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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 289 377
Rank change year-on-year +20 +88 -43
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 181 95 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.81% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.80% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 122 62 38
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,675 £56,225
25th Percentile £65,250 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 8,560 5,286 8,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.75% 45.14% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 3,637 5,359
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +5 12 £72,500 -6.45% 40
West London -18 3 £80,000 +25.98% 11
East London - 1 £130,000 - 3
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 (0.55%) CMS
1 1 (0.55%) Confluence
1 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.55%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) GitHub
2 116 (64.09%) Azure
3 81 (44.75%) AWS
4 63 (34.81%) GCP
5 42 (23.20%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.81%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (13.81%) Serverless
7 23 (12.71%) Azure AKS
8 22 (12.15%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (10.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (10.50%) Datadog
10 18 (9.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (9.39%) Azure Storage
12 15 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (7.18%) Amazon S3
14 10 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (5.52%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (5.52%) SaaS
15 9 (4.97%) Azure Functions
15 9 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) DMARC
2 9 (4.97%) Network Security
3 8 (4.42%) VPN
4 5 (2.76%) DNS
4 5 (2.76%) Firewall
5 4 (2.21%) SSH
6 3 (1.66%) HTTP
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.52%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.42%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.87%) Delta Lake
4 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.31%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.31%) Power BI
6 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.21%) Tableau
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.66%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.10%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 67 (37.02%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.13%) GitLab
3 27 (14.92%) Git
4 12 (6.63%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.42%) Postman
5 8 (4.42%) REST Assured
6 7 (3.87%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.87%) Selenium
7 5 (2.76%) Newman
8 4 (2.21%) Gatling
8 4 (2.21%) JIRA
8 4 (2.21%) JMeter
8 4 (2.21%) JUnit
9 3 (1.66%) Appium
9 3 (1.66%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.66%) Gradle
10 2 (1.10%) Maven
10 2 (1.10%) Mockito
10 2 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.55%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Banking
4 15 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.42%) Retail
7 6 (3.31%) Law
8 4 (2.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) German Language
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (25.41%) Senior
2 35 (19.34%) Developer
3 31 (17.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (16.02%) Lead
5 18 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.39%) React Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Architect
8 12 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Security Engineer
8 12 (6.63%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (50.83%) Terraform
2 48 (26.52%) Node.js
3 40 (22.10%) REST
4 28 (15.47%) React
5 26 (14.36%) RESTful
6 24 (13.26%) OAuth
6 24 (13.26%) OAuth2
7 22 (12.15%) CSS
8 21 (11.60%) YAML
9 20 (11.05%) Spring
9 20 (11.05%) Spring Boot
10 19 (10.50%) GraphQL
10 19 (10.50%) HTML
11 11 (6.08%) .NET
12 9 (4.97%) Playwright
13 8 (4.42%) eBPF
14 7 (3.87%) Jest
14 7 (3.87%) JWT
14 7 (3.87%) PySpark
15 6 (3.31%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (32.60%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.36%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.73%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (6.08%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (4.42%) PKI
6 8 (4.42%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.21%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.66%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (1.10%) CMDB
12 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 4 (2.21%) Unix
3 3 (1.66%) Android
3 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.66%) Windows
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (93.92%) CI/CD
2 107 (59.12%) DevOps
3 86 (47.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (30.94%) Test Automation
5 53 (29.28%) AI
5 53 (29.28%) Containerisation
6 48 (26.52%) Mentoring
7 46 (25.41%) Microservices
7 46 (25.41%) Observability
8 43 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (23.20%) Agile
10 41 (22.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (21.55%) Software Engineering
12 32 (17.68%) Clean Code
13 31 (17.13%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (16.57%) Cloud Security
14 30 (16.57%) Event-Driven
15 28 (15.47%) Technical Debt
16 26 (14.36%) API Design
16 26 (14.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (39.23%) Python
2 40 (22.10%) SQL
2 40 (22.10%) TypeScript
3 39 (21.55%) Java
4 30 (16.57%) JavaScript
5 27 (14.92%) PowerShell
6 26 (14.36%) Bash
7 24 (13.26%) Go
8 10 (5.52%) C#
9 5 (2.76%) Bicep
9 5 (2.76%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.76%) Scala
10 2 (1.10%) Groovy
10 2 (1.10%) Ruby
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (16.57%) Degree
2 26 (14.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (9.39%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.10%) CISM
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) QA
2 11 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.97%) SOC 2
4 7 (3.87%) GRC
5 5 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.76%) GDPR
6 4 (2.21%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.66%) WCAG
8 2 (1.10%) NIST
8 2 (1.10%) PERC
9 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (30.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (39.78%) Kubernetes
2 39 (21.55%) Grafana
3 26 (14.36%) Prometheus
4 16 (8.84%) Ansible
5 14 (7.73%) Argo
6 8 (4.42%) Cilium
7 5 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.21%) Istio
9 2 (1.10%) Packer
10 1 (0.55%) logstash
10 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.29%) Databricks
2 15 (8.29%) SendGrid
3 12 (6.63%) Google
4 4 (2.21%) New Relic
4 4 (2.21%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.21%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.21%) Oracle
4 4 (2.21%) Splunk
4 4 (2.21%) VMware
5 2 (1.10%) Cisco
5 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.10%) EMC
5 2 (1.10%) F5
5 2 (1.10%) Foundry
5 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.10%) Veeam
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) SAP