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

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	406	391	518
Rank change year-on-year	-15	+127	-44
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions	530	287	247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	0.56%	0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.00%	1.72%	1.13%
Number of salaries quoted	339	217	191
10^th Percentile	£46,250	£50,750	£48,250
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£60,000	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£72,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-6.90%	+11.54%	-18.37%
75^th Percentile	£82,500	£85,000	£76,250
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£98,000	£92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£65,000	£65,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-	-	-7.14%

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 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	26,440	16,714	21,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	21.47%	32.61%	32.38%
Number of salaries quoted	17,819	11,041	13,068
10^th Percentile	£32,250	£28,697	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£44,508	£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	£82,750	£79,500	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£100,000	£100,375
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£50,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	-9.09%	+1.85%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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	+29	457	£67,500	-3.57%	661
UK excluding London	-36	280	£65,000	-	277
London	+19	195	£80,000	+3.23%	416
Work from Home	-73	142	£72,500	-	328
North of England	+9	117	£65,000	-0.38%	82
South East	-44	63	£65,000	-13.33%	74
Yorkshire	-10	53	£71,250	+4.78%	24
Midlands	-49	46	£70,000	+16.67%	26
North West	-31	41	£65,000	-	46
West Midlands	-21	38	£68,750	+14.58%	18
Wales	-51	28	£60,000	-	6
North East	-44	23	£60,000	-12.73%	12
South West	-87	17	£57,500	+4.55%	23
East Midlands	-53	8	£70,000	+22.81%	8
East of England	-69	5	£69,500	+4.91%	14
Scotland	-28	4	£65,000	-18.75%	34

GitHub Actions Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 November 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%	530
2	CI/CD	95.3%	505
3	DevOps	64.5%	342
4	AWS	58.9%	312
5	Azure	56.4%	299
6	Terraform	49.8%	264
7	Infrastructure as Code	47.5%	252
8	Docker	41.1%	218
8	Python	41.1%	218
10	Jenkins	40.6%	215
11	Kubernetes	38.3%	203
12	Containerisation	32.3%	171
13	Agile	32.1%	170
14	Observability	30.6%	162
15	Azure DevOps	29.1%	154
15	Java	29.1%	154
17	AI	27.9%	148
18	Test Automation	26.0%	138
19	Software Engineering	25.8%	137
20	Problem-Solving	24.2%	128
21	TypeScript	23.2%	123
22	Node.js	22.5%	119
23	Platform Engineering	22.1%	117
24	Continuous Improvement	21.9%	116
25	GCP	19.8%	105
25	Git	19.8%	105
25	Spring Boot	19.8%	105
28	SQL	19.4%	103
29	Mentoring	19.2%	102
30	GitLab	18.9%	100

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%	530
2	AWS	58.9%	312
3	Azure	56.4%	299
4	Azure DevOps	29.1%	154
5	GCP	19.8%	105
6	Serverless	16.8%	89
7	AWS CloudFormation	15.1%	80
8	AWS Lambda	13.2%	70
9	Amazon ECS	12.5%	66
10	Amazon S3	12.3%	65
11	Datadog	10.0%	53
12	Amazon CloudWatch	9.4%	50
13	Azure Monitor	8.3%	44
14	Azure AKS	7.2%	38
15	Amazon EC2	7.0%	37
15	Amazon EKS	7.0%	37
17	Azure Key Vault	6.8%	36
18	Amazon OpenSearch	6.0%	32
19	Entra ID	5.3%	28
20	SaaS	4.9%	26