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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 219 308
Rank change year-on-year +84 +89 +26
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 370 133 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.07% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 2.53% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 89 57
10th Percentile £393 £443 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +6.05% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £650
90th Percentile £713 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £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 7,581 5,252 6,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.41% 42.38% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,238 3,630 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +18 49 £600 +6.43% 30
West London -10 13 £605 +7.08% 6
South London - 8 £500 -
East London - 1 £432 - 6
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 31 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.43%) Apache
4 7 (1.89%) Confluence
4 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.81%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 370 (100.00%) GitHub
2 200 (54.05%) Azure
3 199 (53.78%) AWS
4 128 (34.59%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (20.54%) Serverless
6 66 (17.84%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (15.41%) Amazon S3
9 55 (14.86%) GCP
10 46 (12.43%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (10.00%) Azure AKS
14 36 (9.73%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (8.92%) AWS CodePipeline
15 33 (8.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (6.22%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.68%) Azure Key Vault
18 21 (5.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.76%) Firewall
2 19 (5.14%) DNS
3 17 (4.59%) Network Security
4 8 (2.16%) VPN
5 2 (0.54%) DSL
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
5 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.57%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.95%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 19 (5.14%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.86%) Power BI
7 16 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.32%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (3.51%) Big Data
9 13 (3.51%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.97%) Redis
12 9 (2.43%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.89%) MySQL
15 6 (1.62%) Metadata
16 5 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 131 (35.41%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.35%) GitLab
3 47 (12.70%) Git
4 20 (5.41%) JUnit
5 18 (4.86%) MLflow
6 17 (4.59%) JIRA
7 14 (3.78%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.78%) Mockito
8 11 (2.97%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.97%) Selenium
9 10 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.70%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.16%) JMeter
10 8 (2.16%) Postman
11 7 (1.89%) Gatling
11 7 (1.89%) Gradle
11 7 (1.89%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.89%) Snyk
12 5 (1.35%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.14%) Finance
3 37 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.95%) Banking
6 10 (2.70%) Retail
7 8 (2.16%) Front Office
8 7 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Marketing
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (19.19%) Developer
2 70 (18.92%) Senior
3 57 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.35%) Data Engineer
5 39 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (8.92%) Lead
7 29 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (7.57%) Architect
9 26 (7.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.68%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.68%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.05%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.51%) AWS Developer
14 13 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.24%) Azure Developer
15 12 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.24%) Python Developer
16 10 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.95%) Kafka
2 47 (12.70%) REST
3 42 (11.35%) React
4 40 (10.81%) Spring Boot
5 39 (10.54%) Spring
6 35 (9.46%) .NET
7 34 (9.19%) RESTful
8 30 (8.11%) PySpark
9 21 (5.68%) Node.js
9 21 (5.68%) Playwright
10 20 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 20 (5.41%) Pandas
11 16 (4.32%) FastAPI
11 16 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.05%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.78%) AWS CDK
14 12 (3.24%) Flask
14 12 (3.24%) OAuth
14 12 (3.24%) Web Services
15 11 (2.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.43%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) IoT
10 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.27%) Linux
2 16 (4.32%) Unix
2 16 (4.32%) Windows
3 11 (2.97%) VMS
4 5 (1.35%) Android
5 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (89.46%) CI/CD
2 237 (64.05%) DevOps
3 184 (49.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (30.81%) Agile
5 106 (28.65%) Containerisation
6 100 (27.03%) Observability
7 73 (19.73%) Test Automation
8 71 (19.19%) Microservices
9 62 (16.76%) Platform Engineering
10 61 (16.49%) Analytics
11 59 (15.95%) AI
12 56 (15.14%) Data Engineering
13 55 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
14 54 (14.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 46 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (10.54%) Migration
17 38 (10.27%) Event-Driven
17 38 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
18 37 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (44.59%) Python
2 102 (27.57%) SQL
3 63 (17.03%) Java
4 53 (14.32%) C#
5 41 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.08%) PowerShell
6 39 (10.54%) TypeScript
7 34 (9.19%) Bash
7 34 (9.19%) Bicep
8 21 (5.68%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.70%) Go
10 7 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.89%) Ruby
11 6 (1.62%) Scala
12 5 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Swift
14 2 (0.54%) XPath
15 1 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.14%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.24%) Degree
5 10 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.19%) QA
2 19 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) NIST
7 3 (0.81%) GDPR
7 3 (0.81%) WCAG
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
System Software
1 149 (40.27%) Docker
2 13 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 219 (59.19%) Terraform
2 158 (42.70%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.81%) Ansible
4 36 (9.73%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.19%) Grafana
6 14 (3.78%) Argo
7 9 (2.43%) Istio
8 8 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.16%) Puppet
9 7 (1.89%) Kibana
10 3 (0.81%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.27%) linkerd
11 1 (0.27%) Packer
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.19%) Databricks
3 24 (6.49%) Google
4 13 (3.51%) Splunk
5 10 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.43%) Oracle
7 8 (2.16%) New Relic
7 8 (2.16%) SAP
8 7 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.62%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.35%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.08%) Confluent
11 4 (1.08%) Foundry
11 4 (1.08%) Hortonworks
12 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.81%) Sybase
12 3 (0.81%) Workday
13 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.54%) VMware