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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 470 487
Rank change year-on-year +126 +17 +171
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 337 257 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.28% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 250 195 176
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,250 £52,750
25th Percentile £60,063 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -15.24% +9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £99,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +0.82%

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 20,528 20,025 21,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.11% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,196 11,894 17,421
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +69 250 £70,000 +3.70% 317
Work from Home +140 172 £72,500 +11.54% 204
UK excluding London +45 156 £65,000 - 160
London +99 125 £77,500 -8.82% 189
North of England +1 43 £64,000 -5.88% 56
Scotland +41 36 £90,000 +56.52% 9
South West +23 29 £70,000 +7.69% 20
South East -7 24 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire -26 24 £60,000 +21.21% 20
North West +34 15 £65,000 -24.64% 31
Midlands +12 14 £60,000 -7.69% 17
West Midlands +13 11 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England +28 7 £65,000 -23.53% 11
North East +12 4 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Wales -2 3 £61,496 -5.39% 2
East Midlands -5 3 £60,000 +51.90% 7

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 9 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.67%) Confluence
2 4 (1.19%) Appian
2 4 (1.19%) IIS
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) GitHub
2 224 (66.47%) Azure
3 165 (48.96%) AWS
4 155 (45.99%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (22.55%) GCP
6 70 (20.77%) Serverless
7 58 (17.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (15.43%) Datadog
9 47 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (13.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (12.76%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (12.17%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (11.28%) Amazon S3
13 38 (11.28%) Entra ID
14 35 (10.39%) Azure AKS
15 33 (9.79%) SaaS
16 24 (7.12%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.04%) Firewall
2 11 (3.26%) VPN
3 9 (2.67%) Network Security
4 8 (2.37%) DNS
5 7 (2.08%) WAN
6 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.19%) HTTP
7 4 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.59%) DSL
9 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.76%) NoSQL
2 40 (11.87%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.53%) BigQuery
3 22 (6.53%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.97%) Flink
7 9 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.08%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.78%) Power BI
9 6 (1.78%) Tableau
10 5 (1.48%) Looker
10 5 (1.48%) Metadata
10 5 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.19%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 123 (36.50%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.15%) Git
3 40 (11.87%) GitLab
4 14 (4.15%) JIRA
5 11 (3.26%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.37%) Subversion
8 7 (2.08%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.48%) Selenium
10 4 (1.19%) JMeter
10 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.89%) JUnit
11 3 (0.89%) NUnit
11 3 (0.89%) Postman
12 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.59%) MSTest
12 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 114 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 111 (32.94%) Finance
3 27 (8.01%) Telecoms
4 23 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.93%) Banking
5 20 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.15%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.86%) Retail
8 12 (3.56%) Front Office
9 11 (3.26%) Law
9 11 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.97%) Marketing
11 8 (2.37%) Back Office
12 6 (1.78%) Electronics
13 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.89%) Billing
14 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 75 (22.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (21.36%) Senior
3 56 (16.62%) Developer
4 47 (13.95%) Lead
5 36 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.90%) .NET Developer
8 21 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.75%) Security Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.15%) Azure Developer
12 14 (4.15%) Development Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) GCP Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.86%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.86%) Lead .NET Developer
13 13 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.36%) .NET
2 64 (18.99%) React
3 56 (16.62%) RESTful
4 35 (10.39%) Node.js
5 23 (6.82%) OAuth
5 23 (6.82%) YAML
6 22 (6.53%) .NET Core
6 22 (6.53%) ASP.NET
6 22 (6.53%) JSON
7 21 (6.23%) ADO
7 21 (6.23%) AWS CDK
8 19 (5.64%) ARM Templates
9 18 (5.34%) Kafka
9 18 (5.34%) REST
10 17 (5.04%) .NET Framework
10 17 (5.04%) Blazor
10 17 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (4.75%) OAuth2
12 15 (4.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 14 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.96%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 23 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.19%) Blog
8 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.19%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.59%) Derivative
10 2 (0.59%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.76%) Linux
2 19 (5.64%) Windows
3 14 (4.15%) VMS
4 5 (1.48%) Unix
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.89%) SUSE
7 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (90.80%) CI/CD
2 272 (80.71%) DevOps
3 171 (50.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (38.58%) Containerisation
5 102 (30.27%) Agile
6 97 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (27.89%) Observability
8 83 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (21.66%) Test Automation
10 56 (16.62%) AI
11 55 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (16.02%) Incident Response
12 54 (16.02%) Microservices
13 53 (15.73%) RBAC
14 52 (15.43%) Deployment Automation
15 50 (14.84%) Analytics
16 49 (14.54%) Software Engineering
17 48 (14.24%) Cloud Security
17 48 (14.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 45 (13.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 174 (51.63%) Python
2 93 (27.60%) Bash
3 83 (24.63%) SQL
4 69 (20.47%) PowerShell
5 60 (17.80%) Bicep
6 54 (16.02%) JavaScript
7 52 (15.43%) TypeScript
8 34 (10.09%) Java
9 32 (9.50%) C#
10 26 (7.72%) Go
11 7 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.19%) Ruby
12 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.89%) C++
13 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.89%) Scala
14 2 (0.59%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.59%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (14.54%) Degree
2 40 (11.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (10.68%) Security Cleared
4 33 (9.79%) AWS Certification
5 31 (9.20%) SC Cleared
6 27 (8.01%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.04%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.56%) CISSP
8 12 (3.56%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.56%) SANS
9 11 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.89%) CCNA
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.59%) OSCP
12 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.17%) QA
2 36 (10.68%) GDPR
3 26 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.86%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.19%) GRC
8 4 (1.19%) SLA
9 2 (0.59%) ECSS
9 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 158 (46.88%) Docker
2 38 (11.28%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (60.24%) Terraform
2 167 (49.55%) Kubernetes
3 66 (19.58%) Prometheus
4 65 (19.29%) Grafana
5 47 (13.95%) Ansible
6 24 (7.12%) Argo
7 9 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.19%) Cilium
8 4 (1.19%) logstash
8 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.89%) Rancher
10 2 (0.59%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.72%) Google
3 14 (4.15%) Ab Initio
3 14 (4.15%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.86%) VMware
5 11 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.08%) Databricks
7 7 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.08%) Zscaler
8 6 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.78%) SAP
8 6 (1.78%) Splunk
9 5 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.19%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.19%) Talend
10 4 (1.19%) Zoho
11 3 (0.89%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace