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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 457 580
Rank change year-on-year +124 +123 +85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 392 237 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.34% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 295 178 179
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,938 £97,290
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,250 £116,250
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 23,002 17,739 28,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 37.26% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,409 10,932 23,674
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,805 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 17 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 February 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 +84 306 £71,250 +1.79% 177
UK excluding London +57 198 £65,000 - 125
Work from Home +107 178 £65,500 -6.43% 105
London +87 140 £80,000 -11.11% 71
North of England +11 65 £60,000 -11.76% 43
South West -1 38 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Scotland +21 36 £90,000 +56.52% 2
South East -19 36 £70,000 +7.69% 42
Yorkshire -34 33 £60,000 +21.21% 14
North West +4 21 £65,000 -23.53% 22
Midlands -6 16 £65,000 - 14
North East +6 11 £47,500 -25.49% 7
West Midlands -3 8 £60,000 -7.69% 9
East Midlands -14 8 £75,000 +89.87% 5
East of England +10 4 £65,000 -38.10% 6
Northern Ireland -25 2 £62,500 -
Wales -15 1 £61,496 -5.39% 1

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 (2.30%) Confluence
2 8 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Appian
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 392 (100.00%) GitHub
2 249 (63.52%) Azure
3 209 (53.32%) AWS
4 165 (42.09%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (25.77%) GCP
6 86 (21.94%) Serverless
7 63 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (15.82%) Datadog
9 61 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (11.99%) Entra ID
12 45 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (11.22%) Amazon S3
14 41 (10.46%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (9.44%) Azure AKS
16 33 (8.42%) AWS Step Functions
17 29 (7.40%) SaaS
18 21 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
19 20 (5.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.97%) Firewall
2 20 (5.10%) VPN
3 19 (4.85%) HTTP
4 18 (4.59%) DNS
5 16 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.32%) Network Security
7 12 (3.06%) WAN
8 11 (2.81%) DSL
9 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.77%) RTP
10 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.97%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.44%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.59%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.08%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.55%) Flink
8 8 (2.04%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.28%) Metadata
11 5 (1.28%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (41.58%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.90%) Git
3 62 (15.82%) GitLab
4 15 (3.83%) JIRA
5 13 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 12 (3.06%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.30%) Subversion
8 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.28%) NUnit
10 3 (0.77%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.77%) XCTest
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) JUnit
11 2 (0.51%) MSTest
11 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 121 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.85%) Finance
3 40 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 24 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.87%) Banking
6 21 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.10%) Law
8 18 (4.59%) Retail
9 14 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.06%) Front Office
11 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.53%) Back Office
12 6 (1.53%) Electronics
12 6 (1.53%) Marketing
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (23.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (22.19%) Senior
3 72 (18.37%) Developer
4 53 (13.52%) Lead
5 44 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (10.46%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.16%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.40%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
13 19 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (4.34%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.83%) Architect
15 15 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.57%) AWS Developer
16 14 (3.57%) Azure Developer
16 14 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.86%) React
2 68 (17.35%) .NET
3 53 (13.52%) RESTful
4 43 (10.97%) Node.js
5 38 (9.69%) OAuth
6 28 (7.14%) AWS CDK
6 28 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.38%) YAML
8 24 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 24 (6.12%) ADO
9 23 (5.87%) CSS
9 23 (5.87%) HTML
10 21 (5.36%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.36%) OAuth2
11 20 (5.10%) REST
12 19 (4.85%) JSON
13 18 (4.59%) Kafka
14 17 (4.34%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.34%) SAML
15 16 (4.08%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.28%) PKI
9 4 (1.02%) Blog
10 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.52%) Linux
2 18 (4.59%) VMS
3 15 (3.83%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) SUSE
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (91.33%) CI/CD
2 294 (75.00%) DevOps
3 214 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (40.82%) Containerisation
5 122 (31.12%) Agile
6 113 (28.83%) Observability
7 109 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 72 (18.37%) Incident Response
11 63 (16.07%) Cloud Security
12 59 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (14.80%) AI
13 58 (14.80%) DevSecOps
13 58 (14.80%) RBAC
14 57 (14.54%) Deployment Automation
14 57 (14.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 54 (13.78%) Analytics
16 53 (13.52%) Microservices
17 52 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.28%) Python
2 118 (30.10%) Bash
3 81 (20.66%) SQL
4 75 (19.13%) PowerShell
5 67 (17.09%) TypeScript
6 64 (16.33%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.76%) Go
8 49 (12.50%) Bicep
9 32 (8.16%) Java
10 27 (6.89%) C#
11 13 (3.32%) Rust
12 12 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.53%) C++
15 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.77%) C
16 3 (0.77%) Ruby
16 3 (0.77%) Swift
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (14.03%) Degree
2 38 (9.69%) AWS Certification
2 38 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.36%) CISSP
6 20 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.10%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.10%) SANS
7 14 (3.57%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.06%) OSCP
9 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.69%) QA
2 36 (9.18%) GDPR
3 33 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.12%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.10%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.04%) GRC
8 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.02%) SLA
11 3 (0.77%) NIST
12 2 (0.51%) ECSS
13 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (42.86%) Docker
2 43 (10.97%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 236 (60.20%) Terraform
2 183 (46.68%) Kubernetes
3 87 (22.19%) Grafana
4 81 (20.66%) Prometheus
5 75 (19.13%) Ansible
6 25 (6.38%) Argo
7 10 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.04%) Cilium
9 6 (1.53%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.02%) logstash
11 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.36%) Google
3 17 (4.34%) VMware
4 14 (3.57%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.06%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.06%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.53%) SAP
9 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.02%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.77%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel