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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 280 411
Rank change year-on-year -3 +131 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 149 105 59
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 0.89% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.93% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 101 72 33
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,175 £55,350
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.06%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £103,500
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 8,426 5,428 8,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.03% 45.83% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,668 3,720 5,712
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,501 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,100 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%

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 15 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 15 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 -20 11 £80,000 +3.23% 31
West London -18 1 £82,500 +29.92% 13
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 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) GitHub
2 100 (67.11%) Azure
3 78 (52.35%) AWS
4 55 (36.91%) GCP
5 36 (24.16%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (14.77%) Serverless
7 20 (13.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (12.08%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (11.41%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (11.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 17 (11.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (10.74%) Datadog
11 14 (9.40%) Amazon S3
12 13 (8.72%) Azure AKS
12 13 (8.72%) Azure Storage
13 11 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.04%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (6.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (6.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (6.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.72%) DMARC
2 10 (6.71%) Network Security
3 4 (2.68%) Firewall
3 4 (2.68%) SSH
3 4 (2.68%) VPN
4 3 (2.01%) DNS
5 2 (1.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.04%) Delta Lake
3 8 (5.37%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.37%) Power BI
4 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.03%) Tableau
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.36%) Data Vault
5 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.34%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.34%) Redis
7 2 (1.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 62 (41.61%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.78%) Git
3 24 (16.11%) GitLab
4 10 (6.71%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.37%) Postman
5 8 (5.37%) REST Assured
6 6 (4.03%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.03%) Selenium
7 5 (3.36%) Newman
8 4 (2.68%) Gatling
8 4 (2.68%) JMeter
8 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.01%) Gradle
9 3 (2.01%) JIRA
9 3 (2.01%) JUnit
9 3 (2.01%) Maven
10 2 (1.34%) Appium
10 2 (1.34%) Mockito
10 2 (1.34%) NUnit
General
1 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Finance
3 21 (14.09%) Banking
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.04%) Retail
7 6 (4.03%) Law
8 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.68%) Marketing
9 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Advertising
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) Senior
2 29 (19.46%) Developer
3 21 (14.09%) Lead
4 19 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Architect
8 13 (8.72%) React Developer
8 13 (8.72%) Security Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Technical Leader
12 7 (4.70%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Data Engineer
13 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.03%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (51.01%) Terraform
2 45 (30.20%) Node.js
3 28 (18.79%) REST
4 24 (16.11%) React
5 21 (14.09%) OAuth
5 21 (14.09%) OAuth2
5 21 (14.09%) RESTful
6 19 (12.75%) CSS
6 19 (12.75%) YAML
7 17 (11.41%) HTML
7 17 (11.41%) Spring
7 17 (11.41%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.71%) eBPF
9 9 (6.04%) .NET
9 9 (6.04%) Playwright
10 8 (5.37%) GraphQL
10 8 (5.37%) PySpark
11 7 (4.70%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.03%) Jest
12 6 (4.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 48 (32.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (6.71%) PKI
5 8 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.03%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.68%) CMDB
9 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.67%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.74%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.01%) Android
4 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (93.29%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.72%) DevOps
3 70 (46.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (26.85%) Test Automation
6 38 (25.50%) Microservices
7 37 (24.83%) Containerisation
8 36 (24.16%) Agile
9 35 (23.49%) Mentoring
10 34 (22.82%) AI
11 31 (20.81%) Clean Code
11 31 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (18.12%) Cloud Security
13 26 (17.45%) Observability
14 25 (16.78%) Software Engineering
15 24 (16.11%) Event-Driven
16 23 (15.44%) Computer Science
17 22 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
18 20 (13.42%) Incident Response
19 19 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.26%) Python
2 32 (21.48%) TypeScript
3 31 (20.81%) Java
4 26 (17.45%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.45%) PowerShell
5 22 (14.77%) Go
5 22 (14.77%) SQL
6 20 (13.42%) Bash
7 7 (4.70%) C#
7 7 (4.70%) Scala
8 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.01%) Groovy
10 2 (1.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.67%) C
11 1 (0.67%) Ruby
11 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (18.12%) Degree
2 23 (15.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
5 10 (6.71%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CISM
6 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.67%) CCSP
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) GCIA
7 1 (0.67%) GCIH
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) OSCP
7 1 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.79%) QA
2 12 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.38%) SOC 2
4 9 (6.04%) GRC
5 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.68%) ISO 20022
8 3 (2.01%) WCAG
9 2 (1.34%) GDPR
10 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.67%) NIST
10 1 (0.67%) PERC
System Software
1 36 (24.16%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (36.91%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.11%) Grafana
3 20 (13.42%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.72%) Ansible
5 10 (6.71%) Cilium
6 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.36%) Argo
8 4 (2.68%) Packer
9 3 (2.01%) Istio
10 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Databricks
2 13 (8.72%) SendGrid
3 10 (6.71%) Google
4 6 (4.03%) VMware
5 4 (2.68%) Cisco
5 4 (2.68%) EMC
5 4 (2.68%) F5
5 4 (2.68%) New Relic
5 4 (2.68%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle
5 4 (2.68%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.34%) Foundry
7 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.34%) Veeam
8 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.67%) Varonis