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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 218 310
Rank change year-on-year +88 +92 +24
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 404 138 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 1.10% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.03% 2.56% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 84 61
10th Percentile £405 £413 £425
25th Percentile £452 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +8.37% -14.00%
75th Percentile £625 £781 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
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 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -

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 8,033 5,394 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 42.86% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,529 3,657 5,096
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 70 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.13 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +15 51 £588 +2.17% 6
West London -19 9 £530 -6.19% 4
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
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 31 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.97%) Confluence
4 9 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.98%) Apache
5 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.99%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.74%) Findur
2 3 (0.74%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 404 (100.00%) GitHub
2 224 (55.45%) AWS
3 212 (52.48%) Azure
4 141 (34.90%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (19.06%) Serverless
6 65 (16.09%) Amazon S3
7 62 (15.35%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (12.87%) GCP
10 47 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (10.89%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (10.40%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (10.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (8.66%) Azure AKS
15 28 (6.93%) AWS CodePipeline
16 27 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (6.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (6.19%) Entra ID
18 24 (5.94%) Power Platform
19 21 (5.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.45%) Firewall
2 20 (4.95%) Network Security
3 17 (4.21%) DNS
4 16 (3.96%) VPN
5 5 (1.24%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.43%) Data Lake
3 24 (5.94%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.94%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.20%) Delta Lake
5 19 (4.70%) Redis
6 18 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.46%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.46%) Power BI
7 17 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.48%) Big Data
12 9 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.98%) Metadata
13 8 (1.98%) MySQL
14 6 (1.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 142 (35.15%) Jenkins
2 96 (23.76%) GitLab
3 51 (12.62%) Git
4 27 (6.68%) JUnit
5 22 (5.45%) JIRA
6 18 (4.46%) CircleCI
7 17 (4.21%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.71%) MLflow
8 15 (3.71%) Mockito
9 14 (3.47%) Gradle
10 13 (3.22%) Selenium
11 12 (2.97%) Cucumber
12 11 (2.72%) SonarQube
13 9 (2.23%) JMeter
13 9 (2.23%) REST Assured
13 9 (2.23%) Snyk
14 8 (1.98%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.73%) Gatling
16 6 (1.49%) Postman
17 5 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 77 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.84%) Finance
3 49 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.19%) Banking
6 12 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.72%) Law
7 11 (2.72%) Retail
8 7 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Front Office
10 3 (0.74%) Legal
10 3 (0.74%) Local Government
10 3 (0.74%) Police
11 2 (0.50%) Marketing
11 2 (0.50%) Military
11 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (20.54%) Senior
2 72 (17.82%) Developer
3 70 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.15%) Data Engineer
6 32 (7.92%) Architect
7 31 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (7.43%) Lead
9 27 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (5.94%) Java Developer
10 24 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.20%) Senior Developer
12 16 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.22%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.57%) Kafka
2 63 (15.59%) REST
3 53 (13.12%) RESTful
4 42 (10.40%) Spring
4 42 (10.40%) Spring Boot
5 40 (9.90%) React
6 32 (7.92%) PySpark
7 28 (6.93%) .NET
8 21 (5.20%) FastAPI
9 20 (4.95%) OAuth
9 20 (4.95%) Playwright
10 19 (4.70%) Pandas
11 18 (4.46%) OAuth2
12 15 (3.71%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.47%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.47%) Flask
14 13 (3.22%) Node.js
14 13 (3.22%) OpenID
15 12 (2.97%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.13%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.23%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.23%) Public Cloud
5 8 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.98%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.74%) NHS
11 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.50%) IoT
11 2 (0.50%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.16%) Linux
2 20 (4.95%) Windows
3 16 (3.96%) Unix
4 8 (1.98%) Android
4 8 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.24%) VMS
7 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (89.60%) CI/CD
2 259 (64.11%) DevOps
3 203 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (33.17%) Agile
5 115 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 104 (25.74%) Observability
7 90 (22.28%) Test Automation
8 86 (21.29%) Microservices
9 82 (20.30%) Platform Engineering
10 63 (15.59%) Analytics
11 59 (14.60%) AI
12 58 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (13.12%) Event-Driven
15 51 (12.62%) Data Engineering
16 50 (12.38%) Mentoring
17 49 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 42 (10.40%) Software Engineering
20 41 (10.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 184 (45.54%) Python
2 116 (28.71%) SQL
3 74 (18.32%) Java
4 51 (12.62%) PowerShell
5 49 (12.13%) Bash
6 47 (11.63%) TypeScript
7 46 (11.39%) C#
8 41 (10.15%) Bicep
9 39 (9.65%) JavaScript
10 22 (5.45%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.48%) Go
11 10 (2.48%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.98%) Ruby
13 7 (1.73%) Swift
14 5 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.24%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.24%) Scala
15 4 (0.99%) Groovy
15 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 133 (32.92%) Security Cleared
2 123 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.20%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.71%) Degree
5 11 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.23%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.62%) QA
2 25 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.23%) NIST
5 8 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.49%) GDPR
7 4 (0.99%) WCAG
8 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.74%) PSD2
9 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.50%) SEPA
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (38.86%) Docker
2 11 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 234 (57.92%) Terraform
2 171 (42.33%) Kubernetes
3 55 (13.61%) Prometheus
4 52 (12.87%) Grafana
5 39 (9.65%) Ansible
6 8 (1.98%) Argo
6 8 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.98%) Puppet
7 5 (1.24%) Kibana
8 4 (0.99%) Istio
9 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.50%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.25%) linkerd
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
10 1 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.17%) Databricks
3 19 (4.70%) Splunk
4 17 (4.21%) Google
5 14 (3.47%) Oracle
6 11 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.23%) New Relic
8 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.73%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.49%) Foundry
10 6 (1.49%) SAP
11 5 (1.24%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.24%) Sybase
12 4 (0.99%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.99%) Hortonworks
12 4 (0.99%) Palantir
13 3 (0.74%) Confluent
13 3 (0.74%) Zscaler