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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 227 318
Rank change year-on-year +113 +91 +48
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 357 135 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 0.96% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.60% 2.33% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 100 55
10th Percentile £371 £413 £433
25th Percentile £431 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £799 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 -
% change year-on-year +311.76% - -

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 6,372 5,788 6,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.35% 41.22% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,371 3,882 4,933
10th Percentile £343 £350 £326
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.37 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -12.01% +35.42%
75th Percentile £54.31 £47.72 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £68.80
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +28 43 £613 +13.16% 15
South London - 9 £500 - 7
West London -14 6 £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 26 (7.28%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.80%) Confluence
4 9 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.12%) Apache
5 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.56%) Traefik
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 357 (100.00%) GitHub
2 193 (54.06%) AWS
3 185 (51.82%) Azure
4 100 (28.01%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (22.69%) Serverless
6 64 (17.93%) GCP
7 63 (17.65%) Amazon S3
7 63 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (13.17%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (12.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (10.08%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (8.40%) Azure AKS
13 30 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (8.12%) Entra ID
15 28 (7.84%) Power Platform
16 27 (7.56%) Azure Key Vault
17 25 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (5.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.72%) Firewall
2 17 (4.76%) DNS
3 15 (4.20%) Network Security
4 6 (1.68%) VPN
5 5 (1.40%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.12%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.56%) Calico
8 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 15 (4.20%) DynamoDB
6 14 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.64%) Power BI
8 12 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.08%) Delta Lake
9 11 (3.08%) Redis
10 10 (2.80%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.52%) Flink
11 9 (2.52%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.24%) Big Data
13 7 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 102 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 61 (17.09%) Git
3 55 (15.41%) GitLab
4 19 (5.32%) JIRA
5 18 (5.04%) CircleCI
6 16 (4.48%) JUnit
7 12 (3.36%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.08%) Snyk
9 9 (2.52%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.52%) Postman
9 9 (2.52%) Selenium
10 8 (2.24%) MLflow
11 7 (1.96%) JMeter
12 6 (1.68%) Mockito
12 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.12%) Maven
13 4 (1.12%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.12%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.12%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (18.49%) Finance
2 61 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.84%) Banking
5 17 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.52%) Front Office
8 8 (2.24%) Retail
9 7 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.40%) Military
11 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.17%) Developer
2 63 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (16.25%) Senior
4 39 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (10.36%) Data Engineer
6 36 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 28 (7.84%) Lead
8 25 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.88%) Architect
11 18 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.04%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.48%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (3.92%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.92%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.36%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.69%) React
2 54 (15.13%) Kafka
3 52 (14.57%) Node.js
4 45 (12.61%) REST
5 36 (10.08%) .NET
6 28 (7.84%) RESTful
6 28 (7.84%) Spring
7 25 (7.00%) AngularJS
7 25 (7.00%) CSS
8 24 (6.72%) Spring Boot
9 23 (6.44%) OAuth
10 17 (4.76%) PySpark
11 16 (4.48%) HTML
12 15 (4.20%) LangChain
12 15 (4.20%) pytest
13 14 (3.92%) GraphQL
13 14 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.92%) Playwright
13 14 (3.92%) PyTorch
14 12 (3.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.20%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.68%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.12%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.12%) Genomics
8 4 (1.12%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.12%) Replication
9 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.84%) Life Science
9 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.28%) Linux
2 12 (3.36%) VMS
3 6 (1.68%) Android
3 6 (1.68%) Windows
4 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (89.08%) CI/CD
2 227 (63.59%) DevOps
3 165 (46.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (27.73%) Agile
5 92 (25.77%) AI
6 89 (24.93%) Containerisation
7 86 (24.09%) Observability
8 66 (18.49%) Microservices
9 61 (17.09%) Migration
10 56 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 54 (15.13%) Analytics
12 50 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
12 50 (14.01%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (12.32%) Data Engineering
14 43 (12.04%) Test Automation
15 42 (11.76%) Software Engineering
16 41 (11.48%) Machine Learning
17 38 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 167 (46.78%) Python
2 86 (24.09%) SQL
3 64 (17.93%) TypeScript
4 63 (17.65%) Java
5 57 (15.97%) JavaScript
6 44 (12.32%) C#
7 31 (8.68%) Bicep
8 28 (7.84%) Go
9 26 (7.28%) Bash
10 24 (6.72%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.08%) Ruby
12 8 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.96%) JSX
14 5 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.84%) Groovy
16 3 (0.84%) Scala
16 3 (0.84%) XPath
17 2 (0.56%) Swift
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 85 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.04%) Degree
4 17 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.56%) MCP
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.56%) QA
2 26 (7.28%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.36%) NIST
5 10 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.24%) GDPR
7 6 (1.68%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.40%) WCAG
9 3 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.56%) PSD2
10 2 (0.56%) SEPA
11 1 (0.28%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 133 (37.25%) Docker
2 21 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) etcd
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 200 (56.02%) Terraform
2 166 (46.50%) Kubernetes
3 36 (10.08%) Ansible
4 34 (9.52%) Grafana
4 34 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 26 (7.28%) Argo
6 13 (3.64%) Istio
7 9 (2.52%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.40%) Kibana
8 5 (1.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 68 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.08%) Google
3 34 (9.52%) Databricks
4 26 (7.28%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.96%) New Relic
6 6 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.68%) Splunk
7 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.40%) VMware
8 4 (1.12%) Confluent
8 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.12%) SAP
9 3 (0.84%) Adobe
9 3 (0.84%) Oracle
10 2 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.56%) Foundry
10 2 (0.56%) Qualys
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.28%) Solace