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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 260 337
Rank change year-on-year +136 +77 +35
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 333 123 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 0.81% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 1.96% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 87 51
10th Percentile £363 £413 £463
25th Percentile £423 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.80 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £25.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +311.76% -67.10% +121.43%

All Cloud 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 6,279 6,285 7,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.02% 41.15% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,291 4,259 5,384
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 42 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.15 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -4.28% +17.95%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

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 14 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub Actions in London

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 14 December 2025. 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 +29 40 £575 +3.14% 14
South London - 9 £500 - 3
West London -13 4 £650 +36.84% 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 30 (9.01%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.00%) Confluence
4 6 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.20%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) Traefik
6 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) GitHub
2 192 (57.66%) AWS
3 173 (51.95%) Azure
4 91 (27.33%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (18.92%) Serverless
6 53 (15.92%) Amazon S3
7 52 (15.62%) GCP
8 47 (14.11%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (10.51%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (8.71%) Entra ID
14 27 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (7.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (7.21%) Azure AKS
17 23 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (6.91%) Power Platform
18 19 (5.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.41%) Firewall
2 16 (4.80%) DNS
3 10 (3.00%) Network Security
4 7 (2.10%) VPN
5 6 (1.80%) HTTP
6 5 (1.50%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.60%) Calico
8 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) SSL
9 1 (0.30%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.00%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.70%) Flink
8 9 (2.70%) Power BI
8 9 (2.70%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.40%) Redis
10 7 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.80%) Big Data
12 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 91 (27.33%) Jenkins
2 69 (20.72%) Git
3 48 (14.41%) GitLab
4 21 (6.31%) CircleCI
5 19 (5.71%) JIRA
6 16 (4.80%) JUnit
7 14 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 10 (3.00%) Postman
8 10 (3.00%) Selenium
9 9 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.70%) Snyk
10 8 (2.40%) JMeter
11 7 (2.10%) MLflow
11 7 (2.10%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.80%) Mockito
13 5 (1.50%) Maven
13 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.50%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.50%) webpack
14 4 (1.20%) TestRail
General
1 66 (19.82%) Finance
2 54 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.41%) Banking
5 22 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.70%) Front Office
7 9 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.50%) Military
11 4 (1.20%) Marketing
11 4 (1.20%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Publishing
13 2 (0.60%) Legal
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Billing
14 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (20.42%) Developer
2 59 (17.72%) Senior
3 58 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (10.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 31 (9.31%) Data Engineer
6 28 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (6.31%) Lead
10 20 (6.01%) Site Engineer
11 19 (5.71%) Architect
11 19 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 17 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.50%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.50%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.90%) Azure Developer
14 13 (3.90%) Consultant
14 13 (3.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (15.92%) React
2 50 (15.02%) Node.js
3 40 (12.01%) Kafka
3 40 (12.01%) REST
4 35 (10.51%) .NET
5 26 (7.81%) RESTful
6 25 (7.51%) CSS
7 22 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.41%) HTML
9 16 (4.80%) OAuth
9 16 (4.80%) Spring
10 15 (4.50%) GraphQL
11 14 (4.20%) pytest
12 13 (3.90%) Jest
12 13 (3.90%) Playwright
12 13 (3.90%) PyTorch
13 12 (3.60%) Sass
13 12 (3.60%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (3.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.90%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.80%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.50%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.50%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.20%) Genomics
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.20%) Replication
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.21%) Linux
2 7 (2.10%) VMS
3 6 (1.80%) Android
4 5 (1.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (88.59%) CI/CD
2 210 (63.06%) DevOps
3 153 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (29.73%) Agile
5 83 (24.92%) Containerisation
6 75 (22.52%) AI
7 67 (20.12%) Observability
8 57 (17.12%) Microservices
8 57 (17.12%) Migration
9 52 (15.62%) Analytics
10 50 (15.02%) Data Pipeline
11 49 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (13.51%) Test Automation
13 44 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (13.21%) Software Engineering
14 43 (12.91%) Data Engineering
14 43 (12.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (12.01%) Machine Learning
16 32 (9.61%) DevSecOps
17 31 (9.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (46.85%) Python
2 84 (25.23%) SQL
3 65 (19.52%) TypeScript
4 62 (18.62%) Java
5 60 (18.02%) JavaScript
6 45 (13.51%) C#
7 38 (11.41%) Go
8 31 (9.31%) Bash
8 31 (9.31%) PowerShell
9 27 (8.11%) Bicep
10 12 (3.60%) Ruby
11 8 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (2.10%) JSX
13 5 (1.50%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.20%) Groovy
14 4 (1.20%) PromQL
15 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.90%) XPath
16 1 (0.30%) C++
16 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 96 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.31%) Degree
4 19 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 14 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.60%) MCP
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.01%) QA
3 14 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.90%) GDPR
5 12 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.60%) NIST
6 6 (1.80%) WCAG
7 3 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (36.94%) Docker
2 22 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) etcd
5 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 190 (57.06%) Terraform
2 155 (46.55%) Kubernetes
3 37 (11.11%) Grafana
4 34 (10.21%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.51%) Ansible
6 19 (5.71%) Argo
7 8 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.10%) Istio
9 5 (1.50%) Puppet
10 4 (1.20%) Kibana
11 2 (0.60%) Consul
11 2 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.60%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.60%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.30%) linkerd
12 1 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.91%) Databricks
3 27 (8.11%) OpenAI
4 26 (7.81%) Google
5 9 (2.70%) Splunk
6 6 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.50%) Oracle
7 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.50%) VMware
8 4 (1.20%) New Relic
8 4 (1.20%) SAP
9 3 (0.90%) Adobe
9 3 (0.90%) Amplitude
9 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.90%) Qualys
10 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.60%) Confluent
10 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.60%) Solace