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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 282 419
Rank change year-on-year +22 +137 +79
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 149 97 80
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 0.79% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.80% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 104 68 45
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £57,050
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,875 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.75%

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 7,223 5,394 10,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.85% 43.95% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,813 3,932 8,082
10th Percentile £41,785 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £121,125 £118,200
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -47 16 £55,000 -33.33% 15
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 5 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) Appian
4 2 (1.34%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Endur
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) GitHub
2 85 (57.05%) AWS
3 82 (55.03%) Azure
4 45 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (30.20%) GCP
5 38 (25.50%) Serverless
6 34 (22.82%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (14.77%) Datadog
9 16 (10.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (10.74%) Azure AKS
10 14 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (8.72%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (8.72%) Entra ID
11 13 (8.72%) Pulumi
12 10 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.70%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.08%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) Network Security
3 13 (8.72%) DSL
3 13 (8.72%) VPN
4 10 (6.71%) WAN
5 3 (2.01%) DNS
6 2 (1.34%) DMARC
7 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.37%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.03%) Delta Lake
2 6 (4.03%) Flink
3 5 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.01%) Power BI
5 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.01%) Tableau
6 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.34%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.34%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.34%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (38.93%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.11%) Git
2 24 (16.11%) GitLab
3 13 (8.72%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.03%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.34%) Appium
5 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.34%) JIRA
5 2 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.67%) CMake
6 1 (0.67%) git-flow
6 1 (0.67%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.67%) Maven
6 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.67%) Subversion
6 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 41 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.13%) Finance
3 18 (12.08%) Banking
4 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.71%) Retail
6 6 (4.03%) Front Office
6 6 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Advertising
7 3 (2.01%) Military
7 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Electronics
8 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
8 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.83%) Senior
2 33 (22.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (20.81%) Developer
4 24 (16.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (15.44%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (14.09%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (11.41%) Architect
8 16 (10.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.72%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.72%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (8.72%) Security Architect
10 11 (7.38%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.71%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) Security Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Data Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) React Developer
12 9 (6.04%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.79%) Node.js
2 25 (16.78%) React
3 19 (12.75%) CSS
4 18 (12.08%) HTML
5 14 (9.40%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.40%) YAML
6 13 (8.72%) OAuth
7 10 (6.71%) ADO
7 10 (6.71%) Kafka
7 10 (6.71%) SAML
8 7 (4.70%) PySpark
8 7 (4.70%) REST
9 6 (4.03%) eBPF
10 5 (3.36%) .NET
11 3 (2.01%) Django
11 3 (2.01%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.01%) OAuth2
11 3 (2.01%) PyTorch
11 3 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.74%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.71%) PKI
5 6 (4.03%) CMDB
5 6 (4.03%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.03%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.01%) Hackathon
7 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.09%) Linux
2 11 (7.38%) Windows
3 10 (6.71%) VMS
4 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.01%) Android
5 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (93.96%) CI/CD
2 81 (54.36%) DevOps
3 77 (51.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (36.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (34.23%) Agile
6 40 (26.85%) Observability
7 37 (24.83%) Cloud Security
8 36 (24.16%) Incident Response
8 36 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (22.82%) Customer Experience
10 31 (20.81%) Containerisation
11 30 (20.13%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (17.45%) Analytics
13 24 (16.11%) Zero Trust
14 23 (15.44%) Clean Code
14 23 (15.44%) Cryptography
14 23 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (14.77%) AI
15 22 (14.77%) DevSecOps
15 22 (14.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.36%) Python
2 31 (20.81%) TypeScript
3 29 (19.46%) SQL
4 27 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 25 (16.78%) Go
6 23 (15.44%) Bash
6 23 (15.44%) PowerShell
7 14 (9.40%) Java
7 14 (9.40%) Rust
8 10 (6.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.36%) Bicep
10 3 (2.01%) C#
10 3 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.34%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.34%) Groovy
11 2 (1.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.67%) C
12 1 (0.67%) C++
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (24.16%) Degree
2 16 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (10.74%) OSCP
3 14 (9.40%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.38%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
5 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.01%) CCSP
6 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.01%) CISM
6 3 (2.01%) CISSP
6 3 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.01%) GCIA
6 3 (2.01%) GCIH
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (15.44%) SOC 2
2 11 (7.38%) GDPR
3 10 (6.71%) GRC
4 6 (4.03%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.03%) QA
5 4 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.01%) NIST
7 2 (1.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 43 (28.86%) Docker
2 21 (14.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (65.77%) Terraform
2 68 (45.64%) Kubernetes
3 35 (23.49%) Ansible
4 12 (8.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.71%) Cilium
5 10 (6.71%) Grafana
6 9 (6.04%) Argo
7 6 (4.03%) Packer
8 4 (2.68%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.68%) logstash
9 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.34%) Rancher
10 1 (0.67%) Kibana
10 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.74%) Palo Alto
3 11 (7.38%) VMware
4 10 (6.71%) Zscaler
5 7 (4.70%) Google
5 7 (4.70%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.03%) Cisco
6 6 (4.03%) Databricks
6 6 (4.03%) EMC
6 6 (4.03%) F5
6 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.01%) Intel
7 3 (2.01%) SAP
7 3 (2.01%) Tenable
7 3 (2.01%) Varonis
8 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.34%) Pega
8 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.34%) SendGrid