62 (14.12%) Software Engineering
12 54 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
12 54 (12.30%) DevSecOps
12 54 (12.30%) Mentoring
13 53 (12.07%) Analytics
14 49 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 46 (10.48%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 218 (49.66%) Python
2 121 (27.56%) SQL
3 83 (18.91%) Java
4 81 (18.45%) Bash
5 63 (14.35%) PowerShell
6 57 (12.98%) TypeScript
7 48 (10.93%) C#
8 47 (10.71%) Bicep
9 43 (9.79%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.56%) Shell Script
11 17 (3.87%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.42%) Go
13 11 (2.51%) Swift
14 9 (2.05%) Objective-C
14 9 (2.05%) Ruby
15 5 (1.14%) Groovy
16 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 167 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 157 (35.76%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.43%) Azure Certification
4 13 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.96%) Degree
4 13 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.90%) QA
2 30 (6.83%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.37%) NIST
5 5 (1.14%) GDPR
6 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.91%) WCAG
7 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 181 (41.23%) Docker
2 13 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 200 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 75 (17.08%) Grafana
3 68 (15.49%) Prometheus
4 44 (10.02%) Ansible
5 22 (5.01%) Argo
6 8 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (0.91%) Karpenter
7 4 (0.91%) Kibana
8 3 (0.68%) Cilium
8 3 (0.68%) Istio
8 3 (0.68%) Packer
8 3 (0.68%) SELinux
8 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 78 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.71%) Databricks
3 24 (5.47%) Splunk
4 22 (5.01%) Google
5 19 (4.33%) Oracle
6 16 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.73%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.05%) New Relic
10 8 (1.82%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.82%) Foundry
10 8 (1.82%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.37%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.37%) VMware
12 5 (1.14%) SAP
13 4 (0.91%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.91%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.91%) Palantir