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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 294 426
Rank change year-on-year +30 +132 +71
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 148 104 77
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.87% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 1.96% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 106 69 42
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,900 £56,825
25th Percentile £66,563 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,500 £104,750
England median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.75%

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 7,370 5,308 10,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.20% 44.31% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,911 3,771 8,114
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -47 15 £55,000 -32.31% 13
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 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.03%) Apache
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) GitHub
2 84 (56.76%) Azure
3 83 (56.08%) AWS
4 43 (29.05%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (29.05%) GCP
5 37 (25.00%) Serverless
6 35 (23.65%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (12.16%) Datadog
9 17 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (10.14%) Amazon S3
12 13 (8.78%) Pulumi
13 12 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
14 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
15 8 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (4.73%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Firewall
2 15 (10.14%) Network Security
3 13 (8.78%) DSL
4 11 (7.43%) VPN
5 8 (5.41%) WAN
6 7 (4.73%) DMARC
7 3 (2.03%) DNS
8 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.41%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.05%) Delta Lake
3 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.70%) Flink
4 4 (2.70%) Power BI
5 3 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.03%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.03%) Tableau
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.35%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) MySQL
6 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (38.51%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.24%) GitLab
3 26 (17.57%) Git
4 14 (9.46%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.70%) JIRA
7 3 (2.03%) Postman
7 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.35%) Appium
8 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.35%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.68%) CMake
9 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.24%) Finance
3 20 (13.51%) Banking
4 12 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Retail
5 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.70%) Front Office
7 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.03%) Advertising
8 3 (2.03%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Senior
2 29 (19.59%) Developer
3 27 (18.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (17.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (11.49%) Architect
8 15 (10.14%) Security Engineer
9 14 (9.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (8.78%) AWS Architect
10 13 (8.78%) AWS Security Architect
10 13 (8.78%) Lead
10 13 (8.78%) Security Architect
11 12 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (8.11%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 12 (8.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 10 (6.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (6.76%) Python Developer
13 9 (6.08%) Data Engineer
13 9 (6.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) Node.js
2 23 (15.54%) React
3 20 (13.51%) CSS
4 18 (12.16%) HTML
5 17 (11.49%) OAuth
5 17 (11.49%) YAML
6 14 (9.46%) AWS CDK
7 9 (6.08%) OAuth2
8 8 (5.41%) ADO
8 8 (5.41%) eBPF
8 8 (5.41%) SAML
9 7 (4.73%) Kafka
9 7 (4.73%) PySpark
9 7 (4.73%) REST
9 7 (4.73%) RESTful
9 7 (4.73%) Spring
9 7 (4.73%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.70%) .NET
10 4 (2.70%) Playwright
11 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 48 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.11%) PKI
4 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.05%) CMDB
5 6 (4.05%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.68%) Replication
9 1 (0.68%) Robotics
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.49%) Linux
2 10 (6.76%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) VMS
4 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.03%) Android
5 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (93.24%) CI/CD
2 80 (54.05%) DevOps
3 75 (50.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (31.08%) Agile
4 46 (31.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (25.68%) Cloud Security
6 35 (23.65%) Incident Response
7 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (20.27%) Containerisation
8 30 (20.27%) Observability
9 29 (19.59%) Customer Experience
10 27 (18.24%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (18.24%) Test Automation
11 25 (16.89%) Cryptography
12 24 (16.22%) Mentoring
12 24 (16.22%) Microservices
12 24 (16.22%) Zero Trust
13 23 (15.54%) Analytics
13 23 (15.54%) Clean Code
14 22 (14.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.68%) Python
2 29 (19.59%) SQL
3 26 (17.57%) TypeScript
4 25 (16.89%) Go
4 25 (16.89%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.54%) PowerShell
6 21 (14.19%) Bash
7 17 (11.49%) Java
8 14 (9.46%) Rust
9 8 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.03%) Bicep
10 3 (2.03%) C#
10 3 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.35%) Groovy
11 2 (1.35%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) Degree
2 16 (10.81%) OSCP
3 14 (9.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 12 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
6 11 (7.43%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.03%) CCSP
7 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.03%) CISM
7 3 (2.03%) CISSP
7 3 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.03%) GCIA
7 3 (2.03%) GCIH
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (15.54%) SOC 2
2 12 (8.11%) GRC
2 12 (8.11%) QA
3 9 (6.08%) GDPR
4 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.03%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (22.30%) Docker
2 18 (12.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (63.51%) Terraform
2 57 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.92%) Ansible
4 12 (8.11%) Cilium
5 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.41%) Grafana
7 6 (4.05%) Packer
8 5 (3.38%) Argo
9 4 (2.70%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.35%) logstash
10 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.41%) VMware
3 8 (5.41%) Zscaler
4 7 (4.73%) Google
4 7 (4.73%) SendGrid
5 6 (4.05%) Cisco
5 6 (4.05%) Databricks
5 6 (4.05%) EMC
5 6 (4.05%) F5
5 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.03%) Intel
6 3 (2.03%) Tenable
6 3 (2.03%) Varonis
7 2 (1.35%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle
7 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.35%) SAP