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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 206 296
Rank change year-on-year +71 +90 +58
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 409 155 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.09% 1.17% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.01% 2.71% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 89 60
10th Percentile £402 £410 £413
25th Percentile £451 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £626 £734 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -47.74%

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 8,166 5,715 7,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.81% 42.98% 40.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,609 3,869 5,158
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 78 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.85 £18.67
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +14.02% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £67.50 £60.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 7 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 7 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 +11 49 £588 +2.17% 13
West London -12 8 £560 -0.88% 5
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 3
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 31 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.65%) Confluence
3 17 (4.16%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.96%) Apache
5 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Findur
2 3 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.49%) 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
1 409 (100.00%) GitHub
2 229 (55.99%) AWS
3 223 (54.52%) Azure
4 142 (34.72%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (17.11%) Serverless
6 69 (16.87%) Amazon S3
7 57 (13.94%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (13.69%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (11.49%) GCP
11 45 (11.00%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (10.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (8.56%) Azure AKS
14 28 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (6.85%) AWS CodePipeline
14 28 (6.85%) Entra ID
15 25 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (5.62%) Power Platform
17 22 (5.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.40%) VPN
2 16 (3.91%) Firewall
3 15 (3.67%) DNS
4 14 (3.42%) Network Security
5 5 (1.22%) Internet
6 2 (0.49%) DSL
6 2 (0.49%) HTTP
6 2 (0.49%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.24%) NFC
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.85%) Data Lake
3 23 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.65%) Delta Lake
5 19 (4.65%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (4.16%) Power BI
7 15 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 15 (3.67%) Redis
8 14 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.44%) Big Data
12 9 (2.20%) BigQuery
12 9 (2.20%) Metadata
13 6 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 145 (35.45%) Jenkins
2 98 (23.96%) GitLab
3 51 (12.47%) Git
4 29 (7.09%) JUnit
5 26 (6.36%) JIRA
6 19 (4.65%) CircleCI
6 19 (4.65%) Selenium
7 17 (4.16%) Cypress.io
8 15 (3.67%) Gradle
8 15 (3.67%) MLflow
8 15 (3.67%) Mockito
9 13 (3.18%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.93%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.69%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.20%) Bitbucket
12 9 (2.20%) JMeter
13 7 (1.71%) Postman
13 7 (1.71%) Snyk
14 6 (1.47%) Maven
14 6 (1.47%) TestNG
General
1 89 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.11%) Finance
3 56 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.87%) Banking
6 13 (3.18%) Retail
7 12 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.69%) Law
9 8 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.98%) Legal
11 4 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Front Office
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.73%) Police
13 2 (0.49%) Billing
13 2 (0.49%) Military
13 2 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (20.29%) Senior
2 73 (17.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (17.36%) Developer
4 42 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (9.29%) Lead
6 36 (8.80%) Data Engineer
7 31 (7.58%) Architect
7 31 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.87%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.62%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.67%) Test Engineer
12 14 (3.42%) Python Developer
12 14 (3.42%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.93%) AWS Developer
13 12 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.14%) Kafka
1 66 (16.14%) REST
2 52 (12.71%) RESTful
3 38 (9.29%) React
3 38 (9.29%) Spring
3 38 (9.29%) Spring Boot
4 30 (7.33%) PySpark
5 29 (7.09%) .NET
6 23 (5.62%) Playwright
7 19 (4.65%) FastAPI
8 17 (4.16%) Pandas
9 15 (3.67%) .NET Framework
9 15 (3.67%) OAuth
10 14 (3.42%) AWS CDK
10 14 (3.42%) Node.js
11 13 (3.18%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.18%) OAuth2
12 12 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.93%) Flask
12 12 (2.93%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 100 (24.45%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.20%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.73%) IoT
10 3 (0.73%) NHS
11 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.49%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.29%) Linux
2 21 (5.13%) Windows
3 16 (3.91%) Unix
4 9 (2.20%) Android
5 8 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (89.98%) CI/CD
2 264 (64.55%) DevOps
3 208 (50.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (33.25%) Agile
5 118 (28.85%) Containerisation
6 106 (25.92%) Observability
7 97 (23.72%) Test Automation
8 83 (20.29%) Microservices
9 81 (19.80%) Platform Engineering
10 62 (15.16%) Analytics
11 55 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
13 53 (12.96%) AI
14 52 (12.71%) Event-Driven
15 48 (11.74%) Mentoring
16 46 (11.25%) Data Engineering
17 44 (10.76%) Software Engineering
18 43 (10.51%) DevSecOps
19 41 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
20 38 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (45.48%) Python
2 112 (27.38%) SQL
3 73 (17.85%) Java
4 61 (14.91%) Bash
5 55 (13.45%) PowerShell
6 49 (11.98%) C#
7 46 (11.25%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.54%) Bicep
9 38 (9.29%) JavaScript
10 22 (5.38%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.69%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.44%) Go
13 9 (2.20%) Ruby
14 7 (1.71%) Swift
15 6 (1.47%) Scala
16 5 (1.22%) Groovy
16 5 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (1.22%) Objective-C
17 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 151 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 140 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.38%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.91%) Degree
5 10 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
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 53 (12.96%) QA
2 25 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.47%) GDPR
4 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.47%) NIST
5 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.98%) WCAG
7 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.49%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 171 (41.81%) Docker
2 10 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 241 (58.92%) Terraform
2 176 (43.03%) Kubernetes
3 60 (14.67%) Grafana
4 55 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 32 (7.82%) Ansible
6 14 (3.42%) Argo
7 8 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.96%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) Kibana
9 4 (0.98%) Istio
10 3 (0.73%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.49%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.24%) linkerd
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.07%) Databricks
3 20 (4.89%) Splunk
4 19 (4.65%) Oracle
5 13 (3.18%) Google
6 12 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.20%) New Relic
8 9 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.96%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.71%) Foundry
10 7 (1.71%) SAP
11 6 (1.47%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.22%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.22%) Sybase
13 4 (0.98%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.98%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.98%) Palantir
14 3 (0.73%) Perfecto Mobile
14 3 (0.73%) Zscaler