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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 281 416
Rank change year-on-year -12 +135 +8
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 116 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.61% 0.94% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.05% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 94 80 38
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +8.47% -7.81%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £115,250 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -17.27%

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 8,096 5,658 8,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.62% 46.03% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,433 4,009 6,855
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £59,750 £56,250 £56,250
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 £122,300 £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 25 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 25 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 -36 10 £76,250 -1.61% 13
West London -21 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 86 (62.32%) Azure
3 81 (58.70%) AWS
4 46 (33.33%) GCP
5 31 (22.46%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.01%) Serverless
7 27 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (12.32%) Amazon S3
9 17 (12.32%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (11.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (11.59%) Datadog
11 14 (10.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (9.42%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (9.42%) Azure Storage
13 10 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (5.80%) Pulumi
16 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (5.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.59%) Network Security
2 13 (9.42%) DMARC
3 11 (7.97%) Firewall
4 7 (5.07%) DSL
4 7 (5.07%) VPN
5 5 (3.62%) DNS
6 4 (2.90%) SSH
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
7 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
2 6 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.35%) Power BI
2 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (2.90%) Tableau
4 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.17%) Data Vault
4 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.45%) MySQL
5 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Looker
6 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.39%) GitLab
3 23 (16.67%) Git
4 15 (10.87%) 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%) NUnit
9 1 (0.72%) Subversion
9 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 33 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.04%) Finance
3 17 (12.32%) Banking
4 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.42%) Retail
5 8 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.17%) Advertising
8 3 (2.17%) Military
9 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (27.54%) Senior
2 25 (18.12%) Developer
3 20 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) Lead
4 17 (12.32%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (12.32%) Security Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 12 (8.70%) React Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Architect
9 10 (7.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.54%) Node.js
2 22 (15.94%) React
3 21 (15.22%) YAML
4 19 (13.77%) OAuth
5 18 (13.04%) CSS
5 18 (13.04%) OAuth2
5 18 (13.04%) RESTful
6 16 (11.59%) HTML
6 16 (11.59%) REST
7 15 (10.87%) Spring
7 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
8 9 (6.52%) AWS CDK
8 9 (6.52%) eBPF
9 7 (5.07%) .NET
10 6 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.35%) Playwright
10 6 (4.35%) PySpark
11 4 (2.90%) Kafka
12 3 (2.17%) OpenID
12 3 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (35.51%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.14%) PKI
3 12 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.80%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.35%) CMDB
6 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.72%) Robotics
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.49%) 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
7 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (90.58%) CI/CD
2 72 (52.17%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (26.81%) Agile
5 37 (26.81%) Microservices
6 35 (25.36%) Mentoring
7 34 (24.64%) Cloud Security
7 34 (24.64%) Containerisation
7 34 (24.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (22.46%) Incident Response
9 30 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 27 (19.57%) Clean Code
11 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (14.49%) Cryptography
14 19 (13.77%) Event-Driven
14 19 (13.77%) Zero Trust
15 17 (12.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.48%) Python
2 28 (20.29%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.12%) Java
3 25 (18.12%) PowerShell
4 24 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.94%) Bash
6 21 (15.22%) SQL
7 17 (12.32%) Go
8 8 (5.80%) Rust
9 5 (3.62%) C#
10 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.17%) Scala
11 2 (1.45%) Bicep
11 2 (1.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.72%) C
12 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.72%) Perl
12 1 (0.72%) PHP
12 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
2 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (7.97%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.25%) OSCP
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 18 (13.04%) QA
2 17 (12.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (12.32%) SOC 2
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%) NIST
8 2 (1.45%) GDPR
8 2 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (22.46%) Docker
2 10 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (55.80%) Terraform
2 52 (37.68%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.22%) Ansible
4 17 (12.32%) Grafana
5 13 (9.42%) Cilium
6 12 (8.70%) 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%) Databricks
3 9 (6.52%) VMware
4 7 (5.07%) 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%) Intel
8 3 (2.17%) Tenable
8 3 (2.17%) Varonis
9 2 (1.45%) Foundry
9 2 (1.45%) Google
9 2 (1.45%) Oracle
9 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.45%) Veeam