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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 217 307
Rank change year-on-year +93 +90 +51
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 354 132 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 0.97% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.39% 2.33% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 97 54
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £426 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £799 £731
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 6,573 5,659 6,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.55% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,503 3,753 5,109
10th Percentile £346 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
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 93 47 78
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.77% +7.02%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.50 £62.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +22 39 £575 +6.24% 23
South London - 9 £500 -
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 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.41%) Confluence
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
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 6 (1.69%) 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%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 354 (100.00%) GitHub
2 180 (50.85%) AWS
3 177 (50.00%) Azure
4 101 (28.53%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (22.03%) Serverless
6 62 (17.51%) GCP
7 61 (17.23%) Amazon S3
8 59 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (14.97%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (10.73%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (8.47%) Azure AKS
15 30 (8.47%) Entra ID
16 28 (7.91%) Azure Key Vault
17 27 (7.63%) Power Platform
18 22 (6.21%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (5.65%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.78%) Firewall
2 17 (4.80%) Network Security
3 14 (3.95%) DNS
4 5 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (1.13%) HTTP
6 3 (0.85%) 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 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.80%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.67%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.67%) Power BI
7 11 (3.11%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.82%) MySQL
8 10 (2.82%) Redis
9 9 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.54%) Big Data
9 9 (2.54%) Flink
10 8 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.26%) Star Schema
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 106 (29.94%) Jenkins
2 59 (16.67%) Git
3 52 (14.69%) GitLab
4 19 (5.37%) JUnit
5 14 (3.95%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.95%) JIRA
6 12 (3.39%) CircleCI
6 12 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.11%) Postman
8 10 (2.82%) MLflow
9 9 (2.54%) Mockito
9 9 (2.54%) Selenium
10 7 (1.98%) JMeter
10 7 (1.98%) Maven
11 6 (1.69%) Gradle
12 5 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.41%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.13%) Snyk
13 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.13%) TestRail
General
1 66 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.38%) Finance
3 37 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.34%) Banking
5 20 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.54%) Front Office
7 9 (2.54%) Retail
8 6 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.13%) Military
10 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (20.62%) Developer
2 61 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (15.82%) Senior
4 40 (11.30%) Data Engineer
5 38 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 28 (7.91%) Lead
8 25 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.93%) Architect
10 21 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.08%) Site Engineer
12 16 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.24%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.67%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.82%) Kafka
2 53 (14.97%) React
3 49 (13.84%) Node.js
4 39 (11.02%) REST
5 38 (10.73%) .NET
6 31 (8.76%) Spring
7 30 (8.47%) RESTful
8 27 (7.63%) Spring Boot
9 26 (7.34%) AngularJS
10 25 (7.06%) CSS
11 23 (6.50%) OAuth
12 19 (5.37%) PySpark
13 17 (4.80%) Playwright
14 16 (4.52%) HTML
14 16 (4.52%) LangChain
15 15 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (3.95%) PyTorch
17 12 (3.39%) GraphQL
17 12 (3.39%) JSON
17 12 (3.39%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.24%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.13%) Replication
9 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.85%) Genomics
9 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.91%) Linux
2 12 (3.39%) VMS
3 6 (1.69%) Android
3 6 (1.69%) Windows
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (88.70%) CI/CD
2 217 (61.30%) DevOps
3 158 (44.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (27.40%) Agile
5 92 (25.99%) AI
6 90 (25.42%) Containerisation
7 88 (24.86%) Observability
8 59 (16.67%) Microservices
9 56 (15.82%) Analytics
10 54 (15.25%) Migration
10 54 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 52 (14.69%) Platform Engineering
12 50 (14.12%) Test Automation
13 48 (13.56%) Data Engineering
14 47 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (12.15%) Machine Learning
16 40 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
18 38 (10.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 162 (45.76%) Python
2 95 (26.84%) SQL
3 66 (18.64%) Java
4 61 (17.23%) TypeScript
5 57 (16.10%) JavaScript
6 43 (12.15%) C#
7 31 (8.76%) Bicep
8 25 (7.06%) Bash
9 24 (6.78%) PowerShell
10 21 (5.93%) Go
11 9 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (2.54%) Ruby
12 7 (1.98%) JSX
13 5 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.41%) Scala
14 3 (0.85%) Groovy
14 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.85%) XPath
15 2 (0.56%) Swift
16 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 91 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.52%) Azure Certification
3 16 (4.52%) Degree
4 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.54%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.06%) QA
2 24 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.26%) GDPR
4 8 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.98%) NIST
6 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.41%) WCAG
8 3 (0.85%) 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
1 127 (35.88%) Docker
2 15 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) etcd
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 195 (55.08%) Terraform
2 153 (43.22%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.32%) Ansible
4 30 (8.47%) Grafana
5 27 (7.63%) Argo
5 27 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.67%) Istio
7 8 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.41%) Kibana
9 3 (0.85%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.85%) Puppet
9 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.56%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 71 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.45%) Google
3 33 (9.32%) Databricks
4 27 (7.63%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.26%) New Relic
6 6 (1.69%) Oracle
7 5 (1.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.41%) 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 (0.56%) Qualys
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.28%) Pega
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat