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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 475 586
Rank change year-on-year +69 +111 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 422 218 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.37% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 307 171 208
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -8.37%

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 27,505 15,969 29,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.39% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,952 11,131 21,564
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,356 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,700
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 26 July 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 26 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 +54 364 £65,500 -12.67% 208
UK excluding London +60 239 £62,500 -3.10% 110
London -5 140 £80,000 - 114
Work from Home +27 133 £65,000 -10.34% 107
North of England +40 100 £62,500 -8.76% 53
South East +13 56 £62,500 -20.63% 28
Yorkshire -2 45 £65,000 -5.11% 16
North West +30 38 £65,500 -12.67% 33
Midlands -22 29 £65,000 -1.89% 11
Wales -42 22 £60,000 +2.13% 2
East Midlands -14 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -57 21 £65,000 +6.12% 5
North East -37 17 £47,500 -17.39% 4
West Midlands -25 8 £63,750 -5.56% 9
East of England -15 6 £77,575 +19.35% 3
Scotland +14 5 £85,000 +31.78% 8

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 10 (2.37%) Apache
1 10 (2.37%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.90%) Confluence
3 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
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%) CICS
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 422 (100.00%) GitHub
2 264 (62.56%) AWS
3 241 (57.11%) Azure
4 135 (31.99%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.33%) GCP
6 86 (20.38%) Serverless
7 70 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (15.64%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.56%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.14%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (10.66%) Datadog
12 35 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.64%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
15 22 (5.21%) Firebase
16 21 (4.98%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (4.74%) Power Platform
18 19 (4.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.00%) Firewall
2 18 (4.27%) DNS
2 18 (4.27%) VPN
3 17 (4.03%) Network Security
4 14 (3.32%) HTTP
5 13 (3.08%) DMARC
6 10 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.66%) DSL
8 5 (1.18%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) SSH
9 4 (0.95%) SSL
10 3 (0.71%) WAN
11 2 (0.47%) BGP
11 2 (0.47%) RTP
11 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.47%) VLAN
11 2 (0.47%) VoIP
11 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (6.40%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 22 (5.21%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.79%) Delta Lake
7 16 (3.79%) MySQL
8 15 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.84%) Power BI
10 10 (2.37%) Redis
11 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.66%) Tableau
12 6 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.95%) Big Data
13 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 158 (37.44%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.62%) Git
3 68 (16.11%) GitLab
4 29 (6.87%) JIRA
5 20 (4.74%) Crashlytics
6 19 (4.50%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.55%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.55%) XCTest
8 13 (3.08%) Postman
9 12 (2.84%) Selenium
10 8 (1.90%) fastlane
10 8 (1.90%) Gradle
10 8 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.42%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.42%) Gatling
12 6 (1.42%) JUnit
12 6 (1.42%) Storybook
12 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.18%) CircleCI
General
1 127 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.09%) Finance
3 44 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.98%) Retail
7 17 (4.03%) Banking
8 12 (2.84%) Law
9 10 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.71%) Marketing
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (25.59%) Senior
2 99 (23.46%) Developer
3 70 (16.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (14.22%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (13.27%) Lead
6 42 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.58%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.16%) Architect
10 25 (5.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.92%) Security Engineer
11 23 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.98%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (4.98%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.50%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.50%) Software Engineer
14 18 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.79%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (19.91%) Node.js
2 68 (16.11%) React
3 50 (11.85%) .NET
4 48 (11.37%) CSS
5 44 (10.43%) REST
6 43 (10.19%) Spring Boot
7 42 (9.95%) RESTful
8 37 (8.77%) OAuth
9 35 (8.29%) Spring
10 32 (7.58%) HTML
11 27 (6.40%) AngularJS
11 27 (6.40%) OAuth2
12 26 (6.16%) YAML
13 25 (5.92%) Playwright
14 19 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.50%) Jest
14 19 (4.50%) Web Services
15 18 (4.27%) Ruby on Rails
15 18 (4.27%) Vue
16 17 (4.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 112 (26.54%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.35%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.79%) PKI
7 14 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.08%) Mainframe
8 13 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.37%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.90%) Blog
12 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.66%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.42%) CMDB
14 6 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.35%) Linux
2 21 (4.98%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.74%) Windows
4 12 (2.84%) Android
5 9 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Debian
8 2 (0.47%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) AIX
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (93.60%) CI/CD
2 267 (63.27%) DevOps
3 220 (52.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (35.55%) Containerisation
5 124 (29.38%) Agile
6 97 (22.99%) Observability
6 97 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (21.09%) AI
8 89 (21.09%) Test Automation
9 88 (20.85%) Platform Engineering
10 84 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 80 (18.96%) Mentoring
12 68 (16.11%) Microservices
13 67 (15.88%) Analytics
13 67 (15.88%) Cloud Security
14 63 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
15 61 (14.45%) Clean Code
16 55 (13.03%) DevSecOps
17 52 (12.32%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 181 (42.89%) Python
2 83 (19.67%) TypeScript
3 82 (19.43%) Bash
4 78 (18.48%) Java
5 70 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 70 (16.59%) PowerShell
6 61 (14.45%) SQL
7 40 (9.48%) Go
8 39 (9.24%) Kotlin
9 32 (7.58%) C#
10 25 (5.92%) Bicep
11 20 (4.74%) Ruby
12 17 (4.03%) Swift
13 15 (3.55%) Groovy
14 13 (3.08%) Scala
15 11 (2.61%) PHP
16 9 (2.13%) Rust
17 8 (1.90%) COBOL
18 7 (1.66%) Dart
19 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.37%) Degree
3 39 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.53%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.37%) OSCP
10 9 (2.13%) CISSP
11 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.95%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.00%) QA
2 32 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.74%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.74%) WCAG
5 13 (3.08%) GRC
6 11 (2.61%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.66%) GDPR
7 7 (1.66%) NCSC
8 6 (1.42%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.95%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (35.31%) Docker
2 16 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 223 (52.84%) Terraform
2 160 (37.91%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.93%) Grafana
4 58 (13.74%) Ansible
5 52 (12.32%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.50%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.55%) Argo
8 13 (3.08%) Cilium
9 10 (2.37%) Packer
10 5 (1.18%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.21%) VMware
3 19 (4.50%) Databricks
4 18 (4.27%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.79%) Google
6 14 (3.32%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.32%) Braze
7 13 (3.08%) New Relic
7 13 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.08%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.84%) OneLogin
9 7 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.42%) Cisco
10 6 (1.42%) EMC
10 6 (1.42%) F5
10 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.95%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.71%) Tenable