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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 298 421
Rank change year-on-year +38 +123 +73
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 150 98 81
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.78% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 1.77% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 109 69 46
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £57,125
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% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,750 £119,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,400 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +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 7,064 5,538 10,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.91% 44.12% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,733 4,039 8,165
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -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 12 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 12 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 -37 16 £55,000 -33.33% 24
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 7 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.67%) Appian
3 3 (2.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) 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 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Endur
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) GitHub
2 83 (55.33%) AWS
3 82 (54.67%) Azure
4 45 (30.00%) GCP
5 44 (29.33%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (26.67%) Serverless
7 35 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (17.33%) Datadog
9 23 (15.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (11.33%) Azure AKS
11 16 (10.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (9.33%) Amazon S3
12 14 (9.33%) Entra ID
13 13 (8.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (8.67%) Pulumi
14 11 (7.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (5.33%) Cloud Functions
16 8 (5.33%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.67%) Firewall
2 14 (9.33%) VPN
3 13 (8.67%) DSL
3 13 (8.67%) Network Security
4 11 (7.33%) WAN
5 3 (2.00%) DNS
6 1 (0.67%) DMARC
6 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) BigQuery
2 7 (4.67%) Flink
3 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.67%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.67%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.00%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.00%) Tableau
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.33%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.33%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (40.67%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.67%) GitLab
3 24 (16.00%) Git
4 10 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.33%) Appium
6 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.33%) JIRA
6 2 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) CMake
7 1 (0.67%) git-flow
7 1 (0.67%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.67%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.67%) Subversion
7 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 44 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.00%) Finance
3 16 (10.67%) Banking
4 13 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Front Office
5 7 (4.67%) Retail
6 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.00%) Advertising
8 3 (2.00%) Electronics
8 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.00%) Marketing
8 3 (2.00%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 36 (24.00%) Senior
2 29 (19.33%) Developer
3 24 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (15.33%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (14.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (11.33%) Architect
7 16 (10.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) AWS Architect
8 13 (8.67%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (8.67%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) React Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Senior React Developer
11 8 (5.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (5.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.33%) Node.js
2 26 (17.33%) React
3 18 (12.00%) CSS
3 18 (12.00%) HTML
4 14 (9.33%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.67%) YAML
6 12 (8.00%) OAuth
7 11 (7.33%) ADO
7 11 (7.33%) Kafka
7 11 (7.33%) SAML
8 7 (4.67%) REST
9 6 (4.00%) PySpark
10 5 (3.33%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.33%) TensorFlow
11 4 (2.67%) .NET
11 4 (2.67%) Django
11 4 (2.67%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.67%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.67%) scikit-learn
12 3 (2.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.67%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.67%) PKI
5 6 (4.00%) CMDB
5 6 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.33%) Hackathon
7 3 (2.00%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.67%) Linux
2 12 (8.00%) Windows
3 11 (7.33%) VMS
4 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.00%) Android
5 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.00%) SUSE
6 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (94.67%) CI/CD
2 86 (57.33%) DevOps
3 78 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (38.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (34.67%) Agile
6 44 (29.33%) Observability
7 37 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (23.33%) Cloud Security
8 35 (23.33%) Customer Experience
8 35 (23.33%) Incident Response
9 34 (22.67%) Containerisation
10 32 (21.33%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (18.00%) Analytics
12 25 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (16.00%) AI
14 23 (15.33%) DevSecOps
15 22 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (14.67%) Zero Trust
16 20 (13.33%) Cryptography
16 20 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (56.67%) Python
2 33 (22.00%) TypeScript
3 29 (19.33%) SQL
4 28 (18.67%) JavaScript
5 27 (18.00%) Bash
6 24 (16.00%) Go
7 23 (15.33%) PowerShell
8 16 (10.67%) Java
9 14 (9.33%) Rust
10 11 (7.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.33%) Bicep
12 3 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.33%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.33%) C#
13 2 (1.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.67%) C
14 1 (0.67%) C++
14 1 (0.67%) Perl
14 1 (0.67%) PHP
14 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (24.67%) Degree
2 17 (11.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.67%) OSCP
4 14 (9.33%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.33%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.00%) CCSP
8 3 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.00%) CISM
8 3 (2.00%) CISSP
8 3 (2.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.00%) GCIA
8 3 (2.00%) GCIH
9 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (14.00%) SOC 2
2 13 (8.67%) GDPR
3 7 (4.67%) GRC
4 6 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.33%) QA
6 4 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.67%) SLA
7 3 (2.00%) NIST
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (32.67%) Docker
2 22 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (8.67%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (67.33%) Terraform
2 72 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (26.67%) Ansible
4 15 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.33%) Argo
5 11 (7.33%) Grafana
6 7 (4.67%) Cilium
7 6 (4.00%) Packer
8 4 (2.67%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.67%) logstash
9 3 (2.00%) Rancher
10 1 (0.67%) Kibana
10 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.33%) Palo Alto
3 12 (8.00%) VMware
4 11 (7.33%) Zscaler
5 8 (5.33%) Google
6 7 (4.67%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.00%) Cisco
7 6 (4.00%) EMC
7 6 (4.00%) F5
7 6 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.33%) Databricks
9 4 (2.67%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.67%) SAP
10 3 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.00%) Intel
10 3 (2.00%) Tenable
10 3 (2.00%) Varonis
11 2 (1.33%) Pega
11 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.67%) OpenText