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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 351 372
Rank change year-on-year +101 +21 +149
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 74 112
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 0.49% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 1.09% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 98 40 82
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -1.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £110,938 £107,500 £113,438
90th Percentile £139,750 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +4.78% -14.61% +2.75%

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 5,975 6,801 9,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.08% 44.61% 45.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,839 4,298 8,130
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,950
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 £98,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%

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 3 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 3 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 +23 13 £55,000 -45.00% 30
South London - 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 9 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.01%) Appian
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.26%) Shopify
2 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 64 (48.12%) AWS
3 63 (47.37%) Azure
4 46 (34.59%) GCP
5 39 (29.32%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (23.31%) Datadog
7 25 (18.80%) Serverless
8 20 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (15.04%) Cloud Run
9 19 (14.29%) Azure AKS
10 18 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (13.53%) Google Compute Engine
11 17 (12.78%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (11.28%) Cloud Functions
13 13 (9.77%) Entra ID
14 12 (9.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (9.02%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (6.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.03%) Firewall
2 13 (9.77%) VPN
3 12 (9.02%) WAN
4 8 (6.02%) Network Security
5 7 (5.26%) DSL
6 4 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.50%) DNS
8 1 (0.75%) Broadband
8 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 11 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.52%) Flink
4 7 (5.26%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.01%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.75%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Metadata
10 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (45.11%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.29%) Git
3 17 (12.78%) GitLab
4 6 (4.51%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.50%) Deequ
6 2 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.75%) CMake
7 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 47 (35.34%) Finance
2 40 (30.08%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Banking
4 12 (9.02%) Front Office
5 11 (8.27%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Electronics
7 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.51%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Back Office
8 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.01%) Retail
9 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Law
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Billing
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (32.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (18.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (16.54%) Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Senior
6 17 (12.78%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (11.28%) GCP DevOps
7 15 (11.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 15 (11.28%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (9.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Architect
12 7 (5.26%) AWS Architect
12 7 (5.26%) AWS Security Architect
12 7 (5.26%) Lead
12 7 (5.26%) Security Architect
12 7 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.30%) React
2 26 (19.55%) Node.js
3 15 (11.28%) Kafka
4 14 (10.53%) CSS
4 14 (10.53%) HTML
4 14 (10.53%) YAML
5 12 (9.02%) ADO
5 12 (9.02%) OAuth
5 12 (9.02%) REST
5 12 (9.02%) SAML
6 11 (8.27%) GraphQL
7 10 (7.52%) AWS CDK
8 9 (6.77%) .NET
9 7 (5.26%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.51%) Django
10 6 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (3.76%) TensorFlow
12 4 (3.01%) CSS3
12 4 (3.01%) PyTorch
12 4 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.51%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.01%) Blog
5 4 (3.01%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.50%) Derivative
6 2 (1.50%) Genomics
6 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 12 (9.02%) VMS
3 7 (5.26%) Windows
4 5 (3.76%) Unix
5 3 (2.26%) SUSE
6 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (95.49%) CI/CD
2 90 (67.67%) DevOps
3 74 (55.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (37.59%) Agile
5 46 (34.59%) Observability
6 43 (32.33%) Containerisation
7 40 (30.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (23.31%) AI
9 30 (22.56%) Customer Experience
10 27 (20.30%) Cloud Security
11 26 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
12 25 (18.80%) Analytics
12 25 (18.80%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (18.05%) Incident Response
14 23 (17.29%) Test Automation
15 21 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (14.29%) RBAC
17 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (63.91%) Python
2 38 (28.57%) Bash
3 32 (24.06%) SQL
4 28 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 26 (19.55%) TypeScript
6 23 (17.29%) Go
7 17 (12.78%) PowerShell
8 16 (12.03%) Java
9 12 (9.02%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (6.02%) Bicep
11 7 (5.26%) C#
11 7 (5.26%) Rust
12 4 (3.01%) Ruby
13 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.75%) C++
14 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (19.55%) Degree
2 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.26%) OSCP
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.79%) GDPR
1 21 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (12.03%) SOC 2
3 8 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.01%) GRC
5 4 (3.01%) QA
5 4 (3.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (47.37%) Docker
2 14 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.02%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (69.17%) Terraform
2 82 (61.65%) Kubernetes
3 31 (23.31%) Ansible
4 29 (21.80%) Prometheus
5 15 (11.28%) Argo
6 14 (10.53%) Grafana
7 4 (3.01%) Cilium
7 4 (3.01%) logstash
8 3 (2.26%) Rancher
9 1 (0.75%) Icinga
9 1 (0.75%) Nagios
9 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (16.54%) Google
2 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.02%) Palo Alto
3 12 (9.02%) Zscaler
4 6 (4.51%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.51%) SAP
4 6 (4.51%) Splunk
4 6 (4.51%) VMware
5 2 (1.50%) Pega
6 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.75%) Databricks