GitHub Actions Job Trends in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 208 249
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +53
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 12 30 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.48% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 1.46% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10 30 7
10th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 - £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -22.58%
75th Percentile £74,375 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,375 - £106,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +3.08%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,890 2,057 2,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 35.61% 32.95% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,192 2,367
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,650 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub Actions relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the Midlands

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +7 9 £60,000 -7.69% 16
East Midlands -1 3 £70,000 +77.22% 24
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GitHub
2 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) AWS
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
4 5 (41.67%) Datadog
5 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
6 1 (8.33%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Snyk
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) ARM Templates
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) RBAC
3 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Runbook
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) CRUD
6 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Bicep
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) HubSpot