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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 222 306
Rank change year-on-year +96 +84 +45
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 368 130 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 1.02% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 2.41% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 92 60
10th Percentile £386 £458 £413
25th Percentile £435 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -10.80%
75th Percentile £643 £670 £650
90th Percentile £713 £800 £726
England median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.68% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £25.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -37.04% +15.71%

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 7,354 5,405 6,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 42.51% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 3,785 4,958
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 80
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.13 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £62.63
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +17 47 £575 +2.00% 34
West London -12 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 12 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 5
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 33 (8.97%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.72%) Apache
5 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.63%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Findur
1 3 (0.82%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) GitHub
2 199 (54.08%) Azure
3 194 (52.72%) AWS
4 128 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (22.01%) Serverless
6 64 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (15.49%) Amazon S3
8 56 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (13.86%) GCP
11 45 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (12.23%) Azure Monitor
12 40 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (10.05%) Azure AKS
14 36 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (8.42%) Entra ID
16 30 (8.15%) AWS CodePipeline
17 28 (7.61%) Azure Key Vault
18 27 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
19 25 (6.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.25%) Firewall
2 19 (5.16%) Network Security
3 15 (4.08%) DNS
4 5 (1.36%) VPN
5 4 (1.09%) HTTP
6 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.54%) Internet
7 2 (0.54%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) DSL
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.15%) Data Lake
3 25 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.71%) Delta Lake
5 19 (5.16%) NoSQL
5 19 (5.16%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.26%) Redis
9 11 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.99%) Big Data
9 11 (2.99%) Power BI
10 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.72%) MySQL
11 9 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.45%) Flink
12 8 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (32.34%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.39%) GitLab
3 56 (15.22%) Git
4 20 (5.43%) JIRA
4 20 (5.43%) MLflow
5 19 (5.16%) Cypress.io
5 19 (5.16%) JUnit
6 13 (3.53%) Mockito
6 13 (3.53%) Selenium
7 12 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.99%) Postman
9 8 (2.17%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.90%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.63%) Gatling
11 6 (1.63%) JMeter
12 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.36%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.36%) Gradle
12 5 (1.36%) TestRail
General
1 71 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.67%) Finance
3 40 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.07%) Banking
5 21 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.99%) Front Office
6 11 (2.99%) Retail
7 9 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (20.38%) Developer
2 64 (17.39%) Senior
3 56 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.14%) Data Engineer
5 39 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (8.70%) Lead
6 32 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 27 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.52%) Architect
8 24 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.62%) Azure Developer
10 17 (4.62%) Java Developer
10 17 (4.62%) Site Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) Python Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.76%) Kafka
2 50 (13.59%) React
3 42 (11.41%) REST
4 41 (11.14%) .NET
4 41 (11.14%) Node.js
5 32 (8.70%) Spring
5 32 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 31 (8.42%) RESTful
7 25 (6.79%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.52%) Playwright
8 24 (6.52%) PySpark
9 19 (5.16%) OAuth
10 18 (4.89%) CSS
11 16 (4.35%) AWS CDK
12 15 (4.08%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.08%) Pandas
13 14 (3.80%) JSON
13 14 (3.80%) PyTorch
14 13 (3.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 75 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.99%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) Replication
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.24%) Linux
2 12 (3.26%) Windows
3 11 (2.99%) VMS
4 10 (2.72%) Unix
5 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.82%) Android
7 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (88.59%) CI/CD
2 234 (63.59%) DevOps
3 172 (46.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (30.43%) Agile
5 103 (27.99%) Containerisation
6 102 (27.72%) Observability
7 75 (20.38%) AI
8 69 (18.75%) Analytics
9 66 (17.93%) Microservices
10 64 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
11 60 (16.30%) Test Automation
12 56 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 54 (14.67%) Data Engineering
14 53 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
16 48 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (12.23%) Machine Learning
18 40 (10.87%) Migration
19 36 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
20 34 (9.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 176 (47.83%) Python
2 107 (29.08%) SQL
3 64 (17.39%) Java
4 50 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.32%) C#
5 49 (13.32%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.05%) PowerShell
7 33 (8.97%) Bicep
8 32 (8.70%) Bash
9 17 (4.62%) Go
10 15 (4.08%) Shell Script
11 12 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.90%) Ruby
12 7 (1.90%) Scala
13 6 (1.63%) JSX
14 3 (0.82%) Swift
14 3 (0.82%) XPath
15 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 96 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.16%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.99%) Degree
5 9 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.42%) QA
2 19 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (1.09%) WCAG
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.54%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 140 (38.04%) Docker
2 13 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.54%) HDFS
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 211 (57.34%) Terraform
2 152 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.33%) Ansible
4 30 (8.15%) Grafana
5 27 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.98%) Argo
7 10 (2.72%) Istio
8 9 (2.45%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.17%) Puppet
10 5 (1.36%) Kibana
11 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.82%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.54%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.27%) linkerd
13 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 77 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.68%) Databricks
3 26 (7.07%) Google
4 20 (5.43%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.72%) New Relic
6 9 (2.45%) Splunk
7 7 (1.90%) Oracle
8 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.63%) SAP
9 5 (1.36%) Confluent
9 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
11 3 (0.82%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.82%) Qualys
11 3 (0.82%) Sybase
12 2 (0.54%) Adobe
12 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg