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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 302 392
Rank change year-on-year +40 +90 +102
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 149 93 90
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 0.73% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.65% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 106 64 54
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,600 £50,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,938 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +16.39% -4.69%
75th Percentile £92,813 £103,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £120,875 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.37%

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 6,788 5,641 9,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.68% 43.99% 44.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 4,125 8,151
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 1 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 1 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 -26 13 £55,000 -33.33% 34
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 7 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.68%) Appian
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) GitHub
2 89 (59.73%) AWS
3 72 (48.32%) Azure
4 53 (35.57%) GCP
5 39 (26.17%) Serverless
6 37 (24.83%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (21.48%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (20.81%) Datadog
9 26 (17.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (12.08%) Azure AKS
11 15 (10.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (9.40%) Entra ID
13 13 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
13 13 (8.72%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (8.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (8.05%) Cloud Run
15 11 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.44%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) VPN
3 14 (9.40%) Network Security
4 13 (8.72%) DSL
5 12 (8.05%) WAN
6 4 (2.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.01%) DNS
8 1 (0.67%) Broadband
8 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.38%) BigQuery
2 10 (6.71%) Flink
2 10 (6.71%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.68%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.68%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.01%) Tableau
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.34%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.34%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (43.62%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.12%) Git
3 25 (16.78%) GitLab
4 11 (7.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.01%) JIRA
7 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) CMake
8 1 (0.67%) Deequ
8 1 (0.67%) git-flow
8 1 (0.67%) Postman
8 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.67%) Subversion
8 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 52 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.19%) Finance
3 21 (14.09%) Banking
4 12 (8.05%) Front Office
5 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.38%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.37%) Retail
7 6 (4.03%) Electronics
7 6 (4.03%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.03%) Marketing
7 6 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.68%) Back Office
8 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Advertising
9 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.01%) Military
10 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (19.46%) Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Senior
4 24 (16.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (14.77%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (14.09%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (10.74%) Architect
8 13 (8.72%) AWS Architect
8 13 (8.72%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (8.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (6.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) React Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.46%) Node.js
1 29 (19.46%) React
2 18 (12.08%) CSS
2 18 (12.08%) HTML
3 16 (10.74%) Kafka
4 14 (9.40%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.72%) YAML
6 12 (8.05%) ADO
6 12 (8.05%) OAuth
6 12 (8.05%) SAML
7 7 (4.70%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.70%) REST
8 6 (4.03%) .NET
8 6 (4.03%) TensorFlow
9 5 (3.36%) Django
9 5 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.36%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.36%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.68%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.53%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.74%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.03%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.36%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.68%) Blog
7 4 (2.68%) CMDB
7 4 (2.68%) PKI
7 4 (2.68%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) Derivative
8 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.34%) Genomics
8 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.45%) Linux
2 13 (8.72%) Windows
3 12 (8.05%) VMS
4 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.36%) Unix
6 3 (2.01%) SUSE
7 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.67%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (93.96%) CI/CD
2 87 (58.39%) DevOps
3 77 (51.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (37.58%) Agile
5 55 (36.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (30.20%) Containerisation
7 43 (28.86%) Observability
8 40 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (26.17%) Incident Response
10 36 (24.16%) Customer Experience
11 32 (21.48%) Cloud Security
12 30 (20.13%) AI
13 29 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (17.45%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (16.78%) Analytics
15 25 (16.78%) RBAC
15 25 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (15.44%) Computer Science
16 23 (15.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 22 (14.77%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 96 (64.43%) Python
2 36 (24.16%) Bash
3 34 (22.82%) SQL
4 33 (22.15%) TypeScript
5 30 (20.13%) JavaScript
6 26 (17.45%) Go
7 21 (14.09%) PowerShell
8 17 (11.41%) Java
9 14 (9.40%) Rust
10 12 (8.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.36%) Bicep
12 4 (2.68%) C#
13 2 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.34%) Scala
13 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.67%) C++
14 1 (0.67%) Groovy
14 1 (0.67%) Perl
14 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (26.85%) Degree
2 22 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.07%) OSCP
4 10 (6.71%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.04%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.34%) CCSP
6 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CISM
6 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.34%) GCIA
6 2 (1.34%) GCIH
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (14.77%) SOC 2
3 15 (10.07%) GDPR
4 8 (5.37%) GRC
4 8 (5.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.36%) QA
6 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.68%) SLA
7 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.01%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (39.60%) Docker
2 20 (13.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.40%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (67.11%) Terraform
2 81 (54.36%) Kubernetes
3 41 (27.52%) Ansible
4 23 (15.44%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.07%) Argo
5 15 (10.07%) Grafana
6 8 (5.37%) Cilium
7 4 (2.68%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.68%) logstash
7 4 (2.68%) Packer
8 3 (2.01%) Rancher
9 1 (0.67%) Icinga
9 1 (0.67%) Kibana
9 1 (0.67%) Nagios
9 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.74%) Palo Alto
3 14 (9.40%) Google
4 12 (8.05%) Zscaler
5 11 (7.38%) VMware
6 7 (4.70%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.03%) SAP
8 5 (3.36%) Splunk
9 4 (2.68%) Cisco
9 4 (2.68%) Databricks
9 4 (2.68%) EMC
9 4 (2.68%) F5
9 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.34%) Intel
10 2 (1.34%) Pega
10 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.34%) Tenable
10 2 (1.34%) Varonis