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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 194 306
Rank change year-on-year +56 +112 +46
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 418 181 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.33% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 3.11% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 108 58
10th Percentile £393 £400 £421
25th Percentile £450 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £583 £531
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +9.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £626 £685 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £744
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,244 5,822 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.48% 42.84% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,619 3,982 4,957
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.83 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £55.19 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 July 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 July 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 +8 52 £594 -1.04% 11
South London - 11 £518 - 1
West London -7 8 £560 -0.88% 2
East London - 1 £432 - 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 28 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.50%) Confluence
3 15 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.15%) Apache
6 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.72%) nginx
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.24%) Mendix
10 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Findur
2 3 (0.72%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 418 (100.00%) GitHub
2 236 (56.46%) Azure
3 227 (54.31%) AWS
4 152 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (14.83%) Serverless
6 61 (14.59%) Amazon S3
7 56 (13.40%) GCP
8 53 (12.68%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (8.85%) Azure AKS
15 31 (7.42%) Entra ID
16 30 (7.18%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (6.22%) Snowflake
18 24 (5.74%) Power Platform
19 22 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
20 21 (5.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.55%) VPN
2 16 (3.83%) Firewall
3 15 (3.59%) DNS
4 12 (2.87%) Network Security
5 5 (1.20%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.72%) SSH
6 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.48%) DSL
7 2 (0.48%) HTTP
7 2 (0.48%) SSL
7 2 (0.48%) WAN
8 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.24%) NFC
8 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.74%) Data Lake
3 23 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 23 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.31%) Delta Lake
5 18 (4.31%) Power BI
6 17 (4.07%) Redis
7 15 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.11%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.63%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.15%) Big Data
12 9 (2.15%) Metadata
13 7 (1.67%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.20%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 154 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 105 (25.12%) GitLab
3 57 (13.64%) Git
4 29 (6.94%) JIRA
5 27 (6.46%) JUnit
6 24 (5.74%) Selenium
7 22 (5.26%) CircleCI
8 20 (4.78%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.35%) Gradle
9 14 (3.35%) MLflow
10 13 (3.11%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.11%) Mockito
11 12 (2.87%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.87%) REST Assured
11 12 (2.87%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.91%) JMeter
12 8 (1.91%) Snyk
13 6 (1.44%) Appium
13 6 (1.44%) Postman
13 6 (1.44%) TestNG
General
1 86 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.70%) Finance
3 62 (14.83%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.22%) Banking
6 13 (3.11%) Retail
7 12 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.87%) Law
8 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Front Office
12 3 (0.72%) Local Government
12 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.72%) Police
13 2 (0.48%) Back Office
13 2 (0.48%) Billing
13 2 (0.48%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (20.81%) Senior
2 76 (18.18%) Developer
3 74 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (8.61%) Lead
6 33 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (7.18%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 28 (6.70%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (6.46%) Architect
11 23 (5.50%) Senior Developer
12 22 (5.26%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.55%) Software Engineer
14 16 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.83%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.59%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 13 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
17 13 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.46%) REST
2 58 (13.88%) Kafka
3 54 (12.92%) RESTful
4 40 (9.57%) Spring
5 39 (9.33%) React
6 38 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 30 (7.18%) .NET
8 28 (6.70%) Playwright
9 25 (5.98%) PySpark
10 22 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 16 (3.83%) Pandas
12 15 (3.59%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.59%) Node.js
13 14 (3.35%) Flask
14 13 (3.11%) AngularJS
14 13 (3.11%) OAuth
14 13 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (2.87%) ARM Templates
15 12 (2.87%) OAuth2
15 12 (2.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.96%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.11%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.15%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) IoT
11 3 (0.72%) NHS
11 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.85%) Linux
2 16 (3.83%) Unix
2 16 (3.83%) Windows
3 11 (2.63%) Android
4 10 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (91.15%) CI/CD
2 275 (65.79%) DevOps
3 212 (50.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (36.36%) Agile
5 124 (29.67%) Containerisation
6 113 (27.03%) Test Automation
7 106 (25.36%) Observability
8 93 (22.25%) Microservices
9 75 (17.94%) Platform Engineering
10 60 (14.35%) AI
11 56 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (13.16%) Analytics
13 54 (12.92%) Event-Driven
13 54 (12.92%) Software Engineering
14 52 (12.44%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (11.72%) DevSecOps
16 48 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (10.53%) Mentoring
18 43 (10.29%) Data Engineering
19 42 (10.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 193 (46.17%) Python
2 111 (26.56%) SQL
3 79 (18.90%) Java
4 69 (16.51%) Bash
5 59 (14.11%) PowerShell
6 50 (11.96%) TypeScript
7 49 (11.72%) C#
8 41 (9.81%) JavaScript
9 39 (9.33%) Bicep
10 22 (5.26%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.35%) Go
11 14 (3.35%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.15%) Ruby
13 8 (1.91%) Swift
14 7 (1.67%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.20%) Groovy
15 5 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.96%) Scala
17 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 159 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 148 (35.41%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.83%) Degree
5 12 (2.87%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (15.07%) QA
2 25 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.67%) GDPR
5 6 (1.44%) NIST
6 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.20%) WCAG
7 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 175 (41.87%) Docker
2 11 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 237 (56.70%) Terraform
2 182 (43.54%) Kubernetes
3 66 (15.79%) Grafana
4 61 (14.59%) Prometheus
5 38 (9.09%) Ansible
6 19 (4.55%) Argo
7 8 (1.91%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.91%) Puppet
8 5 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.72%) Istio
9 3 (0.72%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.72%) SELinux
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.48%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) Cilium
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.24%) linkerd
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.13%) Databricks
3 21 (5.02%) Splunk
4 18 (4.31%) Google
4 18 (4.31%) Oracle
5 14 (3.35%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.91%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.91%) Foundry
9 7 (1.67%) New Relic
9 7 (1.67%) SAP
10 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.20%) VMware
11 4 (0.96%) Checkmarx
11 4 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.96%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.96%) Palantir
11 4 (0.96%) Sybase