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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 223 297
Rank change year-on-year +88 +74 +40
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 375 133 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.07% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.91% 2.53% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 88 56
10th Percentile £393 £440 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +4.37% -13.00%
75th Percentile £638 £744 £650
90th Percentile £710 £850 £749
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 7,634 5,263 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.40% 42.44% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,275 3,635 4,954
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £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% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% +21.43% -34.98%

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 16 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 16 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 +19 50 £600 +6.43% 28
West London -10 13 £605 +7.08% 6
South London - 8 £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 31 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.33%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.40%) Apache
4 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.87%) Confluence
5 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.80%) Findur
3 2 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) GitHub
2 204 (54.40%) Azure
3 200 (53.33%) AWS
4 132 (35.20%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (20.53%) Serverless
6 67 (17.87%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (15.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (15.20%) Amazon S3
9 55 (14.67%) GCP
10 46 (12.27%) Amazon ECS
10 46 (12.27%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (10.40%) Azure AKS
12 38 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (9.87%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (9.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (8.80%) AWS CodePipeline
16 32 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (5.87%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (5.87%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.67%) Firewall
2 19 (5.07%) DNS
3 17 (4.53%) Network Security
4 8 (2.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) DSL
5 2 (0.53%) HTTP
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
5 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.73%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.87%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.33%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (4.53%) Power BI
6 16 (4.27%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (3.47%) Big Data
9 11 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.93%) Redis
10 9 (2.40%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.87%) MySQL
13 6 (1.60%) Metadata
14 5 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 132 (35.20%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.07%) GitLab
3 48 (12.80%) Git
4 20 (5.33%) JUnit
5 18 (4.80%) MLflow
6 17 (4.53%) JIRA
7 14 (3.73%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.73%) Mockito
8 11 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.93%) Selenium
9 10 (2.67%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.67%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.40%) JMeter
10 9 (2.40%) Postman
11 7 (1.87%) Gatling
11 7 (1.87%) Gradle
11 7 (1.87%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.87%) Snyk
12 5 (1.33%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.20%) Finance
3 37 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.87%) Banking
6 11 (2.93%) Retail
7 8 (2.13%) Front Office
8 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Advertising
13 1 (0.27%) Aviation
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (19.20%) Developer
2 71 (18.93%) Senior
3 57 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (8.80%) Lead
7 28 (7.47%) Architect
7 28 (7.47%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 21 (5.60%) Java Developer
9 21 (5.60%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.00%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.47%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.20%) Azure Developer
14 12 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.20%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.00%) Kafka
2 49 (13.07%) REST
3 45 (12.00%) React
4 41 (10.93%) Spring Boot
5 40 (10.67%) Spring
6 38 (10.13%) .NET
7 36 (9.60%) RESTful
8 31 (8.27%) PySpark
9 23 (6.13%) Node.js
10 21 (5.60%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.60%) Pandas
10 21 (5.60%) Playwright
11 17 (4.53%) .NET Framework
11 17 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.27%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.73%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.47%) OAuth
15 12 (3.20%) Flask
15 12 (3.20%) pytest
15 12 (3.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 87 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.40%) AI Agents
4 9 (2.40%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.53%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) IoT
10 2 (0.53%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.53%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.13%) Linux
2 16 (4.27%) Unix
2 16 (4.27%) Windows
3 11 (2.93%) VMS
4 5 (1.33%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (89.60%) CI/CD
2 242 (64.53%) DevOps
3 185 (49.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (30.67%) Agile
5 106 (28.27%) Containerisation
6 101 (26.93%) Observability
7 75 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 73 (19.47%) Microservices
9 62 (16.53%) Platform Engineering
10 61 (16.27%) Analytics
11 60 (16.00%) AI
12 56 (14.93%) Data Engineering
12 56 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
13 54 (14.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 47 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (10.93%) Event-Driven
17 39 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
17 39 (10.40%) Migration
18 38 (10.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 166 (44.27%) Python
2 104 (27.73%) SQL
3 64 (17.07%) Java
4 56 (14.93%) C#
5 41 (10.93%) JavaScript
5 41 (10.93%) PowerShell
5 41 (10.93%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.60%) Bicep
7 34 (9.07%) Bash
8 21 (5.60%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.67%) Go
10 7 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.87%) Ruby
11 6 (1.60%) Scala
12 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Swift
14 2 (0.53%) XPath
15 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 119 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.07%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.20%) Degree
5 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
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 36 (9.60%) QA
2 20 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.07%) NIST
7 3 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.80%) WCAG
8 2 (0.53%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.53%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 2 (0.53%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (40.27%) Docker
2 13 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.53%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 220 (58.67%) Terraform
2 159 (42.40%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.67%) Ansible
4 36 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.07%) Grafana
6 14 (3.73%) Argo
7 9 (2.40%) Istio
8 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.13%) Puppet
9 7 (1.87%) Kibana
10 3 (0.80%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.80%) 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 66 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.33%) Databricks
3 24 (6.40%) Google
4 13 (3.47%) Splunk
5 11 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.67%) Oracle
7 9 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.13%) New Relic
8 8 (2.13%) SAP
9 7 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.60%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.33%) Foundry
12 4 (1.07%) Confluent
12 4 (1.07%) Hortonworks
13 3 (0.80%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.80%) Sybase
13 3 (0.80%) Workday
14 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.53%) VMware