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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 148 298
Rank change year-on-year +14 +150 +43
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 455 251 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 1.86% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.47% 4.30% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 169 68
10th Percentile £369 £363 £413
25th Percentile £430 £447 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £677 £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 8,313 5,837 6,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.90% 43.33% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,723 3,977 4,636
10th Percentile £359 £348 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% -4.35%
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 96 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.75 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.75 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -6.64% -18.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
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 25 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 25 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 +1 53 £581 -10.37% 37
South London +6 16 £485 +7.78% 3
West London - 5 £738 - 13
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 - - 1
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
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%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 455 (100.00%) GitHub
2 262 (57.58%) Azure
3 248 (54.51%) AWS
4 162 (35.60%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (17.14%) GCP
6 76 (16.70%) Amazon S3
6 76 (16.70%) Serverless
7 72 (15.82%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (9.67%) Azure AKS
12 41 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (8.79%) Snowflake
14 39 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
15 36 (7.91%) Entra ID
16 32 (7.03%) Power Platform
17 24 (5.27%) dbt
18 22 (4.84%) Datadog
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%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) NFC
8 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
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%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.42%) Metadata
12 10 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.76%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 170 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 119 (26.15%) GitLab
3 71 (15.60%) Git
4 26 (5.71%) Selenium
5 24 (5.27%) CircleCI
5 24 (5.27%) JIRA
6 21 (4.62%) JUnit
7 20 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 16 (3.52%) Bitbucket
8 16 (3.52%) Gradle
9 15 (3.30%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.08%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.64%) JMeter
12 11 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.20%) Postman
14 9 (1.98%) Mockito
15 8 (1.76%) Snyk
16 7 (1.54%) Terragrunt
16 7 (1.54%) TestNG
16 7 (1.54%) XCUITest
General
1 92 (20.22%) Finance
1 92 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 57 (12.53%) Public Sector
3 40 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.15%) Banking
5 17 (3.74%) Retail
6 16 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.42%) Law
8 8 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.54%) Marketing
10 6 (1.32%) Back Office
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%) Billing
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (23.74%) Senior
2 86 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (16.70%) Developer
4 44 (9.67%) Lead
5 39 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.69%) Architect
7 31 (6.81%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (4.40%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Java Developer
12 18 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (58.24%) Terraform
2 88 (19.34%) REST
3 70 (15.38%) Kafka
4 59 (12.97%) 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 20 (4.40%) OAuth
13 18 (3.96%) Node.js
13 18 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.74%) Flask
14 17 (3.74%) pytest
15 16 (3.52%) OAuth2
16 15 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.30%) Loki
17 14 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 114 (25.05%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.77%) 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
6 11 (2.42%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.10%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.77%) Linux
2 19 (4.18%) Windows
3 11 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.20%) Unix
5 9 (1.98%) Android
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
2 311 (68.35%) DevOps
3 240 (52.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (35.82%) Agile
5 127 (27.91%) Containerisation
6 126 (27.69%) Observability
7 121 (26.59%) Test Automation
8 97 (21.32%) Microservices
9 96 (21.10%) AI
10 77 (16.92%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (16.70%) Software Engineering
12 71 (15.60%) Event-Driven
13 59 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (12.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 55 (12.09%) DevSecOps
16 54 (11.87%) Deployment Automation
16 54 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
17 52 (11.43%) Mentoring
17 52 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 234 (51.43%) Python
2 111 (24.40%) SQL
3 85 (18.68%) Java
4 84 (18.46%) Bash
5 57 (12.53%) PowerShell
5 57 (12.53%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.89%) JavaScript
7 44 (9.67%) Bicep
8 42 (9.23%) C#
9 19 (4.18%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.52%) Go
11 15 (3.30%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.20%) Swift
13 9 (1.98%) Objective-C
14 8 (1.76%) Ruby
15 5 (1.10%) Groovy
16 4 (0.88%) C
16 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.88%) Scala
17 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
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%) CCNA
13 1 (0.22%) CCNP
13 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.38%) QA
2 34 (7.47%) 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%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 192 (42.20%) 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
1 213 (46.81%) Kubernetes
2 80 (17.58%) Grafana
3 71 (15.60%) Prometheus
4 51 (11.21%) 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%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 77 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.11%) Databricks
3 27 (5.93%) Google
4 23 (5.05%) Splunk
5 21 (4.62%) Oracle
6 20 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 19 (4.18%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.42%) New Relic
8 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.20%) Foundry
10 9 (1.98%) VMware
11 8 (1.76%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.76%) SAP
12 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.10%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.10%) IBM
14 5 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.88%) Confluent
15 4 (0.88%) Okta