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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 146 175
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 41 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 0.59% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 32 4 6
10th Percentile £12,900 £48,500 £58,125
25th Percentile £53,313 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £71,188 £71,563 -
90th Percentile £77,125 £78,875 -
North West median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% - -18.37%

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 1,940 852 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.50% 35.87% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 567 800
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 26 September 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 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) GitHub
2 34 (82.93%) Azure
3 26 (63.41%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (36.59%) AWS
5 9 (21.95%) Snowflake
6 7 (17.07%) Serverless
7 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
8 5 (12.20%) GCP
8 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
9 4 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (9.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.32%) Datadog
10 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
1 5 (12.20%) SAN
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) SQLite
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) GitLab
4 3 (7.32%) Postman
4 3 (7.32%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.44%) fastlane
5 1 (2.44%) Gradle
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) MLflow
5 1 (2.44%) NUnit
5 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.44%) Xcode
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Marketing
3 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Senior
2 13 (31.71%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (29.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 10 (24.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (21.95%) Data Engineer
5 9 (21.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (21.95%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (17.07%) Developer
8 5 (12.20%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 4 (9.76%) Lead
9 4 (9.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (9.76%) Senior Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) CloudOps Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (7.32%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (78.05%) Terraform
2 6 (14.63%) .NET
2 6 (14.63%) ARM Templates
3 5 (12.20%) React
4 4 (9.76%) RESTful
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.32%) Entity Framework
5 3 (7.32%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.32%) JPA
5 3 (7.32%) Kafka
5 3 (7.32%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
5 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.32%) Spring MVC
5 3 (7.32%) Swagger
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.88%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (4.88%) Pulumi
6 2 (4.88%) TanStack
6 2 (4.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Cloud Native
1 9 (21.95%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Animation
4 1 (2.44%) FMCG
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) PropTech
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) CI/CD
2 31 (75.61%) DevOps
3 29 (70.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (48.78%) Observability
5 17 (41.46%) AI
5 17 (41.46%) Analytics
5 17 (41.46%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (34.15%) Cost Optimisation
7 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (29.27%) Containerisation
8 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (26.83%) RBAC
10 10 (24.39%) Business Continuity
10 10 (24.39%) Business Strategy
10 10 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
11 9 (21.95%) Data Sharing
11 9 (21.95%) DataOps
11 9 (21.95%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (21.95%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) Bash
3 15 (36.59%) PowerShell
4 12 (29.27%) SQL
5 9 (21.95%) Bicep
6 5 (12.20%) C#
6 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (9.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (9.76%) Scala
8 3 (7.32%) Java
8 3 (7.32%) Rust
9 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.44%) Dart
10 1 (2.44%) Swift
10 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Grafana
2 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.76%) Argo
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.44%) Istio
5 1 (2.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) New Relic