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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 150 288
Rank change year-on-year +18 +138 +63
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 455 243 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 1.81% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 4.18% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 159 68
10th Percentile £375 £360 £413
25th Percentile £443 £448 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -5.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £728
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% - -8.33%
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 8,282 5,820 6,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.03% 43.33% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 3,960 4,663
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 48
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 16 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 16 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 £588 -9.41% 33
South London +7 15 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 5 £738 - 10
East London - 2 £432 - 4
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
1 24 (5.27%) Confluence
2 9 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.32%) Apache
5 4 (0.88%) nginx
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.44%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Trello
2 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) Findur
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 455 (100.00%) GitHub
2 260 (57.14%) Azure
3 247 (54.29%) AWS
4 164 (36.04%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (16.70%) Serverless
6 74 (16.26%) Amazon S3
7 73 (16.04%) GCP
8 66 (14.51%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
11 46 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (10.11%) Azure AKS
12 39 (8.57%) Snowflake
13 38 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (7.47%) Entra ID
16 31 (6.81%) Power Platform
17 24 (5.27%) dbt
18 23 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.62%) 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%) HTTP
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%) 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 48 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.49%) Power BI
5 24 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.62%) Redis
7 20 (4.40%) Data Lake
8 19 (4.18%) SQL Server
9 17 (3.74%) Delta Lake
9 17 (3.74%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.42%) Metadata
13 10 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.76%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 171 (37.58%) Jenkins
2 121 (26.59%) GitLab
3 70 (15.38%) Git
4 26 (5.71%) JIRA
5 24 (5.27%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.27%) Selenium
6 22 (4.84%) JUnit
7 20 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.74%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 15 (3.30%) Gradle
10 12 (2.64%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.64%) JMeter
11 11 (2.42%) REST Assured
12 9 (1.98%) Mockito
13 8 (1.76%) Postman
13 8 (1.76%) Snyk
14 7 (1.54%) Terragrunt
14 7 (1.54%) TestNG
14 7 (1.54%) XCUITest
General
1 95 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.22%) Finance
3 58 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.49%) Banking
6 16 (3.52%) Retail
7 15 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.64%) Law
9 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.32%) Marketing
11 5 (1.10%) Back Office
12 4 (0.88%) Front Office
12 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.88%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Police
13 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (23.52%) Senior
2 88 (19.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (16.70%) Developer
4 44 (9.67%) Lead
5 39 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.35%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.47%) Architect
9 30 (6.59%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.05%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.84%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.18%) Python Developer
14 18 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.96%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (58.02%) Terraform
2 82 (18.02%) REST
3 68 (14.95%) Kafka
4 61 (13.41%) RESTful
5 42 (9.23%) React
6 41 (9.01%) Spring
7 37 (8.13%) Spring Boot
8 30 (6.59%) .NET
9 27 (5.93%) FastAPI
9 27 (5.93%) PySpark
10 24 (5.27%) Playwright
11 20 (4.40%) OAuth
12 17 (3.74%) Flask
12 17 (3.74%) Node.js
12 17 (3.74%) pytest
12 17 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (3.52%) OAuth2
14 15 (3.30%) Loki
15 14 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (24.40%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.54%) 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
12 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.88%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.77%) Linux
2 18 (3.96%) Windows
3 12 (2.64%) Unix
4 11 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.98%) Android
6 7 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (90.77%) CI/CD
2 311 (68.35%) DevOps
3 241 (52.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (35.82%) Agile
5 129 (28.35%) Containerisation
6 124 (27.25%) Observability
7 122 (26.81%) Test Automation
8 99 (21.76%) Microservices
9 89 (19.56%) AI
10 79 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (16.26%) Software Engineering
12 70 (15.38%) Event-Driven
13 60 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (12.09%) DevSecOps
14 55 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (11.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 52 (11.43%) Analytics
16 52 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (11.21%) Mentoring
17 51 (11.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 235 (51.65%) Python
2 110 (24.18%) SQL
3 89 (19.56%) Bash
4 84 (18.46%) Java
5 60 (13.19%) PowerShell
6 59 (12.97%) TypeScript
7 47 (10.33%) JavaScript
8 46 (10.11%) Bicep
9 43 (9.45%) C#
10 18 (3.96%) Kotlin
11 17 (3.74%) Shell Script
12 15 (3.30%) Go
13 10 (2.20%) Swift
14 9 (1.98%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.98%) Ruby
15 5 (1.10%) Groovy
16 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.66%) ABAP
17 3 (0.66%) C
17 3 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 165 (36.26%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.35%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.64%) Degree
7 10 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
12 1 (0.22%) CCNP
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.60%) QA
2 33 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.96%) 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%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 195 (42.86%) Docker
2 14 (3.08%) 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 54 (11.87%) Ansible
5 22 (4.84%) Argo
6 10 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.20%) Puppet
7 7 (1.54%) Karpenter
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 75 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.77%) Databricks
3 26 (5.71%) Google
4 25 (5.49%) Splunk
5 21 (4.62%) Oracle
6 19 (4.18%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.74%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.42%) New Relic
8 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.20%) Foundry
10 8 (1.76%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.76%) SAP
10 8 (1.76%) VMware
11 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.10%) Checkmarx
12 5 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.88%) Confluent
13 4 (0.88%) IBM
13 4 (0.88%) Okta