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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 241 319
Rank change year-on-year +127 +78 +49
Contract jobs citing GitHub Actions 353 127 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.47% 0.89% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.58% 2.16% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 92 55
10th Percentile £375 £413 £433
25th Percentile £431 £498 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
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 6,329 5,867 6,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.01% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 3,961 5,081
10th Percentile £344 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £20.88
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +30 44 £575 -8.55% 27
South London - 9 £500 - 4
West London -13 6 £650 +36.84% 4
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 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) Traefik
6 2 (0.57%) WebLogic
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 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 353 (100.00%) GitHub
2 194 (54.96%) AWS
3 187 (52.97%) Azure
4 99 (28.05%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (20.96%) Serverless
6 66 (18.70%) GCP
7 58 (16.43%) Amazon S3
8 57 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
11 38 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (8.22%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (8.22%) Azure AKS
14 28 (7.93%) Entra ID
15 27 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (7.65%) Azure Key Vault
16 26 (7.37%) Power Platform
17 23 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (5.10%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.08%) Firewall
2 17 (4.82%) DNS
3 15 (4.25%) Network Security
4 6 (1.70%) VPN
5 5 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.13%) HTTP
7 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.57%) Calico
8 2 (0.57%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.40%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.40%) Power BI
7 12 (3.40%) Redis
8 11 (3.12%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.55%) Flink
10 9 (2.55%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.98%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (1.98%) Big Data
13 6 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 101 (28.61%) Jenkins
2 64 (18.13%) Git
3 53 (15.01%) GitLab
4 20 (5.67%) CircleCI
5 19 (5.38%) JIRA
6 16 (4.53%) JUnit
7 14 (3.97%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.12%) Postman
8 11 (3.12%) Selenium
8 11 (3.12%) Snyk
9 10 (2.83%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.27%) JMeter
11 7 (1.98%) MLflow
12 6 (1.70%) Mockito
12 6 (1.70%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.42%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.13%) Maven
14 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
14 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (19.26%) Finance
2 56 (15.86%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.22%) Banking
5 19 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.55%) Front Office
8 8 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.27%) Retail
9 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.42%) Military
12 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Marketing
13 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.28%) Billing
14 1 (0.28%) Games
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
14 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (20.40%) Developer
2 60 (17.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (17.00%) Senior
3 38 (10.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 33 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 27 (7.65%) Lead
5 27 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.95%) Architect
9 19 (5.38%) Site Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.82%) Python Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (4.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.97%) Azure Developer
13 14 (3.97%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (16.43%) React
2 53 (15.01%) Node.js
3 48 (13.60%) Kafka
4 47 (13.31%) REST
5 37 (10.48%) .NET
6 29 (8.22%) RESTful
7 26 (7.37%) Spring
8 25 (7.08%) AngularJS
8 25 (7.08%) CSS
9 22 (6.23%) Spring Boot
10 21 (5.95%) OAuth
11 16 (4.53%) GraphQL
11 16 (4.53%) HTML
12 15 (4.25%) LangChain
12 15 (4.25%) Playwright
12 15 (4.25%) pytest
13 13 (3.68%) PyTorch
14 12 (3.40%) FastAPI
14 12 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (3.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.25%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (1.70%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.42%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.42%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.13%) Genomics
7 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.13%) Replication
8 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) Life Science
8 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.52%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) VMS
3 6 (1.70%) Android
4 4 (1.13%) Windows
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (88.67%) CI/CD
2 226 (64.02%) DevOps
3 165 (46.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (27.76%) Agile
5 94 (26.63%) AI
6 87 (24.65%) Containerisation
7 80 (22.66%) Observability
8 67 (18.98%) Microservices
9 60 (17.00%) Migration
10 59 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (16.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 51 (14.45%) Analytics
12 49 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (13.03%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (12.46%) Software Engineering
14 44 (12.46%) Test Automation
15 43 (12.18%) Data Engineering
16 42 (11.90%) Machine Learning
17 39 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (9.63%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 165 (46.74%) Python
2 82 (23.23%) SQL
3 68 (19.26%) TypeScript
4 64 (18.13%) Java
5 58 (16.43%) JavaScript
6 45 (12.75%) C#
7 32 (9.07%) Go
8 30 (8.50%) Bicep
9 27 (7.65%) PowerShell
10 26 (7.37%) Bash
11 12 (3.40%) Ruby
12 8 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.98%) JSX
14 5 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.85%) Groovy
16 3 (0.85%) XPath
17 2 (0.57%) Scala
18 1 (0.28%) PHP
18 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.95%) Degree
4 19 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) MCP
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
12 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.37%) QA
2 23 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.68%) NIST
5 11 (3.12%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.83%) GDPR
7 5 (1.42%) WCAG
8 4 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.85%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.57%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.57%) PSD2
10 2 (0.57%) SEPA
11 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (36.83%) Docker
2 21 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) etcd
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 197 (55.81%) Terraform
2 165 (46.74%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.92%) Grafana
4 33 (9.35%) Ansible
5 32 (9.07%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.37%) Argo
7 13 (3.68%) Istio
8 7 (1.98%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.42%) Kibana
10 4 (1.13%) Puppet
11 3 (0.85%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.57%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Consul
13 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 68 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.92%) Google
3 34 (9.63%) Databricks
4 28 (7.93%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.70%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.70%) Splunk
6 5 (1.42%) Oracle
6 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.42%) VMware
7 4 (1.13%) Confluent
7 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.13%) New Relic
7 4 (1.13%) SAP
8 3 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.57%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.57%) Foundry
9 2 (0.57%) Qualys
9 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.28%) Solace