GitHub Actions Job Trends in Manchester

GitHub Actions
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 139 174
Rank change year-on-year -30 +35 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 38 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.49% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 0.59% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 33 5 4
10th Percentile £16,050 £50,500 £55,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -3.70% -15.24%
75th Percentile £70,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £90,500 £86,500
North West median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.70% -15.24%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,904 849 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.68% 36.34% 34.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 570 745
10th Percentile £34,625 £29,500 £35,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Manchester

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in Manchester

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) GitHub
2 31 (81.58%) Azure
3 21 (55.26%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (36.84%) AWS
5 9 (23.68%) Snowflake
6 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 6 (15.79%) Serverless
7 5 (13.16%) GCP
7 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.63%) Contentful
11 1 (2.63%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
1 5 (13.16%) SAN
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SQLite
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Git
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) Postman
3 3 (7.89%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.63%) fastlane
4 1 (2.63%) Gradle
4 1 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (2.63%) MLflow
4 1 (2.63%) NUnit
4 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.63%) Xcode
General
1 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Finance
2 1 (2.63%) Marketing
2 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Senior
2 13 (34.21%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (31.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Data Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Snowflake Engineer
5 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (18.42%) Developer
7 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (13.16%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) Lead
9 4 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
10 3 (7.89%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
10 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
11 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (76.32%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) React
3 6 (15.79%) .NET
3 6 (15.79%) RESTful
4 5 (13.16%) Spring
4 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.53%) REST
6 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.89%) CSS
6 3 (7.89%) Entity Framework
6 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.89%) HTML
6 3 (7.89%) JPA
6 3 (7.89%) Kafka
6 3 (7.89%) OpenAPI
6 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
6 3 (7.89%) Swagger
7 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
7 2 (5.26%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Onboarding
2 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.63%) Animation
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) FMCG
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) PropTech
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) CI/CD
2 28 (73.68%) DevOps
3 26 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (44.74%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (42.11%) Observability
6 15 (39.47%) Analytics
7 13 (34.21%) AI
7 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (31.58%) Mentoring
9 11 (28.95%) Cost Optimisation
9 11 (28.95%) RBAC
10 10 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (23.68%) Business Continuity
11 9 (23.68%) Business Strategy
11 9 (23.68%) Data Sharing
11 9 (23.68%) DataOps
11 9 (23.68%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (23.68%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (23.68%) Runbook
12 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) Bash
3 14 (36.84%) SQL
4 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
5 7 (18.42%) Bicep
5 7 (18.42%) TypeScript
6 6 (15.79%) Kotlin
7 5 (13.16%) C#
7 5 (13.16%) Java
8 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 4 (10.53%) Scala
9 3 (7.89%) Rust
10 1 (2.63%) Dart
10 1 (2.63%) Swift
10 1 (2.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Argo
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
5 1 (2.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) VMware
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.89%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic