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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 356 352
Rank change year-on-year +103 -4 +160
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 129 77 107
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 0.50% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 1.11% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 94 44 84
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £86,250 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -6.42% +15.21%
75th Percentile £110,000 £104,063 £116,250
90th Percentile £142,750 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +2.94% -14.61% +4.44%

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 5,807 6,947 8,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.57% 45.13% 46.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 4,406 7,368
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
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 £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +33 14 £65,000 -35.00% 21
South London - 1 - - 3
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 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.10%) Appian
3 2 (1.55%) Apache
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.55%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.33%) Shopify
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) GitHub
2 62 (48.06%) Azure
3 61 (47.29%) AWS
4 45 (34.88%) GCP
5 38 (29.46%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (23.26%) Datadog
7 22 (17.05%) Serverless
8 19 (14.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (14.73%) Cloud Run
9 17 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (13.18%) Azure AKS
9 17 (13.18%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (13.18%) Google Compute Engine
10 16 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (10.85%) Cloud Functions
12 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
13 10 (7.75%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (7.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (7.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.85%) Firewall
2 11 (8.53%) VPN
3 10 (7.75%) WAN
4 9 (6.98%) Network Security
5 4 (3.10%) DSL
5 4 (3.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.55%) DNS
7 1 (0.78%) Broadband
7 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) BigQuery
2 11 (8.53%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.75%) Flink
4 7 (5.43%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.10%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.55%) Metadata
9 2 (1.55%) Power BI
9 2 (1.55%) Tableau
10 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 58 (44.96%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.60%) Git
3 16 (12.40%) GitLab
4 6 (4.65%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.55%) JIRA
6 2 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.78%) CMake
7 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.78%) Deequ
7 1 (0.78%) JMeter
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 44 (34.11%) Finance
2 38 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.95%) Banking
4 12 (9.30%) Front Office
5 11 (8.53%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.65%) Electronics
7 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.65%) Marketing
8 4 (3.10%) Back Office
8 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
9 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Law
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Billing
11 1 (0.78%) Legal
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (14.73%) Developer
4 17 (13.18%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Senior
5 15 (11.63%) GCP Engineer
6 14 (10.85%) GCP DevOps
6 14 (10.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) Python Developer
10 7 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Lead
10 7 (5.43%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.38%) React
2 24 (18.60%) Node.js
3 15 (11.63%) Kafka
4 13 (10.08%) REST
5 12 (9.30%) CSS
5 12 (9.30%) HTML
5 12 (9.30%) YAML
6 11 (8.53%) GraphQL
7 10 (7.75%) .NET
7 10 (7.75%) ADO
7 10 (7.75%) OAuth
7 10 (7.75%) SAML
8 8 (6.20%) AWS CDK
9 7 (5.43%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.65%) Django
10 6 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (3.88%) RESTful
11 5 (3.88%) TensorFlow
12 4 (3.10%) PyTorch
12 4 (3.10%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.65%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.10%) Blog
5 4 (3.10%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.55%) Derivative
6 2 (1.55%) Genomics
6 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
7 1 (0.78%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) VMS
3 7 (5.43%) Windows
4 5 (3.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.33%) SUSE
6 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (94.57%) CI/CD
2 91 (70.54%) DevOps
3 73 (56.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (36.43%) Agile
5 45 (34.88%) Observability
6 42 (32.56%) Containerisation
7 36 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (23.26%) AI
9 26 (20.16%) Cloud Security
9 26 (20.16%) Customer Experience
9 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (20.16%) Software Engineering
10 24 (18.60%) Analytics
10 24 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (17.05%) Test Automation
12 21 (16.28%) Incident Response
12 21 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.73%) RBAC
14 18 (13.95%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 83 (64.34%) Python
2 39 (30.23%) Bash
3 32 (24.81%) SQL
4 26 (20.16%) JavaScript
5 24 (18.60%) TypeScript
6 20 (15.50%) Go
7 19 (14.73%) PowerShell
8 17 (13.18%) Java
9 10 (7.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (6.98%) Bicep
11 8 (6.20%) C#
12 4 (3.10%) Ruby
12 4 (3.10%) Rust
13 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.78%) C++
14 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (18.60%) Degree
2 17 (13.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.20%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.10%) OSCP
8 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.55%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.28%) GDPR
2 20 (15.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.85%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (6.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.88%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.88%) QA
6 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.10%) GRC
6 4 (3.10%) SLA
7 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (48.84%) Docker
2 12 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.75%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (70.54%) Terraform
2 80 (62.02%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.26%) Prometheus
4 29 (22.48%) Ansible
5 16 (12.40%) Argo
5 16 (12.40%) Grafana
6 4 (3.10%) Cilium
6 4 (3.10%) logstash
7 3 (2.33%) Rancher
8 1 (0.78%) Icinga
8 1 (0.78%) Nagios
8 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.28%) Google
2 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.75%) Palo Alto
3 10 (7.75%) Zscaler
4 6 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.65%) SAP
4 6 (4.65%) Splunk
4 6 (4.65%) VMware
5 2 (1.55%) Pega
6 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.78%) Databricks
6 1 (0.78%) UiPath