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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 228 316
Rank change year-on-year +111 +88 +41
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 356 133 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 0.96% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.43% 2.31% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 99 56
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £419 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £650
90th Percentile £727 £799 £729
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -10.33%
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 6,561 5,763 6,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 41.49% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,496 3,834 5,082
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £451 £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 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.97 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +1.53% +5.17%
75th Percentile £54.88 £54.25 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.63 £63.00
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.31% +19.57% -6.12%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +25 42 £575 +6.24% 24
South London - 9 £500 - 4
West London -17 7 £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 28 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.40%) Confluence
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 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
1 356 (100.00%) GitHub
2 183 (51.40%) AWS
3 178 (50.00%) Azure
4 101 (28.37%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (21.91%) Serverless
6 64 (17.98%) GCP
7 62 (17.42%) Amazon S3
8 59 (16.57%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (15.17%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (10.39%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (10.39%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (8.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (8.71%) Azure AKS
15 29 (8.15%) Entra ID
16 28 (7.87%) Power Platform
17 27 (7.58%) Azure Key Vault
18 21 (5.90%) Azure Service Bus
18 21 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.74%) Firewall
2 17 (4.78%) Network Security
3 14 (3.93%) DNS
4 5 (1.40%) VPN
5 4 (1.12%) HTTP
6 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.56%) Calico
7 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.78%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.93%) DynamoDB
5 14 (3.93%) Power BI
6 13 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.09%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.81%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.81%) MySQL
8 10 (2.81%) Redis
9 9 (2.53%) Flink
9 9 (2.53%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 106 (29.78%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.85%) Git
3 52 (14.61%) GitLab
4 19 (5.34%) JUnit
5 14 (3.93%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.93%) JIRA
6 12 (3.37%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.09%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.81%) MLflow
8 10 (2.81%) Postman
9 9 (2.53%) Mockito
9 9 (2.53%) Selenium
10 7 (1.97%) JMeter
10 7 (1.97%) Maven
10 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.69%) Gradle
12 5 (1.40%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.12%) Snyk
13 4 (1.12%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.13%) Finance
3 36 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.30%) Banking
5 20 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.53%) Front Office
7 9 (2.53%) Retail
8 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.12%) Military
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.28%) Games
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
14 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.22%) Developer
2 62 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (15.73%) Senior
4 40 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (11.24%) Data Engineer
5 34 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 27 (7.58%) Lead
7 26 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.90%) Architect
11 18 (5.06%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (3.93%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.93%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.65%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.73%) Kafka
2 53 (14.89%) React
3 49 (13.76%) Node.js
4 38 (10.67%) REST
5 37 (10.39%) .NET
6 31 (8.71%) Spring
7 30 (8.43%) RESTful
8 27 (7.58%) Spring Boot
9 26 (7.30%) AngularJS
10 25 (7.02%) CSS
11 23 (6.46%) OAuth
12 18 (5.06%) PySpark
13 16 (4.49%) HTML
13 16 (4.49%) LangChain
13 16 (4.49%) Playwright
14 15 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (3.93%) PyTorch
16 12 (3.37%) FastAPI
16 12 (3.37%) GraphQL
16 12 (3.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 75 (21.07%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.21%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.12%) Genomics
8 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.12%) Replication
9 3 (0.84%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.84%) Life Science
9 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.58%) Linux
2 12 (3.37%) VMS
3 6 (1.69%) Android
3 6 (1.69%) Windows
4 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (88.76%) CI/CD
2 219 (61.52%) DevOps
3 159 (44.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (26.69%) Agile
5 93 (26.12%) AI
6 92 (25.84%) Containerisation
7 86 (24.16%) Observability
8 59 (16.57%) Microservices
9 56 (15.73%) Analytics
9 56 (15.73%) Migration
10 55 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
12 50 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
13 48 (13.48%) Data Engineering
13 48 (13.48%) Test Automation
14 44 (12.36%) Machine Learning
15 40 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (11.24%) Software Engineering
16 38 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 162 (45.51%) Python
2 94 (26.40%) SQL
3 65 (18.26%) Java
4 61 (17.13%) TypeScript
5 57 (16.01%) JavaScript
6 43 (12.08%) C#
7 31 (8.71%) Bicep
8 23 (6.46%) Bash
8 23 (6.46%) PowerShell
9 20 (5.62%) Go
10 9 (2.53%) Ruby
11 8 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.97%) JSX
13 5 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.12%) Scala
15 3 (0.84%) Groovy
15 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.84%) XPath
16 2 (0.56%) Swift
17 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 91 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.78%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.78%) Degree
4 11 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.56%) 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 26 (7.30%) QA
2 25 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.25%) GDPR
4 8 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.97%) NIST
6 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.40%) WCAG
8 3 (0.84%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.56%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.56%) PSD2
9 2 (0.56%) SEPA
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (36.24%) Docker
2 15 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) etcd
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 196 (55.06%) Terraform
2 155 (43.54%) Kubernetes
3 34 (9.55%) Ansible
4 30 (8.43%) Grafana
5 27 (7.58%) Argo
6 26 (7.30%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.93%) Istio
8 8 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.12%) Kibana
9 4 (1.12%) Puppet
10 3 (0.84%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 72 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.67%) Google
3 35 (9.83%) Databricks
4 27 (7.58%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.25%) New Relic
6 5 (1.40%) Oracle
6 5 (1.40%) Splunk
6 5 (1.40%) VMware
7 4 (1.12%) Confluent
7 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.12%) SAP
7 4 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.84%) Adobe
8 3 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.84%) Foundry
8 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.56%) Qualys
10 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Intel