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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 323 379
Rank change year-on-year +64 +56 +116
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 139 87 100
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 0.63% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.44% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 101 57 66
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,200 £54,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £125,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% -10.17%

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 6,310 6,052 9,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.09% 44.16% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 4,186 8,145
10th Percentile £39,900 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,296 £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 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -11 13 £55,000 -33.33% 14
South London - 1 - - 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 7 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Apache
2 4 (2.88%) Appian
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.16%) Shopify
2 2 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) GitHub
2 79 (56.83%) AWS
3 63 (45.32%) Azure
4 50 (35.97%) GCP
5 34 (24.46%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (24.46%) Serverless
6 29 (20.86%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (19.42%) Datadog
8 22 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (13.67%) Azure AKS
10 16 (11.51%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (10.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (10.07%) Entra ID
13 13 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (9.35%) Cloud Run
13 13 (9.35%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (8.63%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (7.91%) Cloud Functions
15 11 (7.91%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.95%) Firewall
2 13 (9.35%) DSL
2 13 (9.35%) Network Security
2 13 (9.35%) VPN
3 12 (8.63%) WAN
4 4 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.72%) Broadband
5 1 (0.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.63%) BigQuery
2 10 (7.19%) Flink
3 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.88%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.88%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Metadata
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (46.04%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.27%) GitLab
3 23 (16.55%) Git
4 11 (7.91%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.16%) JIRA
7 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.44%) Deequ
7 2 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.72%) CMake
8 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 45 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 44 (31.65%) Finance
3 21 (15.11%) Banking
4 12 (8.63%) Front Office
5 11 (7.91%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.76%) Retail
7 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.32%) Electronics
8 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.32%) Marketing
9 4 (2.88%) Back Office
9 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.16%) Military
11 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.72%) Advertising
12 1 (0.72%) Billing
12 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (26.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (19.42%) Developer
3 26 (18.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (16.55%) Senior
5 18 (12.95%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (12.23%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.07%) Architect
8 13 (9.35%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.35%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (9.35%) Security Architect
9 11 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) GCP DevOps
9 11 (7.91%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) GCP Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Python Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.30%) Node.js
1 31 (22.30%) React
2 20 (14.39%) CSS
2 20 (14.39%) HTML
3 16 (11.51%) Kafka
4 14 (10.07%) AWS CDK
4 14 (10.07%) YAML
5 12 (8.63%) ADO
5 12 (8.63%) OAuth
5 12 (8.63%) SAML
6 10 (7.19%) REST
7 9 (6.47%) GraphQL
8 7 (5.04%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.32%) .NET
9 6 (4.32%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.60%) Django
10 5 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.60%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.79%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.32%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.60%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.88%) Blog
6 4 (2.88%) PKI
7 2 (1.44%) Derivative
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) Genomics
7 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Linux
2 12 (8.63%) VMS
3 8 (5.76%) Windows
4 5 (3.60%) Unix
5 3 (2.16%) SUSE
6 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (93.53%) CI/CD
2 80 (57.55%) DevOps
3 74 (53.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (40.29%) Agile
5 45 (32.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (31.65%) Observability
7 43 (30.94%) Containerisation
8 36 (25.90%) Incident Response
9 35 (25.18%) Customer Experience
10 32 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (21.58%) Cloud Security
12 27 (19.42%) AI
13 25 (17.99%) Analytics
13 25 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (16.55%) RBAC
15 23 (16.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (15.83%) Computer Science
16 22 (15.83%) Software Engineering
17 21 (15.11%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 86 (61.87%) Python
2 34 (24.46%) Bash
3 33 (23.74%) TypeScript
4 31 (22.30%) JavaScript
5 30 (21.58%) SQL
6 26 (18.71%) Go
7 16 (11.51%) Java
7 16 (11.51%) PowerShell
8 14 (10.07%) Rust
9 12 (8.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (4.32%) Bicep
11 4 (2.88%) C#
12 3 (2.16%) Ruby
13 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.72%) C++
14 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.72%) Perl
14 1 (0.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (25.18%) Degree
2 21 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.07%) OSCP
4 8 (5.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.72%) CISSP
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.72%) GCIA
6 1 (0.72%) GCIH
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (15.11%) SOC 2
3 16 (11.51%) GDPR
4 8 (5.76%) GRC
4 8 (5.76%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.88%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.88%) QA
6 4 (2.88%) SLA
7 2 (1.44%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (41.01%) Docker
2 15 (10.79%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (66.19%) Terraform
2 79 (56.83%) Kubernetes
3 33 (23.74%) Ansible
4 24 (17.27%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.79%) Argo
6 13 (9.35%) Grafana
7 8 (5.76%) Cilium
8 4 (2.88%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.88%) logstash
9 3 (2.16%) Rancher
10 1 (0.72%) Icinga
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.79%) Google
3 12 (8.63%) Palo Alto
3 12 (8.63%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.04%) VMware
5 6 (4.32%) SAP
6 5 (3.60%) Splunk
7 4 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.44%) Pega
9 1 (0.72%) Apple
9 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.72%) Databricks
9 1 (0.72%) Intel
9 1 (0.72%) New Relic
9 1 (0.72%) Tenable
9 1 (0.72%) Varonis