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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 279 437
Rank change year-on-year +2 +158 +45
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 142 111 74
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.65% 0.91% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.02% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 100 71 43
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £52,350
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £115,000 £104,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.56%

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 7,678 5,499 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.25% 45.10% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,201 3,894 8,139
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -37 12 £70,000 -9.68% 6
West London -24 1 £82,500 +29.92% 6
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 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (61.97%) Azure
3 80 (56.34%) AWS
4 47 (33.10%) GCP
5 35 (24.65%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (22.54%) Serverless
7 30 (21.13%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (14.08%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (13.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (11.27%) Amazon S3
11 16 (11.27%) Datadog
12 14 (9.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (9.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (9.15%) Azure Storage
14 12 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (8.45%) Pulumi
15 8 (5.63%) Azure AKS
15 8 (5.63%) Entra ID
15 8 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) Network Security
2 14 (9.86%) Firewall
3 13 (9.15%) DMARC
4 11 (7.75%) DSL
5 9 (6.34%) VPN
6 5 (3.52%) WAN
7 4 (2.82%) DNS
8 1 (0.70%) HTTP
8 1 (0.70%) SSH
8 1 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
1 6 (4.23%) Delta Lake
2 5 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.52%) Power BI
3 4 (2.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.11%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.11%) Tableau
5 2 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.41%) MySQL
5 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.70%) Big Data
6 1 (0.70%) Looker
6 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (38.03%) Jenkins
2 28 (19.72%) GitLab
3 23 (16.20%) Git
4 15 (10.56%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.23%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.52%) JIRA
7 3 (2.11%) Postman
7 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.41%) Appium
8 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.70%) Gradle
9 1 (0.70%) JUnit
9 1 (0.70%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.70%) Maven
9 1 (0.70%) Subversion
9 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.70%) Xcode
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.79%) Finance
3 17 (11.97%) Banking
4 13 (9.15%) Retail
5 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.11%) Advertising
9 3 (2.11%) Military
10 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (24.65%) Senior
2 27 (19.01%) Developer
3 25 (17.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (12.68%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (11.97%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (11.97%) Security Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Architect
6 15 (10.56%) Lead
7 13 (9.15%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (8.45%) React Developer
9 11 (7.75%) AWS Architect
9 11 (7.75%) AWS Security Architect
9 11 (7.75%) Security Architect
10 10 (7.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.04%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.34%) Data Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.24%) Node.js
2 22 (15.49%) React
2 22 (15.49%) YAML
3 21 (14.79%) OAuth
4 20 (14.08%) CSS
5 18 (12.68%) HTML
6 16 (11.27%) OAuth2
7 15 (10.56%) RESTful
7 15 (10.56%) Spring
7 15 (10.56%) Spring Boot
8 12 (8.45%) AWS CDK
9 9 (6.34%) eBPF
10 8 (5.63%) REST
11 7 (4.93%) .NET
11 7 (4.93%) PySpark
12 5 (3.52%) ADO
12 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.52%) Playwright
12 5 (3.52%) SAML
13 3 (2.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 56 (39.44%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.15%) PKI
4 7 (4.93%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.23%) CMDB
5 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) PropTech
9 1 (0.70%) Robotics
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.27%) Linux
2 10 (7.04%) Windows
3 7 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.52%) VMS
5 3 (2.11%) Android
5 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (92.96%) CI/CD
2 74 (52.11%) DevOps
3 67 (47.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (29.58%) Agile
4 42 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (26.06%) Cloud Security
6 36 (25.35%) Containerisation
6 36 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (23.94%) Incident Response
7 34 (23.94%) Microservices
8 32 (22.54%) Mentoring
9 29 (20.42%) Test Automation
10 26 (18.31%) Clean Code
11 24 (16.90%) Cryptography
11 24 (16.90%) Observability
12 23 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (16.20%) Zero Trust
13 21 (14.79%) Analytics
13 21 (14.79%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (14.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.07%) Python
2 24 (16.90%) SQL
2 24 (16.90%) TypeScript
3 23 (16.20%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.49%) Java
4 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.08%) Go
6 19 (13.38%) Bash
7 12 (8.45%) Rust
8 5 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.82%) C#
10 3 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.41%) Groovy
11 2 (1.41%) Scala
12 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) PHP
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Degree
2 15 (10.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.86%) AWS Certification
3 14 (9.86%) OSCP
4 9 (6.34%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.11%) CCSP
6 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.11%) CISM
6 3 (2.11%) CISSP
6 3 (2.11%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.11%) GCIA
6 3 (2.11%) GCIH
7 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (14.79%) SOC 2
2 18 (12.68%) QA
3 13 (9.15%) GRC
4 7 (4.93%) GDPR
5 6 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.11%) NIST
8 2 (1.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 30 (21.13%) Docker
2 15 (10.56%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (59.15%) Terraform
2 53 (37.32%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.61%) Ansible
4 13 (9.15%) Cilium
5 11 (7.75%) Grafana
6 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.23%) Packer
8 4 (2.82%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.41%) Argo
9 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.70%) Kibana
10 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) SendGrid
3 11 (7.75%) Palo Alto
4 9 (6.34%) VMware
5 6 (4.23%) Cisco
5 6 (4.23%) Databricks
5 6 (4.23%) EMC
5 6 (4.23%) F5
5 6 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.52%) Google
6 5 (3.52%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.82%) OneLogin
8 3 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.11%) Intel
8 3 (2.11%) Tenable
8 3 (2.11%) Varonis
9 2 (1.41%) New Relic
9 2 (1.41%) Oracle
9 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.70%) Blue Prism