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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 220 291
Rank change year-on-year +89 +71 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 383 134 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.11% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.91% 2.57% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 82 62
10th Percentile £401 £427 £414
25th Percentile £455 £502 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.60% -11.20%
75th Percentile £626 £799 £650
90th Percentile £691 £850 £758
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.07% -0.50% -11.65%
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 £72.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +171.70% -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 7,806 5,219 6,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 43.13% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,389 3,531 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -49.03%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
% change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%

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 5 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 5 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 +17 46 £600 +4.35% 24
West London -13 9 £530 -6.19% 3
South London - 5 £445 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 6
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 (8.36%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.96%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.61%) Confluence
4 9 (2.35%) Apache
5 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Findur
1 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.78%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 383 (100.00%) GitHub
2 212 (55.35%) AWS
3 199 (51.96%) Azure
4 129 (33.68%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (20.10%) Serverless
6 65 (16.97%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (15.67%) Amazon S3
8 56 (14.62%) GCP
9 51 (13.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (12.01%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (11.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (8.88%) Azure AKS
15 31 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (7.83%) AWS CodePipeline
17 29 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (5.48%) Power Platform
19 20 (5.22%) Entra ID
19 20 (5.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.27%) Firewall
2 20 (5.22%) DNS
3 16 (4.18%) Network Security
4 12 (3.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.78%) Internet
6 2 (0.52%) DSL
6 2 (0.52%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.83%) Data Lake
2 29 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.01%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.48%) Delta Lake
4 21 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.44%) Power BI
6 16 (4.18%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.92%) Redis
8 13 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.13%) Big Data
9 12 (3.13%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.09%) MySQL
13 7 (1.83%) Metadata
14 6 (1.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 138 (36.03%) Jenkins
2 88 (22.98%) GitLab
3 48 (12.53%) Git
4 22 (5.74%) JUnit
5 19 (4.96%) JIRA
6 16 (4.18%) CircleCI
6 16 (4.18%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.92%) MLflow
8 14 (3.66%) Mockito
9 12 (3.13%) Gradle
10 11 (2.87%) Selenium
11 10 (2.61%) JMeter
12 9 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 9 (2.35%) SonarQube
13 8 (2.09%) Gatling
14 7 (1.83%) Postman
14 7 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.83%) Snyk
15 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 74 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.40%) Finance
3 37 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.74%) Banking
6 15 (3.92%) Retail
7 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.31%) Front Office
8 5 (1.31%) Law
9 3 (0.78%) Legal
9 3 (0.78%) Military
10 2 (0.52%) Marketing
10 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.52%) Police
11 1 (0.26%) Aviation
11 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (19.58%) Senior
2 71 (18.54%) Developer
3 59 (15.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.70%) Data Engineer
6 34 (8.88%) Lead
7 31 (8.09%) Architect
8 25 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 19 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.66%) Test Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.13%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (2.87%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.97%) Kafka
2 59 (15.40%) REST
3 46 (12.01%) RESTful
4 44 (11.49%) Spring
4 44 (11.49%) Spring Boot
5 42 (10.97%) React
6 33 (8.62%) PySpark
7 32 (8.36%) .NET
8 20 (5.22%) Pandas
9 19 (4.96%) Node.js
9 19 (4.96%) Playwright
10 18 (4.70%) FastAPI
10 18 (4.70%) OAuth
11 17 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 17 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.18%) OAuth2
13 15 (3.92%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.66%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (3.13%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 90 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.35%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.57%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.52%) IoT
10 2 (0.52%) IVR
10 2 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.40%) Linux
2 18 (4.70%) Windows
3 15 (3.92%) Unix
4 10 (2.61%) VMS
5 8 (2.09%) Android
6 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (89.30%) CI/CD
2 245 (63.97%) DevOps
3 191 (49.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (31.33%) Agile
5 104 (27.15%) Containerisation
5 104 (27.15%) Observability
6 80 (20.89%) Microservices
7 79 (20.63%) Test Automation
8 66 (17.23%) Platform Engineering
9 60 (15.67%) Analytics
10 59 (15.40%) AI
11 56 (14.62%) Data Pipeline
12 51 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (13.32%) Data Engineering
13 50 (13.05%) Mentoring
13 50 (13.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 48 (12.53%) Event-Driven
15 44 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 36 (9.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 171 (44.65%) Python
2 109 (28.46%) SQL
3 63 (16.45%) Java
4 47 (12.27%) C#
4 47 (12.27%) PowerShell
5 44 (11.49%) Bash
5 44 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 39 (10.18%) JavaScript
7 35 (9.14%) Bicep
8 23 (6.01%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.61%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.09%) Go
11 7 (1.83%) Ruby
12 6 (1.57%) Scala
12 6 (1.57%) Swift
13 5 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.04%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 122 (31.85%) Security Cleared
2 112 (29.24%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.01%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.39%) Degree
5 10 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
12 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.32%) QA
2 25 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.83%) NIST
6 5 (1.31%) GDPR
7 3 (0.78%) PSD2
7 3 (0.78%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.52%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.52%) SEPA
8 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 150 (39.16%) Docker
2 9 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (58.22%) Terraform
2 163 (42.56%) Kubernetes
3 45 (11.75%) Ansible
3 45 (11.75%) Prometheus
4 43 (11.23%) Grafana
5 12 (3.13%) Argo
6 10 (2.61%) Istio
7 8 (2.09%) Kibana
7 8 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.09%) Puppet
8 3 (0.78%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.26%) linkerd
10 1 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.62%) Databricks
3 24 (6.27%) Google
4 15 (3.92%) Splunk
5 12 (3.13%) Oracle
6 9 (2.35%) New Relic
6 9 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.57%) Foundry
8 6 (1.57%) SAP
9 5 (1.31%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.31%) Sybase
10 4 (1.04%) Confluent
10 4 (1.04%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.78%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.78%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.78%) Palantir