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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 464 637
Rank change year-on-year +64 +173 -32
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 411 212 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.40% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 307 158 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,025 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -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 25,774 15,093 35,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.14% 33.30% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,752 10,459 27,348
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
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% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,476 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +69 360 £70,000 -6.67% 135
UK excluding London +60 226 £65,000 -1.89% 91
London -10 145 £80,000 - 69
Work from Home +26 125 £65,000 -10.34% 91
North of England +33 96 £62,500 -8.76% 25
South East +3 48 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Yorkshire +3 43 £65,000 -5.11% 9
North West +23 36 £65,500 -12.67% 14
South West -45 28 £73,750 +13.46% 10
Midlands -12 26 £67,500 +1.89% 11
East Midlands -11 22 £72,500 +28.89% 7
North East -34 17 £47,000 -18.26% 3
Wales -41 13 £71,500 +19.17% 1
Scotland +7 7 £85,000 +31.78% 7
East of England -11 6 £77,575 +12.84% 3
West Midlands -28 4 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.68%) Apache
1 11 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.22%) Confluence
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.49%) nginx
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) GitHub
2 247 (60.10%) AWS
3 232 (56.45%) Azure
4 136 (33.09%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (21.65%) GCP
6 87 (21.17%) Serverless
7 68 (16.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (15.57%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (12.17%) Amazon S3
10 49 (11.92%) Datadog
11 41 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
15 29 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (6.81%) AWS Step Functions
17 25 (6.08%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (5.35%) Azure AKS
19 21 (5.11%) Entra ID
19 21 (5.11%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.44%) Firewall
2 23 (5.60%) VPN
3 20 (4.87%) DNS
4 19 (4.62%) HTTP
5 17 (4.14%) Network Security
6 14 (3.41%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.16%) DMARC
8 11 (2.68%) DSL
9 8 (1.95%) WAN
10 4 (0.97%) SSL
11 3 (0.73%) RTP
11 3 (0.73%) SAN
11 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.73%) VoIP
11 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.49%) BGP
12 2 (0.49%) VLAN
13 1 (0.24%) LTE
13 1 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.35%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.11%) DynamoDB
5 16 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.65%) MySQL
7 14 (3.41%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.19%) Power BI
9 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.22%) Big Data
10 5 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.22%) Redis
10 5 (1.22%) Tableau
11 4 (0.97%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 157 (38.20%) Jenkins
2 78 (18.98%) Git
3 61 (14.84%) GitLab
4 25 (6.08%) JIRA
5 20 (4.87%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.65%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.65%) XCTest
7 12 (2.92%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.43%) Postman
9 9 (2.19%) Selenium
10 8 (1.95%) fastlane
10 8 (1.95%) Gradle
11 7 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.70%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.70%) Storybook
11 7 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.46%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.46%) Gatling
13 5 (1.22%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.97%) Maven
General
1 120 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.63%) Finance
3 30 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.84%) Retail
6 22 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.14%) Banking
8 15 (3.65%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.41%) Law
10 8 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.22%) Advertising
13 4 (0.97%) Automotive
14 3 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.73%) Military
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Games
15 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 102 (24.82%) Senior
2 93 (22.63%) Developer
3 69 (16.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (14.36%) Platform Engineer
5 48 (11.68%) Lead
6 46 (11.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.06%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.81%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.57%) Architect
10 27 (6.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.11%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.87%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.14%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.89%) .NET Developer
16 16 (3.89%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (18.00%) Node.js
2 61 (14.84%) React
3 49 (11.92%) CSS
4 41 (9.98%) .NET
5 39 (9.49%) OAuth
6 35 (8.52%) HTML
6 35 (8.52%) RESTful
7 34 (8.27%) REST
8 33 (8.03%) Spring Boot
9 28 (6.81%) YAML
10 27 (6.57%) Spring
11 24 (5.84%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.60%) OAuth2
13 20 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.62%) AWS CDK
15 17 (4.14%) Playwright
16 16 (3.89%) Vue
17 15 (3.65%) UIKit
17 15 (3.65%) Web Services
18 14 (3.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.30%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.65%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.41%) PKI
8 12 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.70%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.46%) CMDB
13 5 (1.22%) Blog
14 4 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
15 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 60 (14.60%) Linux
2 20 (4.87%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.38%) Windows
4 11 (2.68%) Android
5 10 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.70%) VMS
7 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.49%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (93.19%) CI/CD
2 260 (63.26%) DevOps
3 222 (54.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (35.52%) Containerisation
5 116 (28.22%) Agile
6 99 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (23.60%) Observability
8 86 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (19.95%) Test Automation
10 77 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
11 73 (17.76%) AI
11 73 (17.76%) Cloud Security
12 71 (17.27%) Analytics
12 71 (17.27%) Mentoring
12 71 (17.27%) Software Engineering
13 58 (14.11%) DevSecOps
14 57 (13.87%) Clean Code
14 57 (13.87%) Incident Response
14 57 (13.87%) Microservices
15 55 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 185 (45.01%) Python
2 92 (22.38%) Bash
3 76 (18.49%) TypeScript
4 71 (17.27%) PowerShell
5 69 (16.79%) SQL
6 64 (15.57%) Java
7 57 (13.87%) JavaScript
8 44 (10.71%) Go
9 39 (9.49%) Kotlin
10 31 (7.54%) C#
11 22 (5.35%) Bicep
12 16 (3.89%) Swift
13 14 (3.41%) Groovy
14 13 (3.16%) Rust
15 12 (2.92%) Scala
16 10 (2.43%) Ruby
17 7 (1.70%) Dart
17 7 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.70%) PHP
18 5 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (13.14%) Degree
2 48 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.27%) AWS Certification
4 33 (8.03%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.87%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.41%) OSCP
8 13 (3.16%) CISSP
9 9 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.95%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.95%) SANS
11 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.27%) QA
2 30 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 25 (6.08%) SOC 2
4 14 (3.41%) WCAG
5 13 (3.16%) GDPR
5 13 (3.16%) GRC
6 11 (2.68%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.22%) NCSC
10 4 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.73%) NIST
12 2 (0.49%) IFRS
12 2 (0.49%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.49%) SLA
12 2 (0.49%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 143 (34.79%) Docker
2 24 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 225 (54.74%) Terraform
2 156 (37.96%) Kubernetes
3 66 (16.06%) Ansible
4 65 (15.82%) Grafana
5 55 (13.38%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.14%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.16%) Argo
7 13 (3.16%) Cilium
8 9 (2.19%) Packer
9 8 (1.95%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.97%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.73%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.73%) Puppet
12 2 (0.49%) 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 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.60%) VMware
3 18 (4.38%) Dynatrace
3 18 (4.38%) Google
4 14 (3.41%) Amplitude
4 14 (3.41%) Braze
4 14 (3.41%) Databricks
5 13 (3.16%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.70%) New Relic
8 7 (1.70%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.46%) Cisco
9 6 (1.46%) EMC
9 6 (1.46%) F5
9 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.46%) Zscaler
10 4 (0.97%) Splunk
11 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.73%) Varonis