GitHub Actions Job Trends

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 459 637
Rank change year-on-year +80 +178 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 402 195 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.36% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 289 153 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -6.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,325 14,286 34,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 33.45% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,651 9,840 26,812
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

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

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Actions within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England +64 351 £70,400 -6.13% 129
UK excluding London +55 209 £65,000 -4.41% 85
London +15 155 £80,000 -3.03% 64
Work from Home +56 141 £65,000 -10.34% 69
North of England +24 92 £62,500 -8.09% 31
Yorkshire -14 46 £63,750 -6.25% 9
South East +2 39 £61,250 -12.50% 23
North West +12 30 £65,500 -12.67% 16
South West -49 27 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Midlands -26 22 £65,000 -10.34% 5
East Midlands -10 18 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Scotland +13 17 £85,000 +36.00% 2
North East -33 16 £47,500 -17.39% 6
East of England -24 6 £77,575 +1.74% 3
Wales -42 4 £63,250 +5.42% 1
West Midlands -42 4 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 6

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (2.74%) Apache
2 10 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.74%) Confluence
4 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.50%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 402 (100.00%) GitHub
2 238 (59.20%) AWS
3 233 (57.96%) Azure
4 146 (36.32%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (23.13%) Serverless
6 85 (21.14%) GCP
7 68 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 60 (14.93%) Datadog
10 53 (13.18%) Amazon S3
11 44 (10.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (6.97%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (6.47%) Entra ID
18 24 (5.97%) Azure AKS
19 19 (4.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 18 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.94%) Firewall
2 21 (5.22%) VPN
3 19 (4.73%) DNS
3 19 (4.73%) HTTP
4 17 (4.23%) Network Security
5 15 (3.73%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.23%) DSL
7 10 (2.49%) WAN
8 7 (1.74%) DMARC
9 4 (1.00%) SSL
10 3 (0.75%) RTP
10 3 (0.75%) SAN
10 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.75%) VoIP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) BGP
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.71%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.47%) DynamoDB
4 25 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (3.23%) MySQL
7 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.49%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.49%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.74%) Power BI
10 6 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.24%) Flink
11 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 4 (1.00%) Big Data
12 4 (1.00%) Redis
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (34.83%) Jenkins
2 81 (20.15%) Git
3 53 (13.18%) GitLab
4 20 (4.98%) JIRA
5 17 (4.23%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.73%) TeamCity
7 14 (3.48%) XCTest
8 8 (1.99%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.49%) fastlane
10 6 (1.49%) Storybook
11 4 (1.00%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.00%) Gradle
11 4 (1.00%) Postman
11 4 (1.00%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.75%) Gatling
General
1 126 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.66%) Finance
3 27 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.97%) Retail
5 21 (5.22%) Banking
6 19 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.73%) Law
9 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Advertising
12 5 (1.24%) Front Office
13 4 (1.00%) Automotive
14 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.75%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
15 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (25.37%) Senior
2 95 (23.63%) Developer
3 78 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.69%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (11.19%) Lead
7 35 (8.71%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.22%) .NET Developer
8 25 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 24 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (5.97%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.72%) Architect
11 22 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.73%) Data Engineer
14 18 (4.48%) AWS Developer
15 17 (4.23%) Java Developer
16 16 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.98%) Python Developer
16 16 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.93%) Node.js
1 60 (14.93%) React
2 52 (12.94%) .NET
3 42 (10.45%) CSS
4 41 (10.20%) OAuth
5 34 (8.46%) RESTful
6 30 (7.46%) REST
7 28 (6.97%) HTML
8 25 (6.22%) AWS CDK
9 22 (5.47%) OAuth2
10 21 (5.22%) YAML
11 20 (4.98%) .NET Core
11 20 (4.98%) ASP.NET
12 19 (4.73%) AngularJS
12 19 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (4.23%) SAML
14 15 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
15 14 (3.48%) .NET Framework
15 14 (3.48%) ADO
15 14 (3.48%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.72%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.48%) Private Cloud
9 13 (3.23%) PKI
10 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.24%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.49%) CMDB
13 6 (1.49%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.93%) Linux
2 19 (4.73%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.48%) Windows
4 10 (2.49%) VMS
5 9 (2.24%) Android
5 9 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (93.03%) CI/CD
2 268 (66.67%) DevOps
3 219 (54.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (34.33%) Containerisation
5 111 (27.61%) Agile
6 106 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (25.12%) Observability
8 94 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (19.65%) Test Automation
10 70 (17.41%) Analytics
11 69 (17.16%) Cloud Security
12 68 (16.92%) AI
13 67 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 65 (16.17%) DevSecOps
15 62 (15.42%) Mentoring
16 60 (14.93%) Incident Response
17 58 (14.43%) Deployment Automation
18 57 (14.18%) Software Engineering
19 50 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 48 (11.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 186 (46.27%) Python
2 93 (23.13%) Bash
3 82 (20.40%) SQL
4 77 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.16%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.68%) JavaScript
7 52 (12.94%) Go
8 40 (9.95%) Java
9 34 (8.46%) Kotlin
10 30 (7.46%) C#
11 22 (5.47%) Bicep
12 15 (3.73%) Rust
12 15 (3.73%) Swift
13 10 (2.49%) Groovy
14 9 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.99%) Scala
16 7 (1.74%) Dart
17 6 (1.49%) PHP
18 5 (1.24%) C++
18 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (13.18%) Degree
2 35 (8.71%) AWS Certification
3 34 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.98%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.98%) OSCP
8 11 (2.74%) CISSP
9 8 (1.99%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.99%) SANS
10 7 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.49%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (8.21%) QA
3 27 (6.72%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.98%) GDPR
5 16 (3.98%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.99%) GRC
7 11 (2.74%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.74%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.24%) WCAG
10 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 3 (0.75%) SLA
12 2 (0.50%) IFRS
12 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (35.57%) Docker
2 30 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 234 (58.21%) Terraform
2 152 (37.81%) Kubernetes
3 71 (17.66%) Ansible
4 69 (17.16%) Grafana
5 57 (14.18%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.73%) Argo
7 13 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.99%) Cilium
9 9 (2.24%) Packer
10 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.75%) logstash
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Rancher
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 58 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.47%) VMware
3 16 (3.98%) Google
4 15 (3.73%) Dynatrace
4 15 (3.73%) Palo Alto
5 13 (3.23%) Amplitude
5 13 (3.23%) Braze
6 11 (2.74%) Databricks
6 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.24%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.74%) SendGrid
9 6 (1.49%) Cisco
9 6 (1.49%) EMC
9 6 (1.49%) F5
9 6 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.24%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.00%) New Relic
11 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Tenable