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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 262 333
Rank change year-on-year +141 +71 +37
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 344 123 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 0.82% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 1.99% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 88 53
10th Percentile £366 £413 £465
25th Percentile £430 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £641 £650
90th Percentile £737 £735 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £532
% change year-on-year - -1.22% -14.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%

All Cloud 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 6,342 6,188 7,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 41.17% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 4,188 5,315
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £73.50
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

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 20 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

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 20 December 2025. 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 +35 43 £575 -8.55% 10
South London - 9 £500 -
West London -16 4 £650 +36.84% 4
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 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.91%) Confluence
4 8 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.45%) Apache
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.58%) Traefik
7 2 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.29%) Appian
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) GitHub
2 196 (56.98%) AWS
3 176 (51.16%) Azure
4 95 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (19.77%) Serverless
6 59 (17.15%) GCP
7 54 (15.70%) Amazon S3
8 52 (15.12%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (11.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (8.43%) Entra ID
13 27 (7.85%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (7.56%) Azure AKS
15 25 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (6.98%) Power Platform
17 20 (5.81%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.23%) Firewall
2 16 (4.65%) DNS
3 9 (2.62%) Network Security
4 7 (2.03%) VPN
5 5 (1.45%) HTTP
5 5 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.58%) Calico
7 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.49%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.20%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.91%) Power BI
9 9 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.62%) Flink
9 9 (2.62%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.33%) Big Data
10 8 (2.33%) Redis
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 95 (27.62%) Jenkins
2 68 (19.77%) Git
3 52 (15.12%) GitLab
4 21 (6.10%) CircleCI
5 19 (5.52%) JIRA
6 16 (4.65%) JUnit
7 13 (3.78%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.91%) Postman
8 10 (2.91%) Selenium
9 9 (2.62%) Snyk
10 8 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.33%) JMeter
11 7 (2.03%) MLflow
12 6 (1.74%) Mockito
12 6 (1.74%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.45%) Maven
13 5 (1.45%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.45%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 66 (19.19%) Finance
2 56 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.14%) Banking
5 23 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.62%) Front Office
7 9 (2.62%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.33%) Retail
9 7 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.45%) Military
12 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Marketing
12 3 (0.87%) Publishing
13 2 (0.58%) Legal
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Billing
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (20.35%) Developer
2 66 (19.19%) Senior
3 60 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 34 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (6.98%) Lead
9 23 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (6.10%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (5.81%) Architect
11 20 (5.81%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.65%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.07%) Azure Developer
14 14 (4.07%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.49%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (16.28%) Node.js
1 56 (16.28%) React
2 42 (12.21%) REST
3 41 (11.92%) Kafka
4 36 (10.47%) .NET
5 26 (7.56%) AngularJS
5 26 (7.56%) RESTful
6 24 (6.98%) CSS
7 21 (6.10%) Spring
8 17 (4.94%) HTML
8 17 (4.94%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 16 (4.65%) OAuth
10 14 (4.07%) pytest
11 13 (3.78%) PyTorch
12 12 (3.49%) Jest
12 12 (3.49%) Playwright
13 11 (3.20%) LangChain
13 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (3.20%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 67 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.78%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.74%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.45%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.45%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.16%) Genomics
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.16%) Replication
9 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.56%) Linux
2 7 (2.03%) VMS
3 6 (1.74%) Android
4 5 (1.45%) Windows
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (88.95%) CI/CD
2 221 (64.24%) DevOps
3 161 (46.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (28.20%) Agile
5 87 (25.29%) Containerisation
6 84 (24.42%) AI
7 73 (21.22%) Observability
8 62 (18.02%) Microservices
9 57 (16.57%) Migration
10 53 (15.41%) Data Pipeline
11 52 (15.12%) Analytics
12 51 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (14.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 46 (13.37%) Data Engineering
14 46 (13.37%) Software Engineering
15 45 (13.08%) Test Automation
16 44 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
17 42 (12.21%) Machine Learning
18 35 (10.17%) DevSecOps
19 31 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 164 (47.67%) Python
2 87 (25.29%) SQL
3 65 (18.90%) TypeScript
4 62 (18.02%) Java
5 59 (17.15%) JavaScript
6 46 (13.37%) C#
7 38 (11.05%) Go
8 31 (9.01%) Bash
8 31 (9.01%) PowerShell
9 29 (8.43%) Bicep
10 12 (3.49%) Ruby
11 8 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (2.03%) JSX
13 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.16%) Groovy
14 4 (1.16%) PromQL
14 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.87%) XPath
16 2 (0.58%) Scala
17 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 98 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 91 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.10%) Degree
4 20 (5.81%) Azure Certification
5 14 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.58%) MCP
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.81%) QA
3 14 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.49%) GDPR
4 12 (3.49%) NIST
5 11 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.45%) WCAG
7 3 (0.87%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (37.50%) Docker
2 22 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) etcd
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 201 (58.43%) Terraform
2 160 (46.51%) Kubernetes
3 38 (11.05%) Grafana
4 35 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 26 (7.56%) Ansible
6 24 (6.98%) Argo
7 13 (3.78%) Istio
8 8 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.45%) Kibana
9 5 (1.45%) Puppet
10 3 (0.87%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.58%) Consul
11 2 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.58%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 65 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.88%) Databricks
3 30 (8.72%) Google
4 28 (8.14%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.62%) Splunk
6 6 (1.74%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.45%) Oracle
7 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.45%) VMware
8 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.16%) New Relic
8 4 (1.16%) SAP
9 3 (0.87%) Adobe
10 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.58%) Confluent
10 2 (0.58%) Foundry
10 2 (0.58%) Qualys
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.58%) Solace