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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 213 295
Rank change year-on-year +77 +82 +48
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 377 134 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.11% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.86% 2.59% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 84 62
10th Percentile £400 £432 £414
25th Percentile £455 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +5.86% -11.20%
75th Percentile £626 £799 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £758
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -11.65%
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 £72.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +171.70% -34.57% -

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 7,762 5,179 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.32% 42.91% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,367 3,523 5,025
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 70
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.27 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -50.25%
75th Percentile £56.00 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.33 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +7 46 £600 +4.35% 23
West London -16 9 £530 -6.19% 1
South London - 5 £445 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 9
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 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.04%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.65%) Confluence
4 9 (2.39%) Apache
5 8 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Findur
1 3 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.80%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 377 (100.00%) GitHub
2 206 (54.64%) AWS
3 198 (52.52%) Azure
4 130 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (20.42%) Serverless
6 65 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (16.18%) Amazon S3
8 57 (15.12%) GCP
9 52 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (9.02%) Azure AKS
15 32 (8.49%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (7.96%) AWS CodePipeline
17 29 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (5.57%) Snowflake
19 20 (5.31%) Power Platform
20 19 (5.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.10%) Firewall
2 19 (5.04%) DNS
3 16 (4.24%) Network Security
4 11 (2.92%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) DSL
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
5 2 (0.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.96%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.84%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.57%) Delta Lake
5 19 (5.04%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.51%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.24%) Power BI
8 15 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (3.71%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.45%) Redis
11 12 (3.18%) Big Data
11 12 (3.18%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (2.12%) MySQL
15 7 (1.86%) Metadata
16 6 (1.59%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 136 (36.07%) Jenkins
2 86 (22.81%) GitLab
3 48 (12.73%) Git
4 22 (5.84%) JUnit
5 19 (5.04%) JIRA
6 16 (4.24%) CircleCI
6 16 (4.24%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.98%) MLflow
8 14 (3.71%) Mockito
9 12 (3.18%) Gradle
9 12 (3.18%) Selenium
10 10 (2.65%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.65%) JMeter
11 9 (2.39%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.12%) Gatling
12 8 (2.12%) Postman
13 7 (1.86%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.86%) Snyk
14 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.65%) Finance
3 34 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.10%) Banking
6 13 (3.45%) Retail
7 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.86%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.59%) Front Office
9 5 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.53%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (19.10%) Senior
2 66 (17.51%) Developer
3 58 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (11.14%) Data Engineer
6 34 (9.02%) Lead
7 31 (8.22%) Architect
8 25 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (5.31%) Java Developer
9 20 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.77%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.71%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.45%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.18%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 11 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.18%) Kafka
2 56 (14.85%) REST
3 44 (11.67%) RESTful
3 44 (11.67%) Spring
3 44 (11.67%) Spring Boot
4 41 (10.88%) React
5 32 (8.49%) .NET
5 32 (8.49%) PySpark
6 20 (5.31%) Pandas
7 19 (5.04%) Playwright
8 18 (4.77%) Node.js
8 18 (4.77%) OAuth
9 17 (4.51%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.51%) FastAPI
9 17 (4.51%) OpenTelemetry
10 16 (4.24%) OAuth2
11 15 (3.98%) .NET Framework
12 14 (3.71%) AWS CDK
13 13 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (3.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 87 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.39%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.39%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.53%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.53%) IoT
10 2 (0.53%) IVR
10 2 (0.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.81%) Linux
2 18 (4.77%) Windows
3 15 (3.98%) Unix
4 10 (2.65%) VMS
5 8 (2.12%) Android
6 6 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (90.19%) CI/CD
2 242 (64.19%) DevOps
3 188 (49.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (30.77%) Agile
5 101 (26.79%) Observability
6 99 (26.26%) Containerisation
7 79 (20.95%) Test Automation
8 77 (20.42%) Microservices
9 66 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (15.65%) Analytics
11 58 (15.38%) AI
12 55 (14.59%) Data Pipeline
13 52 (13.79%) Data Engineering
14 50 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (12.47%) Mentoring
15 47 (12.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 45 (11.94%) Event-Driven
17 43 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
19 36 (9.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 169 (44.83%) Python
2 108 (28.65%) SQL
3 62 (16.45%) Java
4 48 (12.73%) C#
4 48 (12.73%) PowerShell
5 44 (11.67%) Bash
6 41 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 38 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 35 (9.28%) Bicep
9 22 (5.84%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.39%) Go
10 9 (2.39%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.59%) Ruby
11 6 (1.59%) Scala
12 5 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.33%) Swift
13 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 108 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.10%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.45%) Degree
5 10 (2.65%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.00%) QA
2 25 (6.63%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.59%) NIST
7 5 (1.33%) GDPR
8 3 (0.80%) PSD2
8 3 (0.80%) WCAG
9 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.53%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.53%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (39.52%) Docker
2 9 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 220 (58.36%) Terraform
2 158 (41.91%) Kubernetes
3 43 (11.41%) Ansible
4 42 (11.14%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.61%) Grafana
6 13 (3.45%) Argo
7 10 (2.65%) Istio
8 8 (2.12%) Kibana
8 8 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.12%) Puppet
9 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.27%) linkerd
11 1 (0.27%) Packer
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.75%) Databricks
3 24 (6.37%) Google
4 13 (3.45%) Oracle
4 13 (3.45%) Splunk
5 9 (2.39%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.12%) New Relic
7 7 (1.86%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.86%) SAP
8 6 (1.59%) Foundry
9 5 (1.33%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.33%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.33%) Sybase
10 4 (1.06%) Confluent
10 4 (1.06%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.80%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.80%) Palantir
11 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.80%) Workday