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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 221 299
Rank change year-on-year +94 +78 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 370 134 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.07% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.87% 2.52% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 90 59
10th Percentile £392 £450 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £641 £725 £638
90th Percentile £713 £805 £742
England median daily rate £525 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -4.07% +4.24% -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 £72.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +182.35% -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 7,603 5,313 6,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.97% 42.33% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,688 4,971
10th Percentile £350 £358 £343
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 53 72
10th Percentile £19.22 £22.53 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.06
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £51.81 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £71.25 £72.50 £62.13
England median hourly rate £45.25 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +74.21% +25.06% -35.70%

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 30 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 30 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 +15 46 £575 +2.00% 19
West London -14 12 £650 +36.84% 2
South London - 10 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 1
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 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.14%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.70%) Apache
3 10 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.81%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 370 (100.00%) GitHub
2 199 (53.78%) Azure
3 198 (53.51%) AWS
4 126 (34.05%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (21.62%) Serverless
6 68 (18.38%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (15.95%) Amazon S3
7 59 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (15.14%) GCP
9 49 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (12.43%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (11.35%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (11.08%) Azure AKS
13 36 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (8.92%) AWS CodePipeline
15 29 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (7.57%) Azure Key Vault
17 25 (6.76%) Entra ID
18 22 (5.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.03%) Firewall
2 19 (5.14%) Network Security
3 18 (4.86%) DNS
4 8 (2.16%) VPN
5 3 (0.81%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.54%) DSL
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.57%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (3.78%) Power BI
8 13 (3.51%) Big Data
9 12 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.43%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.43%) Redis
12 8 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.16%) MySQL
13 7 (1.89%) Flink
13 7 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 126 (34.05%) Jenkins
2 71 (19.19%) GitLab
3 52 (14.05%) Git
4 19 (5.14%) Cypress.io
4 19 (5.14%) JUnit
5 18 (4.86%) JIRA
5 18 (4.86%) MLflow
6 13 (3.51%) Mockito
6 13 (3.51%) Selenium
7 12 (3.24%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.70%) Postman
8 10 (2.70%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.43%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.89%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.89%) Snyk
11 6 (1.62%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.35%) Gatling
12 5 (1.35%) Gradle
12 5 (1.35%) JMeter
12 5 (1.35%) TestRail
General
1 68 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.14%) Finance
3 40 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.95%) Banking
5 21 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.70%) Front Office
7 9 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.43%) Retail
8 7 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (19.73%) Developer
2 66 (17.84%) Senior
3 59 (15.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.65%) Lead
6 30 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (7.30%) Architect
9 24 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.59%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.59%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.32%) Azure Developer
13 13 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.24%) AWS Developer
14 12 (3.24%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.24%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.14%) Kafka
2 46 (12.43%) React
3 43 (11.62%) REST
4 39 (10.54%) Spring Boot
5 38 (10.27%) .NET
5 38 (10.27%) Spring
6 33 (8.92%) RESTful
7 30 (8.11%) Node.js
8 26 (7.03%) PySpark
9 24 (6.49%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.68%) Playwright
11 19 (5.14%) Pandas
12 16 (4.32%) .NET Framework
12 16 (4.32%) FastAPI
13 15 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.78%) AWS CDK
14 14 (3.78%) OAuth
15 13 (3.51%) Web Services
16 12 (3.24%) Flask
16 12 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.97%) AI Agents
3 11 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.16%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.62%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
10 2 (0.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.00%) Linux
2 16 (4.32%) Windows
3 15 (4.05%) Unix
4 11 (2.97%) VMS
5 4 (1.08%) Android
6 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (89.46%) CI/CD
2 236 (63.78%) DevOps
3 183 (49.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (31.62%) Agile
5 111 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 102 (27.57%) Observability
7 70 (18.92%) Microservices
8 67 (18.11%) AI
9 65 (17.57%) Analytics
9 65 (17.57%) Test Automation
10 61 (16.49%) Platform Engineering
11 57 (15.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 55 (14.86%) Data Engineering
13 53 (14.32%) Data Pipeline
14 49 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.08%) Machine Learning
16 41 (11.08%) Migration
17 37 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (9.19%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 173 (46.76%) Python
2 108 (29.19%) SQL
3 65 (17.57%) Java
4 56 (15.14%) C#
5 45 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 41 (11.08%) PowerShell
6 41 (11.08%) TypeScript
7 35 (9.46%) Bicep
8 31 (8.38%) Bash
9 20 (5.41%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.78%) Go
11 10 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (2.43%) Ruby
13 6 (1.62%) Scala
14 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.81%) JSX
15 3 (0.81%) XPath
16 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.54%) Swift
17 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 108 (29.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.14%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.24%) Degree
5 11 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.38%) QA
2 19 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 2 (0.54%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (40.27%) Docker
2 15 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 221 (59.73%) Terraform
2 163 (44.05%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.54%) Ansible
4 34 (9.19%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.92%) Grafana
6 18 (4.86%) Argo
7 10 (2.70%) Istio
8 8 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.16%) Puppet
9 7 (1.89%) Kibana
10 3 (0.81%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.27%) Databricks
3 25 (6.76%) Google
4 15 (4.05%) OpenAI
4 15 (4.05%) Splunk
5 9 (2.43%) Oracle
6 8 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.16%) New Relic
7 7 (1.89%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.62%) SAP
9 5 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.35%) Confluent
10 4 (1.08%) Foundry
10 4 (1.08%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.81%) Qualys
11 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.81%) Sybase
12 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg