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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 277 419
Rank change year-on-year -7 +142 -73
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 162 103 61
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 0.87% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.91% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 109 70 32
10th Percentile £59,500 £52,500 £55,175
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.59% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £110,125 £104,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 8,598 5,399 8,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.47% 45.56% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 3,700 5,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%

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 26 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 26 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 -9 11 £76,250 -1.61% 37
West London -15 3 £80,000 +25.98% 12
East London - 1 £130,000 - 2
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 1 (0.62%) CMS
1 1 (0.62%) Confluence
1 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.62%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) GitHub
2 107 (66.05%) Azure
3 77 (47.53%) AWS
4 57 (35.19%) GCP
5 37 (22.84%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (13.58%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (13.58%) Serverless
7 20 (12.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (11.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (11.11%) Azure AKS
10 16 (9.88%) Azure Storage
10 16 (9.88%) Datadog
11 15 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (7.41%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.26%) DMARC
2 11 (6.79%) Network Security
3 6 (3.70%) Firewall
3 6 (3.70%) VPN
4 4 (2.47%) DNS
4 4 (2.47%) SSH
5 3 (1.85%) HTTP
6 1 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.94%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.32%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.32%) Delta Lake
4 6 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.70%) Power BI
4 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.47%) Tableau
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.85%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.85%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.23%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (37.65%) Jenkins
2 26 (16.05%) GitLab
3 25 (15.43%) Git
4 10 (6.17%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.56%) Postman
5 9 (5.56%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.32%) Selenium
7 6 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.09%) Newman
9 4 (2.47%) Gatling
9 4 (2.47%) JIRA
9 4 (2.47%) JMeter
9 4 (2.47%) JUnit
10 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.85%) Gradle
10 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.23%) Appium
11 2 (1.23%) Maven
11 2 (1.23%) Mockito
11 2 (1.23%) NUnit
General
1 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.37%) Finance
3 21 (12.96%) Banking
4 15 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.56%) Retail
7 6 (3.70%) Law
7 6 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.47%) Marketing
9 3 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Legal
11 1 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (25.93%) Senior
2 31 (19.14%) Developer
3 25 (15.43%) Lead
4 21 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (10.49%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) React Developer
6 14 (8.64%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Architect
8 11 (6.79%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (4.94%) Lead Java Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (51.23%) Terraform
2 47 (29.01%) Node.js
3 33 (20.37%) REST
4 25 (15.43%) React
5 23 (14.20%) OAuth
5 23 (14.20%) OAuth2
5 23 (14.20%) RESTful
6 21 (12.96%) YAML
7 20 (12.35%) CSS
8 19 (11.73%) Spring
8 19 (11.73%) Spring Boot
9 18 (11.11%) HTML
10 12 (7.41%) GraphQL
11 10 (6.17%) .NET
11 10 (6.17%) eBPF
11 10 (6.17%) Playwright
12 7 (4.32%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.32%) PySpark
13 6 (3.70%) Jest
13 6 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 52 (32.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.02%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.17%) PKI
5 8 (4.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.70%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.09%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.85%) CMDB
10 3 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.64%) Linux
2 4 (2.47%) Unix
2 4 (2.47%) Windows
3 3 (1.85%) Android
3 3 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (93.83%) CI/CD
2 92 (56.79%) DevOps
3 77 (47.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (29.63%) Test Automation
5 45 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 45 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (25.93%) Microservices
7 40 (24.69%) Agile
8 39 (24.07%) AI
8 39 (24.07%) Mentoring
9 33 (20.37%) Cloud Security
10 32 (19.75%) Clean Code
10 32 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (19.75%) Observability
11 31 (19.14%) Software Engineering
12 28 (17.28%) Event-Driven
13 27 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (14.20%) Computer Science
15 22 (13.58%) API Design
15 22 (13.58%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.27%) Python
2 34 (20.99%) Java
2 34 (20.99%) TypeScript
3 30 (18.52%) SQL
4 28 (17.28%) PowerShell
5 27 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 25 (15.43%) Go
7 24 (14.81%) Bash
8 8 (4.94%) C#
9 5 (3.09%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.09%) Scala
10 3 (1.85%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (16.05%) Degree
2 23 (14.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.85%) CISM
6 3 (1.85%) CISSP
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) GCIA
8 1 (0.62%) GCIH
8 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) OSCP
8 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (19.14%) QA
2 14 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.41%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.56%) GRC
5 8 (4.94%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
7 5 (3.09%) GDPR
8 4 (2.47%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.85%) WCAG
10 2 (1.23%) PERC
11 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (25.93%) Docker
2 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.75%) Grafana
3 25 (15.43%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.02%) Ansible
5 10 (6.17%) Cilium
6 8 (4.94%) Argo
7 5 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.85%) Istio
8 3 (1.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.26%) Databricks
2 15 (9.26%) SendGrid
3 11 (6.79%) Google
4 5 (3.09%) VMware
5 4 (2.47%) New Relic
5 4 (2.47%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 4 (2.47%) Splunk
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco
6 3 (1.85%) EMC
6 3 (1.85%) F5
6 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.23%) Foundry
7 2 (1.23%) Veeam
8 1 (0.62%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.62%) Intel
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce