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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 352 346
Rank change year-on-year +95 -6 +171
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 126 76 111
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.09% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 91 47 89
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £64,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -7.78% +15.21%
75th Percentile £110,625 £103,125 £117,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.41% -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 5,756 7,003 8,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.24% 45.34% 46.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 4,478 7,108
10th Percentile £37,375 £45,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,661
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 10 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 10 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 +33 13 £75,000 -25.00% 14
South London - 1 - - 10
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 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Appian
3 2 (1.59%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.38%) Shopify
2 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) GitHub
2 61 (48.41%) Azure
3 58 (46.03%) AWS
4 44 (34.92%) GCP
5 38 (30.16%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (23.02%) Datadog
7 20 (15.87%) Serverless
8 19 (15.08%) Cloud Run
9 18 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (13.49%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (13.49%) Google Compute Engine
11 16 (12.70%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (12.70%) Azure AKS
12 15 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
14 10 (7.94%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (7.94%) Entra ID
15 9 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (6.35%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.32%) Firewall
2 10 (7.94%) VPN
3 9 (7.14%) Network Security
3 9 (7.14%) WAN
4 4 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.38%) DSL
6 2 (1.59%) DNS
7 1 (0.79%) Broadband
7 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.08%) BigQuery
2 12 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.94%) Flink
4 7 (5.56%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.17%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.59%) Metadata
9 2 (1.59%) Power BI
9 2 (1.59%) Tableau
10 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.79%) Looker
Development Applications
1 56 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 23 (18.25%) Git
3 15 (11.90%) GitLab
4 6 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.59%) JIRA
6 2 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.79%) CMake
7 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.79%) Deequ
7 1 (0.79%) JMeter
7 1 (0.79%) JUnit
7 1 (0.79%) Postman
7 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.79%) Selenium
General
1 43 (34.13%) Finance
2 36 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Banking
4 12 (9.52%) Front Office
5 11 (8.73%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.76%) Electronics
7 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.76%) Marketing
8 4 (3.17%) Back Office
8 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.17%) Retail
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.38%) Law
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (34.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (13.49%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (13.49%) Developer
3 17 (13.49%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (12.70%) Senior
5 15 (11.90%) GCP Engineer
6 14 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
6 14 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Lead
11 7 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Platform Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.84%) React
2 23 (18.25%) Node.js
3 15 (11.90%) Kafka
4 14 (11.11%) REST
5 11 (8.73%) .NET
5 11 (8.73%) CSS
5 11 (8.73%) GraphQL
5 11 (8.73%) HTML
5 11 (8.73%) YAML
6 9 (7.14%) ADO
6 9 (7.14%) OAuth
6 9 (7.14%) SAML
7 7 (5.56%) AWS CDK
7 7 (5.56%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.76%) Django
8 6 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.97%) RESTful
9 5 (3.97%) TensorFlow
10 4 (3.17%) HTML5
10 4 (3.17%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Blog
5 4 (3.17%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Derivative
6 2 (1.59%) Genomics
6 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.29%) Linux
2 9 (7.14%) VMS
3 7 (5.56%) Windows
4 5 (3.97%) Unix
5 3 (2.38%) SUSE
6 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 91 (72.22%) DevOps
3 71 (56.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (36.51%) Agile
5 43 (34.13%) Observability
6 41 (32.54%) Containerisation
7 33 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (24.60%) AI
9 26 (20.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (20.63%) Software Engineering
10 25 (19.84%) Cloud Security
10 25 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (19.05%) Analytics
11 24 (19.05%) Customer Experience
11 24 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 20 (15.87%) Incident Response
14 18 (14.29%) High Availability
14 18 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 81 (64.29%) Python
2 40 (31.75%) Bash
3 31 (24.60%) SQL
4 26 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 23 (18.25%) TypeScript
6 20 (15.87%) PowerShell
7 19 (15.08%) Go
8 17 (13.49%) Java
9 10 (7.94%) Bicep
10 9 (7.14%) C#
10 9 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (3.17%) Ruby
12 3 (2.38%) Rust
13 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.79%) C++
14 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Degree
2 16 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.94%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.38%) OSCP
8 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.59%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.79%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) GDPR
2 19 (15.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (10.32%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.97%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.97%) QA
6 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.17%) GRC
6 4 (3.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (50.00%) Docker
2 11 (8.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (71.43%) Terraform
2 80 (63.49%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.81%) Prometheus
4 28 (22.22%) Ansible
5 16 (12.70%) Argo
5 16 (12.70%) Grafana
6 4 (3.17%) Cilium
6 4 (3.17%) logstash
7 3 (2.38%) Rancher
8 1 (0.79%) Icinga
8 1 (0.79%) Nagios
8 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Google
2 20 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 9 (7.14%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.76%) SAP
5 6 (4.76%) Splunk
5 6 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (1.59%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.79%) Databricks
7 1 (0.79%) UiPath