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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 463 613
Rank change year-on-year +64 +150 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 420 217 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.36% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 315 170 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,258 £59,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% +3.60% -4.55%

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 27,094 15,957 31,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,745 11,119 23,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £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 20 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 20 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 +70 363 £66,500 -11.33% 125
UK excluding London +51 235 £65,000 +0.39% 69
London -1 140 £80,000 - 71
Work from Home +35 132 £65,000 -10.34% 65
North of England +52 100 £65,000 -5.11% 30
South East +21 55 £62,500 -20.63% 23
Yorkshire +13 47 £65,000 -5.11% 7
North West +22 37 £65,500 -12.67% 19
Midlands -19 27 £65,000 -1.89% 8
South West -52 22 £72,500 +16.00% 2
East Midlands -2 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
Wales -44 19 £60,000 - 4
North East -34 16 £47,250 -17.83% 4
Scotland +9 6 £85,000 +31.78% 2
East of England -15 6 £77,575 +19.35% 1
West Midlands -27 6 £63,750 -5.56% 6

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 (2.38%) Apache
1 10 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.43%) Confluence
4 3 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 420 (100.00%) GitHub
2 260 (61.90%) AWS
3 237 (56.43%) Azure
4 133 (31.67%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (21.19%) GCP
6 86 (20.48%) Serverless
7 72 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (13.10%) Amazon S3
10 46 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (10.95%) Datadog
11 43 (10.24%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (5.95%) AWS Step Functions
16 21 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (5.00%) Firebase
17 20 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (4.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.00%) Firewall
2 20 (4.76%) DNS
2 20 (4.76%) VPN
3 17 (4.05%) Network Security
4 16 (3.81%) HTTP
5 13 (3.10%) DMARC
6 12 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.14%) DSL
8 5 (1.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) SSH
9 4 (0.95%) SSL
9 4 (0.95%) WAN
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) RTP
10 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
10 2 (0.48%) VoIP
10 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 27 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (5.95%) DynamoDB
4 25 (5.95%) NoSQL
5 20 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.57%) Delta Lake
7 14 (3.33%) MySQL
8 10 (2.38%) Power BI
9 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.67%) Redis
10 6 (1.43%) Tableau
11 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.19%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.95%) Big Data
12 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 161 (38.33%) Jenkins
2 84 (20.00%) Git
3 71 (16.90%) GitLab
4 28 (6.67%) JIRA
5 20 (4.76%) Crashlytics
6 16 (3.81%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.57%) XCTest
8 14 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.86%) Postman
10 11 (2.62%) Selenium
11 8 (1.90%) fastlane
11 8 (1.90%) Gradle
11 8 (1.90%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.43%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.43%) Gatling
13 6 (1.43%) Storybook
13 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 127 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 49 (11.67%) Finance
3 39 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.24%) Retail
7 17 (4.05%) Banking
8 12 (2.86%) Law
8 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (25.00%) Senior
2 97 (23.10%) Developer
3 73 (17.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (13.10%) Lead
6 43 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (6.67%) Security Engineer
10 27 (6.43%) Architect
11 26 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (5.00%) Data Engineer
13 21 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.76%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.05%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.81%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (19.29%) Node.js
2 61 (14.52%) React
3 47 (11.19%) CSS
4 44 (10.48%) .NET
5 40 (9.52%) RESTful
6 39 (9.29%) REST
7 38 (9.05%) OAuth
7 38 (9.05%) Spring Boot
8 31 (7.38%) HTML
9 30 (7.14%) Spring
10 27 (6.43%) OAuth2
10 27 (6.43%) YAML
11 24 (5.71%) AngularJS
12 22 (5.24%) Playwright
13 20 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.52%) Web Services
15 18 (4.29%) AWS CDK
16 17 (4.05%) Vue
17 16 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
17 16 (3.81%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 112 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.57%) PKI
8 14 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.33%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.38%) Mainframe
12 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.43%) Blog
13 6 (1.43%) CMDB
13 6 (1.43%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.95%) Linux
2 20 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 20 (4.76%) Windows
3 11 (2.62%) Android
4 9 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (93.10%) CI/CD
2 266 (63.33%) DevOps
3 220 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (36.19%) Containerisation
5 123 (29.29%) Agile
6 95 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 94 (22.38%) Observability
8 88 (20.95%) Platform Engineering
9 86 (20.48%) Test Automation
10 84 (20.00%) AI
11 79 (18.81%) Software Engineering
12 75 (17.86%) Mentoring
13 70 (16.67%) Cloud Security
14 66 (15.71%) Analytics
15 64 (15.24%) Microservices
16 61 (14.52%) DevSecOps
17 59 (14.05%) Clean Code
17 59 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
18 53 (12.62%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 189 (45.00%) Python
2 88 (20.95%) Bash
3 77 (18.33%) TypeScript
4 73 (17.38%) Java
5 72 (17.14%) PowerShell
6 62 (14.76%) JavaScript
6 62 (14.76%) SQL
7 43 (10.24%) Go
8 39 (9.29%) Kotlin
9 30 (7.14%) C#
10 25 (5.95%) Bicep
11 16 (3.81%) Ruby
11 16 (3.81%) Swift
12 15 (3.57%) Groovy
13 12 (2.86%) Scala
14 11 (2.62%) Rust
15 10 (2.38%) PHP
16 7 (1.67%) Dart
17 6 (1.43%) COBOL
18 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.90%) Degree
3 38 (9.05%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.86%) OSCP
9 11 (2.62%) CISSP
9 11 (2.62%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.43%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.43%) SANS
11 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.57%) QA
2 32 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 29 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 18 (4.29%) WCAG
6 13 (3.10%) GRC
7 11 (2.62%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.90%) GDPR
9 7 (1.67%) NCSC
10 6 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.71%) NIST
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.48%) SLA
13 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 145 (34.52%) Docker
2 18 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (53.81%) Terraform
2 161 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.00%) Ansible
3 63 (15.00%) Grafana
4 54 (12.86%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.52%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.57%) Argo
7 13 (3.10%) Cilium
8 9 (2.14%) Packer
9 6 (1.43%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Istio
13 1 (0.24%) Kibana
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
13 1 (0.24%) logstash
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.48%) VMware
3 18 (4.29%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.81%) Databricks
4 16 (3.81%) Google
5 14 (3.33%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.33%) Braze
6 13 (3.10%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.86%) New Relic
8 11 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.38%) OneLogin
10 8 (1.90%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.43%) Cisco
11 6 (1.43%) EMC
11 6 (1.43%) F5
11 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.71%) Splunk
13 3 (0.71%) Tenable