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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 164 301
Rank change year-on-year +37 +137 +51
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 449 226 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 1.70% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 3.93% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 146 57
10th Percentile £382 £356 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £813 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 8,320 5,745 6,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.22% 43.24% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,913 4,690
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.45 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.02% -13.53% -7.30%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +1 51 £600 -5.88% 22
South London +4 13 £488 +8.33% 2
West London - 9 £650 - 12
East London - 2 £432 - 4
North London - 1 £650 -
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 32 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (5.57%) Confluence
3 13 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.23%) Apache
5 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.89%) nginx
6 4 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.45%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Trello
2 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.67%) Findur
3 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 449 (100.00%) GitHub
2 262 (58.35%) Azure
3 242 (53.90%) AWS
4 169 (37.64%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (16.70%) Serverless
6 72 (16.04%) Amazon S3
7 67 (14.92%) GCP
8 59 (13.14%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (11.14%) Azure Monitor
11 44 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (9.58%) Azure AKS
13 41 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
15 36 (8.02%) Snowflake
16 33 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (7.35%) Entra ID
17 31 (6.90%) Power Platform
18 28 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
19 22 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.68%) VPN
2 20 (4.45%) DNS
3 18 (4.01%) Firewall
4 11 (2.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.89%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.67%) SSH
6 3 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) HTTP
7 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) DSL
8 1 (0.22%) INAP
8 1 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 1 (0.22%) NFC
8 1 (0.22%) RTP
8 1 (0.22%) VLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 26 (5.79%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.79%) Power BI
4 24 (5.35%) Data Lake
4 24 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.68%) Redis
6 19 (4.23%) Delta Lake
6 19 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.01%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.12%) Metadata
11 13 (2.90%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.78%) Big Data
14 8 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 167 (37.19%) Jenkins
2 120 (26.73%) GitLab
3 66 (14.70%) Git
4 28 (6.24%) JIRA
5 25 (5.57%) Selenium
6 24 (5.35%) CircleCI
7 22 (4.90%) JUnit
8 18 (4.01%) Cypress.io
9 15 (3.34%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.12%) Bitbucket
10 14 (3.12%) Gradle
11 12 (2.67%) JMeter
11 12 (2.67%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.45%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.00%) Mockito
13 9 (2.00%) Postman
14 8 (1.78%) Snyk
14 8 (1.78%) XCUITest
15 7 (1.56%) MLflow
15 7 (1.56%) XCTest
General
1 90 (20.04%) Finance
2 89 (19.82%) Social Skills
3 58 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.24%) Banking
6 14 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.90%) Retail
8 12 (2.67%) Law
9 7 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.34%) Marketing
11 4 (0.89%) Back Office
11 4 (0.89%) Front Office
11 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.89%) Local Government
11 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.67%) Billing
12 3 (0.67%) Police
12 3 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (22.49%) Senior
2 83 (18.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (17.15%) Developer
4 44 (9.80%) Lead
5 39 (8.69%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (7.35%) Data Engineer
8 30 (6.68%) Architect
9 25 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.12%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.45%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.01%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (57.24%) Terraform
2 79 (17.59%) REST
3 67 (14.92%) Kafka
4 61 (13.59%) RESTful
5 43 (9.58%) React
6 39 (8.69%) Spring
7 35 (7.80%) Spring Boot
8 31 (6.90%) .NET
9 30 (6.68%) PySpark
10 25 (5.57%) FastAPI
11 24 (5.35%) Playwright
12 19 (4.23%) OAuth
13 18 (4.01%) Node.js
14 17 (3.79%) Flask
14 17 (3.79%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.34%) pytest
16 15 (3.34%) YAML
17 14 (3.12%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 113 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.14%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.12%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.78%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.69%) Linux
2 17 (3.79%) Unix
3 15 (3.34%) Windows
4 12 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 10 (2.23%) Android
6 8 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.56%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (91.31%) CI/CD
2 302 (67.26%) DevOps
3 233 (51.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (37.19%) Agile
5 130 (28.95%) Containerisation
6 123 (27.39%) Test Automation
7 118 (26.28%) Observability
8 95 (21.16%) Microservices
9 80 (17.82%) AI
10 79 (17.59%) Platform Engineering
11 67 (14.92%) Event-Driven
12 64 (14.25%) Software Engineering
13 57 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
14 55 (12.25%) Analytics
15 54 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (12.03%) DevSecOps
16 51 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 50 (11.14%) Mentoring
18 49 (10.91%) Performance Optimisation
18 49 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 235 (52.34%) Python
2 117 (26.06%) SQL
3 84 (18.71%) Bash
3 84 (18.71%) Java
4 59 (13.14%) TypeScript
5 56 (12.47%) PowerShell
6 47 (10.47%) JavaScript
7 45 (10.02%) Bicep
8 43 (9.58%) C#
9 22 (4.90%) Shell Script
10 18 (4.01%) Kotlin
11 14 (3.12%) Go
12 11 (2.45%) Swift
13 9 (2.00%) Objective-C
13 9 (2.00%) Ruby
14 5 (1.11%) Groovy
15 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 171 (38.08%) Security Cleared
2 162 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.24%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.34%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.34%) Degree
5 13 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.22%) MOS
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.48%) QA
2 33 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.78%) NIST
5 7 (1.56%) GDPR
5 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.89%) WCAG
7 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 195 (43.43%) Docker
2 14 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 77 (17.15%) Grafana
3 69 (15.37%) Prometheus
4 45 (10.02%) Ansible
5 22 (4.90%) Argo
6 8 (1.78%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.78%) Puppet
7 7 (1.56%) Karpenter
8 4 (0.89%) Kibana
9 3 (0.67%) Cilium
9 3 (0.67%) SELinux
9 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.45%) Istio
10 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.45%) Packer
11 1 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
11 1 (0.22%) systemd
Vendors
1 77 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.36%) Databricks
3 26 (5.79%) Splunk
4 23 (5.12%) Google
5 20 (4.45%) Oracle
6 17 (3.79%) Dynatrace
7 15 (3.34%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.23%) Foundry
9 10 (2.23%) New Relic
10 8 (1.78%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.56%) VMware
12 6 (1.34%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.34%) SAP
13 5 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.89%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.89%) Hortonworks
14 4 (0.89%) Palantir