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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 269 348
Rank change year-on-year +140 +79 +50
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 308 113 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 0.72% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 1.77% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 79 53
10th Percentile £363 £411 £463
25th Percentile £425 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £671 £644 £650
90th Percentile £739 £725 £700
England median daily rate £543 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
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 6,245 6,382 7,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.92% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 4,335 5,641
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 19 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

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 19 November 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 +19 36 £575 +21.05% 134
South London - 7 £500 -
West London -15 1 £725 +52.63% 8
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 28 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.25%) Confluence
3 9 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.65%) Traefik
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
1 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 308 (100.00%) GitHub
2 180 (58.44%) AWS
3 152 (49.35%) Azure
4 77 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (16.23%) GCP
5 50 (16.23%) Serverless
6 49 (15.91%) Amazon S3
7 38 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (10.06%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (7.79%) Entra ID
13 22 (7.14%) Azure AKS
14 21 (6.82%) Power Platform
15 20 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (5.84%) Azure Key Vault
18 17 (5.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.90%) DNS
1 12 (3.90%) Firewall
2 8 (2.60%) VPN
3 7 (2.27%) Network Security
4 5 (1.62%) HTTP
4 5 (1.62%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.65%) Calico
6 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.32%) DHCP
7 1 (0.32%) Multicast
7 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.32%) SSL
7 1 (0.32%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.92%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.92%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.92%) Star Schema
7 8 (2.60%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.60%) Power BI
7 8 (2.60%) Redis
8 7 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.95%) Big Data
10 5 (1.62%) Flink
11 4 (1.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 87 (28.25%) Jenkins
2 67 (21.75%) Git
3 44 (14.29%) GitLab
4 27 (8.77%) CircleCI
5 17 (5.52%) JIRA
6 14 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.22%) JUnit
8 9 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.92%) Snyk
9 8 (2.60%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.60%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.27%) JMeter
10 7 (2.27%) Postman
10 7 (2.27%) Selenium
10 7 (2.27%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.95%) Maven
12 5 (1.62%) webpack
13 4 (1.30%) MLflow
13 4 (1.30%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (20.13%) Finance
2 57 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.44%) Banking
5 21 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.95%) Military
8 6 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.30%) Front Office
9 4 (1.30%) Marketing
9 4 (1.30%) Publishing
10 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 59 (19.16%) Developer
2 54 (17.53%) Senior
3 50 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (9.42%) Data Engineer
5 28 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.44%) Architect
8 22 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.19%) Lead
12 15 (4.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Consultant
13 14 (4.55%) Software Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.91%) Node.js
2 46 (14.94%) React
3 36 (11.69%) REST
4 29 (9.42%) Kafka
5 28 (9.09%) .NET
6 26 (8.44%) RESTful
7 23 (7.47%) CSS
8 18 (5.84%) AngularJS
9 17 (5.52%) OAuth
10 16 (5.19%) HTML
11 15 (4.87%) GraphQL
12 14 (4.55%) Jest
12 14 (4.55%) pytest
13 13 (4.22%) Spring
14 12 (3.90%) Sass
15 11 (3.57%) Playwright
16 10 (3.25%) ARM Templates
16 10 (3.25%) PyTorch
17 9 (2.92%) .NET Core
17 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.30%) Clustering
8 4 (1.30%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.30%) Genomics
8 4 (1.30%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.49%) Linux
2 6 (1.95%) Android
3 5 (1.62%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (89.29%) CI/CD
2 184 (59.74%) DevOps
3 147 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (28.90%) Agile
5 80 (25.97%) Containerisation
6 64 (20.78%) AI
7 57 (18.51%) Microservices
8 56 (18.18%) Observability
9 50 (16.23%) Migration
10 46 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (14.61%) Analytics
12 44 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 40 (12.99%) Test Automation
14 38 (12.34%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (12.01%) Data Engineering
16 34 (11.04%) Machine Learning
17 32 (10.39%) DevSecOps
18 31 (10.06%) TDD
19 29 (9.42%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 143 (46.43%) Python
2 75 (24.35%) SQL
3 66 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 62 (20.13%) Java
5 60 (19.48%) JavaScript
6 40 (12.99%) Go
7 38 (12.34%) C#
8 36 (11.69%) PowerShell
9 32 (10.39%) Bash
10 23 (7.47%) Bicep
11 11 (3.57%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.92%) Groovy
13 8 (2.60%) Ruby
14 7 (2.27%) JSX
15 6 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (1.30%) C++
16 4 (1.30%) PromQL
17 2 (0.65%) Scala
17 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.17%) Degree
4 16 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.65%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.82%) QA
3 14 (4.55%) GDPR
3 14 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.90%) NIST
5 11 (3.57%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.97%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.32%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 114 (37.01%) Docker
2 20 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) etcd
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 174 (56.49%) Terraform
2 144 (46.75%) Kubernetes
3 42 (13.64%) Grafana
3 42 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.47%) Ansible
5 16 (5.19%) Argo
6 11 (3.57%) Puppet
7 9 (2.92%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.60%) Istio
9 4 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.65%) Consul
10 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.65%) Nessus
10 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.32%) Kibana
11 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 52 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.74%) Databricks
3 26 (8.44%) Google
4 23 (7.47%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.60%) Splunk
6 7 (2.27%) Oracle
7 6 (1.95%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.62%) VMware
9 4 (1.30%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.30%) Qualys
9 4 (1.30%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.30%) Solace
10 3 (0.97%) Adobe
10 3 (0.97%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.97%) SAP
11 2 (0.65%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.65%) New Relic
12 1 (0.32%) CyberArk