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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 264 432
Rank change year-on-year -6 +168 +54
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 146 111 75
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.91% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.04% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 104 69 41
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £67,188 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,200 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +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 7,353 5,449 10,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.80% 44.55% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,992 3,822 8,127
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,464 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
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 9 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 9 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 -44 14 £55,000 -31.25% 14
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 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) GitHub
2 86 (58.90%) Azure
3 80 (54.79%) AWS
4 45 (30.82%) GCP
5 42 (28.77%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (23.97%) Serverless
7 33 (22.60%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (17.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (13.01%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (12.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (12.33%) Datadog
11 16 (10.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (10.27%) Amazon S3
13 13 (8.90%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (7.53%) Azure AKS
15 11 (7.53%) Entra ID
16 9 (6.16%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (6.16%) Azure Storage
17 8 (5.48%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.96%) Firewall
2 15 (10.27%) Network Security
3 13 (8.90%) DSL
4 11 (7.53%) VPN
5 9 (6.16%) DMARC
6 8 (5.48%) WAN
7 3 (2.05%) DNS
8 1 (0.68%) HTTP
8 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.48%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.11%) Delta Lake
3 5 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.42%) Power BI
4 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.05%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.05%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.05%) Tableau
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.37%) Flink
6 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 56 (38.36%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.49%) GitLab
3 25 (17.12%) Git
4 14 (9.59%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.42%) JIRA
7 3 (2.05%) Postman
7 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.37%) Appium
8 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.68%) CMake
9 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.68%) JUnit
9 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.81%) Finance
3 18 (12.33%) Banking
4 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.22%) Retail
5 6 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.05%) Advertising
8 3 (2.05%) Military
9 2 (1.37%) Front Office
9 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (24.66%) Senior
2 26 (17.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 26 (17.81%) Developer
3 24 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.07%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (12.33%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (11.64%) Architect
7 15 (10.27%) Security Engineer
8 13 (8.90%) AWS Architect
8 13 (8.90%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (8.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.90%) Lead
8 13 (8.90%) Security Architect
9 12 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (8.22%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 12 (8.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 10 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.85%) Data Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) React Developer
11 9 (6.16%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.18%) Node.js
2 21 (14.38%) React
3 20 (13.70%) CSS
3 20 (13.70%) YAML
4 19 (13.01%) OAuth
5 18 (12.33%) HTML
6 14 (9.59%) AWS CDK
7 11 (7.53%) OAuth2
8 9 (6.16%) RESTful
8 9 (6.16%) Spring
8 9 (6.16%) Spring Boot
9 8 (5.48%) ADO
9 8 (5.48%) eBPF
9 8 (5.48%) REST
9 8 (5.48%) SAML
10 7 (4.79%) PySpark
11 6 (4.11%) Kafka
12 5 (3.42%) Playwright
13 4 (2.74%) .NET
14 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 51 (34.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.59%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.22%) PKI
4 9 (6.16%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.11%) CMDB
5 6 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.68%) Replication
10 1 (0.68%) Robotics
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.64%) Linux
2 10 (6.85%) Windows
3 8 (5.48%) VMS
4 7 (4.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.05%) Android
5 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (92.47%) CI/CD
2 78 (53.42%) DevOps
3 74 (50.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (30.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (29.45%) Agile
6 37 (25.34%) Cloud Security
7 35 (23.97%) Incident Response
7 35 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
9 28 (19.18%) Observability
10 27 (18.49%) Test Automation
11 26 (17.81%) Customer Experience
11 26 (17.81%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.81%) Microservices
11 26 (17.81%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (17.12%) Cryptography
13 24 (16.44%) Zero Trust
14 23 (15.75%) Analytics
14 23 (15.75%) Clean Code
15 21 (14.38%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.63%) Python
2 29 (19.86%) SQL
3 24 (16.44%) TypeScript
4 23 (15.75%) Go
4 23 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.07%) PowerShell
6 20 (13.70%) Bash
7 18 (12.33%) Java
8 14 (9.59%) Rust
9 8 (5.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.05%) C#
10 3 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.37%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.37%) Bicep
11 2 (1.37%) Groovy
11 2 (1.37%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (23.97%) Degree
2 16 (10.96%) OSCP
3 15 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.53%) Azure Certification
6 10 (6.85%) Security Cleared
7 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.05%) CCSP
8 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.05%) CISM
8 3 (2.05%) CISSP
8 3 (2.05%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.05%) GCIA
8 3 (2.05%) GCIH
9 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (15.75%) SOC 2
2 14 (9.59%) QA
3 12 (8.22%) GRC
4 10 (6.85%) GDPR
5 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.05%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 31 (21.23%) Docker
2 18 (12.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.85%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (62.33%) Terraform
2 55 (37.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (19.18%) Ansible
4 12 (8.22%) Cilium
5 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.48%) Grafana
7 6 (4.11%) Packer
8 4 (2.74%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.05%) Argo
10 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) logstash
11 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.59%) Palo Alto
3 9 (6.16%) SendGrid
4 8 (5.48%) VMware
4 8 (5.48%) Zscaler
5 7 (4.79%) Google
6 6 (4.11%) Cisco
6 6 (4.11%) Databricks
6 6 (4.11%) EMC
6 6 (4.11%) F5
6 6 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.05%) Intel
8 3 (2.05%) Tenable
8 3 (2.05%) Varonis
9 2 (1.37%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.37%) SAP