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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 156 206
Rank change year-on-year +10 +50 -5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 30 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.49% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 0.85% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 16
10th Percentile £47,275 £68,750 £50,625
25th Percentile £53,938 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -23.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -30.48%

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 1,699 942 2,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.66% 41.48% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 603 1,695
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 20 June 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) GitHub
2 25 (83.33%) Azure
3 18 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) AWS
5 5 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 5 (16.67%) GCP
5 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (10.00%) Datadog
7 3 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (10.00%) Serverless
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (6.67%) Apigee
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (3.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) SQLite
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
4 2 (6.67%) Selenium
5 1 (3.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (3.33%) fastlane
5 1 (3.33%) GDB
5 1 (3.33%) Gradle
5 1 (3.33%) MLflow
5 1 (3.33%) PyCharm
5 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.33%) WinDbg
5 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Senior
2 12 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.67%) JPA
3 2 (6.67%) JWT
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (6.67%) OAuth
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Spring MVC
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
3 2 (6.67%) Vue
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) React Native
4 1 (3.33%) TanStack
4 1 (3.33%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) Animation
5 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) PropTech
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Debian
2 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (80.00%) DevOps
3 22 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 13 (43.33%) Observability
6 12 (40.00%) AI
6 12 (40.00%) Analytics
7 11 (36.67%) Cost Optimisation
8 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
9 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.00%) Business Continuity
10 6 (20.00%) Business Strategy
10 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (20.00%) RBAC
11 5 (16.67%) DataOps
11 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) Bash
3 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
4 6 (20.00%) Bicep
4 6 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 3 (10.00%) Scala
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) C++
7 1 (3.33%) Dart
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) Swift
7 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (73.33%) Terraform
2 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.67%) Grafana
3 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.00%) Ansible
5 2 (6.67%) Argo
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.33%) Istio
6 1 (3.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks