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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 205 308
Rank change year-on-year +70 +103 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 411 165 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.22% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 2.85% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 95 58
10th Percentile £400 £405 £421
25th Percentile £452 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +8.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £626 £729 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
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 £70.00 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -47.74%

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 8,216 5,790 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 42.69% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,951 5,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -53.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +22 53 £588 +2.17% 12
South London - 10 £518 -
West London -6 8 £560 -0.88% 4
East London - 1 £432 - 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 30 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.35%) Confluence
3 15 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.92%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.19%) Apache
6 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.97%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.73%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Findur
2 3 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) GitHub
2 230 (55.96%) Azure
3 226 (54.99%) AWS
4 148 (36.01%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (15.82%) Amazon S3
6 63 (15.33%) Serverless
7 52 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (12.65%) GCP
8 50 (12.17%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
11 39 (9.49%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (9.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (8.27%) Azure AKS
14 30 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (6.81%) Entra ID
16 25 (6.08%) Snowflake
17 23 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (5.60%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.11%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.38%) VPN
2 16 (3.89%) Firewall
3 14 (3.41%) DNS
3 14 (3.41%) Network Security
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.73%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.73%) SSH
5 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.49%) DSL
6 2 (0.49%) HTTP
6 2 (0.49%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.24%) NFC
7 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.33%) Data Lake
3 22 (5.35%) MongoDB
3 22 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.14%) Delta Lake
5 17 (4.14%) Power BI
6 16 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (3.89%) Redis
7 13 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.16%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.43%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.43%) Metadata
11 9 (2.19%) Big Data
12 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.22%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 149 (36.25%) Jenkins
2 100 (24.33%) GitLab
3 60 (14.60%) Git
4 29 (7.06%) JUnit
5 28 (6.81%) JIRA
6 24 (5.84%) Selenium
7 22 (5.35%) CircleCI
8 21 (5.11%) Cypress.io
9 16 (3.89%) Gradle
10 15 (3.65%) Mockito
11 14 (3.41%) MLflow
12 13 (3.16%) Cucumber
12 13 (3.16%) REST Assured
13 12 (2.92%) Bitbucket
14 11 (2.68%) SonarQube
15 9 (2.19%) JMeter
16 7 (1.70%) Postman
16 7 (1.70%) Snyk
17 6 (1.46%) Maven
17 6 (1.46%) XCUITest
General
1 85 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.76%) Finance
3 58 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.33%) Banking
6 13 (3.16%) Retail
7 12 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.68%) Law
9 7 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.97%) Legal
11 3 (0.73%) Front Office
11 3 (0.73%) Local Government
11 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.73%) Police
12 2 (0.49%) Back Office
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (19.95%) Senior
2 74 (18.00%) Developer
3 73 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.49%) Lead
6 33 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.79%) Data Engineer
8 29 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.57%) Architect
10 25 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.60%) Java Developer
11 23 (5.60%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.14%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.65%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.65%) Test Engineer
14 14 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (17.52%) REST
2 61 (14.84%) Kafka
3 52 (12.65%) RESTful
4 39 (9.49%) React
4 39 (9.49%) Spring
5 37 (9.00%) Spring Boot
6 29 (7.06%) .NET
7 27 (6.57%) Playwright
8 25 (6.08%) PySpark
9 21 (5.11%) FastAPI
10 16 (3.89%) Pandas
11 15 (3.65%) .NET Framework
12 14 (3.41%) Node.js
13 13 (3.16%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.16%) Flask
13 13 (3.16%) OAuth
14 12 (2.92%) OAuth2
14 12 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (2.92%) scikit-learn
15 11 (2.68%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 98 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.16%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.19%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) IoT
10 3 (0.73%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.52%) Linux
2 16 (3.89%) Unix
2 16 (3.89%) Windows
3 11 (2.68%) Android
4 10 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (90.02%) CI/CD
2 270 (65.69%) DevOps
3 204 (49.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (36.25%) Agile
5 117 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 113 (27.49%) Test Automation
7 98 (23.84%) Observability
8 91 (22.14%) Microservices
9 76 (18.49%) Platform Engineering
10 57 (13.87%) AI
11 55 (13.38%) Analytics
12 54 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
14 52 (12.65%) Event-Driven
15 49 (11.92%) Software Engineering
16 47 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (10.95%) Data Engineering
18 44 (10.71%) Mentoring
19 42 (10.22%) DevSecOps
20 39 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 188 (45.74%) Python
2 111 (27.01%) SQL
3 75 (18.25%) Java
4 63 (15.33%) Bash
5 57 (13.87%) PowerShell
6 48 (11.68%) C#
7 47 (11.44%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.49%) JavaScript
9 35 (8.52%) Bicep
10 22 (5.35%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.41%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.43%) Go
13 9 (2.19%) Ruby
14 8 (1.95%) Swift
15 7 (1.70%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.22%) Groovy
16 5 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (1.22%) Scala
17 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 155 (37.71%) Security Cleared
2 144 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.08%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.89%) Degree
5 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.09%) QA
2 25 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
5 5 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 168 (40.88%) Docker
2 10 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (56.20%) Terraform
2 173 (42.09%) Kubernetes
3 61 (14.84%) Grafana
4 55 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 34 (8.27%) Ansible
6 15 (3.65%) Argo
7 8 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.95%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.97%) Istio
10 3 (0.73%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.73%) SELinux
10 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.24%) linkerd
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.03%) Databricks
3 20 (4.87%) Splunk
4 19 (4.62%) Oracle
5 16 (3.89%) Google
6 12 (2.92%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.95%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.70%) Foundry
10 7 (1.70%) SAP
11 5 (1.22%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.22%) New Relic
11 5 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.97%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.97%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.97%) Palantir
12 4 (0.97%) Sybase
13 3 (0.73%) Perfecto Mobile