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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 219 307
Rank change year-on-year +83 +88 +39
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 368 133 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.05% 1.07% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.84% 2.52% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 88 57
10th Percentile £392 £440 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +5.58% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £781 £650
90th Percentile £700 £850 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £544
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -11.04%
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 7,597 5,277 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.23% 42.48% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,254 3,641 4,983
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 £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 53 70
10th Percentile £20.67 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.64 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 19 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 19 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 +15 49 £600 +6.43% 26
West London -13 12 £560 -0.88% 6
South London - 7 £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 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.16%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.45%) Apache
4 8 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.90%) Confluence
5 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.82%) Findur
3 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) GitHub
2 200 (54.35%) Azure
3 196 (53.26%) AWS
4 130 (35.33%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (20.11%) Serverless
6 64 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 55 (14.95%) Amazon S3
7 55 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (14.67%) GCP
9 42 (11.41%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (11.41%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (10.05%) Azure AKS
11 36 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 32 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
14 31 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
15 21 (5.71%) Power Platform
16 20 (5.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.52%) Firewall
2 19 (5.16%) DNS
3 17 (4.62%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) 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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.34%) Data Lake
2 26 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.43%) Delta Lake
4 20 (5.43%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.35%) Power BI
6 14 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.99%) Big Data
8 11 (2.99%) Redis
9 9 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.90%) MySQL
12 6 (1.63%) Metadata
13 5 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 129 (35.05%) Jenkins
2 77 (20.92%) GitLab
3 48 (13.04%) Git
4 20 (5.43%) JUnit
5 18 (4.89%) MLflow
6 17 (4.62%) JIRA
7 14 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.80%) Mockito
8 11 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.99%) Selenium
9 10 (2.72%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.72%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.45%) JMeter
10 9 (2.45%) Postman
11 7 (1.90%) Gatling
11 7 (1.90%) Gradle
11 7 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.90%) Snyk
12 5 (1.36%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.95%) Finance
3 36 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.71%) Banking
6 11 (2.99%) Retail
7 8 (2.17%) Front Office
8 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Marketing
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%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (19.57%) Developer
2 70 (19.02%) Senior
3 57 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (10.87%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (8.70%) Lead
7 28 (7.61%) Architect
8 27 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 22 (5.98%) Java Developer
11 21 (5.71%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.80%) Site Engineer
15 13 (3.53%) AWS Developer
15 13 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (3.26%) Python Developer
17 11 (2.99%) Azure Developer
17 11 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.03%) Kafka
2 49 (13.32%) REST
3 43 (11.68%) React
4 42 (11.41%) Spring Boot
5 41 (11.14%) Spring
6 37 (10.05%) .NET
7 36 (9.78%) RESTful
8 31 (8.42%) PySpark
9 21 (5.71%) Node.js
9 21 (5.71%) Pandas
10 20 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 20 (5.43%) Playwright
11 17 (4.62%) .NET Framework
11 17 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (4.35%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.80%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.53%) OAuth
15 12 (3.26%) Flask
15 12 (3.26%) Web Services
16 11 (2.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.28%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.45%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) IoT
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.33%) Linux
2 16 (4.35%) Unix
2 16 (4.35%) Windows
3 11 (2.99%) VMS
4 5 (1.36%) Android
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (89.40%) CI/CD
2 237 (64.40%) DevOps
3 180 (48.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (30.98%) Agile
5 103 (27.99%) Containerisation
6 99 (26.90%) Observability
7 74 (20.11%) Test Automation
8 72 (19.57%) Microservices
9 59 (16.03%) Analytics
9 59 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (15.76%) AI
11 54 (14.67%) Data Engineering
12 53 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (14.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 46 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (10.87%) Event-Driven
15 39 (10.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (10.33%) Migration
17 37 (10.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 162 (44.02%) Python
2 103 (27.99%) SQL
3 64 (17.39%) Java
4 55 (14.95%) C#
5 41 (11.14%) PowerShell
6 40 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 39 (10.60%) JavaScript
8 36 (9.78%) Bicep
9 33 (8.97%) Bash
10 21 (5.71%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.72%) Go
12 7 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.90%) Ruby
13 6 (1.63%) Scala
14 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.54%) Swift
16 2 (0.54%) XPath
17 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 118 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 109 (29.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.16%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.99%) Degree
5 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.09%) 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%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.05%) QA
2 20 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) 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
1 148 (40.22%) Docker
2 13 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 213 (57.88%) Terraform
2 159 (43.21%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.87%) Ansible
4 36 (9.78%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.24%) Grafana
6 14 (3.80%) Argo
7 9 (2.45%) Istio
8 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.17%) Puppet
9 7 (1.90%) Kibana
10 3 (0.82%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.82%) 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 63 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.97%) Databricks
3 24 (6.52%) Google
4 13 (3.53%) Splunk
5 10 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.72%) Oracle
6 9 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.17%) New Relic
7 8 (2.17%) SAP
8 7 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.36%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.36%) Foundry
10 4 (1.09%) Confluent
10 4 (1.09%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.82%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.82%) Sybase
11 3 (0.82%) Workday
12 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.54%) VMware