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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 222 301
Rank change year-on-year +84 +79 +31
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 362 135 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.06% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.77% 2.50% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 91 60
10th Percentile £391 £449 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +8.24% -11.46%
75th Percentile £639 £725 £641
90th Percentile £713 £800 £726
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -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 £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 7,584 5,403 6,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 42.41% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,755 4,939
10th Percentile £350 £357 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
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 £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 54 76
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.96 £53.75 £40.66
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £61.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%

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 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 24 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 +14 46 £575 +2.00% 15
West London -14 12 £650 +36.84% 3
South London - 11 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 (8.84%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.76%) Apache
5 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.66%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.83%) Findur
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 362 (100.00%) GitHub
2 195 (53.87%) Azure
3 192 (53.04%) AWS
4 125 (34.53%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (22.10%) Serverless
6 67 (18.51%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (16.30%) Amazon S3
8 58 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (14.36%) GCP
10 48 (13.26%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (12.98%) Azure Monitor
12 46 (12.71%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (11.88%) Azure AKS
14 39 (10.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (9.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (8.56%) AWS CodePipeline
17 30 (8.29%) Azure Key Vault
18 29 (8.01%) Entra ID
19 27 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
20 22 (6.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.08%) Firewall
2 20 (5.52%) Network Security
3 14 (3.87%) DNS
4 4 (1.10%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) HTTP
5 3 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.55%) DSL
6 2 (0.55%) Internet
6 2 (0.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.01%) Data Lake
2 26 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.52%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.70%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.59%) Big Data
9 11 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.04%) Power BI
10 9 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.49%) Redis
11 8 (2.21%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.21%) Flink
11 8 (2.21%) MySQL
12 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 122 (33.70%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.68%) GitLab
3 52 (14.36%) Git
4 19 (5.25%) Cypress.io
4 19 (5.25%) JIRA
5 18 (4.97%) JUnit
5 18 (4.97%) MLflow
6 13 (3.59%) Selenium
7 12 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 12 (3.31%) Mockito
8 11 (3.04%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.76%) Postman
10 7 (1.93%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.93%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.93%) Snyk
11 6 (1.66%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.38%) Gatling
12 5 (1.38%) Gradle
12 5 (1.38%) JMeter
12 5 (1.38%) TestRail
General
1 66 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.19%) Finance
3 38 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.35%) Banking
5 20 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.04%) Front Office
7 10 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.49%) Retail
9 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.55%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (20.17%) Developer
2 64 (17.68%) Senior
3 56 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.33%) Data Engineer
5 31 (8.56%) Lead
6 30 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 27 (7.46%) Architect
7 27 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (5.25%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) Azure Developer
10 17 (4.70%) Site Engineer
11 16 (4.42%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.59%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.59%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.92%) Kafka
2 46 (12.71%) React
3 43 (11.88%) REST
4 39 (10.77%) .NET
5 36 (9.94%) Spring Boot
6 35 (9.67%) Spring
7 32 (8.84%) Node.js
8 30 (8.29%) RESTful
9 25 (6.91%) PySpark
10 24 (6.63%) AngularJS
11 21 (5.80%) Playwright
12 18 (4.97%) Pandas
13 17 (4.70%) OAuth
14 15 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.87%) AWS CDK
16 13 (3.59%) .NET Framework
16 13 (3.59%) FastAPI
16 13 (3.59%) Web Services
17 12 (3.31%) CSS
17 12 (3.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 81 (22.38%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.31%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.93%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.93%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.55%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.67%) Linux
2 16 (4.42%) Windows
3 14 (3.87%) Unix
4 11 (3.04%) VMS
5 4 (1.10%) Android
6 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (88.95%) CI/CD
2 229 (63.26%) DevOps
3 174 (48.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (31.22%) Agile
5 104 (28.73%) Containerisation
6 97 (26.80%) Observability
7 71 (19.61%) AI
8 69 (19.06%) Analytics
9 68 (18.78%) Microservices
10 64 (17.68%) Test Automation
11 60 (16.57%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (14.92%) Data Engineering
13 53 (14.64%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (14.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 47 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (11.60%) Machine Learning
16 41 (11.33%) Migration
17 36 (9.94%) Full-Stack Development
18 32 (8.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 172 (47.51%) Python
2 107 (29.56%) SQL
3 63 (17.40%) Java
4 54 (14.92%) C#
5 45 (12.43%) JavaScript
6 41 (11.33%) TypeScript
7 40 (11.05%) PowerShell
8 35 (9.67%) Bicep
9 28 (7.73%) Bash
10 19 (5.25%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.87%) Go
12 11 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.93%) Ruby
14 6 (1.66%) Scala
15 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.83%) JSX
16 3 (0.83%) XPath
17 2 (0.55%) Swift
18 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
18 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 113 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 104 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.25%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.31%) Degree
5 11 (3.04%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.56%) QA
2 20 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GDPR
7 3 (0.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.55%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (40.06%) Docker
2 15 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.55%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 213 (58.84%) Terraform
2 156 (43.09%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.77%) Ansible
4 26 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.91%) Grafana
6 19 (5.25%) Argo
7 10 (2.76%) Istio
8 8 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.21%) Puppet
9 5 (1.38%) Kibana
10 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.55%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.33%) Databricks
3 25 (6.91%) Google
4 18 (4.97%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.76%) Splunk
6 8 (2.21%) New Relic
7 7 (1.93%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.93%) Oracle
7 7 (1.93%) SAP
8 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.38%) Confluent
10 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.10%) Foundry
10 4 (1.10%) Hortonworks
10 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.83%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.83%) Qualys
11 3 (0.83%) Sybase
12 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.55%) VMware