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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 223 311
Rank change year-on-year +98 +88 +33
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 353 131 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 0.97% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.15% 2.33% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 98 58
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 £645 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £799 £735
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 6,858 5,626 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.54% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,692 3,778 5,007
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
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 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +15 42 £575 +6.24% 18
South London - 12 £500 - 2
West London -18 8 £650 +36.84% 6
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 24 (6.80%) 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
2 184 (52.12%) Azure
3 180 (50.99%) AWS
4 107 (30.31%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (22.38%) Serverless
6 61 (17.28%) GCP
7 60 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
8 55 (15.58%) Amazon S3
9 47 (13.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 41 (11.61%) Azure Monitor
11 39 (11.05%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (10.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (9.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (8.50%) Azure AKS
14 30 (8.50%) Entra ID
15 29 (8.22%) Azure Key Vault
16 26 (7.37%) Power Platform
17 24 (6.80%) AWS CodePipeline
18 22 (6.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.80%) Firewall
2 19 (5.38%) 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 37 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (5.95%) Data Lake
4 19 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.68%) Delta Lake
6 13 (3.68%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.68%) Power BI
7 12 (3.40%) Redis
8 11 (3.12%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (2.83%) Big Data
9 10 (2.83%) MySQL
10 9 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.55%) Flink
11 8 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 111 (31.44%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.58%) GitLab
3 50 (14.16%) 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%) Mockito
9 10 (2.83%) Postman
10 9 (2.55%) CircleCI
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%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.42%) TestRail
General
1 71 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.30%) Finance
3 38 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.37%) Banking
5 17 (4.82%) 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%) Organisational 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%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (19.83%) Developer
2 61 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (15.01%) Senior
4 39 (11.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 33 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (8.22%) Lead
7 24 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.52%) Architect
8 23 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Site Engineer
11 15 (4.25%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (3.97%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.68%) Java Developer
14 12 (3.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.15%) Kafka
2 53 (15.01%) React
3 45 (12.75%) Node.js
4 41 (11.61%) REST
5 39 (11.05%) .NET
6 32 (9.07%) Spring
7 28 (7.93%) AngularJS
7 28 (7.93%) RESTful
7 28 (7.93%) Spring Boot
8 25 (7.08%) CSS
9 24 (6.80%) OAuth
10 21 (5.95%) Playwright
11 19 (5.38%) PySpark
12 16 (4.53%) HTML
12 16 (4.53%) LangChain
13 15 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (3.97%) PyTorch
15 13 (3.68%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.68%) OAuth2
16 12 (3.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 73 (20.68%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.95%) 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%) Windows
4 4 (1.13%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (88.95%) CI/CD
2 222 (62.89%) DevOps
3 164 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (29.46%) Agile
5 90 (25.50%) Containerisation
6 89 (25.21%) Observability
7 81 (22.95%) AI
8 61 (17.28%) Microservices
9 60 (17.00%) Analytics
10 56 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (15.30%) Platform Engineering
12 53 (15.01%) Migration
12 53 (15.01%) Test Automation
13 52 (14.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 46 (13.03%) Data Engineering
15 43 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (11.61%) Machine Learning
17 40 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
18 35 (9.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (46.18%) Python
2 90 (25.50%) SQL
3 67 (18.98%) Java
4 60 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 58 (16.43%) TypeScript
6 47 (13.31%) C#
7 32 (9.07%) Bicep
8 27 (7.65%) Bash
8 27 (7.65%) PowerShell
9 21 (5.95%) Go
10 9 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.98%) JSX
11 7 (1.98%) Ruby
12 6 (1.70%) Scala
12 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.85%) Groovy
14 3 (0.85%) XPath
15 2 (0.57%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 91 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 81 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.82%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.97%) Degree
5 10 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.13%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
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 28 (7.93%) QA
2 17 (4.82%) 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
1 132 (37.39%) 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
1 201 (56.94%) Terraform
2 154 (43.63%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.07%) Ansible
4 28 (7.93%) Grafana
5 26 (7.37%) Argo
6 24 (6.80%) 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 73 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.92%) Google
3 34 (9.63%) 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