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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 326 364
Rank change year-on-year +70 +38 +122
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 91 109
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 1.41% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 100 56 75
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £59,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -1.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £94,063 £108,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £138,250 £126,250 £132,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -8.96%

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 6,217 6,446 9,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.68% 44.37% 45.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,016 4,241 8,071
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £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 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -3 13 £55,000 -33.33% 22
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 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
2 4 (2.90%) Appian
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.45%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.17%) Shopify
2 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) GitHub
2 75 (54.35%) AWS
3 64 (46.38%) Azure
4 49 (35.51%) GCP
5 37 (26.81%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (23.19%) Serverless
7 28 (20.29%) Datadog
8 27 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (13.77%) Azure AKS
11 16 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (10.14%) Cloud Run
12 14 (10.14%) Entra ID
13 13 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (9.42%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (8.70%) Cloud Functions
14 12 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
15 11 (7.97%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) Firewall
2 13 (9.42%) Network Security
2 13 (9.42%) VPN
3 12 (8.70%) WAN
4 11 (7.97%) DSL
5 4 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.72%) Broadband
6 1 (0.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.42%) BigQuery
2 11 (7.97%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.25%) Flink
4 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.90%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.90%) Weaviate
6 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.72%) Metadata
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (44.20%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.67%) Git
3 22 (15.94%) GitLab
4 11 (7.97%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.90%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.17%) JIRA
7 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.45%) Deequ
7 2 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.72%) CMake
8 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 43 (31.16%) Finance
1 43 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Banking
3 12 (8.70%) Front Office
4 11 (7.97%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.80%) Retail
6 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.35%) Electronics
7 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.35%) Marketing
8 4 (2.90%) Back Office
8 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Military
10 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.45%) Law
10 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (27.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Developer
4 21 (15.22%) Senior
5 18 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (12.32%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.70%) Architect
8 12 (8.70%) GCP DevOps
8 12 (8.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) AWS Architect
9 11 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) AWS Security Architect
9 11 (7.97%) Security Architect
10 10 (7.25%) Python Developer
10 10 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 8 (5.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.74%) React
2 28 (20.29%) Node.js
3 18 (13.04%) CSS
3 18 (13.04%) HTML
4 16 (11.59%) Kafka
5 14 (10.14%) YAML
6 12 (8.70%) ADO
6 12 (8.70%) AWS CDK
6 12 (8.70%) OAuth
6 12 (8.70%) REST
6 12 (8.70%) SAML
7 9 (6.52%) .NET
7 9 (6.52%) GraphQL
8 7 (5.07%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.35%) TensorFlow
10 5 (3.62%) Django
10 5 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.62%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.62%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.90%) Blog
7 4 (2.90%) PKI
8 2 (1.45%) Derivative
8 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.45%) Genomics
8 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.72%) Robotics
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Linux
2 12 (8.70%) VMS
3 8 (5.80%) Windows
4 5 (3.62%) Unix
5 3 (2.17%) SUSE
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (94.20%) CI/CD
2 84 (60.87%) DevOps
3 73 (52.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (40.58%) Agile
5 44 (31.88%) Containerisation
6 43 (31.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (31.16%) Observability
7 34 (24.64%) Incident Response
8 33 (23.91%) Customer Experience
9 30 (21.74%) AI
9 30 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (21.01%) Cloud Security
11 25 (18.12%) Analytics
12 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (17.39%) Software Engineering
13 23 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (16.67%) RBAC
13 23 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (63.04%) Python
2 35 (25.36%) Bash
3 32 (23.19%) SQL
4 31 (22.46%) JavaScript
5 30 (21.74%) TypeScript
6 24 (17.39%) Go
7 16 (11.59%) Java
7 16 (11.59%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (8.70%) Rust
9 7 (5.07%) C#
10 6 (4.35%) Bicep
11 3 (2.17%) Ruby
12 2 (1.45%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.72%) C++
13 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.72%) Perl
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (23.91%) Degree
2 19 (13.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.70%) OSCP
4 8 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.80%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) CCSP
6 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.72%) CISM
6 1 (0.72%) CISSP
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.72%) GCIA
6 1 (0.72%) GCIH
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (15.22%) SOC 2
3 17 (12.32%) GDPR
4 8 (5.80%) GRC
4 8 (5.80%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.90%) QA
7 4 (2.90%) SLA
8 2 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (43.48%) Docker
2 15 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (67.39%) Terraform
2 80 (57.97%) Kubernetes
3 33 (23.91%) Ansible
4 24 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.87%) Argo
6 12 (8.70%) Grafana
7 8 (5.80%) Cilium
8 4 (2.90%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.90%) logstash
9 3 (2.17%) Rancher
10 1 (0.72%) Icinga
10 1 (0.72%) Kibana
10 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.59%) Google
3 12 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 12 (8.70%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.07%) VMware
5 6 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.35%) SAP
6 5 (3.62%) Splunk
7 2 (1.45%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) Apple
8 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.72%) Databricks
8 1 (0.72%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) New Relic
8 1 (0.72%) Tenable
8 1 (0.72%) Varonis