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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 218 307
Rank change year-on-year +87 +89 +25
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 372 135 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.08% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.90% 2.54% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 89 57
10th Percentile £393 £443 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +6.05% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -9.38%
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 £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 7,595 5,317 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.31% 42.50% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,257 3,671 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 53 70
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £52.96 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +13 50 £600 +6.43% 26
West London -12 13 £605 +7.08% 6
South London - 8 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.11%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.42%) Apache
4 8 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.88%) Confluence
5 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.81%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 372 (100.00%) GitHub
2 202 (54.30%) Azure
3 199 (53.49%) AWS
4 130 (34.95%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (20.43%) Serverless
6 66 (17.74%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (15.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (15.05%) Amazon S3
9 55 (14.78%) GCP
10 45 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (10.48%) Azure AKS
12 37 (9.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
13 34 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (8.87%) AWS CodePipeline
15 32 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (5.65%) Entra ID
17 21 (5.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.72%) Firewall
2 19 (5.11%) DNS
3 17 (4.57%) Network Security
4 8 (2.15%) VPN
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.53%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.38%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.30%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.30%) Power BI
7 14 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.23%) Big Data
10 11 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.96%) Redis
11 9 (2.42%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.88%) MySQL
14 6 (1.61%) Metadata
15 5 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 131 (35.22%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.24%) GitLab
3 48 (12.90%) Git
4 20 (5.38%) JUnit
5 18 (4.84%) MLflow
6 17 (4.57%) JIRA
7 14 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.76%) Mockito
8 11 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.96%) Selenium
9 10 (2.69%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.69%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.42%) JMeter
10 9 (2.42%) Postman
11 7 (1.88%) Gatling
11 7 (1.88%) Gradle
11 7 (1.88%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.88%) Snyk
12 5 (1.34%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.05%) Finance
3 37 (9.95%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.65%) Banking
6 11 (2.96%) Retail
7 8 (2.15%) Front Office
8 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Aviation
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (19.35%) Developer
2 71 (19.09%) Senior
3 57 (15.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (10.75%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (8.87%) Lead
7 28 (7.53%) Architect
8 27 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.65%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.49%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.23%) Azure Developer
15 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.23%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.86%) Kafka
2 49 (13.17%) REST
3 45 (12.10%) React
4 41 (11.02%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.75%) Spring
6 38 (10.22%) .NET
7 36 (9.68%) RESTful
8 31 (8.33%) PySpark
9 23 (6.18%) Node.js
10 21 (5.65%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.65%) Pandas
11 20 (5.38%) Playwright
12 17 (4.57%) .NET Framework
12 17 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
13 16 (4.30%) FastAPI
14 14 (3.76%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.49%) OAuth
16 12 (3.23%) Flask
16 12 (3.23%) Web Services
17 11 (2.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.42%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.22%) Linux
2 16 (4.30%) Unix
2 16 (4.30%) Windows
3 11 (2.96%) VMS
4 5 (1.34%) Android
5 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (89.52%) CI/CD
2 240 (64.52%) DevOps
3 183 (49.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (30.91%) Agile
5 106 (28.49%) Containerisation
6 99 (26.61%) Observability
7 74 (19.89%) Test Automation
8 73 (19.62%) Microservices
9 59 (15.86%) AI
9 59 (15.86%) Analytics
9 59 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
10 55 (14.78%) Data Engineering
10 55 (14.78%) Data Pipeline
11 54 (14.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 47 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (10.75%) Event-Driven
15 39 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (10.48%) Migration
16 38 (10.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 164 (44.09%) Python
2 103 (27.69%) SQL
3 64 (17.20%) Java
4 56 (15.05%) C#
5 41 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.02%) PowerShell
5 41 (11.02%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.68%) Bicep
7 33 (8.87%) Bash
8 21 (5.65%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.69%) Go
10 7 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.88%) Ruby
11 6 (1.61%) Scala
12 5 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Swift
14 2 (0.54%) XPath
15 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 119 (31.99%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.11%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.96%) Degree
5 10 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.34%) 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
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.68%) QA
2 20 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
7 3 (0.81%) WCAG
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
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (40.59%) Docker
2 13 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 217 (58.33%) Terraform
2 159 (42.74%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.75%) Ansible
4 36 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.14%) Grafana
6 14 (3.76%) Argo
7 9 (2.42%) Istio
8 8 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.15%) Puppet
9 7 (1.88%) Kibana
10 3 (0.81%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.27%) linkerd
11 1 (0.27%) Packer
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.14%) Databricks
3 24 (6.45%) Google
4 13 (3.49%) Splunk
5 11 (2.96%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.69%) Oracle
7 9 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.15%) New Relic
8 8 (2.15%) SAP
9 7 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.61%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.34%) Foundry
12 4 (1.08%) Confluent
12 4 (1.08%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.81%) Sybase
13 3 (0.81%) Workday
14 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.54%) VMware