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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 344 337
Rank change year-on-year +94 -7 +171
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 124 80 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.14% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 88 49 89
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -7.78% +15.21%
75th Percentile £110,313 £103,750 £117,500
90th Percentile £146,500 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +5.56% -15.24% +6.18%

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 5,752 7,046 8,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.61% 45.29% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 4,502 6,932
10th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +42 12 £76,250 -23.75% 20
South London - 1 - - 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 8 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) Appian
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) GitHub
2 57 (45.97%) AWS
2 57 (45.97%) Azure
3 43 (34.68%) GCP
4 35 (28.23%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (22.58%) Datadog
6 21 (16.94%) Serverless
7 19 (15.32%) Cloud Run
8 18 (14.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (13.71%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (13.71%) Google Compute Engine
10 16 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (12.10%) Azure AKS
12 14 (11.29%) Cloud Functions
13 10 (8.06%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (7.26%) Amazon S3
14 9 (7.26%) Entra ID
15 8 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) Firewall
2 9 (7.26%) Network Security
2 9 (7.26%) VPN
3 8 (6.45%) WAN
4 4 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.61%) DNS
5 2 (1.61%) DSL
6 1 (0.81%) Broadband
6 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.32%) BigQuery
2 12 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.06%) Flink
4 7 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.65%) Pinecone
5 5 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.23%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.61%) Metadata
8 2 (1.61%) Power BI
8 2 (1.61%) Tableau
9 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 55 (44.35%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.74%) Git
3 15 (12.10%) GitLab
4 5 (4.03%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.42%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.61%) JIRA
7 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.81%) CMake
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.81%) Deequ
7 1 (0.81%) JMeter
7 1 (0.81%) JUnit
7 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 42 (33.87%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.52%) Banking
4 12 (9.68%) Front Office
5 11 (8.87%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.84%) Electronics
7 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.84%) Marketing
8 5 (4.03%) Back Office
8 5 (4.03%) Retail
9 4 (3.23%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.42%) Law
11 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.81%) Legal
12 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (33.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (13.71%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (12.90%) Developer
5 15 (12.10%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) GCP Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Senior
6 14 (11.29%) GCP DevOps
6 14 (11.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Lead
11 7 (5.65%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (4.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.35%) React
2 22 (17.74%) Node.js
3 15 (12.10%) Kafka
4 14 (11.29%) REST
5 12 (9.68%) GraphQL
6 10 (8.06%) .NET
6 10 (8.06%) CSS
6 10 (8.06%) HTML
6 10 (8.06%) YAML
7 8 (6.45%) ADO
7 8 (6.45%) OAuth
7 8 (6.45%) SAML
8 7 (5.65%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.84%) AWS CDK
9 6 (4.84%) Django
9 6 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.03%) RESTful
10 5 (4.03%) TensorFlow
11 4 (3.23%) PyTorch
11 4 (3.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.23%) Blog
5 4 (3.23%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.61%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.61%) Derivative
6 2 (1.61%) Genomics
6 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.32%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) VMS
3 6 (4.84%) Windows
4 5 (4.03%) Unix
5 3 (2.42%) SUSE
6 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (94.35%) CI/CD
2 90 (72.58%) DevOps
3 71 (57.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (36.29%) Agile
5 42 (33.87%) Observability
6 41 (33.06%) Containerisation
7 31 (25.00%) AI
7 31 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (22.58%) Software Engineering
9 26 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (20.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 25 (20.16%) Cloud Security
11 23 (18.55%) Analytics
12 22 (17.74%) Customer Experience
12 22 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (16.94%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (16.94%) Test Automation
14 19 (15.32%) Incident Response
15 18 (14.52%) High Availability
16 17 (13.71%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.52%) Python
2 41 (33.06%) Bash
3 29 (23.39%) SQL
4 25 (20.16%) JavaScript
5 23 (18.55%) TypeScript
6 19 (15.32%) PowerShell
7 18 (14.52%) Go
8 17 (13.71%) Java
9 10 (8.06%) Bicep
10 9 (7.26%) C#
11 8 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (3.23%) Ruby
13 2 (1.61%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.61%) Rust
13 2 (1.61%) Swift
13 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.81%) C++
14 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Degree
2 16 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.61%) OSCP
8 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.32%) GDPR
2 18 (14.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (9.68%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.03%) QA
6 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.23%) GRC
6 4 (3.23%) SLA
7 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (50.00%) Docker
2 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (71.77%) Terraform
2 78 (62.90%) Kubernetes
3 31 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 26 (20.97%) Ansible
5 17 (13.71%) Grafana
6 16 (12.90%) Argo
7 4 (3.23%) Cilium
7 4 (3.23%) logstash
8 3 (2.42%) Rancher
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.94%) Google
2 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Palo Alto
3 8 (6.45%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.65%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.84%) SAP
5 6 (4.84%) Splunk
6 5 (4.03%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) Pega
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath