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 citing GitHub Actions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 137 272
Rank change year-on-year +10 +135 +85
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 497 272 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.43% 2.03% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.91% 4.63% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 181 78
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -5.95%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £800 £728
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% - -
75th Percentile £55.50 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £105.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 citing cloud computing skills in London.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 8,411 5,874 6,545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 41.11% 43.91% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,824 3,980 4,475
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -0.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £768 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 105 38
10th Percentile £18.83 £20.08 £23.26
25th Percentile £22.12 £24.00 £23.89
Median hourly rate £29.28 £26.30 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% -22.07% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58.31 £46.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.50 £69.08
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +27.27%

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 23 October 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 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 23 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 51 £568 -5.36% 46
South London +9 18 £468 -1.58%
West London - 6 £649 - 13
East London - 1 - - 3
North London - 1 £650 -
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1GitHub100.0%497
2Azure56.9%283
3AWS52.1%259
4Azure DevOps35.6%177
5GCP17.3%86
6Amazon EKS16.5%82
7Serverless15.7%78
8Amazon S315.3%76
9AWS Lambda12.1%60
10Amazon CloudWatch10.5%52
11Azure Monitor9.5%47
12Entra ID9.3%46
13Azure AKS8.5%42
14AWS CloudFormation8.0%40
14Snowflake8.0%40
16Amazon EC27.8%39
17Amazon ECS6.8%34
18Power Platform6.6%33
19Azure Key Vault5.6%28
19Datadog5.6%28