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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 280 412
Rank change year-on-year -8 +132 +14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 137 116 67
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.94% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.05% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 94 80 39
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,313 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,500 £115,250 £92,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -15.58%

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 8,047 5,661 9,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.57% 46.01% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,405 4,013 6,954
10th Percentile £42,200 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -36 10 £76,250 -1.61% 13
West London -16 1 £82,500 +29.92% 2
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 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.73%) CMS
2 1 (0.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) GitHub
2 85 (62.04%) Azure
3 80 (58.39%) AWS
4 45 (32.85%) GCP
5 31 (22.63%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.17%) Serverless
7 27 (19.71%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (12.41%) Amazon S3
9 17 (12.41%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (11.68%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (10.95%) Datadog
12 14 (10.22%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (9.49%) Azure Storage
14 10 (7.30%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (5.84%) Pulumi
17 7 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
17 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.68%) Network Security
2 13 (9.49%) DMARC
3 11 (8.03%) Firewall
4 7 (5.11%) DSL
4 7 (5.11%) VPN
5 5 (3.65%) DNS
6 4 (2.92%) SSH
7 1 (0.73%) HTTP
7 1 (0.73%) SSL
7 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) Delta Lake
2 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.38%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.38%) Power BI
2 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.92%) Tableau
4 3 (2.19%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.19%) Data Vault
4 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.19%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.46%) MySQL
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.73%) Looker
6 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (34.31%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.52%) GitLab
3 23 (16.79%) Git
4 15 (10.95%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.65%) JIRA
7 3 (2.19%) Postman
7 3 (2.19%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.46%) Appium
8 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.46%) Selenium
9 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.73%) Gradle
9 1 (0.73%) JUnit
9 1 (0.73%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.73%) Maven
9 1 (0.73%) NUnit
9 1 (0.73%) Subversion
9 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.73%) Xcode
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.41%) Banking
2 17 (12.41%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.49%) Retail
4 7 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.19%) Advertising
7 3 (2.19%) Military
8 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Marketing
9 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (27.74%) Senior
2 25 (18.25%) Developer
3 20 (14.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (12.41%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (12.41%) Security Engineer
5 16 (11.68%) Lead
6 15 (10.95%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) React Developer
9 11 (8.03%) Architect
10 10 (7.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.57%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.74%) Node.js
2 22 (16.06%) React
3 21 (15.33%) YAML
4 19 (13.87%) OAuth
5 18 (13.14%) CSS
5 18 (13.14%) OAuth2
5 18 (13.14%) RESTful
6 16 (11.68%) HTML
7 15 (10.95%) REST
7 15 (10.95%) Spring
7 15 (10.95%) Spring Boot
8 9 (6.57%) AWS CDK
8 9 (6.57%) eBPF
9 7 (5.11%) .NET
10 6 (4.38%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.38%) Playwright
10 6 (4.38%) PySpark
11 4 (2.92%) Kafka
12 3 (2.19%) Jest
12 3 (2.19%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (35.77%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.22%) PKI
3 12 (8.76%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.84%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.11%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.38%) CMDB
6 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.73%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.73%) PropTech
9 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Linux
2 9 (6.57%) Windows
3 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.92%) Unix
5 3 (2.19%) Android
5 3 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (90.51%) CI/CD
2 72 (52.55%) DevOps
3 60 (43.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (27.01%) Agile
6 36 (26.28%) Microservices
7 35 (25.55%) Mentoring
8 34 (24.82%) Cloud Security
8 34 (24.82%) Containerisation
9 33 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (22.63%) Incident Response
11 29 (21.17%) Test Automation
12 27 (19.71%) Clean Code
13 23 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
15 21 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (14.60%) Cryptography
17 19 (13.87%) Event-Driven
17 19 (13.87%) Zero Trust
18 17 (12.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 59 (43.07%) Python
2 28 (20.44%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.25%) Java
3 25 (18.25%) PowerShell
4 24 (17.52%) JavaScript
5 22 (16.06%) Bash
6 21 (15.33%) SQL
7 17 (12.41%) Go
8 8 (5.84%) Rust
9 5 (3.65%) C#
10 3 (2.19%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.19%) Scala
11 2 (1.46%) Bicep
11 2 (1.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.73%) Perl
12 1 (0.73%) PHP
12 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (20.44%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) AWS Certification
2 14 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.03%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.30%) OSCP
5 8 (5.84%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.19%) CCSP
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.19%) CISM
7 3 (2.19%) CISSP
7 3 (2.19%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.19%) GCIA
7 3 (2.19%) GCIH
8 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.73%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (12.41%) QA
1 17 (12.41%) SOC 2
2 13 (9.49%) GRC
3 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.19%) NIST
7 2 (1.46%) GDPR
7 2 (1.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (21.90%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.73%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (55.47%) Terraform
2 51 (37.23%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.33%) Ansible
4 16 (11.68%) Grafana
5 13 (9.49%) Cilium
6 11 (8.03%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.38%) Packer
8 4 (2.92%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.46%) Argo
11 1 (0.73%) Kibana
11 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.49%) SendGrid
3 9 (6.57%) Databricks
3 9 (6.57%) VMware
4 7 (5.11%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.38%) Cisco
5 6 (4.38%) EMC
5 6 (4.38%) F5
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) New Relic
7 4 (2.92%) OneLogin
8 3 (2.19%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.19%) Intel
8 3 (2.19%) Tenable
8 3 (2.19%) Varonis
9 2 (1.46%) Foundry
9 2 (1.46%) Google
9 2 (1.46%) Oracle
9 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.46%) Veeam