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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 278 419
Rank change year-on-year -9 +141 +29
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 114 79
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.92% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.01% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 96 77 46
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -16.13%

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 7,939 5,672 9,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.72% 45.55% 42.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,300 4,037 7,663
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £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 £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
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 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 16 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 -31 9 £75,000 -3.23% 12
West London -17 1 £82,500 +29.92% 4
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 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
3 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 33 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.01%) Serverless
7 27 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (13.77%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (12.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (11.59%) Amazon S3
11 16 (11.59%) Datadog
12 13 (9.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (9.42%) Azure Storage
13 12 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (7.25%) Pulumi
15 8 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (5.07%) Entra ID
16 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.59%) Network Security
2 13 (9.42%) DMARC
2 13 (9.42%) Firewall
3 9 (6.52%) DSL
3 9 (6.52%) VPN
4 5 (3.62%) DNS
5 4 (2.90%) SSH
6 3 (2.17%) WAN
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
2 6 (4.35%) Power BI
3 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
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%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.72%) Looker
7 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.84%) GitLab
3 21 (15.22%) 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 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) 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 34 (24.64%) Senior
2 25 (18.12%) Developer
3 22 (15.94%) 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%) Architect
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 10 (7.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Architect
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Security Architect
8 9 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Security Architect
8 9 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (24.64%) Node.js
2 23 (16.67%) YAML
3 21 (15.22%) React
4 19 (13.77%) CSS
4 19 (13.77%) OAuth
5 17 (12.32%) HTML
5 17 (12.32%) RESTful
6 16 (11.59%) OAuth2
7 15 (10.87%) Spring
7 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.25%) AWS CDK
8 10 (7.25%) REST
9 9 (6.52%) eBPF
10 7 (5.07%) PySpark
11 6 (4.35%) .NET
12 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.62%) Playwright
13 3 (2.17%) ADO
13 3 (2.17%) Kafka
13 3 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (37.68%) 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%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
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%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
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
5 3 (2.17%) VMS
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (90.58%) CI/CD
2 73 (52.90%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (27.54%) Agile
4 38 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (26.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (25.36%) Cloud Security
6 35 (25.36%) Containerisation
7 34 (24.64%) Microservices
8 33 (23.91%) Mentoring
9 32 (23.19%) Incident Response
10 28 (20.29%) Test Automation
11 27 (19.57%) Clean Code
12 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (15.94%) Cryptography
14 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
14 21 (15.22%) Zero Trust
15 20 (14.49%) Analytics
15 20 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (13.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 62 (44.93%) Python
2 25 (18.12%) TypeScript
3 24 (17.39%) Java
3 24 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.94%) SQL
5 21 (15.22%) Bash
6 18 (13.04%) Go
7 10 (7.25%) Rust
8 4 (2.90%) C#
9 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.17%) Scala
10 2 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
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 30 (21.74%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
2 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.70%) OSCP
4 11 (7.97%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.80%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.17%) CCSP
7 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.17%) CISM
7 3 (2.17%) CISSP
7 3 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.17%) GCIA
7 3 (2.17%) GCIH
8 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (13.77%) SOC 2
2 17 (12.32%) QA
3 13 (9.42%) GRC
4 6 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.90%) GDPR
5 4 (2.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.17%) NIST
7 2 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (21.01%) Docker
2 12 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (55.80%) Terraform
2 50 (36.23%) Kubernetes
3 22 (15.94%) Ansible
4 14 (10.14%) Grafana
5 13 (9.42%) Cilium
6 10 (7.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.35%) Packer
8 4 (2.90%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.45%) Argo
9 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.42%) SendGrid
3 9 (6.52%) Palo Alto
3 9 (6.52%) VMware
4 8 (5.80%) Databricks
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
8 3 (2.17%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.45%) Foundry
9 2 (1.45%) Oracle
9 2 (1.45%) Red Hat