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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 275 415
Rank change year-on-year -15 +140 +29
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 113 80
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.91% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.99% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 96 76 47
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,938 £62,500
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 £88,750
90th Percentile £109,375 £116,250 £103,500
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 7,942 5,673 9,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.69% 45.45% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,301 4,036 7,709
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 15 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 15 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 -33 9 £75,000 -3.23% 10
West London -12 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 32 (23.19%) 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
17 6 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
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 6 (4.35%) Delta Lake
2 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.62%) Power BI
2 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.17%) Tableau
5 2 (1.45%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.72%) Looker
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (37.68%) 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%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Deequ
9 1 (0.72%) git-flow
9 1 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 17 (12.32%) Banking
4 13 (9.42%) Retail
5 11 (7.97%) 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 35 (25.36%) Senior
2 26 (18.84%) 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 14 (10.14%) React Developer
7 13 (9.42%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (8.70%) Architect
9 10 (7.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.25%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.52%) AWS Architect
10 9 (6.52%) AWS Security Architect
10 9 (6.52%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Security Architect
10 9 (6.52%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.36%) Node.js
2 23 (16.67%) YAML
3 22 (15.94%) React
4 20 (14.49%) CSS
5 19 (13.77%) OAuth
6 18 (13.04%) HTML
7 17 (12.32%) RESTful
8 16 (11.59%) OAuth2
9 15 (10.87%) Spring
9 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
10 10 (7.25%) AWS CDK
10 10 (7.25%) REST
11 9 (6.52%) eBPF
12 6 (4.35%) .NET
12 6 (4.35%) PySpark
13 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.62%) Playwright
14 3 (2.17%) ADO
14 3 (2.17%) Kafka
14 3 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (37.68%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.42%) PKI
4 8 (5.80%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.35%) CMDB
6 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Animation
11 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.72%) Robotics
11 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 72 (52.17%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (28.26%) Agile
4 39 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (27.54%) 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%) Clean Code
10 28 (20.29%) Test Automation
11 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (15.94%) Cryptography
13 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
13 21 (15.22%) Zero Trust
14 19 (13.77%) Analytics
14 19 (13.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.20%) Python
2 26 (18.84%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.12%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.39%) Java
4 24 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.22%) Bash
5 21 (15.22%) SQL
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
10 2 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (1.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (22.46%) Degree
2 15 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.70%) OSCP
5 11 (7.97%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.80%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.17%) CCSP
8 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.17%) CISM
8 3 (2.17%) CISSP
8 3 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.17%) GCIA
8 3 (2.17%) GCIH
9 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 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 7 (5.07%) 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%) Veeam