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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 185 306
Rank change year-on-year +53 +121 +50
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 441 194 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 1.43% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 3.34% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 121 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £740
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +223.08% -58.06%

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 8,409 5,812 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,733 3,994 4,801
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 86 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +8 57 £588 -6.00% 14
South London - 13 £500 - 3
West London -11 9 £560 -0.88% 7
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 32 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.44%) Confluence
3 14 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.72%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.49%) Apache
6 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.91%) nginx
7 4 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.45%) Mendix
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.91%) Trello
2 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.68%) Findur
2 3 (0.68%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 441 (100.00%) GitHub
2 264 (59.86%) Azure
3 240 (54.42%) AWS
4 170 (38.55%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (14.74%) Amazon S3
6 64 (14.51%) GCP
6 64 (14.51%) Serverless
7 56 (12.70%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (11.79%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (11.79%) Azure Monitor
9 45 (10.20%) Azure AKS
10 44 (9.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (7.71%) Entra ID
14 33 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (6.58%) Snowflake
16 27 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (6.12%) Power Platform
17 22 (4.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.76%) VPN
2 17 (3.85%) DNS
2 17 (3.85%) Firewall
3 12 (2.72%) Network Security
4 5 (1.13%) Internet
5 3 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 3 (0.68%) SSH
5 3 (0.68%) SSL
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.45%) DSL
6 2 (0.45%) HTTP
6 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.23%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.90%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.67%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.44%) Data Lake
6 22 (4.99%) Power BI
7 20 (4.54%) Redis
8 19 (4.31%) Delta Lake
9 18 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (3.17%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (2.49%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.49%) Metadata
14 10 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (1.81%) Big Data
16 8 (1.81%) Relational Database
17 7 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 166 (37.64%) Jenkins
2 119 (26.98%) GitLab
3 60 (13.61%) Git
4 31 (7.03%) JIRA
5 28 (6.35%) Selenium
6 26 (5.90%) JUnit
7 23 (5.22%) CircleCI
8 20 (4.54%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.40%) Bitbucket
9 15 (3.40%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.17%) REST Assured
11 13 (2.95%) Gradle
11 13 (2.95%) MLflow
12 12 (2.72%) Mockito
13 11 (2.49%) Cucumber
14 9 (2.04%) JMeter
14 9 (2.04%) Snyk
15 8 (1.81%) Postman
16 7 (1.59%) TestNG
16 7 (1.59%) XCUITest
General
1 87 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 86 (19.50%) Finance
3 64 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.58%) Banking
6 13 (2.95%) Retail
7 12 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.72%) Law
8 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.13%) Legal
11 4 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Billing
12 3 (0.68%) Front Office
12 3 (0.68%) Local Government
12 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.68%) Police
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (21.32%) Senior
2 80 (18.14%) Developer
3 78 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.52%) Lead
5 40 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.35%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.90%) Architect
9 26 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.67%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 21 (4.76%) Software Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) Python Developer
13 16 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.40%) Test Engineer
15 14 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.91%) REST
2 64 (14.51%) Kafka
3 57 (12.93%) RESTful
4 41 (9.30%) React
4 41 (9.30%) Spring
5 37 (8.39%) Spring Boot
6 34 (7.71%) .NET
7 29 (6.58%) Playwright
8 27 (6.12%) PySpark
9 22 (4.99%) FastAPI
10 15 (3.40%) .NET Framework
10 15 (3.40%) Node.js
10 15 (3.40%) Pandas
11 14 (3.17%) Flask
11 14 (3.17%) OAuth
11 14 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (2.95%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.95%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.95%) pytest
12 13 (2.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.95%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.36%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.68%) IoT
10 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.84%) Linux
2 18 (4.08%) Windows
3 16 (3.63%) Unix
4 11 (2.49%) Android
4 11 (2.49%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (91.16%) CI/CD
2 295 (66.89%) DevOps
3 222 (50.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (36.51%) Agile
5 128 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 123 (27.89%) Test Automation
7 111 (25.17%) Observability
8 99 (22.45%) Microservices
9 76 (17.23%) Platform Engineering
10 67 (15.19%) AI
11 60 (13.61%) Software Engineering
12 59 (13.38%) Analytics
12 59 (13.38%) Event-Driven
13 57 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
15 52 (11.79%) DevSecOps
16 50 (11.34%) Mentoring
17 49 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (10.20%) Data Engineering
19 44 (9.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 210 (47.62%) Python
2 116 (26.30%) SQL
3 85 (19.27%) Java
4 73 (16.55%) Bash
5 64 (14.51%) PowerShell
6 57 (12.93%) C#
7 55 (12.47%) TypeScript
8 46 (10.43%) JavaScript
9 44 (9.98%) Bicep
10 23 (5.22%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.63%) Kotlin
12 14 (3.17%) Go
13 9 (2.04%) Ruby
13 9 (2.04%) Swift
14 7 (1.59%) Objective-C
15 5 (1.13%) Groovy
16 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 170 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 157 (35.60%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.71%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.63%) Degree
5 13 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMP
12 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.29%) QA
2 26 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.59%) GDPR
5 6 (1.36%) NIST
6 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.13%) WCAG
7 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (42.40%) Docker
2 13 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 250 (56.69%) Terraform
2 198 (44.90%) Kubernetes
3 69 (15.65%) Grafana
4 63 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.07%) Ansible
6 19 (4.31%) Argo
7 8 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.81%) Puppet
8 4 (0.91%) Kibana
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.68%) Packer
9 3 (0.68%) SELinux
9 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Nagios
11 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 74 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.30%) Databricks
3 22 (4.99%) Splunk
4 18 (4.08%) Google
5 17 (3.85%) Oracle
6 15 (3.40%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.04%) New Relic
10 8 (1.81%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.81%) Foundry
11 7 (1.59%) SAP
12 6 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.36%) VMware
13 5 (1.13%) Checkmarx
14 4 (0.91%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.91%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.91%) Palantir
14 4 (0.91%) Sybase