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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 151 145
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 +67
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 7 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.23% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.97% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £52,000 £70,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £54,625 £73,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,625 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.53% +41.67% -13.60%

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 1,192 1,029 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 38.83% 38.96% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 638 593 1,057
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,709 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +0.80% +2.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
5 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (28.57%) SaaS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 1 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Apigee Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google