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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 341 334
Rank change year-on-year +80 -7 +173
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 123 83 115
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.15% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 86 52 94
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,813 £117,188
90th Percentile £147,500 £129,250 £143,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +5.56% -15.24% +6.18%

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 5,762 7,212 8,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 42.04% 45.62% 47.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,720 4,656 6,998
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +39 11 £77,500 -22.50% 75
South London - 1 - - 14
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 9 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.25%) Appian
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.44%) Shopify
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) GitHub
2 58 (47.15%) AWS
3 54 (43.90%) Azure
4 40 (32.52%) GCP
5 34 (27.64%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (21.95%) Datadog
7 23 (18.70%) Serverless
8 19 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (14.63%) Cloud Run
10 16 (13.01%) Google Compute Engine
11 15 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (10.57%) Azure AKS
12 13 (10.57%) Cloud Functions
13 11 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (8.94%) Amazon S3
14 10 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (8.13%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) Firewall
2 9 (7.32%) Network Security
3 8 (6.50%) VPN
4 7 (5.69%) WAN
5 4 (3.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.63%) DNS
6 2 (1.63%) DSL
7 1 (0.81%) Broadband
7 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.63%) BigQuery
2 13 (10.57%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.13%) Flink
4 7 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.69%) Pinecone
5 5 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.25%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.63%) Metadata
8 2 (1.63%) Power BI
8 2 (1.63%) Tableau
9 1 (0.81%) Looker
9 1 (0.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 55 (44.72%) Jenkins
2 21 (17.07%) Git
3 15 (12.20%) GitLab
4 5 (4.07%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.63%) JIRA
7 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.81%) CMake
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.81%) Deequ
7 1 (0.81%) JMeter
7 1 (0.81%) JUnit
7 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 41 (33.33%) Finance
2 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Banking
4 12 (9.76%) Front Office
5 11 (8.94%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.88%) Electronics
7 6 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.88%) Marketing
8 5 (4.07%) Back Office
8 5 (4.07%) Retail
9 4 (3.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.25%) Law
10 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.81%) Legal
12 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (32.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (13.82%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (12.20%) Developer
5 14 (11.38%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) GCP Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Senior
6 13 (10.57%) GCP DevOps
6 13 (10.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (6.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Lead
10 7 (5.69%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (4.88%) Platform Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.51%) React
2 21 (17.07%) Node.js
3 16 (13.01%) Kafka
4 15 (12.20%) REST
5 12 (9.76%) GraphQL
6 11 (8.94%) .NET
7 10 (8.13%) YAML
8 9 (7.32%) CSS
8 9 (7.32%) HTML
9 7 (5.69%) ADO
9 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
9 7 (5.69%) OAuth
9 7 (5.69%) SAML
10 6 (4.88%) AWS CDK
10 6 (4.88%) Django
10 6 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.07%) JSON
11 5 (4.07%) RESTful
11 5 (4.07%) TensorFlow
11 5 (4.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.88%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.25%) Blog
5 4 (3.25%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.63%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.63%) Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Genomics
6 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.45%) Linux
2 7 (5.69%) VMS
3 6 (4.88%) Windows
4 5 (4.07%) Unix
5 3 (2.44%) SUSE
6 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (93.50%) CI/CD
2 91 (73.98%) DevOps
3 68 (55.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.77%) Agile
5 40 (32.52%) Observability
6 39 (31.71%) Containerisation
7 31 (25.20%) AI
8 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
9 28 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (21.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (20.33%) Cloud Security
12 22 (17.89%) Analytics
12 22 (17.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (16.26%) Test Automation
15 19 (15.45%) Customer Experience
15 19 (15.45%) Incident Response
16 17 (13.82%) High Availability
16 17 (13.82%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (65.85%) Python
2 40 (32.52%) Bash
3 30 (24.39%) SQL
4 25 (20.33%) JavaScript
5 22 (17.89%) TypeScript
6 19 (15.45%) Java
6 19 (15.45%) PowerShell
7 18 (14.63%) Go
8 10 (8.13%) Bicep
8 10 (8.13%) C#
9 7 (5.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (3.25%) Ruby
11 2 (1.63%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.63%) Rust
11 2 (1.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.63%) Swift
11 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.81%) C++
12 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (17.89%) Degree
2 15 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.50%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.63%) OSCP
8 2 (1.63%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) GDPR
2 17 (13.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (8.94%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (6.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.07%) QA
6 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.25%) GRC
6 4 (3.25%) SLA
7 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (49.59%) Docker
2 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (70.73%) Terraform
2 77 (62.60%) Kubernetes
3 32 (26.02%) Prometheus
4 25 (20.33%) Ansible
5 17 (13.82%) Grafana
6 16 (13.01%) Argo
7 4 (3.25%) Cilium
7 4 (3.25%) logstash
8 3 (2.44%) Rancher
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (16.26%) Google
2 19 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.69%) Palo Alto
4 7 (5.69%) Zscaler
5 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.88%) SAP
5 6 (4.88%) Splunk
6 5 (4.07%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) Pega
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath