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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 306 393
Rank change year-on-year +54 +87 +106
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 143 89 96
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 0.67% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 1.52% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 102 60 60
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,800 £51,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £91,875 £108,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,000 £122,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 6,506 5,853 9,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.09% 44.05% 44.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 4,128 8,127
10th Percentile £38,950 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,750 £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 £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 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 18 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 -14 12 £55,000 -33.33% 31
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 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.80%) Apache
2 4 (2.80%) Appian
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.70%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) GitHub
2 84 (58.74%) AWS
3 66 (46.15%) Azure
4 52 (36.36%) GCP
5 36 (25.17%) Serverless
6 33 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (20.98%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (20.28%) Datadog
9 24 (16.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (12.59%) Azure AKS
11 14 (9.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (9.79%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (9.79%) Entra ID
12 13 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (9.09%) Cloud Run
12 13 (9.09%) Pulumi
13 12 (8.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (8.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
14 11 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.38%) Firewall
2 15 (10.49%) VPN
3 14 (9.79%) Network Security
4 13 (9.09%) DSL
5 12 (8.39%) WAN
6 4 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.10%) DNS
8 1 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) BigQuery
2 10 (6.99%) Flink
3 9 (6.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.80%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.80%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.70%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.70%) Big Data
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Metadata
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.18%) GitLab
3 24 (16.78%) Git
4 11 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.10%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.10%) JIRA
6 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.40%) Deequ
6 2 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.70%) CMake
7 1 (0.70%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.70%) Subversion
7 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.67%) Finance
3 21 (14.69%) Banking
4 12 (8.39%) Front Office
5 11 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.59%) Retail
7 6 (4.20%) Electronics
7 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.20%) Marketing
7 6 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.80%) Back Office
8 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.10%) Military
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (26.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (19.58%) Developer
3 25 (17.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (17.48%) Senior
4 20 (13.99%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (13.29%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Architect
7 13 (9.09%) AWS Architect
7 13 (9.09%) AWS Security Architect
7 13 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) Security Architect
8 11 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
8 11 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) React Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.68%) React
2 30 (20.98%) Node.js
3 20 (13.99%) CSS
3 20 (13.99%) HTML
4 16 (11.19%) Kafka
5 13 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 13 (9.09%) YAML
6 12 (8.39%) ADO
6 12 (8.39%) OAuth
6 12 (8.39%) SAML
7 9 (6.29%) REST
8 7 (4.90%) FastAPI
8 7 (4.90%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.20%) .NET
9 6 (4.20%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.50%) Django
10 5 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.50%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.80%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.37%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.19%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.50%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.80%) Blog
7 4 (2.80%) PKI
8 2 (1.40%) CMDB
8 2 (1.40%) Derivative
8 2 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.40%) Genomics
8 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.38%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) VMS
3 11 (7.69%) Windows
4 5 (3.50%) Unix
5 4 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.10%) SUSE
7 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (93.71%) CI/CD
2 81 (56.64%) DevOps
3 76 (53.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (39.86%) Agile
5 50 (34.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 44 (30.77%) Observability
7 39 (27.27%) Incident Response
8 36 (25.17%) Customer Experience
9 35 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (22.38%) Cloud Security
11 27 (18.88%) AI
12 26 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (16.78%) Analytics
13 24 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (16.08%) Computer Science
14 23 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (16.08%) Software Engineering
15 22 (15.38%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 92 (64.34%) Python
2 36 (25.17%) Bash
3 33 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
5 30 (20.98%) SQL
6 26 (18.18%) Go
7 18 (12.59%) PowerShell
8 16 (11.19%) Java
9 14 (9.79%) Rust
10 12 (8.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.50%) Bicep
12 4 (2.80%) C#
13 2 (1.40%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.40%) Ruby
13 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.70%) C++
14 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.70%) Perl
14 1 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (26.57%) Degree
2 22 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.49%) OSCP
4 8 (5.59%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.40%) CCSP
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.40%) CISM
6 2 (1.40%) CISSP
6 2 (1.40%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.40%) GCIA
6 2 (1.40%) GCIH
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (15.38%) SOC 2
3 16 (11.19%) GDPR
4 8 (5.59%) GRC
4 8 (5.59%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.80%) QA
6 4 (2.80%) SLA
7 3 (2.10%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (39.86%) Docker
2 18 (12.59%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (67.13%) Terraform
2 80 (55.94%) Kubernetes
3 37 (25.87%) Ansible
4 24 (16.78%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.49%) Argo
5 15 (10.49%) Grafana
6 8 (5.59%) Cilium
7 4 (2.80%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.80%) logstash
8 3 (2.10%) Rancher
9 2 (1.40%) Packer
10 1 (0.70%) Icinga
10 1 (0.70%) Kibana
10 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.49%) Google
3 14 (9.79%) Palo Alto
4 12 (8.39%) Zscaler
5 9 (6.29%) VMware
6 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.20%) SAP
8 5 (3.50%) Splunk
9 4 (2.80%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.40%) Cisco
10 2 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.40%) EMC
10 2 (1.40%) F5
10 2 (1.40%) Intel
10 2 (1.40%) Pega
10 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.40%) Tenable
10 2 (1.40%) Varonis
11 1 (0.70%) Apple
11 1 (0.70%) New Relic