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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 137 284
Rank change year-on-year +8 +147 +72
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 484 268 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 2.00% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 4.57% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 181 75
10th Percentile £378 £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 £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £800 £715
England median daily rate £505 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -8.14% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% - -
75th Percentile £55.50 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,405 5,863 6,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.99% 43.77% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,808 3,987 4,504
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -3.82% -2.22%
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% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -15.08% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 £575 -8.00% 40
South London +3 18 £468 -1.58% 1
West London - 5 £738 - 11
East London - 1 - - 3
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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 23 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 4 (0.83%) nginx
6 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.41%) Mendix
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Trello
2 3 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 484 (100.00%) GitHub
2 276 (57.02%) Azure
3 257 (53.10%) AWS
4 168 (34.71%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (17.15%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (17.15%) GCP
6 79 (16.32%) Amazon S3
6 79 (16.32%) Serverless
7 62 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (10.33%) Azure Monitor
10 45 (9.30%) Azure AKS
11 42 (8.68%) Entra ID
12 41 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (8.47%) Snowflake
13 40 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (6.40%) Power Platform
16 25 (5.17%) Datadog
17 24 (4.96%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.37%) DNS
2 20 (4.13%) VPN
3 17 (3.51%) Firewall
4 11 (2.27%) Network Security
5 4 (0.83%) Internet
6 3 (0.62%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.62%) SSH
6 3 (0.62%) SSL
6 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.41%) DHCP
7 2 (0.41%) HTTP
7 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.41%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.21%) INAP
8 1 (0.21%) NFC
8 1 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.21%) RTP
8 1 (0.21%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 29 (5.99%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.17%) Power BI
5 22 (4.55%) Redis
5 22 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 20 (4.13%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.10%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.89%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.89%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.27%) Metadata
12 10 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (1.86%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.65%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 175 (36.16%) Jenkins
2 125 (25.83%) GitLab
3 77 (15.91%) Git
4 28 (5.79%) Selenium
5 27 (5.58%) CircleCI
6 26 (5.37%) JIRA
7 25 (5.17%) JUnit
8 21 (4.34%) Gradle
9 18 (3.72%) SonarQube
10 16 (3.31%) Bitbucket
10 16 (3.31%) Cypress.io
11 15 (3.10%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.69%) JMeter
13 12 (2.48%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.27%) Postman
15 10 (2.07%) Maven
15 10 (2.07%) Mockito
16 9 (1.86%) XCTest
16 9 (1.86%) XCUITest
17 8 (1.65%) Claude Code
General
1 107 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.66%) Finance
3 67 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.40%) Banking
6 17 (3.51%) Retail
7 16 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.27%) Law
9 8 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.65%) Marketing
9 8 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.45%) Back Office
10 7 (1.45%) Local Government
11 5 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.83%) Billing
12 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.62%) Legal
13 3 (0.62%) Military
13 3 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (24.59%) Senior
2 98 (20.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (15.50%) Developer
4 43 (8.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
5 42 (8.68%) Lead
6 40 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.02%) Architect
8 30 (6.20%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.34%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.72%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (58.88%) Terraform
2 99 (20.45%) REST
3 69 (14.26%) Kafka
4 61 (12.60%) RESTful
5 42 (8.68%) React
5 42 (8.68%) Spring
6 38 (7.85%) Spring Boot
7 33 (6.82%) .NET
8 27 (5.58%) Playwright
9 26 (5.37%) FastAPI
9 26 (5.37%) PySpark
10 21 (4.34%) OAuth
11 19 (3.93%) pytest
11 19 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (3.72%) Loki
12 18 (3.72%) OAuth2
13 16 (3.31%) Flask
13 16 (3.31%) Node.js
13 16 (3.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 121 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 18 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.74%) Linux
2 22 (4.55%) Windows
3 15 (3.10%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.48%) Android
5 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.24%) Unix
7 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 330 (68.18%) DevOps
3 254 (52.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (35.95%) Agile
5 139 (28.72%) Observability
6 130 (26.86%) Containerisation
6 130 (26.86%) Test Automation
7 104 (21.49%) AI
8 101 (20.87%) Microservices
9 92 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
10 81 (16.74%) Software Engineering
11 71 (14.67%) Event-Driven
12 65 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (13.43%) Deployment Automation
13 64 (13.22%) DevSecOps
14 58 (11.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 58 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 54 (11.16%) Mentoring
16 54 (11.16%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 251 (51.86%) Python
2 109 (22.52%) SQL
3 94 (19.42%) Bash
4 89 (18.39%) Java
5 61 (12.60%) PowerShell
6 59 (12.19%) TypeScript
7 47 (9.71%) Bicep
7 47 (9.71%) JavaScript
8 42 (8.68%) C#
9 21 (4.34%) Kotlin
10 19 (3.93%) Go
11 13 (2.69%) Swift
12 11 (2.27%) Objective-C
12 11 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.65%) Ruby
14 5 (1.03%) Groovy
15 4 (0.83%) C
15 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.83%) Scala
16 3 (0.62%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 187 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 177 (36.57%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 23 (4.75%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.89%) Degree
7 13 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) CCNA
14 1 (0.21%) CCNP
14 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.32%) QA
2 34 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.65%) GDPR
4 8 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.65%) NIST
5 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.83%) WCAG
6 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PSD2
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 201 (41.53%) Docker
2 14 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 228 (47.11%) Kubernetes
2 85 (17.56%) Grafana
3 72 (14.88%) Prometheus
4 51 (10.54%) Ansible
5 26 (5.37%) Argo
6 8 (1.65%) Karpenter
6 8 (1.65%) Puppet
7 7 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.83%) Cilium
8 4 (0.83%) Istio
8 4 (0.83%) Kibana
9 3 (0.62%) SELinux
9 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.41%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.41%) Packer
11 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.21%) logstash
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.21%) systemd
Vendors
1 91 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.30%) Databricks
3 31 (6.40%) Google
4 25 (5.17%) Oracle
5 23 (4.75%) Splunk
6 21 (4.34%) Dynatrace
7 19 (3.93%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.27%) New Relic
10 10 (2.07%) Foundry
10 10 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.86%) VMware
12 8 (1.65%) AppDynamics
13 7 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.45%) SAP
14 5 (1.03%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.03%) IBM
14 5 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.83%) Confluent
15 4 (0.83%) Okta