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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 222 320
Rank change year-on-year +96 +98 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 353 134 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.30% 0.98% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.21% 2.36% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 100 57
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £650
90th Percentile £725 £799 £729
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 6,779 5,666 6,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.21% 41.65% 37.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,648 3,792 5,117
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 98 49 76
10th Percentile £18.17 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.62% -11.44%
75th Percentile £53.35 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +11 41 £575 +6.24% 14
South London - 11 £500 - 1
West London -16 8 £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 25 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.12%) 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 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 353 (100.00%) GitHub
2 180 (50.99%) Azure
3 178 (50.42%) AWS
4 106 (30.03%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (22.10%) Serverless
6 60 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (17.00%) GCP
7 55 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (15.58%) Amazon S3
8 46 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (11.33%) Azure Monitor
10 38 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (8.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (8.50%) Azure AKS
13 30 (8.50%) Entra ID
14 29 (8.22%) Azure Key Vault
15 26 (7.37%) Power Platform
16 22 (6.23%) AWS CodePipeline
16 22 (6.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.80%) Firewall
2 18 (5.10%) Network Security
3 14 (3.97%) DNS
4 5 (1.42%) VPN
5 4 (1.13%) 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 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 18 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.68%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.68%) Power BI
7 12 (3.40%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.12%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.12%) Delta Lake
8 11 (3.12%) Redis
9 10 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (2.83%) Big Data
9 10 (2.83%) MySQL
10 9 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.55%) Flink
11 8 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 108 (30.59%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.30%) GitLab
3 52 (14.73%) Git
4 19 (5.38%) JUnit
5 18 (5.10%) JIRA
6 16 (4.53%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.68%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.40%) MLflow
8 12 (3.40%) Selenium
9 10 (2.83%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.83%) Postman
10 9 (2.55%) Mockito
11 8 (2.27%) JMeter
12 7 (1.98%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.70%) Gradle
13 6 (1.70%) Maven
13 6 (1.70%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.42%) Gatling
14 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.42%) TestRail
General
1 68 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.86%) Finance
3 37 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.08%) Banking
5 18 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.55%) Front Office
7 9 (2.55%) Retail
8 7 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
11 3 (0.85%) Military
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%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.40%) Developer
2 62 (17.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (15.01%) Senior
4 38 (10.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (9.92%) Data Engineer
6 33 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 29 (8.22%) Lead
8 24 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (6.52%) Architect
9 23 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.10%) Site Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) Azure Developer
13 14 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.68%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.86%) Kafka
2 52 (14.73%) React
3 46 (13.03%) Node.js
4 40 (11.33%) REST
5 39 (11.05%) .NET
6 31 (8.78%) Spring
7 28 (7.93%) RESTful
8 27 (7.65%) AngularJS
8 27 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 24 (6.80%) CSS
9 24 (6.80%) OAuth
10 21 (5.95%) Playwright
11 19 (5.38%) PySpark
12 16 (4.53%) LangChain
12 16 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (4.25%) HTML
14 14 (3.97%) PyTorch
15 13 (3.68%) OAuth2
16 12 (3.40%) JSON
16 12 (3.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.25%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.70%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.13%) Replication
9 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.65%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) VMS
3 6 (1.70%) Android
3 6 (1.70%) Windows
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (89.24%) CI/CD
2 221 (62.61%) DevOps
3 162 (45.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (28.61%) Agile
5 89 (25.21%) Containerisation
5 89 (25.21%) Observability
6 82 (23.23%) AI
7 60 (17.00%) Microservices
8 58 (16.43%) Analytics
9 56 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.30%) Migration
11 53 (15.01%) Platform Engineering
11 53 (15.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (15.01%) Test Automation
12 47 (13.31%) Data Engineering
13 43 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (11.61%) Machine Learning
16 39 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (9.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (46.18%) Python
2 91 (25.78%) SQL
3 67 (18.98%) Java
4 58 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 58 (16.43%) TypeScript
5 47 (13.31%) C#
6 32 (9.07%) Bicep
7 27 (7.65%) Bash
7 27 (7.65%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.95%) Go
9 9 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.98%) JSX
10 7 (1.98%) Ruby
11 6 (1.70%) Scala
12 5 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.85%) Groovy
13 3 (0.85%) XPath
14 2 (0.57%) Swift
15 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 90 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 80 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.82%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.25%) Degree
5 10 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.13%) 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 28 (7.93%) QA
2 19 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.27%) GDPR
4 8 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.98%) NIST
6 6 (1.70%) 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
1 130 (36.83%) Docker
2 15 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) etcd
Systems Management
1 198 (56.09%) Terraform
2 153 (43.34%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.07%) Ansible
4 29 (8.22%) Grafana
5 26 (7.37%) Argo
6 25 (7.08%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.68%) Istio
8 7 (1.98%) 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 72 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.92%) Google
3 33 (9.35%) Databricks
4 26 (7.37%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.27%) New Relic
6 6 (1.70%) Oracle
7 5 (1.42%) Splunk
7 5 (1.42%) VMware
8 4 (1.13%) Confluent
8 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.13%) 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%) Pega
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat