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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 175 306
Rank change year-on-year +43 +131 +48
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 438 208 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.18% 1.55% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 3.59% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 129 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% - -4.15%
75th Percentile £627 £700 £655
90th Percentile £675 £820 £740
England median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -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 8,334 5,789 6,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 43.06% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,701 3,968 4,770
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 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 19 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 +16 54 £594 -5.00% 11
South London +4 11 £490 +8.89% 3
West London -16 9 £650 +15.04% 3
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 3
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 31 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.71%) Confluence
3 13 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.28%) Apache
6 7 (1.60%) 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
2 3 (0.68%) SAP BPC
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 438 (100.00%) GitHub
2 259 (59.13%) Azure
3 239 (54.57%) AWS
4 166 (37.90%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (15.30%) GCP
6 66 (15.07%) Serverless
7 64 (14.61%) Amazon S3
8 55 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
9 53 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (11.42%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (10.05%) Azure AKS
12 43 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (9.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (7.99%) Entra ID
16 32 (7.31%) Snowflake
17 31 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (6.62%) Power Platform
19 27 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
20 21 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.79%) VPN
2 17 (3.88%) DNS
2 17 (3.88%) 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 38 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.16%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.48%) Power BI
5 23 (5.25%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.79%) Data Lake
7 19 (4.34%) Delta Lake
7 19 (4.34%) Redis
8 18 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (3.20%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.97%) Metadata
13 12 (2.74%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.83%) Big Data
15 8 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 163 (37.21%) Jenkins
2 119 (27.17%) GitLab
3 59 (13.47%) Git
4 28 (6.39%) JIRA
5 26 (5.94%) JUnit
6 25 (5.71%) Selenium
7 24 (5.48%) CircleCI
8 18 (4.11%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.42%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.97%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.97%) Gradle
11 12 (2.74%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.51%) MLflow
12 11 (2.51%) Mockito
13 10 (2.28%) Cucumber
14 9 (2.05%) JMeter
14 9 (2.05%) Snyk
15 8 (1.83%) Postman
15 8 (1.83%) XCUITest
16 7 (1.60%) TestNG
General
1 88 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.41%) Finance
3 62 (14.16%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.16%) Banking
6 13 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.97%) Retail
7 12 (2.74%) Law
8 9 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Billing
12 3 (0.68%) Front Office
12 3 (0.68%) Local Government
12 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.68%) Police
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
13 2 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (20.78%) Senior
2 80 (18.26%) Developer
3 78 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.59%) Lead
5 39 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
7 32 (7.31%) Architect
8 30 (6.85%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.02%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.79%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.11%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.81%) REST
2 67 (15.30%) Kafka
3 59 (13.47%) RESTful
4 41 (9.36%) Spring
5 39 (8.90%) React
6 37 (8.45%) Spring Boot
7 33 (7.53%) .NET
8 28 (6.39%) PySpark
9 26 (5.94%) Playwright
10 21 (4.79%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.42%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.42%) Node.js
12 14 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.20%) Flask
12 14 (3.20%) OAuth
12 14 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (2.97%) OAuth2
13 13 (2.97%) Pandas
14 12 (2.74%) pytest
14 12 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.20%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.51%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.91%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.59%) Linux
2 18 (4.11%) Windows
3 16 (3.65%) Unix
4 12 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.51%) Android
6 7 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (91.78%) CI/CD
2 292 (66.67%) DevOps
3 227 (51.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (35.84%) Agile
5 129 (29.45%) Containerisation
6 121 (27.63%) Test Automation
7 114 (26.03%) Observability
8 96 (21.92%) Microservices
9 79 (18.04%) Platform Engineering
10 72 (16.44%) AI
11 64 (14.61%) Event-Driven
12 60 (13.70%) Software Engineering
13 57 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (12.79%) Analytics
15 54 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (11.87%) Mentoring
17 51 (11.64%) DevSecOps
18 50 (11.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 47 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
20 45 (10.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (47.03%) Python
2 118 (26.94%) SQL
3 82 (18.72%) Java
4 73 (16.67%) Bash
5 63 (14.38%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.10%) TypeScript
7 51 (11.64%) C#
8 44 (10.05%) Bicep
9 42 (9.59%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.57%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.65%) Kotlin
12 12 (2.74%) Go
13 10 (2.28%) Swift
14 9 (2.05%) Ruby
15 8 (1.83%) Objective-C
16 5 (1.14%) Groovy
17 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 2 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (38.13%) Security Cleared
2 157 (35.84%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.76%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.20%) Degree
5 13 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
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 60 (13.70%) QA
2 29 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.14%) 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
1 180 (41.10%) Docker
2 13 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 251 (57.31%) Terraform
2 198 (45.21%) Kubernetes
3 71 (16.21%) Grafana
4 65 (14.84%) Prometheus
5 41 (9.36%) Ansible
6 19 (4.34%) Argo
7 8 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.83%) Puppet
8 4 (0.91%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.91%) Kibana
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) Packer
9 3 (0.68%) SELinux
9 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.23%) Cilium
11 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 74 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.27%) Databricks
3 23 (5.25%) Splunk
4 20 (4.57%) Google
5 18 (4.11%) Oracle
6 16 (3.65%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.51%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.28%) New Relic
10 8 (1.83%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.83%) Foundry
11 7 (1.60%) SAP
12 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.37%) VMware
13 5 (1.14%) Checkmarx
14 4 (0.91%) Confluent
14 4 (0.91%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.91%) Sybase