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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 329 377
Rank change year-on-year +75 +48 +116
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 140 89 103
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 1.43% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 55 70
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £93,438 £110,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,000 £127,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -11.37%

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 6,244 6,235 9,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.54% 44.18% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,037 4,164 8,085
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +2 13 £55,000 -33.33% 29
South London - 1 - - 2
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 7 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.86%) Apache
2 4 (2.86%) Appian
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.14%) Shopify
2 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) GitHub
2 77 (55.00%) AWS
3 65 (46.43%) Azure
4 50 (35.71%) GCP
5 37 (26.43%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (23.57%) Serverless
7 28 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (20.00%) Datadog
8 21 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (13.57%) Azure AKS
10 16 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (10.00%) Cloud Run
11 14 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 13 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (8.57%) Cloud Functions
13 12 (8.57%) Google Compute Engine
13 12 (8.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.86%) Firewall
2 13 (9.29%) Network Security
2 13 (9.29%) VPN
3 12 (8.57%) DSL
3 12 (8.57%) WAN
4 4 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.71%) Broadband
5 1 (0.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) BigQuery
2 11 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.14%) Flink
4 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.86%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.86%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.71%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.43%) Git
2 23 (16.43%) GitLab
3 11 (7.86%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.14%) JIRA
6 2 (1.43%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.43%) Deequ
6 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.71%) CMake
7 1 (0.71%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.71%) Subversion
7 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (30.71%) Finance
3 21 (15.00%) Banking
4 12 (8.57%) Front Office
5 11 (7.86%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.71%) Retail
7 7 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.29%) Electronics
8 6 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.29%) Marketing
9 4 (2.86%) Back Office
9 4 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.14%) Military
11 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.43%) Law
11 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.71%) Advertising
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (27.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (19.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (18.57%) Developer
4 22 (15.71%) Senior
5 18 (12.86%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (12.14%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.29%) Architect
7 13 (9.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) AWS Architect
8 12 (8.57%) AWS Security Architect
8 12 (8.57%) GCP DevOps
8 12 (8.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) GCP Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Security Architect
9 11 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 10 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.14%) React
2 29 (20.71%) Node.js
3 19 (13.57%) CSS
3 19 (13.57%) HTML
4 16 (11.43%) Kafka
5 14 (10.00%) YAML
6 13 (9.29%) AWS CDK
7 12 (8.57%) ADO
7 12 (8.57%) OAuth
7 12 (8.57%) REST
7 12 (8.57%) SAML
8 9 (6.43%) .NET
8 9 (6.43%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.00%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.29%) TensorFlow
11 5 (3.57%) Django
11 5 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (3.57%) PyTorch
11 5 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.29%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.57%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.86%) Blog
7 4 (2.86%) PKI
8 2 (1.43%) Derivative
8 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.43%) Genomics
8 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.71%) Replication
9 1 (0.71%) Robotics
9 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Linux
2 12 (8.57%) VMS
3 8 (5.71%) Windows
4 5 (3.57%) Unix
5 3 (2.14%) SUSE
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (94.29%) CI/CD
2 84 (60.00%) DevOps
3 74 (52.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (40.71%) Agile
5 44 (31.43%) Containerisation
5 44 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (30.71%) Observability
7 35 (25.00%) Incident Response
8 34 (24.29%) Customer Experience
9 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (21.43%) AI
10 30 (21.43%) Cloud Security
11 25 (17.86%) Analytics
12 24 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (17.14%) Software Engineering
13 23 (16.43%) RBAC
13 23 (16.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (15.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (15.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (62.86%) Python
2 35 (25.00%) Bash
3 32 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 32 (22.86%) SQL
4 31 (22.14%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.86%) Go
6 16 (11.43%) Java
6 16 (11.43%) PowerShell
7 13 (9.29%) Rust
8 12 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (5.00%) C#
10 6 (4.29%) Bicep
11 3 (2.14%) Ruby
12 2 (1.43%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.71%) C++
13 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.71%) Perl
13 1 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (25.00%) Degree
2 20 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.29%) OSCP
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.71%) CCSP
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CISM
6 1 (0.71%) CISSP
6 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.71%) GCIA
6 1 (0.71%) GCIH
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (15.00%) SOC 2
3 17 (12.14%) GDPR
4 8 (5.71%) GRC
4 8 (5.71%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.86%) QA
7 4 (2.86%) SLA
8 2 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (42.86%) Docker
2 15 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (67.14%) Terraform
2 81 (57.86%) Kubernetes
3 33 (23.57%) Ansible
4 24 (17.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.71%) Argo
6 12 (8.57%) Grafana
7 8 (5.71%) Cilium
8 4 (2.86%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.86%) logstash
9 3 (2.14%) Rancher
10 1 (0.71%) Icinga
10 1 (0.71%) Kibana
10 1 (0.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.43%) Google
3 12 (8.57%) Palo Alto
3 12 (8.57%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.00%) VMware
5 6 (4.29%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.29%) SAP
6 5 (3.57%) Splunk
7 2 (1.43%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) Apple
8 1 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) Intel
8 1 (0.71%) New Relic
8 1 (0.71%) Tenable
8 1 (0.71%) Varonis