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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 273 362
Rank change year-on-year +131 +89 +54
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 264 106 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 0.67% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.54% 1.63% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 77 49
10th Percentile £363 £413 £451
25th Percentile £447 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £800 £725 £750
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 - £77.50

All Cloud 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 5,809 6,498 8,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.70% 41.02% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,932 4,440 6,016
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 38 63
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.26 £17.20
25th Percentile £24.57 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -20.99% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.31 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £69.08 £89.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 2025. 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 +26 29 £625 +35.14% 30
South London - 2 £475 -
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 29 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.52%) Apache
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) Traefik
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Endur
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) GitHub
2 167 (63.26%) AWS
3 119 (45.08%) Azure
4 55 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (17.80%) GCP
6 38 (14.39%) Amazon S3
7 36 (13.64%) Serverless
8 35 (13.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (7.58%) dbt
12 18 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (4.17%) Entra ID
16 11 (4.17%) Power Platform
17 10 (3.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.55%) DNS
2 10 (3.79%) Firewall
3 5 (1.89%) Network Security
3 5 (1.89%) OpenLDAP
3 5 (1.89%) VPN
4 4 (1.52%) HTTP
5 3 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.76%) Calico
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
7 1 (0.38%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.79%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.41%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.41%) Redis
5 9 (3.41%) Star Schema
6 7 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.65%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.27%) Power BI
8 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.14%) Metadata
10 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 78 (29.55%) Jenkins
2 62 (23.48%) Git
3 41 (15.53%) GitLab
4 28 (10.61%) CircleCI
5 12 (4.55%) JIRA
6 11 (4.17%) JUnit
7 10 (3.79%) Artifactory
8 9 (3.41%) Snyk
9 8 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.03%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.65%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.65%) JMeter
10 7 (2.65%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.27%) Maven
11 6 (2.27%) webpack
12 5 (1.89%) MLflow
13 4 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (1.52%) Postman
13 4 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.52%) Vite
General
1 54 (20.45%) Finance
2 49 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.58%) Banking
6 10 (3.79%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Military
9 6 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Marketing
11 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.52%) Publishing
12 3 (1.14%) Retail
13 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.38%) Billing
14 1 (0.38%) Front Office
14 1 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (19.70%) Senior
2 42 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (15.53%) Developer
4 31 (11.74%) Architect
5 28 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 23 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (5.68%) Lead
11 14 (5.30%) Consultant
11 14 (5.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.17%) Technical Architect
14 10 (3.79%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.64%) Node.js
2 34 (12.88%) React
3 32 (12.12%) REST
4 22 (8.33%) Kafka
5 17 (6.44%) CSS
6 16 (6.06%) RESTful
7 15 (5.68%) HTML
8 13 (4.92%) .NET
8 13 (4.92%) GraphQL
8 13 (4.92%) pytest
9 11 (4.17%) Jinja
10 10 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.79%) ARM Templates
10 10 (3.79%) Jest
10 10 (3.79%) Spring
11 9 (3.41%) HTML5
11 9 (3.41%) Sass
11 9 (3.41%) Vue
12 8 (3.03%) FastAPI
12 8 (3.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.95%) Public Cloud
3 18 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.52%) Clustering
7 4 (1.52%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.52%) Genomics
7 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.52%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.14%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.20%) Linux
2 5 (1.89%) Android
2 5 (1.89%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) VMS
4 1 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (89.02%) CI/CD
2 150 (56.82%) DevOps
3 130 (49.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (27.65%) Agile
5 64 (24.24%) Containerisation
6 50 (18.94%) Migration
7 46 (17.42%) AI
7 46 (17.42%) Microservices
8 42 (15.91%) Software Engineering
9 41 (15.53%) Data Pipeline
9 41 (15.53%) Observability
10 38 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.26%) Data Engineering
12 34 (12.88%) Analytics
13 33 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 29 (10.98%) DevSecOps
14 29 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 29 (10.98%) TDD
15 26 (9.85%) Machine Learning
15 26 (9.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (45.83%) Python
2 63 (23.86%) SQL
3 55 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 51 (19.32%) Java
5 49 (18.56%) JavaScript
6 39 (14.77%) Go
7 34 (12.88%) PowerShell
8 30 (11.36%) Bash
9 25 (9.47%) C#
10 18 (6.82%) Bicep
11 11 (4.17%) Groovy
11 11 (4.17%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.27%) Ruby
13 4 (1.52%) C++
13 4 (1.52%) JSX
13 4 (1.52%) PromQL
14 3 (1.14%) Scala
15 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.38%) PHP
16 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 75 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.20%) Degree
4 16 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.58%) QA
3 15 (5.68%) GDPR
4 14 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.55%) NIST
6 9 (3.41%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.27%) WCAG
8 4 (1.52%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.14%) EU AI Act
9 3 (1.14%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.38%) SLA
11 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (38.64%) Docker
2 12 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) etcd
6 1 (0.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 150 (56.82%) Terraform
2 128 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 41 (15.53%) Prometheus
4 40 (15.15%) Grafana
5 22 (8.33%) Ansible
6 13 (4.92%) Puppet
7 9 (3.41%) Argo
7 9 (3.41%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.65%) Istio
9 4 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.14%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.76%) Consul
11 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.38%) Kibana
12 1 (0.38%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.71%) Google
3 20 (7.58%) Databricks
4 11 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.03%) Oracle
6 7 (2.65%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.89%) Splunk
7 5 (1.89%) VMware
8 4 (1.52%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.52%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.52%) Refinitiv
8 4 (1.52%) Solace
9 3 (1.14%) Qualys
10 2 (0.76%) New Relic
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
11 1 (0.38%) Adobe
11 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.38%) SaltStack