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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 145 284
Rank change year-on-year +11 +139 +62
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 464 263 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.30% 1.96% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.61% 4.50% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 174 73
10th Percentile £369 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £447 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £686 £650
90th Percentile £675 £809 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.12%
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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 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 8 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 +3 52 £575 -9.59% 34
South London +8 18 £468 -1.58% 1
West London - 5 £738 - 8
East London - 1 - - 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 24 (5.17%) Confluence
2 23 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.86%) Apache
5 4 (0.86%) nginx
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Trello
2 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 464 (100.00%) GitHub
2 269 (57.97%) Azure
3 251 (54.09%) AWS
4 164 (35.34%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
5 81 (17.46%) GCP
6 78 (16.81%) Amazon S3
6 78 (16.81%) Serverless
7 61 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (11.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (10.78%) Azure Monitor
10 45 (9.70%) Azure AKS
11 41 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (8.84%) Snowflake
12 39 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (8.19%) Entra ID
14 37 (7.97%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (6.68%) Power Platform
16 23 (4.96%) dbt
17 22 (4.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.60%) DNS
2 20 (4.31%) VPN
3 16 (3.45%) Firewall
4 11 (2.37%) Network Security
5 4 (0.86%) Internet
6 3 (0.65%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.65%) SSH
6 3 (0.65%) SSL
6 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.43%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 1 (0.22%) NFC
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.33%) MongoDB
3 29 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.39%) Power BI
5 22 (4.74%) Redis
5 22 (4.74%) SQL Server
6 20 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.23%) Delta Lake
9 14 (3.02%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.80%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (2.37%) Metadata
13 10 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.94%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 172 (37.07%) Jenkins
2 123 (26.51%) GitLab
3 74 (15.95%) Git
4 28 (6.03%) Selenium
5 26 (5.60%) JIRA
6 22 (4.74%) CircleCI
6 22 (4.74%) JUnit
7 18 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.66%) Gradle
9 16 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 16 (3.45%) Cypress.io
10 15 (3.23%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.59%) JMeter
12 11 (2.37%) Postman
12 11 (2.37%) REST Assured
13 10 (2.16%) Mockito
14 8 (1.72%) Maven
15 7 (1.51%) Terragrunt
15 7 (1.51%) TestNG
15 7 (1.51%) XCUITest
General
1 100 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.26%) Finance
3 64 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.47%) Banking
6 17 (3.66%) Retail
7 16 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.37%) Law
9 8 (1.72%) Marketing
9 8 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.51%) Back Office
10 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.51%) Local Government
11 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.86%) Billing
12 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.65%) Military
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (24.14%) Senior
2 96 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (15.95%) Developer
4 42 (9.05%) Lead
5 41 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
5 41 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
7 33 (7.11%) Architect
8 30 (6.47%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 23 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.88%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (58.62%) Terraform
2 94 (20.26%) REST
3 69 (14.87%) Kafka
4 59 (12.72%) RESTful
5 41 (8.84%) React
5 41 (8.84%) Spring
6 37 (7.97%) Spring Boot
7 31 (6.68%) .NET
8 26 (5.60%) Playwright
8 26 (5.60%) PySpark
9 25 (5.39%) FastAPI
10 21 (4.53%) OAuth
11 19 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (3.88%) Loki
12 18 (3.88%) OAuth2
12 18 (3.88%) pytest
13 17 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (3.45%) Flask
14 16 (3.45%) Node.js
15 15 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.02%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.78%) Linux
2 20 (4.31%) Windows
3 12 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.94%) Android
5 7 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.29%) Unix
7 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (90.95%) CI/CD
2 321 (69.18%) DevOps
3 243 (52.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (36.42%) Agile
5 132 (28.45%) Observability
6 128 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 127 (27.37%) Test Automation
8 99 (21.34%) Microservices
9 98 (21.12%) AI
10 82 (17.67%) Platform Engineering
11 78 (16.81%) Software Engineering
12 70 (15.09%) Event-Driven
13 65 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 59 (12.72%) Deployment Automation
15 58 (12.50%) DevSecOps
16 57 (12.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 56 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
18 55 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 53 (11.42%) Mentoring
20 51 (10.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 243 (52.37%) Python
2 109 (23.49%) SQL
3 91 (19.61%) Bash
4 86 (18.53%) Java
5 58 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 57 (12.28%) TypeScript
7 46 (9.91%) Bicep
7 46 (9.91%) JavaScript
8 41 (8.84%) C#
9 18 (3.88%) Go
9 18 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 11 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.37%) Swift
11 9 (1.94%) Objective-C
12 8 (1.72%) Ruby
13 5 (1.08%) Groovy
14 4 (0.86%) C
14 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Scala
15 3 (0.65%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 183 (39.44%) Security Cleared
2 173 (37.28%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.11%) Azure Certification
4 22 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.80%) Degree
7 12 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.22%) CCNA
15 1 (0.22%) CCNP
15 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (15.73%) QA
2 34 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.72%) GDPR
4 8 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.72%) NIST
5 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.86%) WCAG
6 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) PSD2
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 196 (42.24%) Docker
2 13 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 221 (47.63%) Kubernetes
2 83 (17.89%) Grafana
3 71 (15.30%) Prometheus
4 51 (10.99%) Ansible
5 26 (5.60%) Argo
6 8 (1.72%) Karpenter
6 8 (1.72%) Puppet
7 7 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.86%) Cilium
8 4 (0.86%) Istio
8 4 (0.86%) Kibana
9 3 (0.65%) SELinux
9 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.43%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 87 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.48%) Databricks
3 29 (6.25%) Google
4 25 (5.39%) Oracle
5 23 (4.96%) Splunk
6 21 (4.53%) Dynatrace
7 19 (4.09%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.16%) Foundry
9 10 (2.16%) New Relic
10 9 (1.94%) VMware
11 8 (1.72%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.51%) SAP
13 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.08%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.08%) IBM
14 5 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.86%) Confluent
15 4 (0.86%) Okta