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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 278 406
Rank change year-on-year -8 +128 +22
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 115 72
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.93% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.03% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 96 79 42
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,625 £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 £95,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £109,375 £115,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -15.86%

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 8,014 5,670 9,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.60% 45.90% 42.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,387 4,018 7,128
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,375 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -35 9 £75,000 -3.23% 17
West London -17 1 £82,500 +29.92% 2
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 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) CMS
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) GitHub
2 87 (63.04%) Azure
3 79 (57.25%) AWS
4 47 (34.06%) GCP
5 32 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (19.57%) Serverless
7 25 (18.12%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (11.59%) Amazon S3
10 16 (11.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (10.87%) Datadog
12 13 (9.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (9.42%) Azure Storage
13 12 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (6.52%) Pulumi
16 8 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
18 6 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.59%) Network Security
2 13 (9.42%) DMARC
3 12 (8.70%) Firewall
4 8 (5.80%) DSL
4 8 (5.80%) VPN
5 5 (3.62%) DNS
6 4 (2.90%) SSH
7 2 (1.45%) WAN
8 1 (0.72%) HTTP
8 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
2 6 (4.35%) Power BI
2 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.90%) Tableau
5 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.17%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.72%) Looker
7 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (36.23%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.12%) GitLab
3 22 (15.94%) Git
4 14 (10.14%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.62%) JIRA
7 3 (2.17%) Postman
7 3 (2.17%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.45%) Appium
8 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.45%) Selenium
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.72%) JUnit
9 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.72%) Maven
9 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.72%) Subversion
9 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.04%) Finance
3 17 (12.32%) Banking
4 13 (9.42%) Retail
5 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.17%) Advertising
9 3 (2.17%) Military
10 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (26.81%) Senior
2 25 (18.12%) Developer
3 21 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) Security Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Lead
6 13 (9.42%) Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) React Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Architect
8 10 (7.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Security Architect
10 8 (5.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Senior React Developer
10 8 (5.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.81%) Node.js
2 22 (15.94%) React
2 22 (15.94%) YAML
3 19 (13.77%) CSS
3 19 (13.77%) OAuth
4 18 (13.04%) RESTful
5 17 (12.32%) HTML
5 17 (12.32%) OAuth2
6 15 (10.87%) Spring
6 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.70%) REST
8 9 (6.52%) AWS CDK
8 9 (6.52%) eBPF
9 6 (4.35%) .NET
9 6 (4.35%) Playwright
9 6 (4.35%) PySpark
10 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.90%) Kafka
12 3 (2.17%) GraphQL
12 3 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 51 (36.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) PKI
2 13 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.80%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.35%) CMDB
5 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.72%) PropTech
10 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.72%) Robotics
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.77%) Linux
2 9 (6.52%) Windows
3 6 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.90%) Unix
5 3 (2.17%) Android
5 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (90.58%) CI/CD
2 73 (52.90%) DevOps
3 60 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (27.54%) Agile
6 36 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (25.36%) Containerisation
7 35 (25.36%) Microservices
8 34 (24.64%) Cloud Security
9 33 (23.91%) Mentoring
10 31 (22.46%) Incident Response
11 29 (21.01%) Test Automation
12 27 (19.57%) Clean Code
13 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (15.94%) Software Engineering
15 21 (15.22%) Cryptography
15 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (14.49%) Zero Trust
17 19 (13.77%) Event-Driven
18 18 (13.04%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.20%) Python
2 27 (19.57%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.12%) Java
4 24 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.22%) Bash
5 21 (15.22%) SQL
6 18 (13.04%) Go
7 9 (6.52%) Rust
8 4 (2.90%) C#
9 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.17%) Scala
10 2 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (21.01%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
2 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.97%) Azure Certification
3 11 (7.97%) OSCP
4 8 (5.80%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.17%) CCSP
6 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.17%) CISM
6 3 (2.17%) CISSP
6 3 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.17%) GCIA
6 3 (2.17%) GCIH
7 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (13.04%) SOC 2
2 17 (12.32%) QA
3 13 (9.42%) GRC
4 6 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.90%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.17%) GDPR
7 3 (2.17%) NIST
8 2 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (21.74%) Docker
2 11 (7.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (55.07%) Terraform
2 51 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 22 (15.94%) Ansible
4 14 (10.14%) Grafana
5 13 (9.42%) Cilium
6 11 (7.97%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.35%) Packer
8 4 (2.90%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.45%) Argo
11 1 (0.72%) Kibana
11 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.42%) SendGrid
3 9 (6.52%) VMware
4 8 (5.80%) Databricks
4 8 (5.80%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.35%) Cisco
5 6 (4.35%) EMC
5 6 (4.35%) F5
5 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.62%) New Relic
7 4 (2.90%) OneLogin
8 3 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.17%) Google
8 3 (2.17%) Intel
8 3 (2.17%) Tenable
8 3 (2.17%) Varonis
9 2 (1.45%) Foundry
9 2 (1.45%) Oracle
9 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.45%) Veeam