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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 150 188
Rank change year-on-year -1 +38 +15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 22 11 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.38% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.19% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 17
10th Percentile £48,850 £70,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,375 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +15.38% -23.53%
75th Percentile £70,750 £87,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £88,750 £92,500
North West median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -27.17%

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 1,739 928 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.19% 43.34% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 592 1,627
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
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 23 May 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 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) GitHub
2 19 (86.36%) Azure
3 15 (68.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) AWS
5 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (22.73%) Snowflake
6 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
6 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.64%) Datadog
7 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (9.09%) Apigee
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
9 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) SAN
3 1 (4.55%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) GDB
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) PyCharm
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.55%) WinDbg
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
2 11 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Apigee Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) JWT
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (9.09%) AI Agents
4 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Debian
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (90.91%) DevOps
3 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 10 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
4 10 (45.45%) Observability
5 9 (40.91%) Analytics
5 9 (40.91%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) AI
7 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
7 6 (27.27%) Business Strategy
7 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (22.73%) Data Sharing
8 5 (22.73%) DataOps
8 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (22.73%) RBAC
8 5 (22.73%) Runbook
9 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Bash
3 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
4 5 (22.73%) Bicep
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (86.36%) Terraform
2 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 4 (18.18%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) Google