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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 162 300
Rank change year-on-year +26 +138 +56
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 455 229 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 1.71% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 3.95% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 149 57
10th Percentile £383 £360 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £694 £650
90th Percentile £675 £815 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
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 8,387 5,798 6,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.25% 43.26% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,735 3,945 4,658
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 49
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £68.05
England median hourly rate £34.06 £26.38 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.13% -13.78% -7.30%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +2 51 £600 -5.88% 23
South London +6 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 9 £650 - 12
East London - 2 £432 - 3
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 32 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.49%) Confluence
3 13 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.20%) Apache
5 9 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.88%) nginx
6 4 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) Findur
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 455 (100.00%) GitHub
2 263 (57.80%) Azure
3 248 (54.51%) AWS
4 169 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (17.14%) Amazon S3
5 78 (17.14%) Serverless
6 67 (14.73%) GCP
7 62 (13.63%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.99%) Azure Monitor
10 46 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (9.45%) Azure AKS
12 41 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (8.57%) Snowflake
14 33 (7.25%) Entra ID
15 31 (6.81%) Power Platform
16 28 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 24 (5.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.62%) VPN
2 20 (4.40%) DNS
3 18 (3.96%) Firewall
4 11 (2.42%) Network Security
5 4 (0.88%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.66%) SSH
6 3 (0.66%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) HTTP
7 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.71%) Power BI
5 24 (5.27%) Data Lake
5 24 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.62%) Redis
7 19 (4.18%) Delta Lake
7 19 (4.18%) SQL Server
8 18 (3.96%) DynamoDB
9 17 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.08%) Metadata
11 13 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.76%) Big Data
16 7 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 170 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 121 (26.59%) GitLab
3 68 (14.95%) Git
4 28 (6.15%) JIRA
5 25 (5.49%) Selenium
6 24 (5.27%) CircleCI
7 23 (5.05%) JUnit
8 18 (3.96%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.30%) Gradle
9 15 (3.30%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.64%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.64%) JMeter
11 12 (2.64%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.20%) Mockito
13 9 (1.98%) Postman
14 8 (1.76%) Snyk
14 8 (1.76%) XCUITest
15 7 (1.54%) MLflow
15 7 (1.54%) XCTest
General
1 90 (19.78%) Finance
1 90 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.75%) Public Sector
3 37 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.15%) Banking
5 15 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.08%) Retail
7 12 (2.64%) Law
8 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.32%) Marketing
10 4 (0.88%) Back Office
10 4 (0.88%) Front Office
10 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.88%) Legal
10 4 (0.88%) Local Government
10 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.66%) Billing
11 3 (0.66%) Police
11 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (22.86%) Senior
2 83 (18.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (17.14%) Developer
4 46 (10.11%) Lead
5 39 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
6 37 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.91%) Data Engineer
8 30 (6.59%) Architect
9 25 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.05%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.84%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.40%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.18%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
16 16 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 15 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (57.14%) Terraform
2 80 (17.58%) REST
3 68 (14.95%) Kafka
4 63 (13.85%) RESTful
5 43 (9.45%) React
6 42 (9.23%) Spring
7 38 (8.35%) Spring Boot
8 33 (7.25%) PySpark
9 31 (6.81%) .NET
10 25 (5.49%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.27%) Playwright
12 19 (4.18%) OAuth
13 18 (3.96%) Node.js
14 17 (3.74%) Flask
14 17 (3.74%) OAuth2
14 17 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (3.30%) pytest
15 15 (3.30%) YAML
16 14 (3.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 115 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.76%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.55%) Linux
2 17 (3.74%) Unix
3 15 (3.30%) Windows
4 12 (2.64%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.20%) Android
6 8 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (91.43%) CI/CD
2 308 (67.69%) DevOps
3 238 (52.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (37.36%) Agile
5 133 (29.23%) Containerisation
6 125 (27.47%) Test Automation
7 121 (26.59%) Observability
8 97 (21.32%) Microservices
9 81 (17.80%) AI
10 79 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
11 69 (15.16%) Software Engineering
12 68 (14.95%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (12.31%) DevSecOps
15 55 (12.09%) Analytics
16 52 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 52 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
17 51 (11.21%) Deployment Automation
18 50 (10.99%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 235 (51.65%) Python
2 120 (26.37%) SQL
3 87 (19.12%) Java
4 84 (18.46%) Bash
5 59 (12.97%) TypeScript
6 56 (12.31%) PowerShell
7 47 (10.33%) JavaScript
8 45 (9.89%) Bicep
9 43 (9.45%) C#
10 22 (4.84%) Shell Script
11 19 (4.18%) Kotlin
12 14 (3.08%) Go
13 11 (2.42%) Swift
14 9 (1.98%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.98%) Ruby
15 5 (1.10%) Groovy
16 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.88%) Scala
17 3 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 175 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 165 (36.26%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.13%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.52%) Degree
6 13 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.22%) CCNA
13 1 (0.22%) CCNP
13 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) MOS
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (14.95%) QA
2 36 (7.91%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.76%) NIST
5 7 (1.54%) GDPR
5 7 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.88%) WCAG
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) GRC
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 198 (43.52%) Docker
2 14 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 204 (44.84%) Kubernetes
2 78 (17.14%) Grafana
3 70 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 45 (9.89%) Ansible
5 22 (4.84%) Argo
6 8 (1.76%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.76%) Puppet
7 7 (1.54%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) Cilium
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 77 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.21%) Databricks
3 26 (5.71%) Splunk
4 23 (5.05%) Google
5 21 (4.62%) Oracle
6 17 (3.74%) Dynatrace
7 16 (3.52%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.20%) Foundry
9 10 (2.20%) New Relic
10 8 (1.76%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.54%) VMware
12 6 (1.32%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.32%) SAP
13 5 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.88%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.88%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.88%) Palantir