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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 650 610 542
Rank change year-on-year -40 -68 +254
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 247 399 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.88% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 189 237 224
10th Percentile £43,250 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £80,000 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,236 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,447 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.78% -17.86%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 16 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 27 April 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 -20 217 £65,000 -18.75% 93
UK excluding London -51 136 £62,500 -10.00% 38
Work from Home +14 118 £65,000 -18.75% 43
London +63 81 £75,000 -11.76% 50
North of England -25 50 £65,000 -13.33% 19
Midlands +33 30 £60,000 - 3
North West -11 27 £65,000 -23.53% 6
West Midlands +45 24 £60,000 -
South West +6 23 £65,000 -6.40% 6
Yorkshire +39 22 £68,000 -2.08% 12
South East +22 20 £70,000 +7.69% 6
East of England +11 10 £65,000 +30.00% 3
East Midlands - 5 £46,250 - 3
Scotland -79 2 £94,637 +36.27%
North East -2 1 £55,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

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 29 (11.74%) Apache
2 16 (6.48%) Apache Spark
3 14 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (4.86%) nginx
5 9 (3.64%) Confluence
6 6 (2.43%) IIS
7 4 (1.62%) CMS
7 4 (1.62%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.40%) Drupal
8 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.62%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 247 (100.00%) GitHub
2 143 (57.89%) AWS
3 127 (51.42%) Azure
4 91 (36.84%) GCP
5 39 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (11.34%) Serverless
7 25 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (8.50%) PaaS
9 18 (7.29%) SaaS
10 15 (6.07%) IaaS
11 13 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (4.05%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.64%) Datadog
15 9 (3.64%) npm
15 9 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.24%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.24%) Vertex AI
17 7 (2.83%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.67%) DNS
2 13 (5.26%) Firewall
3 6 (2.43%) Reverse Proxy
3 6 (2.43%) VPN
4 5 (2.02%) MQTT
5 2 (0.81%) SSL
5 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (14.17%) MySQL
3 26 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 21 (8.50%) Redis
5 18 (7.29%) Big Data
5 18 (7.29%) BigQuery
6 16 (6.48%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.26%) Looker
8 13 (5.26%) Tableau
9 11 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 11 (4.45%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.64%) Power BI
12 8 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.24%) Apache Hive
12 8 (3.24%) Bigtable
12 8 (3.24%) Flink
12 8 (3.24%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.24%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 61 (24.70%) Jenkins
2 57 (23.08%) Git
3 48 (19.43%) CircleCI
4 46 (18.62%) GitLab
5 25 (10.12%) JIRA
6 20 (8.10%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.05%) Selenium
8 9 (3.64%) git-flow
8 9 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (3.24%) CMake
10 7 (2.83%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.83%) PHPUnit
11 6 (2.43%) Maven
11 6 (2.43%) Postman
12 4 (1.62%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.62%) JMeter
12 4 (1.62%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.81%) Mocha
General
1 56 (22.67%) Finance
2 48 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 31 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (11.74%) Retail
6 26 (10.53%) Banking
7 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (7.29%) Marketing
9 16 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (5.67%) Legal
11 8 (3.24%) Retail Banking
12 6 (2.43%) Electronics
12 6 (2.43%) Games
12 6 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.21%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.40%) Automotive
16 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (32.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (28.34%) Developer
3 57 (23.08%) Senior
4 26 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 24 (9.72%) Lead
6 21 (8.50%) Full Stack Developer
7 20 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.10%) Software Developer
8 19 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 19 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (6.48%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.07%) Data Engineer
12 14 (5.67%) C# Developer
13 11 (4.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.45%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (4.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (3.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.60%) React
2 33 (13.36%) Node.js
3 31 (12.55%) .NET
3 31 (12.55%) Kafka
4 22 (8.91%) HTML
5 20 (8.10%) .NET Core
6 19 (7.69%) CSS
7 17 (6.88%) Vue
8 16 (6.48%) RESTful
9 14 (5.67%) JSON
9 14 (5.67%) REST
10 13 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.26%) HTML5
10 13 (5.26%) Laravel
11 12 (4.86%) PySpark
12 11 (4.45%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (4.05%) Django
13 10 (4.05%) Next.js
14 9 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.36%) Public Cloud
2 29 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.31%) Onboarding
4 16 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 16 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.86%) IoT
6 11 (4.45%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.64%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.24%) Distributed Applications
8 8 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.02%) Replication
10 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.21%) Tandem
11 2 (0.81%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.10%) Linux
2 19 (7.69%) Windows
3 9 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.83%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.62%) VMS
6 4 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 143 (57.89%) DevOps
3 111 (44.94%) Agile
4 94 (38.06%) Software Engineering
5 89 (36.03%) Containerisation
6 84 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (21.86%) Test Automation
8 51 (20.65%) Deployment Automation
9 47 (19.03%) Mentoring
10 41 (16.60%) Continuous Integration
11 39 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (13.36%) Full Stack Development
12 33 (13.36%) TDD
13 31 (12.55%) Analytics
14 30 (12.15%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (11.74%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.74%) SDLC
16 26 (10.53%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 81 (32.79%) Python
2 54 (21.86%) Go
3 40 (16.19%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.57%) Java
5 34 (13.77%) C#
6 29 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 28 (11.34%) Bash
8 27 (10.93%) SQL
9 24 (9.72%) PowerShell
10 22 (8.91%) Ruby
11 14 (5.67%) PHP
12 12 (4.86%) Shell Script
13 10 (4.05%) Scala
14 8 (3.24%) Bicep
15 5 (2.02%) Ada
15 5 (2.02%) C
15 5 (2.02%) JSX
15 5 (2.02%) R
15 5 (2.02%) Rust
16 3 (1.21%) Dart
Qualifications
1 34 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.93%) Degree
3 26 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.21%) ISEB
8 3 (1.21%) ISEB Practitioner
8 3 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.26%) NCSC
2 12 (4.86%) GDPR
3 11 (4.45%) QA
4 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (41.70%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.24%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 134 (54.25%) Terraform
2 110 (44.53%) Kubernetes
3 52 (21.05%) Ansible
4 17 (6.88%) Progress Chef
5 12 (4.86%) Grafana
6 10 (4.05%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.64%) Puppet
8 7 (2.83%) Argo
9 6 (2.43%) Kibana
10 4 (1.62%) Istio
11 2 (0.81%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.40%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) Packer
12 1 (0.40%) Podman
12 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (10.93%) Google
2 20 (8.10%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.26%) Databricks
4 10 (4.05%) Splunk
5 8 (3.24%) Cloudera
5 8 (3.24%) McAfee
6 6 (2.43%) SAP
7 5 (2.02%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (2.02%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.62%) New Relic
9 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.81%) Twitter
11 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.40%) Thales
11 1 (0.40%) UiPath