GitHub Actions Job Trends in England

GitHub Actions
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 453 532
Rank change year-on-year +51 +79 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 373 198 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.37% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 249 153 207
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

GitHub Actions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,884 14,437 23,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.14% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,831 10,276 17,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in England

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in England

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -12 141 £77,500 -1.59% 218
North of England +35 106 £65,000 -5.11% 78
South East +16 55 £62,500 -3.85% 46
Yorkshire +16 49 £65,000 -5.11% 24
North West +22 39 £65,500 -6.43% 43
Midlands -17 33 £65,000 -1.89% 18
South West -54 22 £58,750 -6.00% 13
East Midlands -9 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
North East -38 18 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -33 12 £65,000 -3.70% 16
East of England -28 6 £77,575 +14.93% 7
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (2.14%) Apache
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.61%) Confluence
3 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.54%) CICS
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.54%) nginx
4 2 (0.54%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 373 (100.00%) GitHub
2 229 (61.39%) AWS
3 220 (58.98%) Azure
4 118 (31.64%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (20.91%) GCP
6 72 (19.30%) Serverless
7 64 (17.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (14.48%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (12.87%) Amazon S3
10 42 (11.26%) Datadog
11 40 (10.72%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (10.72%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (6.97%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 21 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
14 21 (5.63%) Firebase
15 20 (5.36%) Power Platform
16 18 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (4.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.24%) Firewall
2 16 (4.29%) Network Security
3 15 (4.02%) DNS
3 15 (4.02%) VPN
4 13 (3.49%) DMARC
5 9 (2.41%) HTTP
6 6 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.34%) DSL
7 5 (1.34%) SAN
8 4 (1.07%) SSH
9 2 (0.54%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) SSL
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.31%) DynamoDB
1 31 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.77%) SQL Server
3 24 (6.43%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.90%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (4.02%) Delta Lake
8 13 (3.49%) Power BI
9 11 (2.95%) MySQL
10 7 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.88%) Tableau
11 6 (1.61%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.07%) Redis
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.80%) Big Data
14 3 (0.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 132 (35.39%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.18%) Git
3 58 (15.55%) GitLab
4 19 (5.09%) Crashlytics
5 17 (4.56%) JIRA
6 15 (4.02%) TeamCity
7 14 (3.75%) XCTest
8 10 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.68%) Postman
8 10 (2.68%) Selenium
9 7 (1.88%) Gradle
9 7 (1.88%) NUnit
9 7 (1.88%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.61%) fastlane
11 5 (1.34%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.34%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.34%) Gatling
11 5 (1.34%) JUnit
11 5 (1.34%) Snyk
12 4 (1.07%) Maven
General
1 128 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.94%) Finance
3 35 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.09%) Banking
6 19 (5.09%) Retail
7 12 (3.22%) Law
8 9 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.34%) Marketing
11 5 (1.34%) Military
12 4 (1.07%) Automotive
13 3 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.80%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.80%) Legal
14 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (26.81%) Senior
2 83 (22.25%) Developer
3 61 (16.35%) Platform Engineer
4 56 (15.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 42 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (9.38%) Lead
7 29 (7.77%) Senior Developer
8 27 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (6.43%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
11 21 (5.63%) Data Engineer
11 21 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 21 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.09%) Architect
12 19 (5.09%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (4.29%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 15 (4.02%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.11%) Node.js
2 54 (14.48%) React
3 48 (12.87%) .NET
4 39 (10.46%) CSS
4 39 (10.46%) RESTful
5 36 (9.65%) OAuth
6 35 (9.38%) REST
6 35 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 34 (9.12%) Spring
8 32 (8.58%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.77%) HTML
10 27 (7.24%) OAuth2
11 23 (6.17%) YAML
12 18 (4.83%) Vue
12 18 (4.83%) Web Services
13 17 (4.56%) .NET Framework
13 17 (4.56%) ASP.NET
14 16 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (4.02%) UIKit
16 14 (3.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 95 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.90%) Mobile App
3 17 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.02%) PKI
5 15 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.95%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.95%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.61%) CMDB
10 6 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.61%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.82%) Linux
2 19 (5.09%) Apple iOS
2 19 (5.09%) Windows
3 9 (2.41%) Android
3 9 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.07%) Unix
5 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Debian
6 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (94.37%) CI/CD
2 241 (64.61%) DevOps
3 194 (52.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (32.71%) Containerisation
5 96 (25.74%) Agile
6 89 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (22.79%) Observability
8 82 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (21.98%) Platform Engineering
9 77 (20.64%) AI
9 77 (20.64%) Test Automation
10 74 (19.84%) Software Engineering
11 63 (16.89%) Mentoring
12 62 (16.62%) Analytics
13 61 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 58 (15.55%) Clean Code
15 54 (14.48%) Cloud Security
16 53 (14.21%) Microservices
17 47 (12.60%) DevSecOps
17 47 (12.60%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 156 (41.82%) Python
2 70 (18.77%) Bash
3 68 (18.23%) Java
4 67 (17.96%) TypeScript
5 60 (16.09%) PowerShell
6 59 (15.82%) SQL
7 51 (13.67%) JavaScript
8 39 (10.46%) Kotlin
9 32 (8.58%) Go
10 30 (8.04%) C#
11 22 (5.90%) Bicep
12 16 (4.29%) Groovy
12 16 (4.29%) Swift
13 13 (3.49%) Scala
14 10 (2.68%) PHP
15 6 (1.61%) Rust
16 5 (1.34%) COBOL
16 5 (1.34%) JCL
17 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 50 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.53%) Degree
3 33 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.24%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.88%) OSCP
9 5 (1.34%) CISSP
9 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.80%) OCP
11 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.54%) CCSP
12 2 (0.54%) CISM
12 2 (0.54%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.12%) QA
2 23 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.09%) Accessibility
4 18 (4.83%) SOC 2
5 13 (3.49%) GRC
6 12 (3.22%) WCAG
7 9 (2.41%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.34%) GDPR
8 5 (1.34%) NIST
9 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 136 (36.46%) Docker
2 13 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 199 (53.35%) Terraform
2 140 (37.53%) Kubernetes
3 54 (14.48%) Grafana
4 45 (12.06%) Prometheus
5 44 (11.80%) Ansible
6 19 (5.09%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.49%) Cilium
8 11 (2.95%) Argo
9 9 (2.41%) Packer
10 4 (1.07%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.80%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.80%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) Istio
12 1 (0.27%) Kibana
12 1 (0.27%) linkerd
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) Puppet
12 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.63%) Databricks
3 20 (5.36%) VMware
4 17 (4.56%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.29%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.75%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.75%) Braze
7 13 (3.49%) New Relic
7 13 (3.49%) SendGrid
8 11 (2.95%) Google
9 8 (2.14%) OneLogin
10 6 (1.61%) Cisco
10 6 (1.61%) EMC
10 6 (1.61%) F5
10 6 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.34%) Splunk
12 4 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.80%) Broadcom
13 3 (0.80%) Oracle