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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 288 390
Rank change year-on-year -6 +102 -45
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 165 100 64
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.64% 0.85% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.87% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 110 67 35
10th Percentile £59,750 £52,500 £55,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £95,313 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,100
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 8,612 5,338 8,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.28% 45.43% 44.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,719 3,649 5,473
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,626
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.08%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 11 £76,250 -1.61% 36
West London -14 3 £80,000 +25.98% 13
East London - 1 £130,000 - 1
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 1 (0.61%) CMS
1 1 (0.61%) Confluence
1 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.61%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) GitHub
2 107 (64.85%) Azure
3 78 (47.27%) AWS
4 61 (36.97%) GCP
5 37 (22.42%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (13.33%) Serverless
7 20 (12.12%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (11.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (10.91%) Azure AKS
10 16 (9.70%) Azure Storage
10 16 (9.70%) Datadog
11 15 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (7.27%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (5.45%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (5.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.09%) DMARC
2 11 (6.67%) Network Security
3 6 (3.64%) VPN
4 5 (3.03%) Firewall
5 4 (2.42%) DNS
5 4 (2.42%) SSH
6 3 (1.82%) HTTP
7 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.45%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.24%) BigQuery
3 7 (4.24%) Delta Lake
4 6 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.64%) Power BI
4 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.42%) Tableau
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.82%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.82%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.21%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.21%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (38.79%) Jenkins
2 26 (15.76%) GitLab
3 23 (13.94%) Git
4 13 (7.88%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.85%) Postman
5 8 (4.85%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.24%) Selenium
7 6 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.03%) Newman
9 4 (2.42%) Gatling
9 4 (2.42%) JIRA
9 4 (2.42%) JMeter
9 4 (2.42%) JUnit
10 3 (1.82%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.82%) Gradle
11 2 (1.21%) Appium
11 2 (1.21%) Maven
11 2 (1.21%) Mockito
11 2 (1.21%) NUnit
11 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.61%) Finance
3 21 (12.73%) Banking
4 14 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.45%) Retail
6 6 (3.64%) Law
6 6 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.42%) Marketing
8 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (26.06%) Senior
2 33 (20.00%) Developer
3 25 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) Lead
4 18 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (10.30%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (9.09%) React Developer
8 14 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Security Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Architect
9 12 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Java Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (51.52%) Terraform
2 48 (29.09%) Node.js
3 33 (20.00%) REST
4 26 (15.76%) React
5 23 (13.94%) OAuth
5 23 (13.94%) OAuth2
5 23 (13.94%) RESTful
6 21 (12.73%) CSS
6 21 (12.73%) YAML
7 19 (11.52%) HTML
7 19 (11.52%) Spring
7 19 (11.52%) Spring Boot
8 12 (7.27%) GraphQL
9 10 (6.06%) .NET
9 10 (6.06%) eBPF
10 9 (5.45%) Playwright
11 7 (4.24%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.24%) PySpark
12 6 (3.64%) Jest
12 6 (3.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 54 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.48%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.06%) PKI
5 8 (4.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (4.24%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.24%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.42%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.21%) CMDB
11 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.61%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Unix
3 3 (1.82%) Windows
4 2 (1.21%) Android
4 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (93.94%) CI/CD
2 95 (57.58%) DevOps
3 80 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (28.48%) Test Automation
5 45 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 44 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (26.06%) Microservices
8 41 (24.85%) AI
8 41 (24.85%) Mentoring
9 40 (24.24%) Agile
10 34 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 33 (20.00%) Observability
11 33 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 32 (19.39%) Cloud Security
13 28 (16.97%) Event-Driven
13 28 (16.97%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (14.55%) Computer Science
15 23 (13.94%) Incident Response
16 22 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.58%) Python
2 37 (22.42%) Java
2 37 (22.42%) TypeScript
3 30 (18.18%) SQL
4 27 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 27 (16.36%) PowerShell
5 25 (15.15%) Go
6 24 (14.55%) Bash
7 8 (4.85%) C#
8 5 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.03%) Scala
9 3 (1.82%) Bicep
10 2 (1.21%) C
10 2 (1.21%) Groovy
10 2 (1.21%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Degree
2 24 (14.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.48%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.45%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.82%) CISM
6 3 (1.82%) CISSP
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.61%) CCSP
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) GCIA
8 1 (0.61%) GCIH
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) OSCP
8 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.18%) QA
2 14 (8.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.27%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.45%) GRC
5 8 (4.85%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
7 5 (3.03%) GDPR
8 4 (2.42%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.82%) WCAG
10 2 (1.21%) NIST
10 2 (1.21%) PERC
11 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 43 (26.06%) Docker
2 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.39%) Grafana
3 25 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.09%) Ansible
5 11 (6.67%) Argo
6 10 (6.06%) Cilium
7 5 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.82%) Istio
9 2 (1.21%) Packer
10 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.09%) Databricks
2 15 (9.09%) SendGrid
3 11 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (2.42%) New Relic
4 4 (2.42%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle
4 4 (2.42%) Splunk
4 4 (2.42%) VMware
5 3 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco
6 2 (1.21%) EMC
6 2 (1.21%) F5
6 2 (1.21%) Foundry
6 2 (1.21%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.21%) Veeam
7 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.61%) Varonis