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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 284 431
Rank change year-on-year +12 +147 +55
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 148 110 75
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.90% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.01% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 106 68 42
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,800
25th Percentile £66,250 £69,375 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,750 £104,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -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 7,419 5,464 10,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.84% 44.73% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,060 3,828 8,191
10th Percentile £41,700 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,400
90th Percentile £111,375 £120,000 £120,000
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 12 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 12 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 -50 14 £55,000 -30.16% 8
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
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
4 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 88 (59.46%) Azure
3 81 (54.73%) AWS
4 47 (31.76%) GCP
5 42 (28.38%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (22.97%) Serverless
7 32 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (12.84%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (12.16%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (12.16%) Datadog
11 16 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (10.14%) Amazon S3
13 13 (8.78%) Pulumi
14 12 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
15 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
16 9 (6.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (6.08%) Azure Storage
17 8 (5.41%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Firewall
1 16 (10.81%) Network Security
2 13 (8.78%) DSL
3 11 (7.43%) VPN
4 9 (6.08%) DMARC
5 8 (5.41%) WAN
6 3 (2.03%) DNS
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.41%) BigQuery
2 6 (4.05%) Delta Lake
3 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.38%) Power BI
4 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
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%) Flink
6 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 56 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 28 (18.92%) GitLab
3 25 (16.89%) Git
4 15 (10.14%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.38%) 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%) CMake
9 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.68%) Gradle
9 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.68%) Xcode
General
1 38 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
3 19 (12.84%) Banking
4 13 (8.78%) Retail
5 12 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.03%) Advertising
8 3 (2.03%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Front Office
9 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (25.00%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) Developer
3 27 (18.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (11.49%) Architect
8 16 (10.81%) Security Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.78%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (8.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 13 (8.78%) Lead
9 13 (8.78%) Security Architect
10 10 (6.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Data Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) React Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) Node.js
2 23 (15.54%) React
3 20 (13.51%) CSS
3 20 (13.51%) YAML
4 19 (12.84%) OAuth
5 18 (12.16%) HTML
6 14 (9.46%) AWS CDK
7 11 (7.43%) OAuth2
8 10 (6.76%) RESTful
8 10 (6.76%) Spring
8 10 (6.76%) Spring Boot
9 9 (6.08%) eBPF
10 8 (5.41%) ADO
10 8 (5.41%) REST
10 8 (5.41%) SAML
11 7 (4.73%) PySpark
12 6 (4.05%) .NET
12 6 (4.05%) Kafka
13 5 (3.38%) Playwright
14 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (8.78%) PKI
4 9 (6.08%) 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 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.68%) Animation
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.68%) PropTech
10 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.68%) Replication
10 1 (0.68%) Robotics
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
1 137 (92.57%) CI/CD
2 78 (52.70%) DevOps
3 74 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (31.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (30.41%) Agile
6 38 (25.68%) Cloud Security
7 37 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 36 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
10 29 (19.59%) Observability
11 28 (18.92%) Microservices
12 27 (18.24%) Mentoring
12 27 (18.24%) Test Automation
13 26 (17.57%) Cryptography
13 26 (17.57%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (16.89%) Clean Code
14 25 (16.89%) Customer Experience
14 25 (16.89%) Zero Trust
15 24 (16.22%) Analytics
16 22 (14.86%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.65%) Python
2 29 (19.59%) SQL
3 24 (16.22%) Go
3 24 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 22 (14.86%) JavaScript
4 22 (14.86%) PowerShell
5 20 (13.51%) Bash
6 19 (12.84%) Java
7 14 (9.46%) Rust
8 8 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.70%) C#
10 3 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.35%) Bicep
11 2 (1.35%) Groovy
11 2 (1.35%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Degree
2 16 (10.81%) OSCP
3 15 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (9.46%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
6 9 (6.08%) Security Cleared
7 8 (5.41%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.03%) CCSP
8 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.03%) CISM
8 3 (2.03%) CISSP
8 3 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.03%) GCIA
8 3 (2.03%) GCIH
9 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (16.22%) SOC 2
2 15 (10.14%) QA
3 13 (8.78%) GRC
4 10 (6.76%) GDPR
5 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.03%) NIST
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (21.62%) 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 91 (61.49%) Terraform
2 57 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.92%) Ansible
4 13 (8.78%) Cilium
5 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.41%) Grafana
7 6 (4.05%) Packer
8 4 (2.70%) HP Fortify
9 3 (2.03%) Argo
10 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) logstash
11 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) Palo Alto
3 9 (6.08%) SendGrid
4 8 (5.41%) VMware
4 8 (5.41%) Zscaler
5 7 (4.73%) Google
6 6 (4.05%) Cisco
6 6 (4.05%) Databricks
6 6 (4.05%) EMC
6 6 (4.05%) F5
6 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.03%) Intel
7 3 (2.03%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.03%) Tenable
7 3 (2.03%) Varonis
8 2 (1.35%) Oracle
8 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.35%) SAP