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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 254 341
Rank change year-on-year +130 +87 +34
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 322 123 68
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 0.79% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.16% 1.92% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 88 53
10th Percentile £363 £413 £465
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £698
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%

All Cloud 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 6,245 6,397 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.69% 41.00% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 4,362 5,513
10th Percentile £349 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 38 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.37
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -6.67% +22.95%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 10 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

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 10 December 2025. 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 +33 39 £563 +0.90% 14
South London - 9 £500 - 2
West London -11 4 £650 +36.84% 4
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 29 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.11%) Confluence
4 6 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.24%) Apache
5 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.62%) Traefik
6 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 322 (100.00%) GitHub
2 184 (57.14%) AWS
3 165 (51.24%) Azure
4 90 (27.95%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (18.01%) Serverless
6 50 (15.53%) Amazon S3
7 44 (13.66%) GCP
8 42 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (11.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (11.18%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (9.01%) Entra ID
13 25 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (7.76%) Azure AKS
14 24 (7.45%) Azure Key Vault
15 23 (7.14%) Power Platform
16 22 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (5.90%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.35%) Firewall
2 12 (3.73%) DNS
3 10 (3.11%) Network Security
4 7 (2.17%) VPN
5 6 (1.86%) HTTP
6 5 (1.55%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.62%) Calico
7 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.31%) SSL
8 1 (0.31%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.04%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.11%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.80%) Power BI
7 9 (2.80%) Star Schema
8 8 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.48%) Flink
8 8 (2.48%) Redis
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.86%) Big Data
11 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 84 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.12%) Git
3 45 (13.98%) GitLab
4 21 (6.52%) CircleCI
5 19 (5.90%) JIRA
6 16 (4.97%) JUnit
7 15 (4.66%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.11%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.11%) Postman
8 10 (3.11%) Selenium
9 9 (2.80%) Snyk
10 7 (2.17%) JMeter
10 7 (2.17%) MLflow
10 7 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.55%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.55%) Maven
11 5 (1.55%) Mockito
11 5 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.55%) webpack
12 4 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 63 (19.57%) Finance
2 53 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.07%) Banking
5 21 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.17%) Front Office
9 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.55%) Military
11 4 (1.24%) Marketing
11 4 (1.24%) Publishing
12 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Legal
13 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Billing
14 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (19.88%) Developer
2 58 (18.01%) Senior
3 55 (17.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (9.63%) Data Engineer
5 30 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (9.01%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (5.90%) Lead
10 19 (5.90%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (5.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.28%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.97%) Architect
14 15 (4.66%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.66%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.35%) Consultant
16 13 (4.04%) Azure Developer
16 13 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.84%) React
2 49 (15.22%) Node.js
3 41 (12.73%) REST
4 37 (11.49%) Kafka
5 33 (10.25%) .NET
6 25 (7.76%) CSS
6 25 (7.76%) RESTful
7 22 (6.83%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.59%) HTML
9 16 (4.97%) OAuth
10 15 (4.66%) GraphQL
10 15 (4.66%) Spring
11 14 (4.35%) Playwright
11 14 (4.35%) pytest
12 13 (4.04%) Jest
13 12 (3.73%) PyTorch
13 12 (3.73%) Sass
14 11 (3.42%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (3.42%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.04%) AI Agents
3 13 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (1.86%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.24%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.24%) Genomics
7 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.24%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.24%) Replication
8 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (1.86%) Android
3 5 (1.55%) Windows
4 3 (0.93%) VMS
5 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (88.20%) CI/CD
2 203 (63.04%) DevOps
3 145 (45.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (31.06%) Agile
5 84 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 72 (22.36%) AI
7 62 (19.25%) Observability
8 54 (16.77%) Microservices
9 53 (16.46%) Migration
10 51 (15.84%) Analytics
11 49 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (13.98%) Software Engineering
13 45 (13.98%) Test Automation
14 44 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (13.04%) Data Engineering
16 39 (12.11%) Machine Learning
17 37 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 31 (9.63%) DevSecOps
19 29 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.45%) Python
2 83 (25.78%) SQL
3 63 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 62 (19.25%) Java
5 60 (18.63%) JavaScript
6 44 (13.66%) C#
7 39 (12.11%) Go
8 33 (10.25%) PowerShell
9 32 (9.94%) Bash
10 26 (8.07%) Bicep
11 11 (3.42%) Ruby
12 8 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (2.17%) JSX
14 5 (1.55%) Groovy
14 5 (1.55%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.24%) PromQL
16 3 (0.93%) XPath
17 2 (0.62%) C++
17 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.90%) Degree
4 15 (4.66%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.62%) MCP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.21%) QA
3 14 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.04%) GDPR
5 12 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.73%) NIST
6 6 (1.86%) WCAG
7 3 (0.93%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 120 (37.27%) Docker
2 22 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) etcd
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 181 (56.21%) Terraform
2 148 (45.96%) Kubernetes
3 36 (11.18%) Grafana
4 34 (10.56%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.59%) Ansible
5 18 (5.59%) Argo
6 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.17%) Istio
8 6 (1.86%) Puppet
9 2 (0.62%) Consul
9 2 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.62%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.31%) Kibana
10 1 (0.31%) linkerd
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 61 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.25%) Databricks
3 27 (8.39%) OpenAI
4 22 (6.83%) Google
5 9 (2.80%) Splunk
6 6 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.55%) Oracle
7 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.55%) VMware
8 4 (1.24%) SAP
9 3 (0.93%) Adobe
9 3 (0.93%) Amplitude
9 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.93%) New Relic
9 3 (0.93%) Qualys
10 2 (0.62%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.62%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.62%) Solace
11 1 (0.31%) Salesforce