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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 278 409
Rank change year-on-year -26 +131 -8
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 139 117 53
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.96% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 2.10% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 94 80 33
10th Percentile £52,250 £52,500 £55,350
25th Percentile £65,313 £67,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,938 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,625 £111,875 £89,500
England median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -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 8,432 5,579 8,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.42% 45.97% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,650 3,889 6,262
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,903 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -24 11 £80,000 +3.23% 17
West London -24 1 £82,500 +29.92% 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 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) CMS
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) GitHub
2 93 (66.91%) Azure
3 79 (56.83%) AWS
4 47 (33.81%) GCP
5 35 (25.18%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (17.99%) Serverless
7 23 (16.55%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (12.23%) Datadog
10 16 (11.51%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (11.51%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (11.51%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (10.79%) Amazon S3
12 13 (9.35%) Azure Storage
13 10 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
15 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (5.76%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) DMARC
2 11 (7.91%) Network Security
3 8 (5.76%) Firewall
4 5 (3.60%) DNS
4 5 (3.60%) DSL
4 5 (3.60%) VPN
5 4 (2.88%) SSH
6 2 (1.44%) HTTP
7 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) Delta Lake
1 9 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.76%) Power BI
3 7 (5.04%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.32%) Tableau
5 5 (3.60%) Data Vault
6 4 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.16%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.44%) MySQL
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.72%) Looker
Development Applications
1 52 (37.41%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.99%) Git
3 23 (16.55%) GitLab
4 11 (7.91%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.60%) JIRA
7 3 (2.16%) Postman
7 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.44%) Appium
8 2 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (1.44%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.44%) Gradle
8 2 (1.44%) JUnit
8 2 (1.44%) Maven
8 2 (1.44%) NUnit
8 2 (1.44%) Selenium
8 2 (1.44%) webpack
9 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 35 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.83%) Finance
3 17 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.07%) Banking
5 12 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.47%) Retail
7 6 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Law
8 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.88%) Marketing
10 2 (1.44%) Advertising
10 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (26.62%) Senior
2 28 (20.14%) Developer
3 18 (12.95%) Lead
4 16 (11.51%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.35%) React Developer
6 13 (9.35%) Security Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Architect
7 12 (8.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Technical Leader
11 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.32%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.94%) Node.js
2 26 (18.71%) React
3 21 (15.11%) REST
4 20 (14.39%) CSS
4 20 (14.39%) YAML
5 19 (13.67%) OAuth
5 19 (13.67%) OAuth2
5 19 (13.67%) RESTful
6 18 (12.95%) HTML
7 16 (11.51%) Spring
7 16 (11.51%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.19%) eBPF
9 9 (6.47%) .NET
10 8 (5.76%) AWS CDK
10 8 (5.76%) PySpark
11 7 (5.04%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.32%) Kafka
12 6 (4.32%) Playwright
13 5 (3.60%) Jest
13 5 (3.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.37%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.35%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.19%) PKI
4 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.76%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.32%) CMDB
6 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.32%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.72%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) Windows
3 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.16%) Android
5 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (90.65%) CI/CD
2 75 (53.96%) DevOps
3 62 (44.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (26.62%) Microservices
6 36 (25.90%) Agile
7 35 (25.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (25.18%) Mentoring
8 33 (23.74%) Containerisation
9 32 (23.02%) Test Automation
10 29 (20.86%) Clean Code
11 28 (20.14%) Cloud Security
12 24 (17.27%) Incident Response
13 23 (16.55%) AI
13 23 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (15.83%) Software Engineering
15 20 (14.39%) Computer Science
15 20 (14.39%) Event-Driven
15 20 (14.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.01%) Python
2 31 (22.30%) TypeScript
3 27 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 26 (18.71%) Java
5 25 (17.99%) PowerShell
6 22 (15.83%) Bash
6 22 (15.83%) SQL
7 17 (12.23%) Go
8 7 (5.04%) C#
9 6 (4.32%) Scala
10 5 (3.60%) Rust
11 4 (2.88%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.44%) Bicep
12 2 (1.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.72%) C
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (22.30%) Degree
2 20 (14.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.63%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.19%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.47%) Security Cleared
6 8 (5.76%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.04%) OSCP
8 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) CCSP
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.44%) CISM
8 2 (1.44%) CISSP
8 2 (1.44%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.44%) GCIA
8 2 (1.44%) GCIH
9 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.83%) QA
2 11 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.91%) SOC 2
3 9 (6.47%) GRC
4 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.16%) WCAG
7 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (23.74%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (51.80%) Terraform
2 50 (35.97%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.11%) Grafana
4 16 (11.51%) Ansible
4 16 (11.51%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.19%) Cilium
6 6 (4.32%) Packer
7 4 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.72%) Argo
8 1 (0.72%) Kibana
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.35%) Databricks
2 13 (9.35%) SendGrid
3 8 (5.76%) VMware
4 6 (4.32%) Cisco
4 6 (4.32%) EMC
4 6 (4.32%) F5
4 6 (4.32%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.60%) New Relic
6 4 (2.88%) Google
6 4 (2.88%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.16%) Oracle
7 3 (2.16%) Splunk
8 2 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.44%) Foundry
8 2 (1.44%) Intel
8 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.44%) Veeam