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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 279 433
Rank change year-on-year +4 +154 +58
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 144 111 73
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.91% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.03% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 103 69 41
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,500 £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 7,440 5,476 10,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.74% 44.91% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,080 3,856 8,173
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -40 13 £62,500 -19.35% 7
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 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) GitHub
2 87 (60.42%) Azure
3 81 (56.25%) AWS
4 47 (32.64%) GCP
5 38 (26.39%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (22.92%) Serverless
7 31 (21.53%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (17.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (11.81%) Datadog
12 15 (10.42%) Amazon S3
12 15 (10.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (9.03%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (6.94%) Azure Storage
15 10 (6.94%) Entra ID
16 9 (6.25%) Azure AKS
17 8 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.11%) Network Security
2 15 (10.42%) Firewall
3 12 (8.33%) DSL
4 10 (6.94%) DMARC
4 10 (6.94%) VPN
5 7 (4.86%) WAN
6 3 (2.08%) DNS
7 1 (0.69%) HTTP
7 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.17%) Delta Lake
3 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.47%) Power BI
4 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.08%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.08%) Tableau
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.39%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.69%) Big Data
6 1 (0.69%) Looker
Development Applications
1 56 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 28 (19.44%) GitLab
3 24 (16.67%) Git
4 15 (10.42%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.47%) JIRA
7 3 (2.08%) Postman
7 3 (2.08%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.39%) Appium
8 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.69%) CMake
9 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.69%) Gradle
9 1 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.69%) Maven
9 1 (0.69%) Subversion
9 1 (0.69%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.69%) Xcode
General
1 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.97%) Finance
3 17 (11.81%) Banking
4 13 (9.03%) Retail
5 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.08%) Advertising
8 3 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (25.69%) Senior
2 28 (19.44%) Developer
3 27 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (11.81%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (11.81%) Security Engineer
6 16 (11.11%) Architect
7 13 (9.03%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (8.33%) AWS Architect
8 12 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
8 12 (8.33%) Lead
8 12 (8.33%) Security Architect
9 11 (7.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.64%) React Developer
10 10 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.94%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) Node.js
2 22 (15.28%) React
3 21 (14.58%) CSS
4 20 (13.89%) YAML
5 19 (13.19%) HTML
5 19 (13.19%) OAuth
6 13 (9.03%) AWS CDK
7 12 (8.33%) OAuth2
8 11 (7.64%) RESTful
8 11 (7.64%) Spring
8 11 (7.64%) Spring Boot
9 9 (6.25%) eBPF
10 8 (5.56%) REST
11 7 (4.86%) ADO
11 7 (4.86%) PySpark
11 7 (4.86%) SAML
12 6 (4.17%) .NET
13 5 (3.47%) Playwright
14 4 (2.78%) Kafka
15 3 (2.08%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.03%) PKI
4 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.17%) CMDB
5 6 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.69%) Animation
10 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.69%) PropTech
10 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.69%) Robotics
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.94%) Windows
3 7 (4.86%) VMS
3 7 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.08%) Android
4 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (93.06%) CI/CD
2 74 (51.39%) DevOps
3 71 (49.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (29.86%) Agile
6 37 (25.69%) Cloud Security
6 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (24.31%) Incident Response
8 32 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 29 (20.14%) Microservices
10 28 (19.44%) Mentoring
11 26 (18.06%) Clean Code
11 26 (18.06%) Observability
11 26 (18.06%) Test Automation
12 25 (17.36%) Cryptography
12 25 (17.36%) Zero Trust
13 24 (16.67%) Customer Experience
14 23 (15.97%) Analytics
14 23 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.83%) Python
2 27 (18.75%) SQL
3 25 (17.36%) TypeScript
4 23 (15.97%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.28%) PowerShell
6 21 (14.58%) Go
7 19 (13.19%) Bash
8 18 (12.50%) Java
9 13 (9.03%) Rust
10 7 (4.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.78%) C#
12 3 (2.08%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.39%) Groovy
13 2 (1.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.69%) C++
14 1 (0.69%) Perl
14 1 (0.69%) PHP
14 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (24.31%) Degree
2 16 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.42%) OSCP
4 14 (9.72%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.94%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.08%) CCSP
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.08%) CISM
7 3 (2.08%) CISSP
7 3 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.08%) GCIA
7 3 (2.08%) GCIH
8 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (15.97%) SOC 2
2 16 (11.11%) QA
3 13 (9.03%) GRC
4 9 (6.25%) GDPR
5 6 (4.17%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.08%) NIST
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (20.14%) Docker
2 17 (11.81%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (60.42%) Terraform
2 53 (36.81%) Kubernetes
3 27 (18.75%) Ansible
4 13 (9.03%) Cilium
5 9 (6.25%) Grafana
5 9 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.17%) Packer
7 4 (2.78%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.39%) Argo
8 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.03%) Palo Alto
3 10 (6.94%) SendGrid
4 8 (5.56%) VMware
5 7 (4.86%) Zscaler
6 6 (4.17%) Cisco
6 6 (4.17%) Databricks
6 6 (4.17%) EMC
6 6 (4.17%) F5
6 6 (4.17%) Google
6 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.08%) Intel
7 3 (2.08%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.08%) Tenable
7 3 (2.08%) Varonis
8 2 (1.39%) Oracle
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.69%) SAP