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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 289 378
Rank change year-on-year +17 +89 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 176 97 65
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.83% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 1.83% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 120 64 37
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £56,050
25th Percentile £65,750 £65,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £117,100
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 8,486 5,300 8,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.74% 45.17% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,574 3,643 5,418
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

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 11 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 11 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 11 £71,250 -8.06% 38
West London -19 3 £80,000 +25.98% 8
East London - 1 £130,000 - 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 1 (0.57%) CMS
1 1 (0.57%) Confluence
1 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
1 1 (0.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) GitHub
2 115 (65.34%) Azure
3 78 (44.32%) AWS
4 63 (35.80%) GCP
5 42 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (13.64%) Serverless
7 22 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 22 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (10.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 19 (10.80%) Datadog
9 18 (10.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (9.66%) Azure Storage
11 14 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.25%) Amazon S3
13 10 (5.68%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (5.68%) SaaS
14 9 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (5.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.52%) DMARC
2 10 (5.68%) Network Security
3 7 (3.98%) VPN
4 6 (3.41%) Firewall
5 5 (2.84%) DNS
6 4 (2.27%) SSH
7 3 (1.70%) HTTP
8 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.11%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.98%) Delta Lake
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.41%) Power BI
6 5 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.27%) Tableau
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.70%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (36.93%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.61%) GitLab
3 26 (14.77%) Git
4 11 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.55%) Postman
5 8 (4.55%) REST Assured
6 7 (3.98%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.98%) Selenium
7 5 (2.84%) Newman
8 4 (2.27%) Gatling
8 4 (2.27%) JIRA
8 4 (2.27%) JMeter
8 4 (2.27%) JUnit
9 3 (1.70%) Appium
9 3 (1.70%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.70%) Gradle
10 2 (1.14%) Maven
10 2 (1.14%) NUnit
10 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.02%) Finance
3 19 (10.80%) Banking
4 15 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.55%) Retail
7 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.41%) Law
9 4 (2.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Police
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) German Language
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (25.57%) Senior
2 33 (18.75%) Developer
3 29 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (15.91%) Lead
5 18 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (9.66%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.66%) React Developer
7 13 (7.39%) Architect
8 12 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) Security Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.11%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (50.57%) Terraform
2 47 (26.70%) Node.js
3 39 (22.16%) REST
4 27 (15.34%) React
5 24 (13.64%) RESTful
6 23 (13.07%) OAuth
6 23 (13.07%) OAuth2
7 21 (11.93%) CSS
7 21 (11.93%) YAML
8 19 (10.80%) Spring
8 19 (10.80%) Spring Boot
9 18 (10.23%) GraphQL
9 18 (10.23%) HTML
10 11 (6.25%) .NET
11 9 (5.11%) Playwright
12 8 (4.55%) eBPF
13 7 (3.98%) Jest
13 7 (3.98%) PySpark
14 6 (3.41%) JWT
14 6 (3.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 9 (5.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (5.11%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.55%) PKI
7 7 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.27%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (1.14%) CMDB
12 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.66%) Linux
2 4 (2.27%) Unix
2 4 (2.27%) Windows
3 3 (1.70%) Android
3 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 102 (57.95%) DevOps
3 83 (47.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 53 (30.11%) AI
5 53 (30.11%) Containerisation
6 45 (25.57%) Mentoring
7 44 (25.00%) Microservices
8 43 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (23.86%) Observability
10 41 (23.30%) Agile
11 38 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (21.59%) Software Engineering
12 32 (18.18%) Clean Code
13 30 (17.05%) Cloud Security
14 29 (16.48%) Event-Driven
14 29 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (15.34%) Technical Debt
16 26 (14.77%) API Design
16 26 (14.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.77%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) SQL
2 38 (21.59%) TypeScript
3 36 (20.45%) Java
4 29 (16.48%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.34%) PowerShell
6 25 (14.20%) Bash
7 24 (13.64%) Go
8 10 (5.68%) C#
9 5 (2.84%) Bicep
9 5 (2.84%) Scala
10 4 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.14%) Groovy
11 2 (1.14%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.05%) Degree
2 26 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.70%) CISM
6 3 (1.70%) CISSP
6 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) GCIA
8 1 (0.57%) GCIH
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.61%) QA
2 12 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.68%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.98%) GRC
6 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.84%) GDPR
7 4 (2.27%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.70%) WCAG
9 2 (1.14%) NIST
9 2 (1.14%) PERC
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (28.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (39.20%) Kubernetes
2 37 (21.02%) Grafana
3 25 (14.20%) Prometheus
4 15 (8.52%) Ansible
5 12 (6.82%) Argo
6 8 (4.55%) Cilium
7 5 (2.84%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.27%) Istio
9 2 (1.14%) Packer
10 1 (0.57%) logstash
10 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.52%) Databricks
2 15 (8.52%) SendGrid
3 12 (6.82%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) New Relic
4 4 (2.27%) OneLogin
4 4 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.27%) Oracle
4 4 (2.27%) Splunk
4 4 (2.27%) VMware
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco
5 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.14%) EMC
5 2 (1.14%) F5
5 2 (1.14%) Foundry
5 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.14%) Veeam
6 1 (0.57%) Intel
6 1 (0.57%) Varonis