GitHub Actions Job Trends in South Wales

GitHub Actions
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 2 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.26% 2.07% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 5.51% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 2
10th Percentile £61,596 - £56,625
25th Percentile £61,747 - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,248 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +10.64% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65,999 - £59,688
90th Percentile £66,900 - £59,875
Wales median annual salary £63,248 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -2.70% +10.64% -9.62%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 181 236 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 23.15% 37.52% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 100 152 191
10th Percentile £28,225 £30,575 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +9.97%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in South Wales

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bridgend - 1 £61,496 -
Cardiff - 1 £65,000 - 14
GitHub Actions
Wales

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) git-flow
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft