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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 220 301
Rank change year-on-year +82 +81 +41
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 358 131 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 1.03% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.76% 2.43% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 87 64
10th Percentile £384 £458 £413
25th Percentile £438 £507 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -13.00%
75th Percentile £638 £729 £641
90th Percentile £713 £800 £718
England median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.77% +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 7,520 5,393 6,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.37% 42.58% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,742 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £443
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 78
10th Percentile £19.68 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.42 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.56 £54.13 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 44 £575 +0.88% 35
West London -14 12 £650 +36.84% 5
South London - 11 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £432 - 7
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 (8.66%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.75%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.91%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
4 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.96%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.84%) Findur
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) GitHub
2 191 (53.35%) Azure
3 189 (52.79%) AWS
4 122 (34.08%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (22.07%) Serverless
6 66 (18.44%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (15.92%) Amazon S3
7 57 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (13.97%) GCP
9 48 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (12.57%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (12.29%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (10.61%) Azure AKS
12 38 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 35 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (8.66%) Entra ID
15 30 (8.38%) AWS CodePipeline
16 29 (8.10%) Azure Key Vault
17 26 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (6.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.15%) Firewall
2 19 (5.31%) Network Security
3 14 (3.91%) DNS
4 4 (1.12%) HTTP
4 4 (1.12%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.56%) DSL
6 2 (0.56%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.54%) Data Lake
1 27 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.31%) Delta Lake
4 18 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.75%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.35%) Big Data
8 11 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (3.07%) Power BI
9 9 (2.51%) Flink
9 9 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.51%) Redis
10 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.23%) MySQL
11 7 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 120 (33.52%) Jenkins
2 63 (17.60%) GitLab
3 52 (14.53%) Git
4 21 (5.87%) JIRA
5 20 (5.59%) Cypress.io
6 18 (5.03%) JUnit
6 18 (5.03%) MLflow
7 14 (3.91%) Selenium
8 13 (3.63%) Mockito
9 11 (3.07%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.07%) Postman
10 10 (2.79%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.23%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.96%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.96%) Zephyr
13 6 (1.68%) Snyk
14 5 (1.40%) Gatling
14 5 (1.40%) Gradle
14 5 (1.40%) JMeter
14 5 (1.40%) TestRail
General
1 63 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.80%) Finance
3 36 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.98%) Banking
5 20 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.35%) Front Office
7 9 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Retail
8 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (20.95%) Developer
2 61 (17.04%) Senior
3 55 (15.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (11.17%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (9.50%) Lead
7 31 (8.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 26 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.98%) Architect
10 24 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 19 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.75%) Azure Developer
12 17 (4.75%) Site Engineer
13 15 (4.19%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.91%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.63%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.36%) Kafka
2 47 (13.13%) React
3 41 (11.45%) REST
4 40 (11.17%) .NET
5 35 (9.78%) Spring Boot
6 34 (9.50%) Node.js
6 34 (9.50%) Spring
7 32 (8.94%) RESTful
8 25 (6.98%) AngularJS
9 24 (6.70%) PySpark
10 22 (6.15%) Playwright
11 19 (5.31%) OAuth
12 17 (4.75%) Pandas
13 15 (4.19%) AWS CDK
13 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Graph
13 15 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (3.63%) CSS
14 13 (3.63%) JSON
15 12 (3.35%) .NET Framework
15 12 (3.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.35%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.23%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.68%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.22%) Linux
2 12 (3.35%) Unix
2 12 (3.35%) Windows
3 11 (3.07%) VMS
4 4 (1.12%) Android
4 4 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (88.55%) CI/CD
2 227 (63.41%) DevOps
3 168 (46.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (31.28%) Agile
5 102 (28.49%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.82%) Observability
7 74 (20.67%) AI
8 69 (19.27%) Analytics
9 68 (18.99%) Microservices
10 62 (17.32%) Test Automation
11 61 (17.04%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (15.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 52 (14.53%) Data Engineering
14 50 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
15 47 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (11.45%) Machine Learning
18 39 (10.89%) Migration
19 36 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
20 32 (8.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 172 (48.04%) Python
2 103 (28.77%) SQL
3 64 (17.88%) Java
4 49 (13.69%) C#
5 46 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 45 (12.57%) TypeScript
7 36 (10.06%) PowerShell
8 32 (8.94%) Bicep
9 28 (7.82%) Bash
10 17 (4.75%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.91%) Go
12 12 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.96%) Ruby
14 6 (1.68%) Scala
15 4 (1.12%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.84%) JSX
16 3 (0.84%) Swift
16 3 (0.84%) XPath
17 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 95 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.31%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.35%) Degree
5 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.66%) QA
2 18 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.12%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) GDPR
7 3 (0.84%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.56%) PSD2
8 2 (0.56%) SEPA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 141 (39.39%) Docker
2 14 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.56%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (57.82%) Terraform
2 151 (42.18%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.61%) Ansible
4 25 (6.98%) Grafana
4 25 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.59%) Argo
6 10 (2.79%) Istio
7 8 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.23%) Puppet
8 5 (1.40%) Kibana
9 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.84%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.73%) Databricks
3 26 (7.26%) Google
4 20 (5.59%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.79%) Splunk
6 8 (2.23%) New Relic
7 7 (1.96%) Oracle
7 7 (1.96%) SAP
8 6 (1.68%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.40%) Confluent
9 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.12%) Foundry
11 3 (0.84%) Hortonworks
11 3 (0.84%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.84%) Qualys
11 3 (0.84%) Sybase
12 2 (0.56%) Adobe
12 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg