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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 238 224
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +99
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 13 33 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.36% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 1.38% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 4
10th Percentile £50,750 - £54,350
25th Percentile £51,000 - £56,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -18.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £62,688
90th Percentile £101,250 £71,000 £63,025
England median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.62% -18.37% +13.76%

All Cloud 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 1,600 2,394 2,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.90% 26.22% 38.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,271 1,399 1,759
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% -3.10%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 +34 11 £67,500 +12.50% 16
East Midlands +5 2 £53,250 -7.39% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) GitHub
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) AWS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (53.85%) Azure AKS
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (30.77%) Datadog
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (15.38%) SaaS
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (7.69%) IaaS
8 1 (7.69%) PaaS
8 1 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (7.69%) SonarCloud
8 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Snyk
3 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) gRPC
3 1 (7.69%) Loki
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bicep
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Argo
5 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Informatica