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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 357 363
Rank change year-on-year +103 +6 +134
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 76 111
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 0.50% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 1.12% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 41 79
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £140,500 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +3.08%

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 6,012 6,798 9,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.80% 44.83% 45.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,889 4,334 8,104
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,598 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +20 13 £55,000 -42.11% 24
South London - 1 - - 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 9 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.01%) Appian
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.26%) Shopify
2 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 66 (49.62%) AWS
3 64 (48.12%) Azure
4 47 (35.34%) GCP
5 37 (27.82%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (22.56%) Datadog
7 25 (18.80%) Serverless
8 20 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (14.29%) Azure AKS
9 19 (14.29%) Cloud Run
10 17 (12.78%) Google Compute Engine
11 16 (12.03%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (10.53%) Cloud Functions
12 14 (10.53%) Entra ID
13 12 (9.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (9.02%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (7.52%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (7.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) Firewall
2 12 (9.02%) VPN
2 12 (9.02%) WAN
3 9 (6.77%) Network Security
4 8 (6.02%) DSL
5 4 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.75%) Broadband
6 1 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.53%) BigQuery
2 11 (8.27%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.52%) Flink
4 7 (5.26%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.01%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.75%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Metadata
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (45.86%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.05%) Git
3 20 (15.04%) GitLab
4 6 (4.51%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.50%) Deequ
6 2 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.75%) CMake
7 1 (0.75%) JIRA
7 1 (0.75%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 45 (33.83%) Finance
2 39 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Banking
4 12 (9.02%) Front Office
5 11 (8.27%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Electronics
7 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.51%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Back Office
8 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.01%) Retail
9 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Advertising
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Law
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (17.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (16.54%) Developer
4 18 (13.53%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (13.53%) Senior
5 16 (12.03%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (10.53%) GCP DevOps
6 14 (10.53%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (9.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Python Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Architect
9 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) AWS Architect
10 8 (6.02%) AWS Security Architect
10 8 (6.02%) Lead
10 8 (6.02%) Security Architect
11 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.30%) React
2 26 (19.55%) Node.js
3 15 (11.28%) Kafka
4 14 (10.53%) CSS
4 14 (10.53%) HTML
5 13 (9.77%) YAML
6 12 (9.02%) ADO
6 12 (9.02%) OAuth
6 12 (9.02%) REST
6 12 (9.02%) SAML
7 11 (8.27%) GraphQL
8 10 (7.52%) AWS CDK
9 9 (6.77%) .NET
10 7 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 6 (4.51%) Django
11 6 (4.51%) TensorFlow
12 5 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.76%) PyTorch
13 4 (3.01%) pytest
13 4 (3.01%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.51%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.01%) Blog
6 4 (3.01%) Hackathon
6 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.50%) Derivative
7 2 (1.50%) Genomics
8 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.75%) Replication
8 1 (0.75%) Robotics
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (9.02%) VMS
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 5 (3.76%) Unix
5 3 (2.26%) SUSE
6 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (95.49%) CI/CD
2 87 (65.41%) DevOps
3 72 (54.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (37.59%) Agile
5 46 (34.59%) Observability
6 41 (30.83%) Containerisation
7 40 (30.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (24.06%) AI
9 30 (22.56%) Customer Experience
10 28 (21.05%) Cloud Security
11 26 (19.55%) Incident Response
11 26 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (18.80%) Analytics
12 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
13 24 (18.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (18.05%) Test Automation
14 20 (15.04%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (14.29%) RBAC
16 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 86 (64.66%) Python
2 36 (27.07%) Bash
3 32 (24.06%) SQL
4 28 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 26 (19.55%) TypeScript
6 24 (18.05%) Go
7 16 (12.03%) Java
7 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
8 12 (9.02%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (6.77%) Rust
10 7 (5.26%) C#
11 6 (4.51%) Bicep
12 4 (3.01%) Ruby
13 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.75%) C++
14 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.75%) Perl
14 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Degree
2 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) OSCP
5 6 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.51%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.75%) CCSP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CISM
7 1 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) GCIA
7 1 (0.75%) GCIH
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (15.04%) GDPR
3 17 (12.78%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (3.76%) PCI DSS
7 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
7 4 (3.01%) GRC
7 4 (3.01%) QA
7 4 (3.01%) SLA
8 2 (1.50%) NIST
9 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (45.86%) Docker
2 15 (11.28%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.02%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (68.42%) Terraform
2 80 (60.15%) Kubernetes
3 31 (23.31%) Ansible
4 27 (20.30%) Prometheus
5 16 (12.03%) Argo
6 13 (9.77%) Grafana
7 4 (3.01%) Cilium
7 4 (3.01%) logstash
8 3 (2.26%) Rancher
9 1 (0.75%) Icinga
9 1 (0.75%) Nagios
9 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Google
2 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.02%) Palo Alto
3 12 (9.02%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.26%) VMware
5 6 (4.51%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.51%) SAP
5 6 (4.51%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) Pega
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.75%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) Intel
7 1 (0.75%) Tenable
7 1 (0.75%) Varonis