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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 288 401
Rank change year-on-year +5 +113 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 169 101 64
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.65% 0.86% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.88% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 115 67 35
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,100
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 8,598 5,373 8,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.16% 45.49% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,714 3,675 5,507
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,682
25th Percentile £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.36%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -7 12 £72,500 -6.45% 39
West London -12 3 £80,000 +25.98% 11
East London - 1 £130,000 - 1
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 1 (0.59%) CMS
1 1 (0.59%) Confluence
1 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.59%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) GitHub
2 111 (65.68%) Azure
3 77 (45.56%) AWS
4 63 (37.28%) GCP
5 40 (23.67%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (13.02%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (12.43%) Serverless
8 20 (11.83%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (11.24%) Azure AKS
9 19 (11.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (10.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (10.06%) Datadog
12 16 (9.47%) Azure Storage
13 14 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
15 9 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (5.33%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (5.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.88%) DMARC
2 11 (6.51%) Network Security
3 6 (3.55%) VPN
4 5 (2.96%) Firewall
5 4 (2.37%) DNS
5 4 (2.37%) SSH
6 3 (1.78%) HTTP
7 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.73%) BigQuery
2 8 (4.73%) Delta Lake
2 8 (4.73%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.55%) Power BI
3 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.37%) Tableau
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.78%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.78%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.18%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.16%) GitLab
3 22 (13.02%) Git
4 13 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.73%) Postman
5 8 (4.73%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.14%) Selenium
7 5 (2.96%) Newman
8 4 (2.37%) Gatling
8 4 (2.37%) JIRA
8 4 (2.37%) JMeter
8 4 (2.37%) JUnit
9 3 (1.78%) Appium
9 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.78%) Gradle
10 2 (1.18%) Maven
10 2 (1.18%) Mockito
10 2 (1.18%) NUnit
10 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.71%) Finance
3 21 (12.43%) Banking
4 14 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.33%) Retail
6 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.55%) Law
8 4 (2.37%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (26.63%) Senior
2 33 (19.53%) Developer
3 26 (15.38%) Lead
4 25 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (9.47%) React Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.28%) Security Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Architect
9 12 (7.10%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Lead Java Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (50.30%) Terraform
2 47 (27.81%) Node.js
3 35 (20.71%) REST
4 27 (15.98%) React
5 24 (14.20%) RESTful
6 23 (13.61%) OAuth
6 23 (13.61%) OAuth2
7 22 (13.02%) CSS
8 21 (12.43%) YAML
9 19 (11.24%) HTML
9 19 (11.24%) Spring
9 19 (11.24%) Spring Boot
10 14 (8.28%) GraphQL
11 11 (6.51%) .NET
12 10 (5.92%) eBPF
13 9 (5.33%) Playwright
14 8 (4.73%) PySpark
15 7 (4.14%) Jest
16 6 (3.55%) JWT
16 6 (3.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (31.95%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.43%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.28%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.92%) PKI
5 8 (4.73%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.73%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.14%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.18%) CMDB
11 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.59%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.69%) Linux
2 4 (2.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.78%) Android
3 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (93.49%) CI/CD
2 97 (57.40%) DevOps
3 80 (47.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (29.59%) Test Automation
5 48 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 44 (26.04%) AI
6 44 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (25.44%) Mentoring
7 43 (25.44%) Microservices
8 41 (24.26%) Agile
9 36 (21.30%) Observability
10 35 (20.71%) Software Engineering
11 34 (20.12%) Clean Code
11 34 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (18.93%) Cloud Security
13 28 (16.57%) Event-Driven
13 28 (16.57%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (14.20%) API Design
14 24 (14.20%) Computer Science
14 24 (14.20%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.05%) Python
2 38 (22.49%) TypeScript
3 36 (21.30%) Java
4 33 (19.53%) SQL
5 29 (17.16%) JavaScript
6 27 (15.98%) PowerShell
7 25 (14.79%) Bash
7 25 (14.79%) Go
8 9 (5.33%) C#
9 5 (2.96%) Scala
10 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.78%) Bicep
12 2 (1.18%) C
12 2 (1.18%) Groovy
12 2 (1.18%) Ruby
13 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (15.98%) Degree
2 24 (14.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.28%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.78%) CISM
6 3 (1.78%) CISSP
6 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.59%) CCSP
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) GCIA
7 1 (0.59%) GCIH
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) OSCP
7 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.34%) QA
2 14 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.10%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 9 (5.33%) GRC
5 6 (3.55%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.96%) GDPR
7 4 (2.37%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.78%) WCAG
9 2 (1.18%) NIST
9 2 (1.18%) PERC
10 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 45 (26.63%) Docker
2 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (39.05%) Kubernetes
2 34 (20.12%) Grafana
3 25 (14.79%) Prometheus
4 15 (8.88%) Ansible
5 11 (6.51%) Argo
6 10 (5.92%) Cilium
7 5 (2.96%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.78%) Istio
9 2 (1.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.47%) Databricks
3 15 (8.88%) SendGrid
4 12 (7.10%) Google
5 4 (2.37%) New Relic
5 4 (2.37%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.37%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.37%) Oracle
5 4 (2.37%) Splunk
5 4 (2.37%) VMware
6 2 (1.18%) Cisco
6 2 (1.18%) EMC
6 2 (1.18%) F5
6 2 (1.18%) Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) Veeam
7 1 (0.59%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.59%) Varonis