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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 301 419
Rank change year-on-year +50 +118 +73
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 151 99 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.77% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.73% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 108 67 47
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £90,938 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £134,000 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 7,095 5,739 10,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.37% 44.45% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 4,157 8,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -35 13 £55,000 -33.33% 24
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 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.65%) Appian
3 3 (1.99%) 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 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) GitHub
2 89 (58.94%) AWS
3 76 (50.33%) Azure
4 50 (33.11%) GCP
5 41 (27.15%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (25.83%) Serverless
7 32 (21.19%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (18.54%) Datadog
9 24 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (11.92%) Azure AKS
11 15 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (9.93%) Entra ID
12 13 (8.61%) Amazon S3
12 13 (8.61%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (8.61%) Pulumi
13 12 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (7.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (7.95%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (6.62%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.57%) Firewall
2 16 (10.60%) Network Security
3 15 (9.93%) VPN
4 13 (8.61%) DSL
5 12 (7.95%) WAN
6 3 (1.99%) DNS
7 2 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.66%) Broadband
8 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.62%) BigQuery
1 10 (6.62%) Flink
2 8 (5.30%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.65%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.65%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.65%) Weaviate
6 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.99%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.99%) 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%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Power BI
7 2 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (41.72%) Jenkins
2 24 (15.89%) Git
2 24 (15.89%) GitLab
3 12 (7.95%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.66%) CMake
6 1 (0.66%) Deequ
6 1 (0.66%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.66%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Postman
6 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 49 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.15%) Finance
3 22 (14.57%) Banking
4 12 (7.95%) Front Office
5 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.96%) Retail
6 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.97%) Electronics
8 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.97%) Marketing
9 4 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.99%) Advertising
10 3 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.99%) Military
11 2 (1.32%) Back Office
11 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (21.19%) Senior
3 30 (19.87%) Developer
4 24 (15.89%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (15.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (14.57%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Architect
8 14 (9.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.61%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.61%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (8.61%) Security Architect
10 11 (7.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) React Developer
12 9 (5.96%) Security Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.96%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.21%) Node.js
2 27 (17.88%) React
3 19 (12.58%) CSS
3 19 (12.58%) HTML
4 16 (10.60%) Kafka
5 14 (9.27%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.61%) YAML
7 12 (7.95%) ADO
7 12 (7.95%) OAuth
7 12 (7.95%) SAML
8 7 (4.64%) REST
9 6 (3.97%) .NET
9 6 (3.97%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.31%) Django
10 5 (3.31%) FastAPI
10 5 (3.31%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.31%) PySpark
10 5 (3.31%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.60%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.64%) PKI
5 6 (3.97%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.31%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.65%) CMDB
7 4 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.32%) Blog
9 2 (1.32%) Derivative
9 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.66%) Replication
10 1 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.56%) Linux
2 12 (7.95%) VMS
2 12 (7.95%) Windows
3 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.99%) SUSE
4 3 (1.99%) Unix
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Android
6 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (94.70%) CI/CD
2 86 (56.95%) DevOps
3 78 (51.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (36.42%) Agile
4 55 (36.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (29.80%) Observability
6 39 (25.83%) Incident Response
6 39 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (25.17%) Containerisation
8 36 (23.84%) Cloud Security
8 36 (23.84%) Customer Experience
9 33 (21.85%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (18.54%) AI
10 28 (18.54%) Analytics
11 26 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (15.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (15.23%) Zero Trust
13 22 (14.57%) Cryptography
13 22 (14.57%) RBAC
14 21 (13.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (61.59%) Python
2 34 (22.52%) Bash
2 34 (22.52%) SQL
3 33 (21.85%) TypeScript
4 30 (19.87%) JavaScript
5 27 (17.88%) Go
6 23 (15.23%) PowerShell
7 18 (11.92%) Java
8 14 (9.27%) Rust
9 12 (7.95%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.31%) Bicep
11 4 (2.65%) C#
12 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.32%) Scala
12 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) Groovy
13 1 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (25.17%) Degree
2 20 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.60%) OSCP
4 11 (7.28%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.62%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.62%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.96%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.99%) CCSP
7 3 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.99%) CISM
7 3 (1.99%) CISSP
7 3 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.99%) GCIA
7 3 (1.99%) 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 25 (16.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (15.89%) SOC 2
3 14 (9.27%) GDPR
4 9 (5.96%) GRC
5 6 (3.97%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.31%) QA
7 4 (2.65%) NIST
7 4 (2.65%) SLA
8 2 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 54 (35.76%) Docker
2 21 (13.91%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.27%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (66.23%) Terraform
2 77 (50.99%) Kubernetes
3 41 (27.15%) Ansible
4 20 (13.25%) Prometheus
5 15 (9.93%) Argo
6 13 (8.61%) Grafana
7 9 (5.96%) Cilium
8 4 (2.65%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.65%) logstash
8 4 (2.65%) Packer
9 3 (1.99%) Rancher
10 1 (0.66%) Icinga
10 1 (0.66%) Kibana
10 1 (0.66%) Nagios
10 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.60%) Palo Alto
3 12 (7.95%) Zscaler
4 11 (7.28%) Google
4 11 (7.28%) VMware
5 7 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.97%) SAP
7 5 (3.31%) Databricks
8 4 (2.65%) Cisco
8 4 (2.65%) EMC
8 4 (2.65%) F5
8 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.99%) Intel
9 3 (1.99%) Splunk
9 3 (1.99%) Tenable
9 3 (1.99%) Varonis
10 2 (1.32%) Pega
10 2 (1.32%) Red Hat