GitHub Actions Job Trends in London

GitHub Actions
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 337 364
Rank change year-on-year +90 +27 +151
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 82 113
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 1.22% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 47 81
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,200 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £139,000 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +3.57% -12.10% +3.08%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,132 6,744 9,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.59% 44.81% 45.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,971 4,317 8,105
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,598 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in London

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in London

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Central London +8 13 £55,000 -38.89% 12
South London - 1 - - 1
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 8 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Appian
3 3 (2.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.45%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.17%) Shopify
2 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) GitHub
2 73 (52.90%) AWS
3 64 (46.38%) Azure
4 51 (36.96%) GCP
5 37 (26.81%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (21.74%) Datadog
7 28 (20.29%) Serverless
8 23 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (13.77%) Azure AKS
11 18 (13.04%) Cloud Run
12 16 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (11.59%) Google Compute Engine
13 14 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (10.14%) Cloud Functions
13 14 (10.14%) Entra ID
14 12 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (7.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) Firewall
2 13 (9.42%) Network Security
2 13 (9.42%) VPN
3 12 (8.70%) WAN
4 8 (5.80%) DSL
5 4 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.45%) DNS
7 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.32%) BigQuery
2 11 (7.97%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.25%) Flink
4 6 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.35%) Pinecone
4 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Metadata
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (44.93%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.67%) Git
3 20 (14.49%) GitLab
4 10 (7.25%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.45%) Deequ
6 2 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.72%) CMake
7 1 (0.72%) JIRA
7 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 45 (32.61%) Finance
2 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.94%) Banking
4 12 (8.70%) Front Office
5 11 (7.97%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.80%) Retail
7 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.35%) Electronics
8 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (2.90%) Back Office
9 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.17%) Military
11 2 (1.45%) Advertising
11 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.45%) Law
11 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (21.01%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.67%) Developer
4 21 (15.22%) Senior
5 18 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.14%) GCP DevOps
7 14 (10.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.14%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (9.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Architect
10 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) AWS Architect
11 8 (5.80%) AWS Security Architect
11 8 (5.80%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.29%) React
2 27 (19.57%) Node.js
3 15 (10.87%) CSS
3 15 (10.87%) HTML
3 15 (10.87%) Kafka
4 13 (9.42%) YAML
5 12 (8.70%) ADO
5 12 (8.70%) OAuth
5 12 (8.70%) REST
5 12 (8.70%) SAML
6 10 (7.25%) AWS CDK
7 9 (6.52%) .NET
7 9 (6.52%) GraphQL
8 7 (5.07%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.35%) Django
9 6 (4.35%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.62%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.90%) RESTful
11 4 (2.90%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.97%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.90%) Blog
6 4 (2.90%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.90%) PKI
7 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.45%) Derivative
8 2 (1.45%) Genomics
9 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.72%) Robotics
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.77%) Linux
2 12 (8.70%) VMS
3 8 (5.80%) Windows
4 5 (3.62%) Unix
5 3 (2.17%) SUSE
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 89 (64.49%) DevOps
3 74 (53.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (38.41%) Agile
5 45 (32.61%) Observability
6 43 (31.16%) Containerisation
7 41 (29.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (23.19%) AI
9 31 (22.46%) Cloud Security
9 31 (22.46%) Customer Experience
9 31 (22.46%) Incident Response
10 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.57%) Software Engineering
11 25 (18.12%) Analytics
11 25 (18.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 23 (16.67%) RBAC
14 22 (15.94%) Test Automation
15 21 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (64.49%) Python
2 37 (26.81%) Bash
3 32 (23.19%) SQL
4 29 (21.01%) JavaScript
5 26 (18.84%) TypeScript
6 23 (16.67%) Go
7 16 (11.59%) Java
7 16 (11.59%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (6.52%) Rust
10 7 (5.07%) C#
11 6 (4.35%) Bicep
12 4 (2.90%) Ruby
13 2 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.72%) C++
14 1 (0.72%) Perl
14 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Degree
2 17 (12.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.25%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.52%) OSCP
5 6 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.72%) CISSP
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) GCIA
6 1 (0.72%) GCIH
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.72%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (15.22%) SOC 2
3 20 (14.49%) GDPR
4 9 (6.52%) PCI DSS
5 8 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.80%) GRC
6 7 (5.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.90%) QA
7 4 (2.90%) SLA
8 2 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (45.65%) Docker
2 15 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (69.57%) Terraform
2 84 (60.87%) Kubernetes
3 34 (24.64%) Ansible
4 27 (19.57%) Prometheus
5 16 (11.59%) Argo
6 14 (10.14%) Grafana
7 8 (5.80%) Cilium
8 4 (2.90%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.90%) logstash
9 3 (2.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.72%) Icinga
10 1 (0.72%) Nagios
10 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (14.49%) Google
1 20 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.70%) Palo Alto
2 12 (8.70%) Zscaler
3 7 (5.07%) VMware
4 6 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.35%) SAP
4 6 (4.35%) Splunk
5 2 (1.45%) Pega
6 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.72%) Databricks
6 1 (0.72%) Intel
6 1 (0.72%) Tenable
6 1 (0.72%) Varonis