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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 271 413
Rank change year-on-year -17 +142 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 147 112 53
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.02% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 100 77 31
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,125 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,875 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -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 8,460 5,554 8,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.09% 46.22% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,698 3,831 6,028
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 September 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 September 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 -14 10 £80,000 +3.23% 20
West London -27 1 £82,500 +29.92% 11
East London - 1 £130,000 - 5
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 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) GitHub
2 99 (67.35%) Azure
3 80 (54.42%) AWS
4 51 (34.69%) GCP
5 35 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (15.65%) Serverless
7 22 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (11.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (11.56%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (11.56%) Datadog
10 16 (10.88%) Amazon S3
10 16 (10.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (8.84%) Azure Storage
12 11 (7.48%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.12%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
15 8 (5.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.84%) DMARC
2 11 (7.48%) Network Security
3 8 (5.44%) Firewall
4 6 (4.08%) VPN
5 5 (3.40%) DNS
6 4 (2.72%) SSH
7 2 (1.36%) HTTP
8 1 (0.68%) DSL
8 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.12%) Delta Lake
3 8 (5.44%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.44%) Power BI
4 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.08%) Tableau
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.40%) Data Vault
5 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.36%) Redis
8 2 (1.36%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 60 (40.82%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.37%) Git
3 25 (17.01%) GitLab
4 10 (6.80%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.44%) Postman
5 8 (5.44%) REST Assured
6 6 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.08%) Selenium
6 6 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.40%) Newman
8 4 (2.72%) Gatling
8 4 (2.72%) JMeter
9 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.04%) Gradle
9 3 (2.04%) JIRA
9 3 (2.04%) JUnit
9 3 (2.04%) Maven
10 2 (1.36%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.36%) Mockito
10 2 (1.36%) NUnit
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Finance
3 21 (14.29%) Banking
4 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.12%) Retail
7 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Law
8 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.72%) Marketing
10 2 (1.36%) Advertising
10 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (26.53%) Senior
2 29 (19.73%) Developer
3 20 (13.61%) Lead
4 17 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (11.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.88%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) React Developer
7 13 (8.84%) Security Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Architect
9 11 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Technical Leader
12 7 (4.76%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (51.70%) Terraform
2 46 (31.29%) Node.js
3 26 (17.69%) REST
4 25 (17.01%) React
5 21 (14.29%) OAuth
5 21 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 21 (14.29%) RESTful
6 19 (12.93%) CSS
6 19 (12.93%) YAML
7 17 (11.56%) HTML
7 17 (11.56%) Spring
7 17 (11.56%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.80%) eBPF
8 10 (6.80%) Playwright
9 9 (6.12%) .NET
10 8 (5.44%) PySpark
11 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.76%) Jest
12 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.84%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.80%) PKI
4 8 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.44%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.08%) CMDB
6 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.93%) Linux
2 8 (5.44%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.72%) Unix
5 3 (2.04%) Android
5 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (92.52%) CI/CD
2 82 (55.78%) DevOps
3 66 (44.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (26.53%) Test Automation
6 38 (25.85%) Mentoring
7 37 (25.17%) Microservices
8 36 (24.49%) Agile
9 35 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (23.13%) Containerisation
11 31 (21.09%) Clean Code
12 29 (19.73%) AI
13 26 (17.69%) Cloud Security
14 24 (16.33%) Software Engineering
15 23 (15.65%) Observability
15 23 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (14.97%) Computer Science
17 21 (14.29%) Incident Response
18 20 (13.61%) Event-Driven
18 20 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (38.10%) Python
2 32 (21.77%) Java
3 31 (21.09%) TypeScript
4 26 (17.69%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.69%) PowerShell
5 21 (14.29%) Bash
5 21 (14.29%) SQL
6 19 (12.93%) Go
7 7 (4.76%) C#
7 7 (4.76%) Scala
8 4 (2.72%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.04%) Bicep
10 2 (1.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) C
11 1 (0.68%) Rust
11 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Degree
2 22 (14.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) OSCP
7 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.36%) CCSP
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.36%) CISM
7 2 (1.36%) CISSP
7 2 (1.36%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.36%) GCIA
7 2 (1.36%) GCIH
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.05%) QA
2 12 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.48%) SOC 2
4 9 (6.12%) GRC
5 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.72%) ISO 20022
8 3 (2.04%) WCAG
9 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.36%) NIST
10 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (22.45%) Docker
2 9 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (36.05%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.65%) Grafana
3 17 (11.56%) Ansible
3 17 (11.56%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.80%) Cilium
5 6 (4.08%) Packer
6 5 (3.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.68%) Istio
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) Databricks
2 13 (8.84%) SendGrid
3 8 (5.44%) Google
3 8 (5.44%) VMware
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco
4 6 (4.08%) EMC
4 6 (4.08%) F5
4 6 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.72%) New Relic
5 4 (2.72%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.72%) Oracle
6 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.04%) Splunk
7 2 (1.36%) Foundry
7 2 (1.36%) Intel
7 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.36%) Tenable
7 2 (1.36%) Veeam