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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 295 418
Rank change year-on-year +40 +123 +77
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 152 101 81
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 0.80% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 1.80% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 108 70 46
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,625 £57,125
25th Percentile £65,938 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,125 £118,875 £105,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 7,314 5,596 10,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.90% 44.20% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,714 4,061 8,179
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -34 15 £55,000 -33.33% 26
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 7 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.63%) Appian
3 3 (1.97%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Endur
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) GitHub
2 83 (54.61%) AWS
2 83 (54.61%) Azure
3 48 (31.58%) GCP
4 46 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (26.32%) Serverless
6 33 (21.71%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (17.11%) Datadog
8 22 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (12.50%) Azure AKS
10 15 (9.87%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (9.87%) Entra ID
11 14 (9.21%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (8.55%) Amazon S3
12 13 (8.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (8.55%) Pulumi
13 12 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (5.92%) Azure Pipelines
16 8 (5.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.82%) Firewall
2 15 (9.87%) Network Security
2 15 (9.87%) VPN
3 13 (8.55%) DSL
4 12 (7.89%) WAN
5 3 (1.97%) DNS
6 1 (0.66%) Broadband
6 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.92%) BigQuery
2 7 (4.61%) Flink
3 6 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.29%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.63%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.63%) Weaviate
6 3 (1.97%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.97%) Tableau
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (41.45%) Jenkins
2 26 (17.11%) GitLab
3 24 (15.79%) Git
4 11 (7.24%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.32%) Appium
6 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.66%) CMake
7 1 (0.66%) git-flow
7 1 (0.66%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.66%) Maven
7 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.66%) Subversion
7 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 46 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.03%) Finance
3 17 (11.18%) Banking
4 13 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Retail
6 7 (4.61%) Front Office
7 6 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.63%) Electronics
9 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.63%) Marketing
10 3 (1.97%) Advertising
10 3 (1.97%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) Senior
2 35 (23.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (18.42%) Developer
4 25 (16.45%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (15.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (11.18%) Architect
8 16 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.55%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.55%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (8.55%) Security Architect
10 10 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) React Developer
11 9 (5.92%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.92%) Senior React Developer
12 8 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.42%) Node.js
2 27 (17.76%) React
3 19 (12.50%) CSS
3 19 (12.50%) HTML
4 14 (9.21%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.55%) Kafka
5 13 (8.55%) YAML
6 12 (7.89%) ADO
6 12 (7.89%) OAuth
6 12 (7.89%) SAML
7 7 (4.61%) REST
8 6 (3.95%) PySpark
8 6 (3.95%) TensorFlow
9 5 (3.29%) Django
9 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.29%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.29%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.63%) .NET
10 4 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.61%) PKI
6 6 (3.95%) CMDB
6 6 (3.95%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.66%) Robotics
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.13%) Linux
2 12 (7.89%) VMS
2 12 (7.89%) Windows
3 8 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.97%) Android
4 3 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.97%) SUSE
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (95.39%) CI/CD
2 86 (56.58%) DevOps
3 80 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (38.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (34.87%) Agile
6 46 (30.26%) Observability
7 39 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (24.34%) Incident Response
9 36 (23.68%) Cloud Security
9 36 (23.68%) Containerisation
10 35 (23.03%) Customer Experience
11 32 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (18.42%) Analytics
13 26 (17.11%) AI
13 26 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (15.13%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (15.13%) Zero Trust
15 22 (14.47%) DevSecOps
16 21 (13.82%) Cryptography
16 21 (13.82%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 88 (57.89%) Python
2 34 (22.37%) TypeScript
3 31 (20.39%) SQL
4 29 (19.08%) Bash
4 29 (19.08%) JavaScript
5 26 (17.11%) Go
6 23 (15.13%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.87%) Java
8 14 (9.21%) Rust
9 12 (7.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.29%) Bicep
11 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.32%) C#
11 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) C++
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (24.34%) Degree
2 17 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.53%) OSCP
4 14 (9.21%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.97%) CCSP
7 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.97%) CISM
7 3 (1.97%) CISSP
7 3 (1.97%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.97%) GCIA
7 3 (1.97%) GCIH
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (15.13%) SOC 2
2 14 (9.21%) GDPR
3 8 (5.26%) GRC
4 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.29%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.63%) QA
6 4 (2.63%) SLA
7 3 (1.97%) NIST
8 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (32.89%) Docker
2 23 (15.13%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 104 (68.42%) Terraform
2 75 (49.34%) Kubernetes
3 42 (27.63%) Ansible
4 17 (11.18%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.89%) Grafana
6 11 (7.24%) Argo
7 8 (5.26%) Cilium
8 6 (3.95%) Packer
9 4 (2.63%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.63%) logstash
10 3 (1.97%) Rancher
11 1 (0.66%) Icinga
11 1 (0.66%) Kibana
11 1 (0.66%) Nagios
11 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.84%) Palo Alto
3 13 (8.55%) VMware
4 12 (7.89%) Zscaler
5 9 (5.92%) Google
6 7 (4.61%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.95%) Cisco
7 6 (3.95%) Databricks
7 6 (3.95%) EMC
7 6 (3.95%) F5
7 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.29%) SAP
9 4 (2.63%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.97%) Intel
10 3 (1.97%) Tenable
10 3 (1.97%) Varonis
11 2 (1.32%) Pega
11 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.66%) OpenText