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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 279 391
Rank change year-on-year -14 +112 -38
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 161 105 60
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 0.89% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.95% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 108 72 33
10th Percentile £59,250 £53,175 £55,350
25th Percentile £64,375 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -9.86%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £110,000 £104,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 8,567 5,379 8,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.74% 45.69% 44.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 3,685 5,642
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,762
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -1.91%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -8 12 £80,000 +3.23% 36
West London -15 2 £81,250 +27.95% 11
East London - 1 £130,000 - 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 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.62%) CMS
2 1 (0.62%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) GitHub
2 108 (67.08%) Azure
3 79 (49.07%) AWS
4 57 (35.40%) GCP
5 39 (24.22%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (14.91%) Serverless
7 21 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (11.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (11.18%) Azure AKS
10 18 (11.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (9.94%) Datadog
13 15 (9.32%) Azure Storage
14 14 (8.70%) Amazon S3
15 11 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (5.59%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (5.59%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) DMARC
2 11 (6.83%) Network Security
3 6 (3.73%) Firewall
3 6 (3.73%) VPN
4 4 (2.48%) DNS
4 4 (2.48%) SSH
5 3 (1.86%) HTTP
6 1 (0.62%) Internet
6 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.59%) Delta Lake
3 8 (4.97%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.97%) Power BI
4 6 (3.73%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.73%) Tableau
5 5 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.11%) Data Vault
5 5 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.86%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.24%) MySQL
7 2 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 27 (16.77%) Git
3 24 (14.91%) GitLab
4 10 (6.21%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.59%) Postman
5 9 (5.59%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.35%) Selenium
7 6 (3.73%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.11%) Newman
9 4 (2.48%) Gatling
9 4 (2.48%) JIRA
9 4 (2.48%) JMeter
9 4 (2.48%) JUnit
9 4 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.86%) Gradle
10 3 (1.86%) Maven
11 2 (1.24%) Appium
11 2 (1.24%) Mockito
11 2 (1.24%) NUnit
General
1 44 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.50%) Finance
3 21 (13.04%) Banking
4 16 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.59%) Retail
7 6 (3.73%) Law
7 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.48%) Marketing
8 4 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Advertising
9 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (24.84%) Senior
2 30 (18.63%) Developer
3 22 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.66%) Lead
4 18 (11.18%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (11.18%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (8.70%) Architect
6 14 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (8.70%) Security Engineer
7 13 (8.07%) React Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.97%) Technical Leader
12 7 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (52.17%) Terraform
2 46 (28.57%) Node.js
3 30 (18.63%) REST
4 25 (15.53%) React
5 22 (13.66%) OAuth
5 22 (13.66%) OAuth2
5 22 (13.66%) RESTful
6 20 (12.42%) CSS
6 20 (12.42%) YAML
7 18 (11.18%) HTML
7 18 (11.18%) Spring
7 18 (11.18%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.21%) eBPF
8 10 (6.21%) Playwright
9 9 (5.59%) .NET
9 9 (5.59%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.97%) PySpark
11 7 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.73%) Jest
12 6 (3.73%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 51 (31.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.07%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.21%) PKI
4 8 (4.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (4.97%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.73%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.48%) CMDB
7 4 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.56%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.48%) Unix
3 4 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.86%) Android
4 3 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (93.79%) CI/CD
2 95 (59.01%) DevOps
3 76 (47.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (27.33%) Test Automation
6 43 (26.71%) Containerisation
7 41 (25.47%) Microservices
8 40 (24.84%) Agile
9 38 (23.60%) AI
10 37 (22.98%) Mentoring
11 34 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (19.88%) Clean Code
12 32 (19.88%) Cloud Security
13 29 (18.01%) Observability
13 29 (18.01%) Software Engineering
14 28 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (16.77%) Event-Driven
16 23 (14.29%) Computer Science
17 21 (13.04%) Analytics
17 21 (13.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.75%) Python
2 33 (20.50%) Java
2 33 (20.50%) TypeScript
3 30 (18.63%) PowerShell
4 29 (18.01%) SQL
5 27 (16.77%) JavaScript
6 25 (15.53%) Bash
7 23 (14.29%) Go
8 7 (4.35%) C#
8 7 (4.35%) Scala
9 5 (3.11%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.86%) Bicep
10 3 (1.86%) Groovy
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.62%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (16.77%) Degree
2 23 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (9.94%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
5 10 (6.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.24%) CISM
6 2 (1.24%) CISSP
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.62%) CCSP
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) GCIA
7 1 (0.62%) GCIH
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) OSCP
7 1 (0.62%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.63%) QA
2 13 (8.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.83%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.59%) GRC
5 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.73%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.48%) GDPR
7 4 (2.48%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.86%) WCAG
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.62%) NIST
9 1 (0.62%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (25.47%) Docker
2 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (18.01%) Grafana
3 24 (14.91%) Prometheus
4 16 (9.94%) Ansible
5 10 (6.21%) Cilium
6 7 (4.35%) Argo
7 6 (3.73%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.48%) Packer
9 3 (1.86%) Istio
10 1 (0.62%) Puppet
10 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.56%) Databricks
3 14 (8.70%) SendGrid
4 11 (6.83%) Google
5 6 (3.73%) VMware
6 4 (2.48%) Cisco
6 4 (2.48%) EMC
6 4 (2.48%) F5
6 4 (2.48%) New Relic
6 4 (2.48%) OneLogin
6 4 (2.48%) Oracle
6 4 (2.48%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.48%) Splunk
7 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.24%) Foundry
8 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.24%) Veeam
9 1 (0.62%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.62%) Intel