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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 149 299
Rank change year-on-year +19 +150 +65
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 455 255 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 1.89% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.48% 4.36% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 171 68
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £677 £813 £728
England median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.33% -10.42%
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 8,306 5,844 6,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 43.35% 40.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,713 3,981 4,616
10th Percentile £359 £344 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 95 43
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.98
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 26 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 26 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 -3 53 £575 -11.33% 35
South London +8 16 £485 +7.78% 3
West London - 5 £738 - 12
East London - 1 - - 1
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 24 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.84%) Confluence
3 10 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.32%) Apache
6 4 (0.88%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.44%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 455 (100.00%) GitHub
2 263 (57.80%) Azure
3 247 (54.29%) AWS
4 163 (35.82%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (16.92%) GCP
6 76 (16.70%) Amazon S3
6 76 (16.70%) Serverless
7 73 (16.04%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (9.67%) Azure AKS
11 40 (8.79%) Snowflake
12 39 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (7.91%) Entra ID
14 35 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (7.03%) Power Platform
16 23 (5.05%) dbt
17 21 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.05%) DNS
2 20 (4.40%) VPN
3 16 (3.52%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
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 49 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.25%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.49%) Power BI
5 21 (4.62%) Redis
6 20 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 19 (4.18%) Data Lake
8 18 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.52%) Delta Lake
10 14 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.42%) Metadata
13 10 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.76%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 172 (37.80%) Jenkins
2 119 (26.15%) GitLab
3 71 (15.60%) Git
4 26 (5.71%) Selenium
5 25 (5.49%) JIRA
6 23 (5.05%) CircleCI
7 21 (4.62%) JUnit
8 19 (4.18%) SonarQube
9 17 (3.74%) Gradle
10 16 (3.52%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.52%) Cypress.io
11 14 (3.08%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.64%) JMeter
13 11 (2.42%) REST Assured
14 10 (2.20%) Postman
15 9 (1.98%) Mockito
16 7 (1.54%) Maven
16 7 (1.54%) Snyk
16 7 (1.54%) Terragrunt
16 7 (1.54%) TestNG
General
1 94 (20.66%) Finance
2 92 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 57 (12.53%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.37%) Banking
6 17 (3.74%) Retail
7 16 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.42%) Law
9 8 (1.76%) Marketing
9 8 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.54%) Back Office
10 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.10%) Local Government
12 4 (0.88%) Front Office
12 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (23.74%) Senior
2 86 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (16.48%) Developer
4 42 (9.23%) Lead
5 40 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
7 38 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (7.69%) Architect
9 32 (7.03%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
11 21 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.96%) Java Developer
15 17 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (57.80%) Terraform
2 89 (19.56%) REST
3 69 (15.16%) Kafka
4 60 (13.19%) RESTful
5 41 (9.01%) Spring
6 40 (8.79%) React
7 37 (8.13%) Spring Boot
8 31 (6.81%) .NET
9 27 (5.93%) PySpark
10 26 (5.71%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.27%) Playwright
12 21 (4.62%) OAuth
13 18 (3.96%) pytest
13 18 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.74%) Flask
14 17 (3.74%) Node.js
14 17 (3.74%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.30%) Loki
16 15 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 113 (24.84%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.32%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.77%) Linux
2 19 (4.18%) Windows
3 12 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.20%) Android
5 9 (1.98%) Unix
6 7 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (90.99%) CI/CD
2 310 (68.13%) DevOps
3 238 (52.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (36.04%) Agile
5 126 (27.69%) Observability
6 125 (27.47%) Containerisation
7 122 (26.81%) Test Automation
8 96 (21.10%) AI
9 95 (20.88%) Microservices
10 78 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (16.70%) Software Engineering
12 70 (15.38%) Event-Driven
13 59 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (12.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 54 (11.87%) Deployment Automation
15 54 (11.87%) DevSecOps
15 54 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 235 (51.65%) Python
2 112 (24.62%) SQL
3 85 (18.68%) Bash
3 85 (18.68%) Java
4 57 (12.53%) PowerShell
5 56 (12.31%) TypeScript
6 44 (9.67%) Bicep
6 44 (9.67%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.23%) C#
8 20 (4.40%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.52%) Go
10 14 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.42%) Swift
12 9 (1.98%) Objective-C
13 8 (1.76%) Ruby
14 5 (1.10%) Groovy
15 4 (0.88%) C
15 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.88%) Scala
16 3 (0.66%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 173 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 163 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 17 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.08%) Degree
5 14 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
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%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.38%) QA
2 35 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.18%) 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%) WCAG
7 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 190 (41.76%) Docker
2 13 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 212 (46.59%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.58%) Grafana
3 71 (15.60%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.99%) Ansible
5 22 (4.84%) Argo
6 7 (1.54%) Karpenter
6 7 (1.54%) Puppet
7 6 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.88%) Cilium
8 4 (0.88%) Kibana
9 3 (0.66%) SELinux
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.44%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.33%) Databricks
3 26 (5.71%) Google
4 23 (5.05%) Splunk
5 21 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 21 (4.62%) Oracle
6 19 (4.18%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.20%) Foundry
8 10 (2.20%) New Relic
9 9 (1.98%) VMware
10 8 (1.76%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.76%) SAP
11 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.10%) Checkmarx
13 5 (1.10%) IBM
13 5 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.88%) Confluent
14 4 (0.88%) Okta