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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 227 317
Rank change year-on-year +111 +90 +55
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 345 130 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.46% 0.93% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 2.27% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 95 56
10th Percentile £375 £413 £438
25th Percentile £431 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £670 £663 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -10.20%
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 6,210 5,718 6,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.22% 41.07% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,242 3,835 5,041
10th Percentile £348 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £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 98 43 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.40 £30.59 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% -13.38% +38.91%
75th Percentile £55.44 £44.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 42 £600 +10.85% 16
South London - 9 £500 - 7
West London -15 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 25 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.90%) Confluence
4 7 (2.03%) Apache Spark
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 6 (1.74%) 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
1 345 (100.00%) GitHub
2 188 (54.49%) AWS
3 181 (52.46%) Azure
4 96 (27.83%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (22.32%) Serverless
6 64 (18.55%) GCP
7 61 (17.68%) Amazon S3
8 60 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (12.46%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (11.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (10.14%) Azure Monitor
13 31 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (8.70%) Azure AKS
15 28 (8.12%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (8.12%) Entra ID
16 27 (7.83%) Power Platform
17 26 (7.54%) Azure Key Vault
18 24 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (5.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.96%) Firewall
2 17 (4.93%) DNS
3 15 (4.35%) Network Security
4 6 (1.74%) VPN
5 5 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.16%) HTTP
7 3 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.58%) Calico
8 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.29%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.06%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.77%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.77%) Power BI
8 12 (3.48%) Redis
9 10 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.90%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.90%) Delta Lake
10 9 (2.61%) Flink
10 9 (2.61%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.03%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (2.03%) Big Data
12 7 (2.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 99 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 62 (17.97%) Git
3 53 (15.36%) GitLab
4 19 (5.51%) JIRA
5 18 (5.22%) CircleCI
6 15 (4.35%) JUnit
7 12 (3.48%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.19%) Snyk
9 9 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.61%) Postman
9 9 (2.61%) Selenium
10 7 (2.03%) JMeter
10 7 (2.03%) MLflow
11 6 (1.74%) Mockito
11 6 (1.74%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.45%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.16%) Maven
13 4 (1.16%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (19.71%) Finance
2 56 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.41%) Banking
5 17 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.61%) Front Office
8 8 (2.32%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.32%) Retail
9 7 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.45%) Military
12 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Billing
14 1 (0.29%) Games
14 1 (0.29%) Legal
14 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.87%) Developer
2 60 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (16.52%) Senior
4 38 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (10.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 34 (9.86%) Data Engineer
7 26 (7.54%) Lead
8 25 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (5.22%) Architect
11 18 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.22%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.64%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (4.06%) Azure Developer
14 14 (4.06%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.52%) React
2 52 (15.07%) Node.js
3 51 (14.78%) Kafka
4 45 (13.04%) REST
5 37 (10.72%) .NET
6 28 (8.12%) RESTful
7 27 (7.83%) Spring
8 25 (7.25%) AngularJS
8 25 (7.25%) CSS
9 23 (6.67%) Spring Boot
10 22 (6.38%) OAuth
11 16 (4.64%) HTML
12 15 (4.35%) LangChain
12 15 (4.35%) pytest
13 14 (4.06%) GraphQL
13 14 (4.06%) Playwright
13 14 (4.06%) PySpark
13 14 (4.06%) PyTorch
14 13 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (3.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.32%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.74%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.45%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.45%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) Genomics
8 4 (1.16%) Replication
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.87%) Life Science
9 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.58%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.96%) Linux
2 12 (3.48%) VMS
3 6 (1.74%) Android
4 4 (1.16%) Windows
5 2 (0.58%) 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
1 307 (88.99%) CI/CD
2 221 (64.06%) DevOps
3 157 (45.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (27.83%) Agile
5 91 (26.38%) AI
6 85 (24.64%) Containerisation
7 80 (23.19%) Observability
8 66 (19.13%) Microservices
9 60 (17.39%) Migration
10 56 (16.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 55 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (14.78%) Analytics
13 48 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
14 46 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (12.46%) Software Engineering
16 42 (12.17%) Test Automation
17 41 (11.88%) Data Engineering
17 41 (11.88%) Machine Learning
18 38 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 34 (9.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 163 (47.25%) Python
2 82 (23.77%) SQL
3 64 (18.55%) TypeScript
4 60 (17.39%) Java
5 57 (16.52%) JavaScript
6 45 (13.04%) C#
7 28 (8.12%) Bicep
7 28 (8.12%) Go
8 26 (7.54%) Bash
9 25 (7.25%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.48%) Ruby
11 8 (2.32%) 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%) XPath
16 2 (0.58%) Scala
17 1 (0.29%) PHP
17 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 81 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.51%) Degree
4 17 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
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 26 (7.54%) QA
2 24 (6.96%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.48%) NIST
5 10 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.32%) GDPR
7 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.87%) EU AI Act
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
1 129 (37.39%) Docker
2 21 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) etcd
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 191 (55.36%) Terraform
2 161 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.57%) Ansible
3 33 (9.57%) Grafana
4 30 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 26 (7.54%) Argo
6 13 (3.77%) Istio
7 7 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.45%) Kibana
9 4 (1.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.87%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.58%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 65 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.14%) Google
3 33 (9.57%) Databricks
4 26 (7.54%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.74%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.74%) Splunk
6 5 (1.45%) New Relic
6 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
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%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.58%) Foundry
9 2 (0.58%) Qualys
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.29%) CyberArk