GitHub Actions Job Trends

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	401	421	515
Rank change year-on-year	+20	+94	-35
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions	518	274	248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.42%	0.55%	0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.95%	1.72%	1.12%
Number of salaries quoted	341	209	194
10^th Percentile	£46,250	£50,400	£48,250
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£60,000	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,000	£72,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-3.45%	+11.54%	-18.37%
75^th Percentile	£82,500	£85,000	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,250	£87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£65,000	£65,250	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-0.38%	+0.38%	-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 citing cloud computing skills.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	26,584	15,941	22,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	21.77%	32.11%	32.46%
Number of salaries quoted	18,319	10,764	13,428
10^th Percentile	£32,000	£28,750	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£44,447	£37,500	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£83,524	£80,000	£82,500
90^th 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 Salary Trend

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 29 October 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 29 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+38	449	£70,000	-	115
UK excluding London	-26	279	£65,000	-0.38%	76
London	+18	185	£80,000	+3.23%	59
Work from Home	-30	142	£72,500	-	59
North of England	+27	123	£65,000	-0.76%	17
South East	-23	64	£65,000	-13.33%	23
Yorkshire	+9	57	£71,250	+4.78%	4
Midlands	-43	41	£68,750	+14.58%	5
North West	-5	40	£65,000	-0.38%	11
West Midlands	-32	34	£68,750	+1.85%	2
North East	-49	26	£58,750	-14.55%	2
Wales	-51	26	£60,000	+2.13%	2
South West	-75	16	£57,500	+2.22%	16
East Midlands	-32	7	£67,500	+18.42%	3
East of England	-50	5	£69,500	+4.91%	8
Scotland	-11	4	£65,000	-18.75%	5

GitHub Actions Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub Actions also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing GitHub Actions.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	518
2	CI/CD	95.6%	495
3	DevOps	63.3%	328
4	AWS	60.6%	314
5	Azure	54.6%	283
6	Terraform	50.2%	260
7	Infrastructure as Code	48.6%	252
8	Docker	43.1%	223
9	Python	42.1%	218
10	Jenkins	41.5%	215
11	Kubernetes	39.4%	204
12	Containerisation	34.0%	176
13	Agile	31.1%	161
14	Observability	29.3%	152
15	Java	29.0%	150
16	AI	28.2%	146
17	Azure DevOps	26.3%	136
17	Software Engineering	26.3%	136
19	Test Automation	24.7%	128
20	Problem-Solving	23.6%	122
21	Node.js	23.4%	121
21	TypeScript	23.4%	121
23	Continuous Improvement	21.8%	113
24	Platform Engineering	21.6%	112
25	GCP	20.7%	107
26	Git	20.1%	104
27	GitLab	19.1%	99
27	Mentoring	19.1%	99
27	SQL	19.1%	99
30	Spring Boot	18.7%	97

GitHub Actions Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	518
2	AWS	60.6%	314
3	Azure	54.6%	283
4	Azure DevOps	26.3%	136
5	GCP	20.7%	107
6	Serverless	17.8%	92
7	AWS CloudFormation	16.6%	86
8	AWS Lambda	14.1%	73
9	Amazon ECS	13.3%	69
10	Amazon S3	12.9%	67
11	Amazon CloudWatch	10.0%	52
11	Datadog	10.0%	52
13	Amazon EC2	7.7%	40
13	Azure Monitor	7.7%	40
15	Amazon EKS	6.8%	35
15	Amazon OpenSearch	6.8%	35
15	Azure AKS	6.8%	35
15	Azure Key Vault	6.8%	35
19	SaaS	5.0%	26
20	Amazon SQS	4.1%	21