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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 473 573
Rank change year-on-year +60 +100 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 440 228 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.42% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 301 182 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,050 £47,575
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -1.45%

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 27,997 16,022 26,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.57% 32.11% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18,449 11,136 19,203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 9 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 16 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 9 August 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 +55 378 £65,000 -13.33% 372
UK excluding London +63 256 £65,000 +0.78% 184
London -31 141 £77,500 - 226
Work from Home +8 131 £65,000 -10.34% 176
North of England +47 110 £65,000 -5.11% 75
South East -1 55 £62,500 -3.85% 45
Yorkshire +3 50 £65,000 -5.11% 23
North West +27 41 £65,500 -6.43% 42
Midlands -10 33 £65,000 -3.70% 17
South West -50 23 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Wales -49 22 £60,000 +2.13% 9
East Midlands -8 20 £67,500 +25.00% 2
North East -37 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
West Midlands -28 13 £65,000 -7.14% 15
Scotland +2 7 £73,750 +2.08% 11
East of England -30 6 £77,575 +14.93% 7

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 14 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.27%) Apache
2 10 (2.27%) Confluence
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.68%) CICS
5 3 (0.68%) IIS
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
6 2 (0.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 440 (100.00%) GitHub
2 282 (64.09%) AWS
3 250 (56.82%) Azure
4 134 (30.45%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (20.68%) GCP
6 89 (20.23%) Serverless
7 79 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (15.68%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (12.95%) Amazon S3
10 56 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (11.59%) Datadog
12 48 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (5.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 23 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (5.00%) Firebase
17 22 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.59%) Firewall
2 16 (3.64%) Network Security
3 15 (3.41%) DNS
3 15 (3.41%) VPN
4 13 (2.95%) DMARC
5 9 (2.05%) HTTP
6 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.14%) DSL
7 5 (1.14%) SAN
8 4 (0.91%) SSH
8 4 (0.91%) SSL
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.73%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (7.73%) DynamoDB
4 28 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (3.86%) Delta Lake
7 15 (3.41%) MySQL
7 15 (3.41%) Power BI
8 12 (2.73%) Redis
9 9 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.82%) Tableau
11 7 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.59%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.91%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (36.82%) Jenkins
2 93 (21.14%) Git
3 69 (15.68%) GitLab
4 31 (7.05%) JIRA
5 23 (5.23%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.55%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.41%) Postman
7 15 (3.41%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.41%) XCTest
8 14 (3.18%) Selenium
9 9 (2.05%) JUnit
10 8 (1.82%) fastlane
10 8 (1.82%) Gradle
10 8 (1.82%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.59%) NUnit
11 7 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.36%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.36%) Appium
12 6 (1.36%) Gatling
12 6 (1.36%) Zephyr
General
1 139 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.77%) Finance
3 48 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.55%) Retail
7 19 (4.32%) Banking
8 15 (3.41%) Law
9 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.82%) Marketing
11 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.14%) Military
14 4 (0.91%) Automotive
15 3 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.68%) Legal
16 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 112 (25.45%) Senior
2 105 (23.86%) Developer
3 66 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 59 (13.41%) Lead
5 42 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 26 (5.91%) Architect
7 26 (5.91%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 26 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (5.68%) Security Engineer
9 24 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.23%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.77%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.09%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (21.59%) Node.js
2 77 (17.50%) React
3 65 (14.77%) .NET
4 53 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.36%) CSS
6 48 (10.91%) RESTful
7 45 (10.23%) Spring
8 44 (10.00%) REST
9 37 (8.41%) AngularJS
10 36 (8.18%) OAuth
11 33 (7.50%) HTML
12 27 (6.14%) OAuth2
13 25 (5.68%) Jest
13 25 (5.68%) Playwright
13 25 (5.68%) YAML
14 20 (4.55%) Vue
14 20 (4.55%) Web Services
15 19 (4.32%) GraphQL
15 19 (4.32%) Ruby on Rails
15 19 (4.32%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 122 (27.73%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.86%) Mainframe
8 16 (3.64%) PKI
9 14 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.50%) Blog
10 11 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (2.50%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.50%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.59%) Digital Wallet
12 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (15.45%) Linux
2 23 (5.23%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.55%) Windows
4 14 (3.18%) Android
5 9 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.14%) Unix
7 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) AIX
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (94.32%) CI/CD
2 279 (63.41%) DevOps
3 225 (51.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (32.95%) Containerisation
5 131 (29.77%) Agile
6 108 (24.55%) Observability
7 101 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
9 94 (21.36%) Test Automation
10 93 (21.14%) AI
10 93 (21.14%) Software Engineering
11 79 (17.95%) Mentoring
12 75 (17.05%) Analytics
13 71 (16.14%) Microservices
14 69 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 65 (14.77%) Clean Code
16 62 (14.09%) Cloud Security
17 51 (11.59%) Incident Response
18 50 (11.36%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 180 (40.91%) Python
2 92 (20.91%) Java
3 91 (20.68%) TypeScript
4 76 (17.27%) Bash
5 74 (16.82%) JavaScript
6 68 (15.45%) SQL
7 64 (14.55%) PowerShell
8 44 (10.00%) Kotlin
9 35 (7.95%) Go
10 34 (7.73%) C#
11 24 (5.45%) Bicep
12 21 (4.77%) Ruby
13 19 (4.32%) Swift
14 16 (3.64%) Groovy
15 14 (3.18%) Scala
16 13 (2.95%) PHP
17 12 (2.73%) COBOL
18 8 (1.82%) Rust
19 6 (1.36%) Dart
19 6 (1.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 63 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.14%) Degree
3 43 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.59%) OSCP
10 6 (1.36%) CISSP
10 6 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.68%) OCP
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.32%) QA
2 33 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.00%) WCAG
5 18 (4.09%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.95%) GRC
7 12 (2.73%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.59%) NCSC
9 6 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.14%) GDPR
10 5 (1.14%) NIST
11 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 163 (37.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 228 (51.82%) Terraform
2 167 (37.95%) Kubernetes
3 61 (13.86%) Grafana
4 52 (11.82%) Ansible
5 49 (11.14%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.77%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.64%) Argo
8 13 (2.95%) Cilium
9 11 (2.50%) Packer
10 4 (0.91%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.68%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.68%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.68%) Puppet
12 2 (0.45%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.45%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Kibana
13 1 (0.23%) linkerd
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.23%) Databricks
3 21 (4.77%) Dynatrace
3 21 (4.77%) VMware
4 18 (4.09%) Google
5 17 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.64%) New Relic
7 14 (3.18%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.18%) Braze
8 13 (2.95%) OneLogin
8 13 (2.95%) SendGrid
9 8 (1.82%) Splunk
10 6 (1.36%) Cisco
10 6 (1.36%) EMC
10 6 (1.36%) F5
10 6 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.14%) Oracle
12 4 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.68%) Salesforce