GitHub Actions Job Trends in Northern Ireland

GitHub Actions
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.32% 0.54% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.71% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £47,500
75th Percentile £63,750 - £51,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +6.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 186 117 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.48% 31.54% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 74 34 122
10th Percentile £32,900 - £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
County Antrim -2 2 £62,500 - 2
GitHub Actions
UK

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes