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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 141 288
Rank change year-on-year +14 +147 +64
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 480 267 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 2.01% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.75% 4.58% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 180 75
10th Percentile £376 £363 £413
25th Percentile £426 £445 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £801 £715
England median daily rate £501 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.00% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% - -
75th Percentile £55.50 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,354 5,826 6,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.83% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,769 3,964 4,507
10th Percentile £363 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -15.08% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 0 52 £575 -8.00% 43
South London +1 18 £468 -1.58% 1
West London - 5 £738 - 9
East London - 1 - - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
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 24 (5.00%) Confluence
2 23 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 4 (0.83%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.42%) Mendix
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Trello
2 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 480 (100.00%) GitHub
2 275 (57.29%) Azure
3 255 (53.13%) AWS
4 167 (34.79%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (17.29%) GCP
6 82 (17.08%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (16.46%) Amazon S3
8 78 (16.25%) Serverless
9 61 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (9.38%) Azure AKS
13 42 (8.75%) Entra ID
14 41 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (8.54%) Snowflake
15 40 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (6.46%) Power Platform
18 25 (5.21%) Datadog
19 24 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.42%) DNS
2 20 (4.17%) VPN
3 17 (3.54%) Firewall
4 11 (2.29%) Network Security
5 4 (0.83%) Internet
6 3 (0.63%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.63%) SSH
6 3 (0.63%) SSL
6 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.42%) DHCP
7 2 (0.42%) HTTP
7 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.42%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.21%) INAP
8 1 (0.21%) RTP
8 1 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.21%) VoIP
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.08%) MongoDB
3 29 (6.04%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.21%) Power BI
5 22 (4.58%) Redis
5 22 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 20 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.13%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.92%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.29%) Metadata
12 10 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (1.88%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.67%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 173 (36.04%) Jenkins
2 124 (25.83%) GitLab
3 75 (15.63%) Git
4 28 (5.83%) Selenium
5 27 (5.63%) CircleCI
6 26 (5.42%) JIRA
7 25 (5.21%) JUnit
8 21 (4.38%) Gradle
9 18 (3.75%) SonarQube
10 16 (3.33%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.33%) Cypress.io
11 15 (3.13%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.71%) JMeter
13 12 (2.50%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.29%) Postman
15 10 (2.08%) Mockito
16 9 (1.88%) Maven
16 9 (1.88%) XCTest
16 9 (1.88%) XCUITest
17 8 (1.67%) Claude Code
General
1 106 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.42%) Finance
3 67 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.46%) Banking
6 17 (3.54%) Retail
7 16 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.29%) Law
9 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.67%) Marketing
9 8 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.46%) Back Office
10 7 (1.46%) Local Government
11 5 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.83%) Billing
12 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.63%) Legal
13 3 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (24.38%) Senior
2 97 (20.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (15.63%) Developer
4 43 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
5 42 (8.75%) Lead
6 40 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.08%) Architect
8 30 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
10 24 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 22 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (4.58%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.38%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.75%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (58.75%) Terraform
2 98 (20.42%) REST
3 69 (14.38%) Kafka
4 61 (12.71%) RESTful
5 42 (8.75%) React
5 42 (8.75%) Spring
6 38 (7.92%) Spring Boot
7 31 (6.46%) .NET
8 27 (5.63%) Playwright
9 26 (5.42%) PySpark
10 25 (5.21%) FastAPI
11 21 (4.38%) OAuth
12 19 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (3.75%) Loki
13 18 (3.75%) OAuth2
13 18 (3.75%) pytest
14 16 (3.33%) Flask
14 16 (3.33%) Node.js
14 16 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 119 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 18 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.04%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 51 (10.63%) Linux
2 21 (4.38%) Windows
3 15 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.50%) Android
5 7 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (91.04%) CI/CD
2 327 (68.13%) DevOps
3 253 (52.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (36.04%) Agile
5 138 (28.75%) Observability
6 130 (27.08%) Test Automation
7 129 (26.88%) Containerisation
8 103 (21.46%) AI
9 100 (20.83%) Microservices
10 89 (18.54%) Platform Engineering
11 80 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 71 (14.79%) Event-Driven
13 65 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (13.54%) Deployment Automation
14 62 (12.92%) DevSecOps
15 58 (12.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 57 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (11.25%) RBAC
19 53 (11.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (51.46%) Python
2 109 (22.71%) SQL
3 92 (19.17%) Bash
4 88 (18.33%) Java
5 59 (12.29%) PowerShell
6 58 (12.08%) TypeScript
7 47 (9.79%) Bicep
8 46 (9.58%) JavaScript
9 41 (8.54%) C#
10 21 (4.38%) Kotlin
11 18 (3.75%) Go
12 13 (2.71%) Swift
13 11 (2.29%) Objective-C
13 11 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.67%) Ruby
15 5 (1.04%) Groovy
16 4 (0.83%) C
16 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.83%) Scala
17 3 (0.63%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 187 (38.96%) Security Cleared
2 177 (36.88%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.88%) Azure Certification
4 22 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.92%) Degree
7 13 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMP
14 1 (0.21%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (16.25%) QA
2 34 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.67%) GDPR
4 8 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.67%) NIST
5 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.83%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PSD2
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 198 (41.25%) Docker
2 14 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 225 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 85 (17.71%) Grafana
3 72 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 51 (10.63%) Ansible
5 26 (5.42%) Argo
6 8 (1.67%) Karpenter
6 8 (1.67%) Puppet
7 7 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.83%) Cilium
8 4 (0.83%) Istio
8 4 (0.83%) Kibana
9 3 (0.63%) SELinux
9 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.42%) Packer
11 1 (0.21%) Control-M
11 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 91 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.38%) Databricks
3 31 (6.46%) Google
4 25 (5.21%) Oracle
5 23 (4.79%) Splunk
6 21 (4.38%) Dynatrace
7 19 (3.96%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.29%) New Relic
8 11 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.08%) Foundry
9 10 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.88%) VMware
11 8 (1.67%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.46%) SAP
13 5 (1.04%) Checkmarx
13 5 (1.04%) IBM
13 5 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.83%) Confluent
14 4 (0.83%) Okta