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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 219 318
Rank change year-on-year +102 +99 +37
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 344 135 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 0.98% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 2.38% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 102 58
10th Percentile £371 £413 £413
25th Percentile £427 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.13% -7.84%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £650
90th Percentile £728 £799 £728
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 6,389 5,684 6,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 41.19% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,388 3,801 5,025
10th Percentile £343 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 44 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.17 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -8.32% +31.55%
75th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.63 £67.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.60% +22.38% +0.61%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +30 40 £600 +14.29% 20
South London - 9 £500 - 3
West London -16 6 £650 +36.84% 3
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 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (1.16%) Apache
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) Traefik
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) GitHub
2 179 (52.03%) AWS
2 179 (52.03%) Azure
3 101 (29.36%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (22.38%) Serverless
5 64 (18.60%) GCP
6 59 (17.15%) Amazon S3
7 58 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
12 31 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (8.72%) Azure AKS
14 29 (8.43%) Entra ID
15 28 (8.14%) Power Platform
16 27 (7.85%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 20 (5.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.69%) Firewall
2 16 (4.65%) DNS
3 15 (4.36%) Network Security
4 6 (1.74%) VPN
5 4 (1.16%) HTTP
6 3 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.58%) Calico
7 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.23%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.36%) Data Lake
5 15 (4.36%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.07%) Power BI
7 12 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.20%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.91%) Redis
10 9 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.62%) Flink
10 9 (2.62%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.33%) Big Data
12 7 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 103 (29.94%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.99%) Git
3 52 (15.12%) GitLab
4 16 (4.65%) JUnit
5 14 (4.07%) JIRA
6 12 (3.49%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.49%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.62%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.62%) Postman
7 9 (2.62%) Selenium
8 8 (2.33%) MLflow
9 7 (2.03%) JMeter
10 6 (1.74%) Mockito
10 6 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.45%) Snyk
12 4 (1.16%) Gatling
12 4 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.16%) TestRail
General
1 64 (18.60%) Finance
1 64 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.17%) Public Sector
3 28 (8.14%) Banking
4 17 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.62%) Front Office
7 8 (2.33%) Retail
8 7 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Military
11 3 (0.87%) Marketing
12 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.93%) Developer
2 62 (18.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (16.57%) Senior
4 39 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (11.05%) Data Engineer
6 34 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 26 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (6.98%) Lead
8 24 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (5.52%) Architect
11 18 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 17 (4.94%) Site Engineer
13 16 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (4.07%) Azure Developer
14 14 (4.07%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.99%) Kafka
2 52 (15.12%) React
3 48 (13.95%) Node.js
4 39 (11.34%) REST
5 37 (10.76%) .NET
6 28 (8.14%) RESTful
6 28 (8.14%) Spring
7 25 (7.27%) AngularJS
7 25 (7.27%) CSS
8 24 (6.98%) Spring Boot
9 23 (6.69%) OAuth
10 17 (4.94%) PySpark
11 16 (4.65%) HTML
12 15 (4.36%) LangChain
13 14 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (4.07%) Playwright
13 14 (4.07%) PyTorch
14 13 (3.78%) GraphQL
15 12 (3.49%) FastAPI
15 12 (3.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 70 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.36%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.74%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.16%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.16%) Genomics
8 4 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) Replication
9 3 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.87%) Life Science
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.85%) Linux
2 12 (3.49%) VMS
3 8 (2.33%) Windows
4 6 (1.74%) Android
5 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (88.66%) CI/CD
2 217 (63.08%) DevOps
3 159 (46.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (27.62%) Agile
5 92 (26.74%) AI
6 89 (25.87%) Containerisation
7 87 (25.29%) Observability
8 58 (16.86%) Microservices
9 56 (16.28%) Analytics
9 56 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (15.41%) Migration
12 51 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (14.24%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (13.08%) Data Engineering
15 43 (12.50%) Test Automation
16 42 (12.21%) Machine Learning
17 40 (11.63%) Software Engineering
18 39 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 161 (46.80%) Python
2 86 (25.00%) SQL
3 64 (18.60%) Java
4 60 (17.44%) TypeScript
5 57 (16.57%) JavaScript
6 44 (12.79%) C#
7 32 (9.30%) Bicep
8 24 (6.98%) Bash
8 24 (6.98%) PowerShell
9 21 (6.10%) Go
10 10 (2.91%) Ruby
11 8 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (2.03%) JSX
13 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.87%) Groovy
15 3 (0.87%) Scala
15 3 (0.87%) XPath
16 2 (0.58%) Swift
17 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 86 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 78 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.23%) Degree
4 17 (4.94%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.58%) MCP
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.40%) QA
3 10 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.33%) GDPR
6 7 (2.03%) NIST
6 7 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.87%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.58%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.58%) PSD2
9 2 (0.58%) SEPA
10 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (37.21%) Docker
2 16 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) etcd
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 193 (56.10%) Terraform
2 155 (45.06%) Kubernetes
3 36 (10.47%) Ansible
4 32 (9.30%) Grafana
5 28 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.56%) Argo
7 13 (3.78%) Istio
8 9 (2.62%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.74%) Puppet
10 5 (1.45%) Kibana
11 3 (0.87%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.58%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 68 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.47%) Google
3 34 (9.88%) Databricks
4 27 (7.85%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.33%) New Relic
6 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.45%) Splunk
6 5 (1.45%) VMware
7 4 (1.16%) Confluent
7 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.16%) SAP
8 3 (0.87%) Adobe
8 3 (0.87%) Foundry
8 3 (0.87%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.58%) Qualys
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.29%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.29%) Solace