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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 227 301
Rank change year-on-year +92 +74 +30
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 360 133 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.05% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.75% 2.46% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 90 61
10th Percentile £390 £447 £413
25th Percentile £443 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £640 £725 £638
90th Percentile £713 £800 £725
England median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.64% +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 7,572 5,407 6,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.53% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,217 3,756 4,907
10th Percentile £350 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 53 74
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.56 £53.75 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -30.77%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +7 43 £575 +2.00% 23
West London -18 12 £650 +36.84% 3
South London - 11 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 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 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.78%) Apache
5 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.94%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 360 (100.00%) GitHub
2 193 (53.61%) Azure
3 191 (53.06%) AWS
4 125 (34.72%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (21.94%) Serverless
6 66 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (16.11%) Amazon S3
8 57 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (14.17%) GCP
10 48 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (12.78%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (11.11%) Azure AKS
14 39 (10.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (8.61%) Entra ID
17 30 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
18 29 (8.06%) Azure Key Vault
19 27 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
20 24 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.11%) Firewall
2 19 (5.28%) Network Security
3 14 (3.89%) DNS
4 4 (1.11%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) HTTP
5 3 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.56%) DSL
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.06%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.56%) Delta Lake
5 18 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.44%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.61%) Big Data
9 11 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.06%) Power BI
10 9 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.50%) Flink
10 9 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.50%) Redis
11 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.22%) MySQL
12 6 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 121 (33.61%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.78%) GitLab
3 52 (14.44%) Git
4 21 (5.83%) JIRA
5 20 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 18 (5.00%) JUnit
6 18 (5.00%) MLflow
7 14 (3.89%) Selenium
8 12 (3.33%) Mockito
9 11 (3.06%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.06%) Postman
10 10 (2.78%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.94%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.67%) Snyk
14 5 (1.39%) Gatling
14 5 (1.39%) Gradle
14 5 (1.39%) JMeter
14 5 (1.39%) TestRail
General
1 64 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.28%) Finance
3 37 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.94%) Banking
5 20 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.33%) Front Office
7 9 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (20.56%) Developer
2 63 (17.50%) Senior
3 56 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.39%) Data Engineer
5 39 (10.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (8.61%) Lead
6 31 (8.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 27 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.94%) Architect
9 24 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (5.28%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.72%) Azure Developer
11 17 (4.72%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.89%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.28%) Kafka
2 46 (12.78%) React
3 43 (11.94%) REST
4 40 (11.11%) .NET
5 35 (9.72%) Spring Boot
6 34 (9.44%) Spring
7 32 (8.89%) Node.js
8 30 (8.33%) RESTful
9 25 (6.94%) PySpark
10 23 (6.39%) AngularJS
11 22 (6.11%) Playwright
12 18 (5.00%) Pandas
13 17 (4.72%) OAuth
14 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
14 15 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.89%) AWS CDK
16 13 (3.61%) CSS
16 13 (3.61%) FastAPI
16 13 (3.61%) Web Services
17 12 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.94%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.72%) Linux
2 14 (3.89%) Unix
2 14 (3.89%) Windows
3 11 (3.06%) VMS
4 4 (1.11%) Android
5 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (88.61%) CI/CD
2 228 (63.33%) DevOps
3 170 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (31.94%) Agile
5 102 (28.33%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.67%) Observability
7 72 (20.00%) AI
8 69 (19.17%) Analytics
8 69 (19.17%) Microservices
9 64 (17.78%) Test Automation
10 60 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (15.00%) Data Engineering
11 54 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 53 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
13 47 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (11.39%) Machine Learning
16 40 (11.11%) Migration
17 36 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (8.61%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 175 (48.61%) Python
2 107 (29.72%) SQL
3 64 (17.78%) Java
4 52 (14.44%) C#
5 47 (13.06%) JavaScript
6 43 (11.94%) TypeScript
7 38 (10.56%) PowerShell
8 33 (9.17%) Bicep
9 28 (7.78%) Bash
10 19 (5.28%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.89%) Go
12 12 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.94%) Ruby
14 6 (1.67%) Scala
15 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.83%) JSX
16 3 (0.83%) XPath
17 2 (0.56%) Swift
18 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
18 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 109 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 100 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.28%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.33%) Degree
5 11 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.89%) QA
2 20 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
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
1 143 (39.72%) Docker
2 14 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.56%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 209 (58.06%) Terraform
2 153 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.56%) Ansible
4 25 (6.94%) Grafana
4 25 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.56%) Argo
6 10 (2.78%) Istio
7 8 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.22%) Puppet
8 5 (1.39%) Kibana
9 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.39%) Databricks
3 25 (6.94%) Google
4 20 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.78%) Splunk
6 8 (2.22%) New Relic
7 7 (1.94%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.94%) Oracle
7 7 (1.94%) SAP
8 6 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.39%) Confluent
9 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.11%) Foundry
10 4 (1.11%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.83%) Qualys
11 3 (0.83%) Sybase
12 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.56%) Veracode