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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 454 641
Rank change year-on-year +59 +187 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 395 195 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.36% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 279 153 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £98,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -10.00%

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 27,075 14,304 34,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.19% 33.56% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15,348 9,803 26,671
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +45 342 £70,200 -6.40% 163
UK excluding London +61 202 £65,000 -4.41% 89
London +27 153 £80,000 -3.03% 87
Work from Home +54 141 £65,000 -10.34% 101
North of England +10 89 £61,250 -9.93% 43
Yorkshire -5 46 £62,500 -8.09% 16
South East -3 36 £60,000 -14.29% 21
North West +11 27 £65,500 -12.67% 21
South West -45 27 £75,000 +22.45% 13
Midlands -24 22 £65,000 -10.34% 3
East Midlands -15 18 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Scotland +16 17 £85,000 +36.00% 2
North East -30 16 £47,500 -17.39% 6
East of England -6 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -37 4 £63,250 +5.42%
West Midlands -44 4 £62,500 -15.25% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 4

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 11 (2.78%) Apache
2 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.52%) Confluence
4 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.01%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) GitHub
2 235 (59.49%) AWS
3 230 (58.23%) Azure
4 147 (37.22%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (23.29%) Serverless
6 88 (22.28%) GCP
7 66 (16.71%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (16.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (15.44%) Datadog
10 51 (12.91%) Amazon S3
11 44 (11.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (7.34%) Entra ID
16 27 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (6.33%) Azure AKS
19 18 (4.56%) Firebase
20 16 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.41%) Firewall
2 22 (5.57%) VPN
3 20 (5.06%) DNS
4 19 (4.81%) HTTP
5 18 (4.56%) Network Security
6 15 (3.80%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.29%) DSL
8 11 (2.78%) WAN
9 4 (1.01%) SSL
10 3 (0.76%) DMARC
10 3 (0.76%) RTP
10 3 (0.76%) SAN
10 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) BGP
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.87%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.33%) DynamoDB
3 25 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.78%) MySQL
8 10 (2.53%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.77%) Power BI
10 6 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.27%) Flink
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
12 4 (1.01%) Big Data
12 4 (1.01%) Redis
12 4 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 141 (35.70%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.49%) Git
3 54 (13.67%) GitLab
4 18 (4.56%) JIRA
5 17 (4.30%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.80%) TeamCity
7 14 (3.54%) XCTest
8 8 (2.03%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.77%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.52%) Storybook
11 5 (1.27%) fastlane
12 4 (1.01%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.01%) Gradle
12 4 (1.01%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.01%) Subversion
13 3 (0.76%) Maven
13 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.48%) Finance
3 28 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.08%) Retail
5 21 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.06%) Banking
7 18 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.80%) Law
9 10 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Advertising
11 5 (1.27%) Front Office
12 3 (0.76%) Automotive
12 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.76%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (25.82%) Senior
2 90 (22.78%) Developer
3 78 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (12.15%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.87%) Lead
7 35 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.33%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.82%) Architect
11 22 (5.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.57%) Security Engineer
11 22 (5.57%) Senior Developer
12 21 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.81%) Data Engineer
14 17 (4.30%) AWS Developer
14 17 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (4.05%) Python Developer
16 15 (3.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.20%) React
2 57 (14.43%) Node.js
3 51 (12.91%) .NET
4 41 (10.38%) CSS
5 38 (9.62%) OAuth
6 30 (7.59%) RESTful
7 28 (7.09%) HTML
7 28 (7.09%) REST
8 26 (6.58%) AWS CDK
9 20 (5.06%) .NET Core
10 19 (4.81%) ASP.NET
10 19 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (4.56%) AngularJS
11 18 (4.56%) OAuth2
11 18 (4.56%) SAML
11 18 (4.56%) YAML
12 15 (3.80%) ADO
13 14 (3.54%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (3.54%) UIKit
14 13 (3.29%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.84%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.57%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.54%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.29%) PKI
9 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.52%) CMDB
12 6 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.76%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.18%) Linux
2 18 (4.56%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.54%) Windows
4 12 (3.04%) VMS
5 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.03%) Android
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (93.42%) CI/CD
2 265 (67.09%) DevOps
3 220 (55.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (34.68%) Containerisation
5 111 (28.10%) Agile
6 110 (27.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (26.08%) Observability
8 96 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (18.73%) Test Automation
10 71 (17.97%) Analytics
11 69 (17.47%) Cloud Security
12 66 (16.71%) AI
12 66 (16.71%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (16.20%) DevSecOps
14 61 (15.44%) Incident Response
15 59 (14.94%) Deployment Automation
16 56 (14.18%) Software Engineering
17 54 (13.67%) Mentoring
18 50 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
19 49 (12.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 187 (47.34%) Python
2 94 (23.80%) Bash
3 82 (20.76%) SQL
4 78 (19.75%) TypeScript
5 68 (17.22%) PowerShell
6 60 (15.19%) JavaScript
7 53 (13.42%) Go
8 35 (8.86%) Java
9 31 (7.85%) Kotlin
10 28 (7.09%) C#
11 22 (5.57%) Bicep
12 15 (3.80%) Rust
13 14 (3.54%) Swift
14 10 (2.53%) Groovy
14 10 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.77%) Scala
16 6 (1.52%) Dart
16 6 (1.52%) PHP
16 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
17 5 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (13.67%) Degree
2 35 (8.86%) AWS Certification
3 34 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.32%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.06%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.05%) OSCP
8 11 (2.78%) CISSP
9 8 (2.03%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.03%) SANS
10 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.09%) QA
2 28 (7.09%) SOC 2
3 22 (5.57%) GDPR
4 15 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.04%) GRC
6 11 (2.78%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.27%) WCAG
9 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.01%) NIST
9 4 (1.01%) SLA
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (36.20%) Docker
2 32 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 236 (59.75%) Terraform
2 155 (39.24%) Kubernetes
3 73 (18.48%) Ansible
4 69 (17.47%) Grafana
5 58 (14.68%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.80%) Argo
7 13 (3.29%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.04%) Cilium
9 9 (2.28%) Packer
10 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.76%) logstash
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Rancher
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 60 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.57%) VMware
3 17 (4.30%) Google
4 16 (4.05%) Palo Alto
5 14 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.29%) Amplitude
6 13 (3.29%) Braze
7 11 (2.78%) Databricks
7 11 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.53%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.52%) Cisco
10 6 (1.52%) EMC
10 6 (1.52%) F5
10 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.27%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.76%) BT
12 3 (0.76%) Intel
12 3 (0.76%) Mitel
12 3 (0.76%) SAP