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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 221 317
Rank change year-on-year +99 +96 +36
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 351 135 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 1.00% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.23% 2.40% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 99 55
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £725 £799 £730
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £51.40 - -
25th Percentile £59.50 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £75.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £94.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile £103.60 - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £25.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +190.20% -47.42% +38.57%

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 6,709 5,635 6,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.34% 41.72% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,596 3,755 5,087
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 49 76
10th Percentile £18.12 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.08 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.81 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.91% +24.15% -11.40%

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 11 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

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 11 February 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 +14 41 £575 +6.24% 21
South London - 8 £500 - 1
West London -13 7 £650 +36.84% 8
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 29 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.42%) Apache
4 5 (1.42%) Confluence
4 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.57%) Traefik
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) GitHub
2 180 (51.28%) AWS
3 176 (50.14%) Azure
4 103 (29.34%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (21.65%) Serverless
6 61 (17.38%) Amazon S3
7 60 (17.09%) GCP
8 58 (16.52%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (15.10%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (10.83%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (10.54%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (9.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (8.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (8.55%) Entra ID
16 29 (8.26%) Azure AKS
17 28 (7.98%) Azure Key Vault
18 26 (7.41%) Power Platform
19 22 (6.27%) Azure Service Bus
20 21 (5.98%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.84%) Firewall
2 18 (5.13%) Network Security
3 14 (3.99%) DNS
4 5 (1.42%) VPN
5 4 (1.14%) HTTP
6 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.57%) Calico
7 2 (0.57%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.70%) Power BI
6 12 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.13%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.85%) Big Data
8 10 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.85%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.85%) MySQL
8 10 (2.85%) Redis
9 9 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.56%) Flink
10 8 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 106 (30.20%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.24%) Git
3 53 (15.10%) GitLab
4 19 (5.41%) JUnit
5 16 (4.56%) JIRA
6 15 (4.27%) Cypress.io
7 12 (3.42%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.85%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.85%) MLflow
8 10 (2.85%) Postman
8 10 (2.85%) Selenium
9 9 (2.56%) Mockito
10 8 (2.28%) JMeter
11 6 (1.71%) Gradle
11 6 (1.71%) Maven
11 6 (1.71%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.42%) Gatling
12 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.42%) TestRail
12 5 (1.42%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.24%) Finance
3 37 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.84%) Banking
5 19 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.56%) Front Office
7 9 (2.56%) Retail
8 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.14%) Military
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (20.23%) Developer
2 63 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (16.24%) Senior
4 41 (11.68%) Data Engineer
5 37 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (9.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 28 (7.98%) Lead
8 25 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (6.55%) Architect
9 23 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.13%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.56%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.27%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.99%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.42%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.67%) Kafka
2 51 (14.53%) React
3 46 (13.11%) Node.js
4 39 (11.11%) REST
5 38 (10.83%) .NET
6 31 (8.83%) Spring
7 27 (7.69%) RESTful
7 27 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 26 (7.41%) AngularJS
9 24 (6.84%) CSS
10 23 (6.55%) OAuth
11 20 (5.70%) Playwright
12 19 (5.41%) PySpark
13 16 (4.56%) LangChain
14 15 (4.27%) HTML
14 15 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.99%) PyTorch
16 12 (3.42%) JSON
16 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Graph
16 12 (3.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.27%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.71%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.14%) Replication
9 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.69%) Linux
2 12 (3.42%) VMS
3 6 (1.71%) Android
3 6 (1.71%) Windows
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (89.46%) CI/CD
2 214 (60.97%) DevOps
3 158 (45.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (27.64%) Agile
5 89 (25.36%) AI
6 88 (25.07%) Containerisation
7 87 (24.79%) Observability
8 58 (16.52%) Microservices
9 57 (16.24%) Analytics
10 54 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (15.10%) Migration
11 53 (15.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 51 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
13 50 (14.25%) Data Engineering
14 49 (13.96%) Test Automation
15 47 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (11.11%) Machine Learning
18 37 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
19 34 (9.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (45.58%) Python
2 95 (27.07%) SQL
3 65 (18.52%) Java
4 58 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 57 (16.24%) JavaScript
6 44 (12.54%) C#
7 31 (8.83%) Bicep
8 26 (7.41%) Bash
9 25 (7.12%) PowerShell
10 21 (5.98%) Go
11 9 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.99%) JSX
12 7 (1.99%) Ruby
13 6 (1.71%) Scala
14 5 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.85%) Groovy
15 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.85%) XPath
16 2 (0.57%) Swift
17 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 93 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 85 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.56%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.99%) Degree
5 9 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.41%) QA
2 24 (6.84%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.28%) GDPR
4 8 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.99%) NIST
6 6 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.42%) WCAG
8 3 (0.85%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.57%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.57%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.57%) PSD2
9 2 (0.57%) SEPA
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 125 (35.61%) Docker
2 15 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) etcd
Systems Management
1 194 (55.27%) Terraform
2 151 (43.02%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.40%) Ansible
4 29 (8.26%) Grafana
5 26 (7.41%) Argo
6 25 (7.12%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.70%) Istio
8 8 (2.28%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.42%) Kibana
10 3 (0.85%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.85%) Puppet
10 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.57%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 69 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.97%) Google
3 33 (9.40%) Databricks
4 26 (7.41%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.28%) New Relic
6 6 (1.71%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) Splunk
7 5 (1.42%) VMware
8 4 (1.14%) Confluent
8 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.85%) Adobe
9 3 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.85%) Foundry
9 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.85%) SAP
10 2 (0.57%) Qualys
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.28%) Intel
11 1 (0.28%) Pega