GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 625 508
Rank change year-on-year -40 -117 +253
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 255 356 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.85% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 200 222 225
10th Percentile £44,875 £53,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £117,236 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +20.78% -23.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Salary trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -13 228 £65,000 -21.21% 84
UK excluding London -55 152 £65,000 -6.40% 36
Work from Home -4 108 £65,000 -23.53% 39
London +99 76 £75,000 -11.76% 46
North of England +4 64 £65,000 -25.06% 12
Yorkshire +42 35 £68,000 -19.10% 7
Midlands +22 32 £60,000 - 5
North West 0 29 £65,000 -27.17% 5
West Midlands +31 26 £60,000 - 4
South West -17 23 £67,500 -2.80% 5
South East -7 19 £70,000 +7.69% 5
East of England -8 10 £65,000 +30.00% 4
East Midlands - 5 £46,250 - 1
Scotland -77 3 £94,637 +64.59% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 - 1

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.45%) Apache
2 13 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.31%) nginx
4 8 (3.14%) Confluence
5 7 (2.75%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.35%) IIS
7 4 (1.57%) CMS
7 4 (1.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 255 (100.00%) GitHub
2 152 (59.61%) AWS
3 126 (49.41%) Azure
4 84 (32.94%) GCP
5 36 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.59%) Serverless
7 24 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (8.24%) PaaS
9 20 (7.84%) SaaS
10 15 (5.88%) IaaS
11 12 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.71%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.92%) Datadog
12 10 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.53%) npm
14 8 (3.14%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.75%) Yarn
16 6 (2.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) DNS
2 12 (4.71%) Firewall
3 6 (2.35%) VPN
4 5 (1.96%) MQTT
4 5 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.55%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.76%) MySQL
3 23 (9.02%) Redis
4 17 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.31%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.92%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.53%) Big Data
9 8 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.14%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.75%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.75%) Flink
10 7 (2.75%) GIS
10 7 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.75%) Parquet
11 6 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.35%) Looker
11 6 (2.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (23.92%) CircleCI
2 49 (19.22%) Git
3 43 (16.86%) Jenkins
4 38 (14.90%) GitLab
5 24 (9.41%) JIRA
6 15 (5.88%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.14%) CMake
7 8 (3.14%) Selenium
8 7 (2.75%) PHPUnit
9 5 (1.96%) git-flow
9 5 (1.96%) Postman
9 5 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.57%) Maven
10 4 (1.57%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.18%) JMeter
11 3 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.18%) Storybook
12 2 (0.78%) ESLint
General
1 60 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 46 (18.04%) Finance
4 34 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (10.59%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (8.24%) Retail
7 20 (7.84%) Marketing
8 15 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (5.88%) Banking
8 15 (5.88%) Legal
9 7 (2.75%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.35%) Electronics
10 6 (2.35%) Games
10 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.18%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 81 (31.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (29.80%) Developer
3 64 (25.10%) Senior
4 33 (12.94%) Lead
5 29 (11.37%) Senior Developer
6 26 (10.20%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.02%) Software Developer
8 21 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
9 20 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
9 20 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) C# Developer
11 15 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (5.88%) Data Engineer
11 15 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
11 15 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.49%) C# Software Developer
13 13 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (4.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.00%) React
2 36 (14.12%) .NET
3 35 (13.73%) Node.js
4 25 (9.80%) RESTful
5 24 (9.41%) HTML
6 23 (9.02%) .NET Core
7 22 (8.63%) Kafka
8 21 (8.24%) CSS
9 20 (7.84%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.67%) Vue
11 15 (5.88%) HTML5
11 15 (5.88%) Laravel
12 14 (5.49%) JSON
13 12 (4.71%) Django
13 12 (4.71%) REST
14 11 (4.31%) Flask
14 11 (4.31%) PySpark
14 11 (4.31%) Ruby on Rails
15 10 (3.92%) Next.js
16 9 (3.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.43%) Public Cloud
2 43 (16.86%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.71%) IoT
6 10 (3.92%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.53%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.75%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.35%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.96%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.96%) Replication
11 3 (1.18%) Tandem
12 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
13 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.14%) Linux
2 19 (7.45%) Windows
3 9 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.75%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.57%) VMS
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.78%) Debian
8 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (67.45%) CI/CD
2 146 (57.25%) DevOps
3 104 (40.78%) Agile
4 99 (38.82%) Containerisation
5 98 (38.43%) Software Engineering
6 87 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 61 (23.92%) Deployment Automation
8 57 (22.35%) Test Automation
9 55 (21.57%) Mentoring
10 42 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
11 40 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.94%) TDD
13 32 (12.55%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (12.55%) Microservices
13 32 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.59%) Computer Science
15 27 (10.59%) SDLC
16 25 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
16 25 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 84 (32.94%) Python
2 49 (19.22%) Go
3 43 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 37 (14.51%) C#
5 32 (12.55%) TypeScript
6 31 (12.16%) Java
7 28 (10.98%) SQL
8 26 (10.20%) Bash
9 24 (9.41%) PowerShell
10 18 (7.06%) Ruby
11 15 (5.88%) PHP
12 8 (3.14%) Bicep
12 8 (3.14%) Scala
12 8 (3.14%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.35%) R
14 5 (1.96%) Ada
14 5 (1.96%) C
14 5 (1.96%) JSX
15 3 (1.18%) Dart
16 2 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.98%) Degree
3 23 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.57%) ISEB
6 4 (1.57%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.10%) NCSC
2 12 (4.71%) GDPR
3 11 (4.31%) QA
4 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 113 (44.31%) Docker
2 7 (2.75%) HDFS
3 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 134 (52.55%) Terraform
2 120 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 46 (18.04%) Ansible
4 12 (4.71%) Grafana
5 11 (4.31%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.14%) Puppet
8 6 (2.35%) Argo
8 6 (2.35%) Kibana
9 4 (1.57%) Istio
10 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Packer
11 1 (0.39%) Podman
11 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.88%) Google
3 12 (4.71%) Databricks
4 9 (3.53%) Splunk
5 7 (2.75%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.35%) SAP
7 5 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.96%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.57%) McAfee
9 3 (1.18%) New Relic
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) Twitter
11 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.39%) Thales
11 1 (0.39%) UiPath
11 1 (0.39%) VMware