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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 655 634 517
Rank change year-on-year -21 -117 +254
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 262 354 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.84% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 206 218 225
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,381 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £79,632 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +22.51% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £117,236 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +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 35,937 42,041 80,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.80% 43.27% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,911 27,490 41,315
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 £96,000 £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 29 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 29 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 -16 235 £65,000 -18.75% 80
UK excluding London -46 158 £60,000 -13.60% 35
Work from Home -9 111 £65,000 -18.75% 38
London +56 77 £75,000 -11.76% 44
North of England -8 66 £65,000 -23.53% 10
Yorkshire +45 37 £68,000 -8.77% 7
Midlands +13 33 £60,000 - 5
North West -7 29 £65,000 -23.53% 3
West Midlands +22 27 £60,000 - 4
South West -8 24 £67,500 -2.80% 5
South East -13 20 £70,000 +7.69% 5
East of England -6 11 £65,000 +30.00% 4
East Midlands - 5 £46,250 - 1
Scotland -82 3 £94,637 +64.59% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 - 2

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 (7.25%) Apache
2 13 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.20%) nginx
4 9 (3.44%) Confluence
5 7 (2.67%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.29%) IIS
7 4 (1.53%) CMS
7 4 (1.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (100.00%) GitHub
2 155 (59.16%) AWS
3 128 (48.85%) Azure
4 85 (32.44%) GCP
5 37 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.31%) Serverless
7 24 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.40%) PaaS
9 21 (8.02%) SaaS
10 16 (6.11%) IaaS
11 13 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.58%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.82%) Datadog
13 10 (3.82%) npm
13 10 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.05%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.67%) Yarn
17 6 (2.29%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.73%) DNS
2 12 (4.58%) Firewall
3 6 (2.29%) VPN
4 5 (1.91%) MQTT
4 5 (1.91%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.76%) SSL
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.60%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.45%) MySQL
3 23 (8.78%) Redis
4 18 (6.87%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.82%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.44%) Big Data
9 8 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.05%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.67%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.67%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.67%) Flink
10 7 (2.67%) GIS
10 7 (2.67%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.67%) Parquet
11 6 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.29%) Looker
11 6 (2.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (24.05%) CircleCI
2 51 (19.47%) Git
3 45 (17.18%) Jenkins
4 40 (15.27%) GitLab
5 25 (9.54%) JIRA
6 16 (6.11%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.05%) CMake
7 8 (3.05%) Selenium
8 7 (2.67%) PHPUnit
9 5 (1.91%) git-flow
9 5 (1.91%) Postman
9 5 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.53%) Maven
10 4 (1.53%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.15%) JMeter
11 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.15%) Storybook
12 2 (0.76%) Mocha
General
1 61 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.14%) Public Sector
3 47 (17.94%) Finance
4 34 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (10.69%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (8.02%) Retail
7 20 (7.63%) Marketing
8 17 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (5.73%) Banking
9 15 (5.73%) Legal
10 7 (2.67%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.29%) Electronics
11 6 (2.29%) Games
11 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.15%) Law
12 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.38%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 84 (32.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (30.15%) Developer
3 65 (24.81%) Senior
4 33 (12.60%) Lead
5 29 (11.07%) Senior Developer
6 26 (9.92%) Software Engineer
7 24 (9.16%) Software Developer
8 21 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (8.02%) Full Stack Developer
8 21 (8.02%) Senior DevOps
8 21 (8.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.87%) C# Developer
10 17 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (5.73%) C# Software Developer
11 15 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (5.73%) Data Engineer
11 15 (5.73%) Lead DevOps
11 15 (5.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.23%) React
2 37 (14.12%) .NET
3 35 (13.36%) Node.js
4 27 (10.31%) RESTful
5 24 (9.16%) .NET Core
5 24 (9.16%) HTML
6 22 (8.40%) Kafka
7 21 (8.02%) AngularJS
7 21 (8.02%) CSS
8 17 (6.49%) Vue
9 15 (5.73%) HTML5
9 15 (5.73%) JSON
9 15 (5.73%) Laravel
10 13 (4.96%) REST
11 12 (4.58%) Django
12 11 (4.20%) Flask
12 11 (4.20%) PySpark
12 11 (4.20%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (3.82%) Azure Blueprints
13 10 (3.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.70%) Public Cloud
2 45 (17.18%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.02%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.34%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.58%) IoT
6 10 (3.82%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.44%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.44%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.67%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.29%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.91%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.91%) Replication
11 3 (1.15%) Tandem
12 2 (0.76%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.90%) Linux
2 19 (7.25%) Windows
3 9 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.67%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.53%) VMS
6 4 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.76%) Debian
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (67.18%) CI/CD
2 149 (56.87%) DevOps
3 105 (40.08%) Agile
4 103 (39.31%) Containerisation
5 101 (38.55%) Software Engineering
6 89 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (24.81%) Deployment Automation
8 60 (22.90%) Test Automation
9 58 (22.14%) Mentoring
10 43 (16.41%) Full Stack Development
10 43 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (12.60%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (12.60%) Microservices
11 33 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (12.60%) TDD
12 28 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.69%) Open Source
13 27 (10.31%) Computer Science
13 27 (10.31%) SDLC
14 26 (9.92%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 86 (32.82%) Python
2 50 (19.08%) Go
3 44 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 38 (14.50%) C#
5 33 (12.60%) TypeScript
6 31 (11.83%) Java
7 28 (10.69%) SQL
8 26 (9.92%) Bash
9 24 (9.16%) PowerShell
10 18 (6.87%) Ruby
11 15 (5.73%) PHP
12 8 (3.05%) Bicep
12 8 (3.05%) Scala
12 8 (3.05%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.29%) R
14 5 (1.91%) Ada
14 5 (1.91%) C
14 5 (1.91%) JSX
15 3 (1.15%) Dart
16 2 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.69%) Degree
3 24 (9.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.53%) ISEB
6 4 (1.53%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.34%) NCSC
2 12 (4.58%) GDPR
3 11 (4.20%) QA
4 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (45.04%) Docker
2 7 (2.67%) HDFS
3 4 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 137 (52.29%) Terraform
2 125 (47.71%) Kubernetes
3 47 (17.94%) Ansible
4 12 (4.58%) Grafana
5 11 (4.20%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.05%) Puppet
8 6 (2.29%) Argo
8 6 (2.29%) Kibana
9 4 (1.53%) Istio
10 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.73%) Google
3 12 (4.58%) Databricks
4 9 (3.44%) Splunk
5 7 (2.67%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.29%) SAP
7 5 (1.91%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (1.91%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.53%) McAfee
9 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.15%) New Relic
10 2 (0.76%) Twitter
11 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.38%) Thales
11 1 (0.38%) UiPath
11 1 (0.38%) VMware