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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 290 429
Rank change year-on-year +33 +139 +57
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 156 102 77
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 0.86% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.95% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 111 69 42
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £56,825
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,750 £104,750
England median annual salary £70,400 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +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 7,323 5,236 10,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.07% 44.23% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,907 3,741 8,067
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -48 16 £55,000 -33.33% 11
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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.28%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) Appian
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (56.41%) Azure
3 87 (55.77%) AWS
4 47 (30.13%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (29.49%) GCP
6 39 (25.00%) Serverless
7 36 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (12.82%) Datadog
10 18 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (10.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (9.62%) Amazon S3
14 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
15 13 (8.33%) Pulumi
16 12 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (7.69%) Entra ID
17 9 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 8 (5.13%) Azure Storage
18 8 (5.13%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.90%) Firewall
2 16 (10.26%) Network Security
3 13 (8.33%) DSL
4 12 (7.69%) VPN
5 9 (5.77%) WAN
6 7 (4.49%) DMARC
7 3 (1.92%) DNS
8 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.77%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.85%) Delta Lake
3 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.21%) Flink
3 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.56%) Power BI
5 3 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.92%) Spark SQL
5 3 (1.92%) Tableau
6 2 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.28%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.28%) MySQL
6 2 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.64%) Metadata
7 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (37.18%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.31%) Git
3 25 (16.03%) GitLab
4 15 (9.62%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.92%) JIRA
7 2 (1.28%) Appium
7 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.28%) Postman
7 2 (1.28%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.64%) CMake
8 1 (0.64%) git-flow
8 1 (0.64%) Selenium
8 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 40 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.59%) Finance
3 21 (13.46%) Banking
4 12 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.69%) Retail
5 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.21%) Front Office
7 4 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.92%) Advertising
8 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.92%) Military
9 2 (1.28%) Electronics
9 2 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.28%) Marketing
9 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Senior
2 32 (20.51%) Developer
3 31 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (14.74%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (10.90%) Architect
8 15 (9.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (8.33%) AWS Architect
9 13 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (8.33%) Lead
9 13 (8.33%) Security Architect
9 13 (8.33%) Security Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 11 (7.05%) Python Developer
12 10 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (5.77%) Data Engineer
13 9 (5.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.87%) Node.js
2 24 (15.38%) React
3 20 (12.82%) CSS
4 18 (11.54%) HTML
4 18 (11.54%) OAuth
4 18 (11.54%) YAML
5 14 (8.97%) AWS CDK
6 9 (5.77%) ADO
6 9 (5.77%) Kafka
6 9 (5.77%) OAuth2
6 9 (5.77%) REST
6 9 (5.77%) SAML
7 8 (5.13%) eBPF
8 7 (4.49%) PySpark
8 7 (4.49%) RESTful
8 7 (4.49%) Spring
8 7 (4.49%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.85%) .NET
10 3 (1.92%) Playwright
10 3 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (32.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.69%) PKI
4 11 (7.05%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.85%) CMDB
5 6 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.28%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.64%) Replication
10 1 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.18%) Linux
2 11 (7.05%) Windows
3 9 (5.77%) VMS
4 8 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.92%) Android
5 3 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.64%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (93.59%) CI/CD
2 87 (55.77%) DevOps
3 79 (50.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (32.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (32.05%) Agile
6 38 (24.36%) Cloud Security
7 36 (23.08%) Incident Response
7 36 (23.08%) Observability
8 35 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (21.79%) Containerisation
10 33 (21.15%) Customer Experience
11 29 (18.59%) Platform Engineering
12 28 (17.95%) Test Automation
13 25 (16.03%) Analytics
13 25 (16.03%) Cryptography
13 25 (16.03%) Microservices
13 25 (16.03%) Zero Trust
14 24 (15.38%) Clean Code
15 23 (14.74%) Mentoring
16 22 (14.10%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.28%) Python
2 30 (19.23%) SQL
3 29 (18.59%) TypeScript
4 27 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 26 (16.67%) Go
6 25 (16.03%) PowerShell
7 23 (14.74%) Bash
8 18 (11.54%) Java
9 14 (8.97%) Rust
10 9 (5.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.56%) Bicep
11 4 (2.56%) C#
12 3 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.28%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.28%) Groovy
13 2 (1.28%) Scala
14 1 (0.64%) C
14 1 (0.64%) C++
14 1 (0.64%) Perl
14 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (22.44%) Degree
2 16 (10.26%) OSCP
3 15 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 12 (7.69%) Security Cleared
6 11 (7.05%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.92%) CCSP
7 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.92%) CISM
7 3 (1.92%) CISSP
7 3 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.92%) GCIA
7 3 (1.92%) GCIH
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (15.38%) SOC 2
2 12 (7.69%) GRC
2 12 (7.69%) QA
3 10 (6.41%) GDPR
4 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.92%) NIST
7 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (25.64%) Docker
2 20 (12.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.05%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (64.10%) Terraform
2 65 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 32 (20.51%) Ansible
4 12 (7.69%) Cilium
5 11 (7.05%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.77%) Grafana
7 7 (4.49%) Argo
8 6 (3.85%) Packer
9 4 (2.56%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.92%) logstash
11 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.64%) Kibana
12 1 (0.64%) Rancher
12 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.62%) Palo Alto
3 10 (6.41%) VMware
4 9 (5.77%) Zscaler
5 8 (5.13%) Google
6 7 (4.49%) Salesforce
6 7 (4.49%) SendGrid
7 6 (3.85%) Cisco
7 6 (3.85%) Databricks
7 6 (3.85%) EMC
7 6 (3.85%) F5
7 6 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.92%) Intel
8 3 (1.92%) SAP
8 3 (1.92%) Tenable
8 3 (1.92%) Varonis
9 2 (1.28%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.28%) Oracle
9 2 (1.28%) Red Hat