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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 145 179
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 37 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 0.74% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 29 6 12
10th Percentile £45,250 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £63,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £82,750 £79,375 £91,500
North West median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% - -23.53%

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 1,897 943 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.62% 37.98% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 616 1,130
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £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 August 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 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) GitHub
2 31 (83.78%) Azure
3 24 (64.86%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (37.84%) AWS
5 7 (18.92%) Snowflake
6 6 (16.22%) GCP
6 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
7 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (13.51%) Serverless
8 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
9 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (8.11%) Datadog
10 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
11 1 (2.70%) Apigee
11 1 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (2.70%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Firewall
1 5 (13.51%) SAN
2 1 (2.70%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) SQLite
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) Postman
3 3 (8.11%) Selenium
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
5 1 (2.70%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.70%) fastlane
5 1 (2.70%) GDB
5 1 (2.70%) Gradle
5 1 (2.70%) MLflow
5 1 (2.70%) NUnit
5 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.70%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.70%) WinDbg
5 1 (2.70%) Xcode
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Marketing
3 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Senior
2 10 (27.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Data Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Snowflake Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) CloudOps Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Site Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
2 5 (13.51%) React
3 4 (10.81%) RESTful
4 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
4 3 (8.11%) Entity Framework
4 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
4 3 (8.11%) JPA
4 3 (8.11%) Kafka
4 3 (8.11%) OpenAPI
4 3 (8.11%) Spring
4 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.11%) Spring MVC
4 3 (8.11%) Swagger
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.41%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (5.41%) Next.js
5 2 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (5.41%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.92%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Animation
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) PropTech
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 28 (75.68%) DevOps
3 25 (67.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (45.95%) Observability
5 16 (43.24%) AI
6 14 (37.84%) Analytics
6 14 (37.84%) Cost Optimisation
7 13 (35.14%) Containerisation
8 12 (32.43%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (27.03%) Mentoring
10 8 (21.62%) Business Continuity
10 8 (21.62%) Business Strategy
10 8 (21.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (21.62%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (21.62%) RBAC
11 7 (18.92%) Data Sharing
11 7 (18.92%) DataOps
11 7 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (18.92%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Bash
3 13 (35.14%) PowerShell
4 9 (24.32%) SQL
5 8 (21.62%) Bicep
6 5 (13.51%) C#
6 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
7 4 (10.81%) Kotlin
7 4 (10.81%) Scala
8 3 (8.11%) Java
9 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.70%) C++
10 1 (2.70%) Dart
10 1 (2.70%) Rust
10 1 (2.70%) Swift
10 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (70.27%) Terraform
2 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Grafana
3 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.11%) Argo
5 1 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Istio
5 1 (2.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.22%) VMware
2 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) New Relic