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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 280 415
Rank change year-on-year -21 +135 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 141 112 53
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.02% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 94 76 32
10th Percentile £52,250 £52,500 £55,175
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,938 £93,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £111,625 £110,625 £89,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 8,474 5,543 8,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.23% 46.00% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,681 3,840 6,161
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -9 11 £80,000 +3.23% 13
West London -27 1 £82,500 +29.92% 12
East London - 1 £130,000 - 5
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 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) CMS
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) GitHub
2 97 (68.79%) Azure
3 79 (56.03%) AWS
4 49 (34.75%) GCP
5 36 (25.53%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (17.73%) Serverless
7 22 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (12.06%) Amazon S3
8 17 (12.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 17 (12.06%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (12.06%) Datadog
9 16 (11.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (9.22%) Azure Storage
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.38%) Azure AKS
12 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
13 8 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) DMARC
2 11 (7.80%) Network Security
3 8 (5.67%) Firewall
4 6 (4.26%) VPN
5 5 (3.55%) DNS
6 4 (2.84%) SSH
7 2 (1.42%) DSL
7 2 (1.42%) HTTP
8 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.38%) Delta Lake
3 8 (5.67%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.67%) Power BI
4 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.26%) Tableau
5 5 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.55%) Data Vault
5 5 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.13%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.42%) MySQL
8 2 (1.42%) Redis
8 2 (1.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (37.59%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.15%) Git
3 21 (14.89%) GitLab
4 10 (7.09%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.84%) JIRA
7 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.13%) Gradle
7 3 (2.13%) JUnit
7 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 3 (2.13%) Postman
7 3 (2.13%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.42%) Appium
8 2 (1.42%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.42%) Mockito
8 2 (1.42%) NUnit
8 2 (1.42%) Selenium
9 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 37 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.73%) Finance
3 18 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.35%) Banking
5 13 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.38%) Retail
7 6 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.55%) Law
8 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.84%) Marketing
10 2 (1.42%) Advertising
10 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (26.95%) Senior
2 30 (21.28%) Developer
3 18 (12.77%) Lead
4 17 (12.06%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (11.35%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (9.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) React Developer
8 13 (9.22%) Security Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) Architect
10 10 (7.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 9 (6.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Technical Leader
13 6 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (52.48%) Terraform
2 45 (31.91%) Node.js
3 25 (17.73%) React
4 22 (15.60%) REST
5 21 (14.89%) OAuth
5 21 (14.89%) OAuth2
5 21 (14.89%) RESTful
6 20 (14.18%) YAML
7 19 (13.48%) CSS
8 17 (12.06%) HTML
8 17 (12.06%) Spring
8 17 (12.06%) Spring Boot
9 10 (7.09%) eBPF
10 9 (6.38%) .NET
11 8 (5.67%) PySpark
12 7 (4.96%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.96%) AWS CDK
12 7 (4.96%) Jest
12 7 (4.96%) Kafka
13 6 (4.26%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (31.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.22%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.09%) PKI
4 8 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.67%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.26%) CMDB
6 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.71%) Podcast
9 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.48%) Linux
2 8 (5.67%) Windows
3 6 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.84%) Unix
5 3 (2.13%) Android
5 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (92.20%) CI/CD
2 79 (56.03%) DevOps
3 65 (46.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (26.24%) Microservices
6 36 (25.53%) Agile
7 35 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (24.82%) Mentoring
8 34 (24.11%) Containerisation
8 34 (24.11%) Test Automation
9 30 (21.28%) Clean Code
10 26 (18.44%) Cloud Security
11 23 (16.31%) AI
11 23 (16.31%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (16.31%) Software Engineering
12 22 (15.60%) Computer Science
12 22 (15.60%) Incident Response
12 22 (15.60%) Observability
13 21 (14.89%) Event-Driven
13 21 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (39.72%) Python
2 31 (21.99%) TypeScript
3 27 (19.15%) Java
4 26 (18.44%) JavaScript
4 26 (18.44%) PowerShell
5 23 (16.31%) SQL
6 22 (15.60%) Bash
7 14 (9.93%) Go
8 7 (4.96%) C#
8 7 (4.96%) Scala
9 4 (2.84%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.13%) Bicep
11 2 (1.42%) Groovy
11 2 (1.42%) Rust
12 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (21.28%) Degree
2 22 (15.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.93%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.09%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.09%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.84%) OSCP
7 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.42%) CCSP
7 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.42%) CISM
7 2 (1.42%) CISSP
7 2 (1.42%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.42%) GCIA
7 2 (1.42%) GCIH
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.31%) QA
2 11 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.80%) SOC 2
3 9 (6.38%) GRC
4 7 (4.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.55%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.13%) WCAG
7 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (24.82%) Docker
2 9 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (36.88%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.31%) Grafana
3 17 (12.06%) Prometheus
4 16 (11.35%) Ansible
5 10 (7.09%) Cilium
6 6 (4.26%) Packer
7 4 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.71%) Argo
8 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.22%) Databricks
2 13 (9.22%) SendGrid
3 8 (5.67%) VMware
4 6 (4.26%) Cisco
4 6 (4.26%) EMC
4 6 (4.26%) F5
4 6 (4.26%) Google
4 6 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.84%) New Relic
5 4 (2.84%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.84%) Oracle
6 3 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.13%) Splunk
7 2 (1.42%) Foundry
7 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) Tenable
7 2 (1.42%) Veeam