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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 452 531
Rank change year-on-year +40 +79 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 457 231 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.47% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 303 183 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,550 -
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £101,250 £82,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.51%

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 27,496 15,721 24,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.22% 31.70% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18,563 10,634 16,033
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +55 393 £65,500 -11.19% 425
UK excluding London +40 259 £65,000 - 196
London -5 147 £77,500 - 280
Work from Home -14 129 £70,000 -3.45% 596
North of England +37 119 £65,000 -2.26% 59
Yorkshire +2 57 £67,500 -1.46% 20
South East -3 56 £61,250 -18.33% 64
North West +22 44 £65,500 +0.77% 30
Midlands -35 32 £65,000 +7.00% 15
Wales -58 24 £60,000 +2.13% 7
South West -60 21 £57,500 -4.17% 18
West Midlands -29 19 £65,000 -3.70% 10
North East -45 18 £57,500 - 9
East Midlands -22 13 £65,000 +22.07% 5
Scotland -2 4 £115,000 +43.75% 15
East of England -33 3 £87,500 +27.27% 9

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 13 (2.84%) Apache
1 13 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.41%) Confluence
3 8 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.88%) CICS
5 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) GitHub
2 295 (64.55%) AWS
3 253 (55.36%) Azure
4 124 (27.13%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (19.91%) GCP
6 88 (19.26%) Serverless
7 81 (17.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (15.75%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (14.00%) Amazon S3
10 62 (13.57%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (10.72%) Datadog
12 48 (10.50%) Amazon EC2
13 44 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (7.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 30 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
17 28 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (5.25%) Azure AKS
19 21 (4.60%) AWS Step Functions
19 21 (4.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.38%) Firewall
2 19 (4.16%) VPN
3 13 (2.84%) DMARC
4 11 (2.41%) Network Security
5 9 (1.97%) DNS
6 5 (1.09%) SAN
7 4 (0.88%) HTTP
7 4 (0.88%) SSH
7 4 (0.88%) SSL
8 3 (0.66%) BGP
8 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.66%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
10 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.19%) DynamoDB
3 38 (8.32%) Relational Database
4 32 (7.00%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (6.78%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.56%) NoSQL
7 23 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (3.72%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.72%) MySQL
9 14 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.06%) Redis
10 13 (2.84%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.84%) Power BI
11 8 (1.75%) Tableau
12 7 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.53%) Data Vault
12 7 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (38.73%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.44%) Git
3 71 (15.54%) GitLab
4 34 (7.44%) JIRA
5 32 (7.00%) Cypress.io
6 23 (5.03%) Postman
7 18 (3.94%) Selenium
8 13 (2.84%) Crashlytics
9 12 (2.63%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.41%) JMeter
10 11 (2.41%) JUnit
11 10 (2.19%) Gatling
11 10 (2.19%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.97%) Gradle
12 9 (1.97%) Newman
13 8 (1.75%) NUnit
13 8 (1.75%) XCTest
14 6 (1.31%) fastlane
14 6 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (1.31%) Zephyr
General
1 160 (35.01%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.51%) Finance
3 56 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.47%) Banking
7 19 (4.16%) Retail
8 11 (2.41%) Law
8 11 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.97%) Marketing
10 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Automotive
11 4 (0.88%) Legal
12 3 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.66%) Games
12 3 (0.66%) Local Government
12 3 (0.66%) Military
13 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 125 (27.35%) Senior
2 108 (23.63%) Developer
3 68 (14.88%) Platform Engineer
4 58 (12.69%) Lead
5 57 (12.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 29 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (6.13%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.91%) Data Engineer
12 26 (5.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 25 (5.47%) Architect
13 25 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.60%) Security Engineer
16 19 (4.16%) Automation Engineer
16 19 (4.16%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (51.86%) Terraform
2 108 (23.63%) Node.js
3 80 (17.51%) React
4 68 (14.88%) .NET
4 68 (14.88%) Spring Boot
5 60 (13.13%) Spring
6 56 (12.25%) RESTful
7 53 (11.60%) REST
8 51 (11.16%) CSS
9 42 (9.19%) AngularJS
10 35 (7.66%) Playwright
11 34 (7.44%) HTML
12 30 (6.56%) OAuth
13 29 (6.35%) OAuth2
14 28 (6.13%) Jest
15 24 (5.25%) Ruby on Rails
15 24 (5.25%) YAML
16 23 (5.03%) GraphQL
16 23 (5.03%) Web Services
17 22 (4.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 125 (27.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.25%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.81%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.60%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (3.06%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.84%) Blog
10 13 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.41%) PKI
12 10 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (2.19%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.75%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (17.29%) Linux
2 19 (4.16%) Windows
3 15 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.63%) Android
5 8 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.53%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Debian
7 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.44%) AIX
8 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (95.62%) CI/CD
2 285 (62.36%) DevOps
3 233 (50.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (32.17%) Containerisation
5 130 (28.45%) Agile
6 122 (26.70%) AI
7 121 (26.48%) Observability
8 114 (24.95%) Software Engineering
9 108 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (22.54%) Platform Engineering
10 103 (22.54%) Test Automation
11 87 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (17.94%) Analytics
13 80 (17.51%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.19%) Microservices
15 67 (14.66%) Clean Code
16 64 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
17 62 (13.57%) Cloud Security
18 51 (11.16%) RBAC
18 51 (11.16%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (41.58%) Python
2 113 (24.73%) Java
3 105 (22.98%) TypeScript
4 80 (17.51%) SQL
5 77 (16.85%) JavaScript
6 76 (16.63%) Bash
7 62 (13.57%) PowerShell
8 43 (9.41%) Kotlin
9 41 (8.97%) Go
10 32 (7.00%) C#
11 26 (5.69%) Bicep
11 26 (5.69%) Ruby
12 19 (4.16%) Groovy
13 18 (3.94%) COBOL
14 17 (3.72%) Scala
15 12 (2.63%) JCL
15 12 (2.63%) PHP
15 12 (2.63%) Swift
16 8 (1.75%) Rust
17 6 (1.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 47 (10.28%) Degree
4 34 (7.44%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.47%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.88%) CISSP
12 4 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.66%) OCP
13 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.47%) QA
2 35 (7.66%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.03%) WCAG
4 17 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.63%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.97%) GRC
7 7 (1.53%) NCSC
8 6 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.09%) GDPR
10 4 (0.88%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.88%) NIST
11 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.66%) SLA
12 2 (0.44%) IFRS
12 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.22%) PERC
System Software
1 182 (39.82%) Docker
2 13 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.66%) Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 173 (37.86%) Kubernetes
2 57 (12.47%) Grafana
3 47 (10.28%) Prometheus
4 44 (9.63%) Ansible
5 24 (5.25%) Progress Chef
6 17 (3.72%) Argo
7 11 (2.41%) Packer
8 10 (2.19%) Cilium
9 6 (1.31%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.88%) Istio
11 3 (0.66%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.66%) logstash
12 2 (0.44%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.44%) Puppet
12 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) linkerd
13 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 58 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.47%) VMware
3 24 (5.25%) Databricks
4 23 (5.03%) Google
5 16 (3.50%) OneLogin
6 15 (3.28%) New Relic
7 13 (2.84%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.84%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.84%) Splunk
8 10 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.75%) Amplitude
9 8 (1.75%) Braze
9 8 (1.75%) Broadcom
9 8 (1.75%) Oracle
10 6 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.09%) Cisco
11 5 (1.09%) EMC
11 5 (1.09%) F5
11 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow