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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 472 631
Rank change year-on-year +80 +159 -43
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 425 222 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.41% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 317 169 217
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -4.55%

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 26,740 15,701 34,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 32.62% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,448 10,962 26,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,276
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +60 368 £67,500 -10.00% 195
UK excluding London +71 238 £65,000 -3.70% 124
London 0 143 £80,000 - 93
Work from Home +37 129 £65,000 -11.86% 147
North of England +31 100 £65,000 -5.11% 50
South East +12 54 £62,500 -13.79% 39
Yorkshire +9 47 £65,000 -5.11% 17
North West +16 36 £65,500 -12.67% 28
Midlands -14 27 £65,000 -3.70% 16
South West -46 27 £75,000 +15.38% 4
East Midlands -5 22 £72,500 +28.89% 8
North East -33 17 £47,000 -18.26% 6
Wales -46 15 £71,500 +19.17% 4
Scotland +8 7 £85,000 +31.78% 8
East of England -22 6 £77,575 +14.93% 3
West Midlands -25 5 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 1

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 (2.59%) Apache
1 11 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.41%) Confluence
4 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 425 (100.00%) GitHub
2 261 (61.41%) AWS
3 240 (56.47%) Azure
4 139 (32.71%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (21.41%) GCP
6 88 (20.71%) Serverless
7 70 (16.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 65 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (12.24%) Amazon S3
10 49 (11.53%) Datadog
11 43 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (6.59%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (4.94%) Entra ID
17 21 (4.94%) Firebase
18 20 (4.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.29%) Firewall
2 24 (5.65%) VPN
3 22 (5.18%) DNS
4 19 (4.47%) HTTP
5 17 (4.00%) Network Security
6 14 (3.29%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.06%) DMARC
8 11 (2.59%) DSL
9 6 (1.41%) WAN
10 5 (1.18%) SAN
11 4 (0.94%) SSL
12 3 (0.71%) RTP
12 3 (0.71%) SSH
12 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.71%) VoIP
12 3 (0.71%) Wireshark
13 2 (0.47%) BGP
13 2 (0.47%) VLAN
14 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.18%) DynamoDB
5 21 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.53%) MySQL
8 14 (3.29%) Delta Lake
9 9 (2.12%) Power BI
10 7 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.18%) Big Data
12 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.18%) Redis
12 5 (1.18%) Tableau
13 4 (0.94%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 165 (38.82%) Jenkins
2 81 (19.06%) Git
3 66 (15.53%) GitLab
4 28 (6.59%) JIRA
5 20 (4.71%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.53%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.53%) XCTest
7 13 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.59%) Postman
9 10 (2.35%) Selenium
10 8 (1.88%) fastlane
10 8 (1.88%) Gradle
10 8 (1.88%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.65%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.65%) Storybook
11 7 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.41%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.41%) Gatling
12 6 (1.41%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.18%) JUnit
General
1 126 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.18%) Finance
3 36 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.65%) Retail
6 23 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.00%) Banking
8 14 (3.29%) Law
8 14 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.18%) Advertising
12 4 (0.94%) Automotive
13 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (24.47%) Senior
2 95 (22.35%) Developer
3 74 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.35%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.71%) Lead
6 46 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (6.82%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.59%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.35%) Architect
11 26 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
14 20 (4.71%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (4.24%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.76%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.59%) Node.js
2 63 (14.82%) React
3 49 (11.53%) CSS
4 47 (11.06%) .NET
5 37 (8.71%) OAuth
5 37 (8.71%) RESTful
5 37 (8.71%) Spring Boot
6 36 (8.47%) REST
7 35 (8.24%) HTML
8 30 (7.06%) Spring
9 28 (6.59%) YAML
10 26 (6.12%) AngularJS
11 24 (5.65%) OAuth2
12 21 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (4.71%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.24%) Playwright
14 18 (4.24%) Web Services
15 17 (4.00%) Vue
16 15 (3.53%) UIKit
17 14 (3.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 115 (27.06%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.06%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.76%) Private Cloud
8 14 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.29%) PKI
9 13 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
13 9 (2.12%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.41%) Blog
14 6 (1.41%) CMDB
14 6 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 5 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.53%) Linux
2 20 (4.71%) Apple iOS
2 20 (4.71%) Windows
3 11 (2.59%) Android
4 10 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.18%) VMS
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.71%) Unix
7 2 (0.47%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (92.94%) CI/CD
2 271 (63.76%) DevOps
3 229 (53.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (36.24%) Containerisation
5 123 (28.94%) Agile
6 101 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (22.82%) Observability
8 92 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 84 (19.76%) Test Automation
11 77 (18.12%) AI
12 76 (17.88%) Software Engineering
13 75 (17.65%) Mentoring
14 74 (17.41%) Cloud Security
15 68 (16.00%) Analytics
16 63 (14.82%) DevSecOps
17 60 (14.12%) Microservices
18 58 (13.65%) Clean Code
18 58 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
19 56 (13.18%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 196 (46.12%) Python
2 94 (22.12%) Bash
3 78 (18.35%) TypeScript
4 76 (17.88%) PowerShell
5 70 (16.47%) Java
6 67 (15.76%) SQL
7 64 (15.06%) JavaScript
8 48 (11.29%) Go
9 39 (9.18%) Kotlin
10 33 (7.76%) C#
11 26 (6.12%) Bicep
12 16 (3.76%) Swift
13 15 (3.53%) Groovy
14 14 (3.29%) Ruby
15 13 (3.06%) Rust
16 12 (2.82%) Scala
17 9 (2.12%) PHP
18 7 (1.65%) Dart
19 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (12.71%) Degree
2 53 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.47%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.94%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.29%) OSCP
8 13 (3.06%) CISSP
9 11 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.12%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.88%) CREST Certified
11 8 (1.88%) SANS
12 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.71%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.24%) QA
2 32 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 32 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.41%) SOC 2
4 16 (3.76%) WCAG
5 13 (3.06%) GRC
6 11 (2.59%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.59%) GDPR
7 7 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.41%) NCSC
9 5 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.71%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 148 (34.82%) Docker
2 23 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 234 (55.06%) Terraform
2 165 (38.82%) Kubernetes
3 68 (16.00%) Ansible
3 68 (16.00%) Grafana
4 56 (13.18%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.24%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.53%) Argo
7 13 (3.06%) Cilium
8 9 (2.12%) Packer
9 8 (1.88%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.94%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Consul
13 1 (0.24%) Istio
13 1 (0.24%) Kibana
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.12%) VMware
3 18 (4.24%) Dynatrace
4 15 (3.53%) Google
5 14 (3.29%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.29%) Braze
5 14 (3.29%) Databricks
6 13 (3.06%) SendGrid
7 11 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.35%) New Relic
8 10 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.88%) OneLogin
10 6 (1.41%) Cisco
10 6 (1.41%) EMC
10 6 (1.41%) F5
10 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.94%) Splunk
11 4 (0.94%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.71%) Tenable