GitHub Actions Job Trends in the North of England

GitHub Actions
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 228 286
Rank change year-on-year +17 +58 +50
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 51 47 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.45% 0.52% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.62% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 21
10th Percentile £42,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £52,125 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,938 £69,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £85,750 £84,500 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +2.75%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,279 2,907 3,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.61% 32.25% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,959 1,621 3,444
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,250 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £83,750
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 North of England

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the North of England

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
Yorkshire -27 28 £60,000 +21.21% 44
North West +27 17 £65,000 -23.53% 37
North East +6 6 £55,000 -24.14% 12
GitHub Actions
England

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) GitHub
2 42 (82.35%) Azure
3 38 (74.51%) AWS
4 32 (62.75%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (43.14%) Serverless
6 20 (39.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (39.22%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (37.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (35.29%) Amazon S3
9 17 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (25.49%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (25.49%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (25.49%) GCP
11 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (9.80%) Datadog
11 5 (9.80%) SaaS
12 4 (7.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (7.84%) Azure App Service
12 4 (7.84%) Slack
13 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) DNS
2 8 (15.69%) Firewall
2 8 (15.69%) HTTP
2 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 17 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.88%) Metadata
6 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Git
2 18 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.96%) git-flow
5 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 9 (17.65%) Law
4 8 (15.69%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Back Office
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) .NET Developer
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Developer
3 9 (17.65%) Lead
3 9 (17.65%) Senior
4 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Serverless Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) RESTful
2 15 (29.41%) .NET
2 15 (29.41%) React
3 13 (25.49%) .NET Core
3 13 (25.49%) ASP.NET
3 13 (25.49%) ASP.NET Core
3 13 (25.49%) AWS CDK
3 13 (25.49%) Blazor
4 8 (15.69%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (13.73%) Node.js
6 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.88%) ARM Templates
7 3 (5.88%) PySpark
7 3 (5.88%) Spring
7 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.92%) Jest
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth
8 2 (3.92%) OpenID
9 1 (1.96%) Next.js
9 1 (1.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 20 (39.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) IoT
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Android
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (96.08%) CI/CD
2 47 (92.16%) DevOps
3 38 (74.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (58.82%) Containerisation
5 19 (37.25%) Agile
6 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (27.45%) Application Security
7 14 (27.45%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (27.45%) DevSecOps
7 14 (27.45%) Microservices
8 13 (25.49%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
11 10 (19.61%) High Availability
12 9 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
12 9 (17.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 8 (15.69%) Observability
13 8 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (15.69%) Static Code Analysis
14 6 (11.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) Python
3 13 (25.49%) Bash
4 9 (17.65%) Go
5 8 (15.69%) Java
5 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.84%) Bicep
7 4 (7.84%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.92%) C#
10 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) AWS Certification
1 11 (21.57%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 27 (52.94%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (70.59%) Terraform
2 13 (25.49%) Grafana
2 13 (25.49%) Prometheus
3 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
4 10 (19.61%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Argo
5 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Databricks
2 3 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Foundry