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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 311 389
Rank change year-on-year +60 +78 +112
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 144 90 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.58% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 103 62 57
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,200 £50,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +11.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £93,125 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,500 £121,125 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -13.67%

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 6,632 5,708 9,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.98% 43.86% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,256 4,113 8,130
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,434 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £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 24 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 24 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 13 £55,000 -33.33% 32
South London - 1 - -
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 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.78%) Apache
2 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.78%) Appian
3 2 (1.39%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Endur
2 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) GitHub
2 86 (59.72%) AWS
3 68 (47.22%) Azure
4 52 (36.11%) GCP
5 37 (25.69%) Serverless
6 34 (23.61%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (21.53%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (20.14%) Datadog
9 24 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (12.50%) Azure AKS
11 14 (9.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (9.72%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (9.72%) Entra ID
12 13 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (9.03%) Pulumi
13 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
13 12 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (8.33%) Cloud Run
14 10 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.28%) Firewall
2 15 (10.42%) VPN
3 14 (9.72%) Network Security
4 13 (9.03%) DSL
5 12 (8.33%) WAN
6 4 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.08%) DNS
8 1 (0.69%) Broadband
8 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.64%) BigQuery
2 10 (6.94%) Flink
3 9 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.78%) Pinecone
6 4 (2.78%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.39%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.39%) Tableau
9 1 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.69%) Big Data
9 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (45.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (18.06%) GitLab
3 24 (16.67%) Git
4 11 (7.64%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.08%) JIRA
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.39%) Deequ
6 2 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.69%) CMake
7 1 (0.69%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.69%) Subversion
7 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 50 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.47%) Finance
3 21 (14.58%) Banking
4 12 (8.33%) Front Office
5 11 (7.64%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.56%) Retail
8 6 (4.17%) Electronics
8 6 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.17%) Marketing
8 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.78%) Back Office
9 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.08%) Military
10 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.39%) Advertising
11 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (25.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (19.44%) Developer
3 25 (17.36%) Senior
4 24 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (14.58%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (10.42%) Architect
8 13 (9.03%) AWS Architect
8 13 (9.03%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (9.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (9.03%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps
9 10 (6.94%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.25%) React Developer
10 9 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) React
2 29 (20.14%) Node.js
3 19 (13.19%) CSS
3 19 (13.19%) HTML
4 16 (11.11%) Kafka
5 13 (9.03%) AWS CDK
5 13 (9.03%) YAML
6 12 (8.33%) ADO
6 12 (8.33%) OAuth
6 12 (8.33%) SAML
7 8 (5.56%) REST
8 7 (4.86%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.17%) .NET
9 6 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.17%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.47%) Django
10 5 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.47%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.47%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.78%) Blog
7 4 (2.78%) PKI
8 3 (2.08%) CMDB
8 3 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Derivative
9 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.39%) Genomics
9 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
10 1 (0.69%) Robotics
10 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.67%) Linux
2 12 (8.33%) VMS
2 12 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Unix
3 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.08%) SUSE
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 82 (56.94%) DevOps
3 76 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (38.89%) Agile
5 51 (35.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (30.56%) Containerisation
6 44 (30.56%) Observability
7 39 (27.08%) Incident Response
8 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (25.00%) Customer Experience
10 31 (21.53%) Cloud Security
11 29 (20.14%) AI
12 27 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (17.36%) Analytics
14 25 (17.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (15.97%) Computer Science
15 23 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (15.97%) RBAC
16 22 (15.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (65.28%) Python
2 36 (25.00%) Bash
3 32 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.53%) SQL
5 30 (20.83%) JavaScript
6 26 (18.06%) Go
7 20 (13.89%) PowerShell
8 16 (11.11%) Java
9 14 (9.72%) Rust
10 12 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.47%) Bicep
12 4 (2.78%) C#
13 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.69%) Perl
14 1 (0.69%) PHP
14 1 (0.69%) Ruby
14 1 (0.69%) Scala
14 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (27.08%) Degree
2 22 (15.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.42%) OSCP
4 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.39%) CCSP
6 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.39%) CISM
6 2 (1.39%) CISSP
6 2 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.39%) GCIA
6 2 (1.39%) GCIH
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (15.28%) SOC 2
3 15 (10.42%) GDPR
4 8 (5.56%) GRC
4 8 (5.56%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.78%) QA
6 4 (2.78%) SLA
7 3 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (39.58%) Docker
2 19 (13.19%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.03%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (67.36%) Terraform
2 80 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 39 (27.08%) Ansible
4 23 (15.97%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.42%) Argo
5 15 (10.42%) Grafana
6 8 (5.56%) Cilium
7 4 (2.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.78%) logstash
8 3 (2.08%) Packer
8 3 (2.08%) Rancher
9 1 (0.69%) Icinga
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.69%) Nagios
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Palo Alto
3 14 (9.72%) Google
4 12 (8.33%) Zscaler
5 10 (6.94%) VMware
6 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.17%) SAP
8 5 (3.47%) Splunk
9 4 (2.78%) OpenAI
10 3 (2.08%) Cisco
10 3 (2.08%) EMC
10 3 (2.08%) F5
10 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.39%) Databricks
11 2 (1.39%) Intel
11 2 (1.39%) Pega
11 2 (1.39%) Tenable
11 2 (1.39%) Varonis
12 1 (0.69%) New Relic