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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 229 300
Rank change year-on-year +107 +71 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 366 132 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 1.03% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.05% 2.44% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 96 58
10th Percentile £385 £438 £413
25th Percentile £431 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £643 £664 £650
90th Percentile £713 £800 £729
England median daily rate £504 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.36% +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 7,251 5,411 6,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.74% 42.13% 37.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,965 3,757 4,971
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £777 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 46 79
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.30 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.25 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.69% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.63 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.86% +27.68% -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 23 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 23 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 +12 44 £556 -1.33% 36
West London -10 12 £650 +36.84% 6
South London - 12 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 34 (9.29%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.10%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.46%) Apache
4 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Findur
1 3 (0.82%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 366 (100.00%) GitHub
2 197 (53.83%) Azure
3 191 (52.19%) AWS
4 124 (33.88%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (22.40%) Serverless
6 65 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (15.85%) Amazon S3
8 55 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (14.48%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (14.21%) GCP
11 45 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (12.30%) Azure Monitor
12 39 (10.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 36 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (9.84%) Azure AKS
14 30 (8.20%) Entra ID
15 28 (7.65%) AWS CodePipeline
15 28 (7.65%) Azure Key Vault
16 26 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.28%) Firewall
2 19 (5.19%) Network Security
3 15 (4.10%) DNS
4 5 (1.37%) VPN
5 4 (1.09%) HTTP
6 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.55%) Internet
7 2 (0.55%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) DSL
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.20%) Data Lake
3 26 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.46%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.46%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.46%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.37%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.28%) Big Data
7 12 (3.28%) Redis
8 11 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.01%) Power BI
9 10 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.73%) MySQL
10 9 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.46%) Flink
11 8 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 118 (32.24%) Jenkins
2 63 (17.21%) GitLab
3 56 (15.30%) Git
4 20 (5.46%) Cypress.io
4 20 (5.46%) JIRA
4 20 (5.46%) JUnit
5 18 (4.92%) MLflow
6 13 (3.55%) Mockito
6 13 (3.55%) Selenium
7 12 (3.28%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.01%) Postman
9 8 (2.19%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.91%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.64%) Gatling
11 6 (1.64%) Gradle
11 6 (1.64%) JMeter
11 6 (1.64%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.37%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.37%) TestRail
General
1 74 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.75%) Finance
3 38 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.10%) Banking
5 21 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.01%) Front Office
6 11 (3.01%) Retail
7 10 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (19.95%) Developer
2 62 (16.94%) Senior
3 54 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (10.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (10.93%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 31 (8.47%) Lead
7 26 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.28%) Architect
8 23 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.92%) Azure Developer
11 17 (4.64%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 14 (3.83%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.83%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.57%) Kafka
2 52 (14.21%) React
3 44 (12.02%) REST
4 42 (11.48%) Node.js
5 40 (10.93%) .NET
6 32 (8.74%) Spring
6 32 (8.74%) Spring Boot
7 30 (8.20%) RESTful
8 25 (6.83%) AngularJS
9 24 (6.56%) Playwright
10 23 (6.28%) PySpark
11 20 (5.46%) CSS
11 20 (5.46%) OAuth
12 15 (4.10%) JSON
12 15 (4.10%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.83%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.83%) Pandas
13 14 (3.83%) PyTorch
14 13 (3.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.91%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) Replication
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.47%) Linux
2 12 (3.28%) Windows
3 11 (3.01%) VMS
4 7 (1.91%) Unix
5 4 (1.09%) Android
5 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (87.98%) CI/CD
2 228 (62.30%) DevOps
3 167 (45.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (30.87%) Agile
5 100 (27.32%) Containerisation
6 99 (27.05%) Observability
7 76 (20.77%) AI
8 68 (18.58%) Analytics
9 63 (17.21%) Microservices
9 63 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (16.94%) Test Automation
11 55 (15.03%) Data Engineering
11 55 (15.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 54 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (12.84%) Machine Learning
15 41 (11.20%) Migration
16 36 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (9.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 175 (47.81%) Python
2 107 (29.23%) SQL
3 64 (17.49%) Java
4 52 (14.21%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 48 (13.11%) C#
7 36 (9.84%) PowerShell
8 32 (8.74%) Bicep
9 31 (8.47%) Bash
10 18 (4.92%) Go
11 13 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (3.28%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.91%) JSX
13 7 (1.91%) Ruby
13 7 (1.91%) Scala
14 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.82%) Swift
14 3 (0.82%) XPath
15 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.92%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.55%) Degree
5 11 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.74%) QA
2 18 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (1.09%) WCAG
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (37.43%) Docker
2 13 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.55%) HDFS
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 209 (57.10%) Terraform
2 152 (41.53%) Kubernetes
3 36 (9.84%) Ansible
4 30 (8.20%) Grafana
5 27 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.28%) Argo
7 10 (2.73%) Istio
8 8 (2.19%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.91%) Puppet
10 5 (1.37%) Kibana
11 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.27%) linkerd
13 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 74 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.48%) Databricks
3 27 (7.38%) Google
4 20 (5.46%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.46%) New Relic
5 9 (2.46%) Splunk
6 6 (1.64%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.37%) Confluent
7 5 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.37%) Oracle
7 5 (1.37%) SAP
7 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.09%) Foundry
9 3 (0.82%) Hortonworks
9 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.82%) Qualys
9 3 (0.82%) Sybase
10 2 (0.55%) Adobe
10 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg