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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 434 519
Rank change year-on-year +15 +85 -9
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 487 242 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.56% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 326 190 215
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,875 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.40%

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 27,750 15,551 24,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.72% 31.57% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,777 10,563 15,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £46,250
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 £100,000 £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 24 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 24 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 +51 420 £67,500 -6.90% 600
UK excluding London +16 270 £65,000 - 247
London -5 161 £77,500 - 391
Work from Home -15 135 £71,125 -1.90% 303
North of England +41 128 £65,000 - 78
Yorkshire +10 61 £67,500 -1.46% 29
South East -18 60 £63,750 -15.00% 62
North West +13 46 £65,500 +0.77% 39
Midlands -32 29 £65,000 +7.00% 22
Wales -60 24 £60,000 +2.13% 12
North East -47 21 £57,500 -11.54% 10
South West -72 20 £61,250 +2.08% 30
West Midlands -36 19 £65,000 -3.70% 10
East Midlands -19 10 £65,000 +22.07% 12
Scotland -7 5 £90,000 +12.50% 10
East of England -36 4 £87,500 +29.63% 18

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 12 (2.46%) Apache
1 12 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.26%) Confluence
3 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.82%) CICS
5 4 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.62%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 487 (100.00%) GitHub
2 312 (64.07%) AWS
3 268 (55.03%) Azure
4 128 (26.28%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (19.71%) GCP
6 91 (18.69%) Serverless
7 89 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (14.99%) AWS Lambda
9 67 (13.76%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (13.35%) Amazon S3
11 52 (10.68%) Datadog
12 50 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (10.06%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (7.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
17 30 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (6.16%) Azure AKS
18 23 (4.72%) SaaS
19 21 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.13%) Firewall
2 24 (4.93%) VPN
3 14 (2.87%) DMARC
4 12 (2.46%) Network Security
5 11 (2.26%) DNS
6 5 (1.03%) HTTP
6 5 (1.03%) SAN
7 4 (0.82%) SSH
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 3 (0.62%) SSL
8 3 (0.62%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (9.03%) DynamoDB
3 39 (8.01%) Relational Database
4 33 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (6.16%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (3.90%) Redis
8 17 (3.49%) MySQL
9 16 (3.29%) Delta Lake
9 16 (3.29%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.46%) Power BI
13 8 (1.64%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.44%) Tableau
15 6 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.23%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 187 (38.40%) Jenkins
2 100 (20.53%) Git
3 79 (16.22%) GitLab
4 37 (7.60%) JIRA
5 33 (6.78%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.13%) Postman
7 19 (3.90%) Selenium
8 13 (2.67%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.46%) JUnit
10 11 (2.26%) JMeter
11 10 (2.05%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.05%) Gatling
11 10 (2.05%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.85%) Gradle
12 9 (1.85%) Newman
13 8 (1.64%) NUnit
14 6 (1.23%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.23%) Maven
14 6 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.45%) Finance
3 63 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.13%) Banking
7 21 (4.31%) Retail
8 11 (2.26%) Law
8 11 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.85%) Marketing
10 5 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Games
12 3 (0.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.62%) Military
12 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 134 (27.52%) Senior
2 115 (23.61%) Developer
3 74 (15.20%) Platform Engineer
4 65 (13.35%) Lead
5 63 (12.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 32 (6.57%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (5.95%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (5.54%) Data Engineer
11 27 (5.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 25 (5.13%) Architect
14 23 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (4.52%) Security Engineer
15 22 (4.52%) Software Developer
16 21 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (52.98%) Terraform
2 112 (23.00%) Node.js
3 82 (16.84%) React
4 70 (14.37%) .NET
4 70 (14.37%) Spring Boot
5 62 (12.73%) Spring
6 60 (12.32%) REST
7 59 (12.11%) RESTful
8 52 (10.68%) CSS
9 43 (8.83%) AngularJS
10 37 (7.60%) Playwright
11 35 (7.19%) HTML
12 30 (6.16%) Jest
12 30 (6.16%) OAuth
12 30 (6.16%) OAuth2
13 26 (5.34%) GraphQL
14 25 (5.13%) Web Services
14 25 (5.13%) YAML
15 24 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
16 23 (4.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 133 (27.31%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.93%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.70%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.29%) Legacy Applications
8 16 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (3.08%) Blog
9 15 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (3.08%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.26%) PKI
13 10 (2.05%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.85%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.64%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.84%) Linux
2 17 (3.49%) Windows
3 12 (2.46%) Android
3 12 (2.46%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.64%) Unix
5 6 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.62%) Debian
7 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.62%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) AIX
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (95.48%) CI/CD
2 306 (62.83%) DevOps
3 253 (51.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 143 (29.36%) Agile
6 135 (27.72%) AI
7 134 (27.52%) Observability
8 123 (25.26%) Software Engineering
9 114 (23.41%) Platform Engineering
10 113 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (23.20%) Test Automation
11 95 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (17.66%) Mentoring
13 83 (17.04%) Microservices
14 82 (16.84%) Analytics
15 72 (14.78%) Cloud Security
16 69 (14.17%) Clean Code
17 64 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
18 55 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
19 54 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 211 (43.33%) Python
2 117 (24.02%) Java
3 109 (22.38%) TypeScript
4 91 (18.69%) SQL
5 88 (18.07%) Bash
6 80 (16.43%) JavaScript
7 68 (13.96%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.24%) Go
9 41 (8.42%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.39%) C#
11 30 (6.16%) Bicep
12 26 (5.34%) Ruby
13 21 (4.31%) Groovy
14 18 (3.70%) COBOL
15 16 (3.29%) Scala
16 12 (2.46%) JCL
16 12 (2.46%) PHP
17 9 (1.85%) Swift
18 8 (1.64%) Rust
19 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.24%) Degree
4 34 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (5.54%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.26%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.82%) CISSP
11 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.62%) OCP
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.32%) QA
2 35 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.72%) WCAG
4 19 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.46%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.85%) GRC
8 7 (1.44%) GDPR
9 6 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.23%) NCSC
10 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.82%) NIST
11 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.62%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 203 (41.68%) Docker
2 11 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.62%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 191 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 69 (14.17%) Grafana
3 56 (11.50%) Prometheus
4 48 (9.86%) Ansible
5 25 (5.13%) Progress Chef
6 21 (4.31%) Argo
7 10 (2.05%) Cilium
8 8 (1.64%) Packer
8 8 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.23%) logstash
10 4 (0.82%) Istio
11 3 (0.62%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.41%) Puppet
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) linkerd
Vendors
1 57 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.54%) Databricks
3 25 (5.13%) Google
3 25 (5.13%) VMware
4 16 (3.29%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.08%) New Relic
6 14 (2.87%) SendGrid
6 14 (2.87%) Splunk
7 13 (2.67%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.64%) Broadcom
8 8 (1.64%) Oracle
8 8 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.03%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.03%) Braze
11 3 (0.62%) Cisco
11 3 (0.62%) F5
11 3 (0.62%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow