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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 355 343
Rank change year-on-year +106 -12 +162
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 130 77 112
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.91% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 1.10% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 95 45 88
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £63,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -7.78% +15.21%
75th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £142,000 £130,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +4.78% -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 5,817 6,995 8,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.74% 45.15% 46.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 4,460 7,315
10th Percentile £37,375 £45,000 £42,821
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 £97,500 £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 17 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 17 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 +29 14 £65,000 -35.00% 21
South London - 1 - - 4
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 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.08%) Appian
3 2 (1.54%) Apache
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.31%) Shopify
2 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) GitHub
2 63 (48.46%) Azure
3 61 (46.92%) AWS
4 45 (34.62%) GCP
5 39 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (23.08%) Datadog
7 22 (16.92%) Serverless
8 19 (14.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (14.62%) Cloud Run
9 18 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (13.08%) Azure AKS
10 17 (13.08%) Google Compute Engine
11 16 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (10.77%) Cloud Functions
13 11 (8.46%) Entra ID
14 10 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) Firewall
2 11 (8.46%) VPN
3 10 (7.69%) WAN
4 9 (6.92%) Network Security
5 4 (3.08%) DSL
5 4 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.54%) DNS
7 1 (0.77%) Broadband
7 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.62%) BigQuery
2 11 (8.46%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.69%) Flink
4 7 (5.38%) Pinecone
5 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.08%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.08%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.54%) Metadata
9 2 (1.54%) Power BI
9 2 (1.54%) Tableau
10 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.77%) Looker
Development Applications
1 58 (44.62%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.46%) Git
3 16 (12.31%) GitLab
4 6 (4.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.31%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.54%) JIRA
6 2 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.77%) CMake
7 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.77%) Deequ
7 1 (0.77%) JMeter
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 44 (33.85%) Finance
2 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.85%) Banking
4 12 (9.23%) Front Office
5 11 (8.46%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.62%) Electronics
7 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.62%) Marketing
8 4 (3.08%) Back Office
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.08%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.54%) Law
10 2 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (14.62%) Developer
4 18 (13.85%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (13.08%) Senior
6 15 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) GCP DevOps
7 14 (10.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Lead
11 7 (5.38%) Python Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.23%) React
2 24 (18.46%) Node.js
3 15 (11.54%) Kafka
4 13 (10.00%) REST
5 12 (9.23%) CSS
5 12 (9.23%) HTML
5 12 (9.23%) YAML
6 11 (8.46%) GraphQL
7 10 (7.69%) .NET
7 10 (7.69%) ADO
7 10 (7.69%) OAuth
7 10 (7.69%) SAML
8 8 (6.15%) AWS CDK
9 7 (5.38%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.62%) Django
10 6 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (3.85%) RESTful
11 5 (3.85%) TensorFlow
12 4 (3.08%) PyTorch
12 4 (3.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.62%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.08%) Blog
5 4 (3.08%) Hackathon
5 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.54%) Derivative
6 2 (1.54%) Genomics
6 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.77%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.77%) Replication
7 1 (0.77%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.85%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) VMS
3 7 (5.38%) Windows
4 5 (3.85%) Unix
5 3 (2.31%) SUSE
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (94.62%) CI/CD
2 92 (70.77%) DevOps
3 74 (56.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (36.15%) Agile
5 45 (34.62%) Observability
6 42 (32.31%) Containerisation
7 36 (27.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (23.08%) AI
9 26 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 26 (20.00%) Customer Experience
9 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 25 (19.23%) Analytics
11 24 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (16.92%) Test Automation
13 21 (16.15%) Incident Response
13 21 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (14.62%) RBAC
15 18 (13.85%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 83 (63.85%) Python
2 40 (30.77%) Bash
3 32 (24.62%) SQL
4 26 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (18.46%) TypeScript
6 20 (15.38%) Go
6 20 (15.38%) PowerShell
7 17 (13.08%) Java
8 10 (7.69%) Bicep
8 10 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (6.15%) C#
10 4 (3.08%) Ruby
10 4 (3.08%) Rust
11 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.77%) C++
12 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) Degree
2 17 (13.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.08%) OSCP
8 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.54%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.77%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.15%) GDPR
2 20 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.77%) SOC 2
4 8 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.85%) QA
6 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.08%) GRC
6 4 (3.08%) SLA
7 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 63 (48.46%) Docker
2 12 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (70.77%) Terraform
2 80 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 29 (22.31%) Ansible
5 16 (12.31%) Argo
5 16 (12.31%) Grafana
6 4 (3.08%) Cilium
6 4 (3.08%) logstash
7 3 (2.31%) Rancher
8 1 (0.77%) Icinga
8 1 (0.77%) Nagios
8 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Google
2 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 10 (7.69%) Zscaler
4 6 (4.62%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.62%) SAP
4 6 (4.62%) Splunk
4 6 (4.62%) VMware
5 2 (1.54%) Pega
6 1 (0.77%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.77%) Databricks
6 1 (0.77%) UiPath