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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 218 304
Rank change year-on-year +85 +86 +37
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 397 140 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.10% 1.13% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 2.63% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 86 61
10th Percentile £401 £419 £413
25th Percentile £451 £502 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £625 £793 £650
90th Percentile £675 £850 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.02%
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 £70.00 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +164.15% -34.57% -

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 7,946 5,331 6,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.01% 43.10% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,458 3,622 5,076
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 68 68
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.38 £55.75
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 June 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 June 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 +8 49 £581 +1.09% 4
West London -11 9 £530 -6.19% 4
South London - 5 £445 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 £432 - 2
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 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.77%) Confluence
4 9 (2.27%) Apache
5 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Findur
2 3 (0.76%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 397 (100.00%) GitHub
2 214 (53.90%) AWS
3 207 (52.14%) Azure
4 138 (34.76%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (18.39%) Serverless
6 61 (15.37%) Amazon S3
7 60 (15.11%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (14.11%) GCP
9 50 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (10.58%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (10.33%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (9.32%) Azure AKS
14 28 (7.05%) AWS CodePipeline
14 28 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (6.05%) Power Platform
17 22 (5.54%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.54%) Firewall
2 19 (4.79%) Network Security
3 15 (3.78%) DNS
4 14 (3.53%) VPN
5 4 (1.01%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.81%) Data Lake
1 31 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.79%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.54%) Delta Lake
5 19 (4.79%) Redis
6 18 (4.53%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.53%) Power BI
7 17 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.03%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.77%) Big Data
11 11 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.02%) Metadata
13 8 (2.02%) MySQL
14 7 (1.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 143 (36.02%) Jenkins
2 96 (24.18%) GitLab
3 51 (12.85%) Git
4 27 (6.80%) JUnit
5 21 (5.29%) JIRA
6 18 (4.53%) CircleCI
6 18 (4.53%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.78%) MLflow
7 15 (3.78%) Mockito
8 14 (3.53%) Gradle
9 13 (3.27%) Selenium
10 12 (3.02%) Cucumber
11 11 (2.77%) SonarQube
12 9 (2.27%) JMeter
12 9 (2.27%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.27%) Snyk
13 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.76%) Gatling
13 7 (1.76%) Postman
14 5 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 75 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.37%) Finance
3 44 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.79%) Banking
6 15 (3.78%) Retail
7 12 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.77%) Law
9 7 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Front Office
11 3 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.76%) Military
11 3 (0.76%) Police
12 2 (0.50%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (19.90%) Senior
2 71 (17.88%) Developer
3 63 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.33%) Data Engineer
6 32 (8.06%) Lead
7 30 (7.56%) Architect
8 26 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (6.05%) Java Developer
10 24 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.29%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.53%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.02%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.63%) Kafka
2 63 (15.87%) REST
3 52 (13.10%) RESTful
4 47 (11.84%) Spring
4 47 (11.84%) Spring Boot
5 45 (11.34%) React
6 34 (8.56%) PySpark
7 29 (7.30%) .NET
8 20 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
8 20 (5.04%) Pandas
8 20 (5.04%) Playwright
9 19 (4.79%) FastAPI
9 19 (4.79%) Node.js
9 19 (4.79%) OAuth
10 17 (4.28%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.28%) OAuth2
11 15 (3.78%) .NET Framework
12 14 (3.53%) AWS CDK
13 12 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (3.02%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 97 (24.43%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.02%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.50%) IoT
10 2 (0.50%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.82%) Linux
2 20 (5.04%) Windows
3 15 (3.78%) Unix
4 8 (2.02%) Android
5 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.51%) VMS
6 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (89.67%) CI/CD
2 255 (64.23%) DevOps
3 199 (50.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (32.24%) Agile
5 113 (28.46%) Containerisation
6 108 (27.20%) Observability
7 88 (22.17%) Microservices
8 87 (21.91%) Test Automation
9 77 (19.40%) Platform Engineering
10 61 (15.37%) AI
10 61 (15.37%) Analytics
11 56 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
13 52 (13.10%) Data Engineering
14 51 (12.85%) Event-Driven
14 51 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 50 (12.59%) Mentoring
16 46 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (10.83%) Software Engineering
18 41 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 180 (45.34%) Python
2 114 (28.72%) SQL
3 72 (18.14%) Java
4 50 (12.59%) PowerShell
5 48 (12.09%) Bash
6 47 (11.84%) TypeScript
7 46 (11.59%) C#
8 39 (9.82%) Bicep
8 39 (9.82%) JavaScript
9 21 (5.29%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.52%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.27%) Go
12 7 (1.76%) Ruby
13 6 (1.51%) Swift
14 5 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.26%) Scala
15 4 (1.01%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (31.99%) Security Cleared
2 116 (29.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.04%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.53%) Degree
5 12 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.59%) QA
2 25 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.03%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.02%) NIST
4 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.26%) GDPR
5 5 (1.26%) WCAG
6 3 (0.76%) PSD2
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.50%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (39.55%) Docker
2 11 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (58.19%) Terraform
2 169 (42.57%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.35%) Prometheus
4 50 (12.59%) Grafana
5 40 (10.08%) Ansible
6 13 (3.27%) Argo
7 10 (2.52%) Istio
8 8 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.02%) Puppet
9 5 (1.26%) Kibana
10 2 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.25%) linkerd
11 1 (0.25%) Nagios
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.56%) Databricks
3 22 (5.54%) Google
4 16 (4.03%) Splunk
5 13 (3.27%) Oracle
6 11 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.02%) New Relic
9 6 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.51%) Foundry
9 6 (1.51%) SAP
10 5 (1.26%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) Sybase
11 4 (1.01%) Hortonworks
11 4 (1.01%) Palantir
12 3 (0.76%) Checkmarx
12 3 (0.76%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.76%) VMware