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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 459 539
Rank change year-on-year +47 +80 -32
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 470 231 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.48% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 313 181 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,813
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £82,125
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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £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 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +68 405 £65,500 -9.66% 713
UK excluding London +37 265 £65,000 - 321
London -12 151 £77,500 - 460
Work from Home 0 130 £70,000 -3.45% 360
North of England +39 126 £65,000 -2.26% 103
Yorkshire +17 61 £67,500 -1.46% 30
South East -17 57 £62,500 -16.67% 79
North West +21 46 £65,500 +0.77% 55
Midlands -12 30 £65,000 +7.00% 29
Wales -60 24 £60,000 +2.13% 12
South West -62 21 £57,500 -4.17% 28
West Midlands -30 19 £65,000 -3.70% 12
North East -46 19 £57,500 -11.54% 18
East Midlands -22 11 £65,000 +22.07% 17
Scotland -3 4 £115,000 +43.75% 31
East of England -35 3 £87,500 +27.27% 22

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 13 (2.77%) Apache
1 13 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.55%) Confluence
3 8 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.85%) CICS
5 4 (0.85%) CMS
5 4 (0.85%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 470 (100.00%) GitHub
2 304 (64.68%) AWS
3 257 (54.68%) Azure
4 127 (27.02%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (19.36%) GCP
6 90 (19.15%) Serverless
7 87 (18.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (13.83%) Amazon ECS
9 65 (13.83%) Amazon S3
10 51 (10.85%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (10.64%) Datadog
12 49 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (7.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 35 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (6.60%) Azure Key Vault
15 26 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 21 (4.47%) AWS Step Functions
16 21 (4.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.68%) Firewall
2 21 (4.47%) VPN
3 13 (2.77%) DMARC
4 11 (2.34%) Network Security
5 10 (2.13%) DNS
6 5 (1.06%) HTTP
6 5 (1.06%) SAN
7 4 (0.85%) SSH
7 4 (0.85%) SSL
7 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.64%) BGP
8 3 (0.64%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.94%) DynamoDB
3 38 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (6.60%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.38%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (3.62%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.62%) MySQL
8 17 (3.62%) Redis
9 14 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.98%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.77%) Power BI
11 9 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.70%) Tableau
13 7 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.49%) Data Vault
14 6 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 183 (38.94%) Jenkins
2 97 (20.64%) Git
3 73 (15.53%) GitLab
4 37 (7.87%) JIRA
5 33 (7.02%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.32%) Postman
7 19 (4.04%) Selenium
8 13 (2.77%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.55%) JMeter
9 12 (2.55%) JUnit
10 11 (2.34%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.13%) Gatling
11 10 (2.13%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.91%) Gradle
12 9 (1.91%) Newman
13 8 (1.70%) NUnit
14 6 (1.28%) fastlane
14 6 (1.28%) Maven
14 6 (1.28%) XCTest
14 6 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 161 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.02%) Finance
3 60 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.32%) Banking
7 21 (4.47%) Retail
8 11 (2.34%) Law
8 11 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.91%) Marketing
10 5 (1.06%) Legal
11 4 (0.85%) Automotive
11 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.64%) Games
12 3 (0.64%) Local Government
12 3 (0.64%) Military
13 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 130 (27.66%) Senior
2 110 (23.40%) Developer
3 71 (15.11%) Platform Engineer
4 60 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (12.77%) Lead
5 38 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (6.60%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (5.96%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.32%) Architect
12 25 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
14 22 (4.68%) Security Engineer
15 20 (4.26%) Software Developer
16 19 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (52.77%) Terraform
2 108 (22.98%) Node.js
3 79 (16.81%) React
4 69 (14.68%) .NET
5 68 (14.47%) Spring Boot
6 60 (12.77%) Spring
7 57 (12.13%) RESTful
8 55 (11.70%) REST
9 50 (10.64%) CSS
10 42 (8.94%) AngularJS
11 37 (7.87%) Playwright
12 33 (7.02%) HTML
13 29 (6.17%) Jest
13 29 (6.17%) OAuth
13 29 (6.17%) OAuth2
14 25 (5.32%) Web Services
15 24 (5.11%) Ruby on Rails
15 24 (5.11%) YAML
16 23 (4.89%) GraphQL
17 22 (4.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 130 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.11%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.68%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.04%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.19%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (3.19%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.98%) Blog
10 13 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (2.34%) PKI
13 10 (2.13%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.91%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.70%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.87%) Linux
2 19 (4.04%) Windows
3 13 (2.77%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.55%) Android
5 8 (1.70%) Unix
5 8 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.64%) Debian
7 3 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.43%) AIX
8 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (95.32%) CI/CD
2 296 (62.98%) DevOps
3 245 (52.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (32.77%) Containerisation
5 136 (28.94%) Agile
6 129 (27.45%) AI
7 127 (27.02%) Observability
8 120 (25.53%) Software Engineering
9 108 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (22.77%) Platform Engineering
11 106 (22.55%) Test Automation
12 88 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (17.66%) Mentoring
14 82 (17.45%) Analytics
15 78 (16.60%) Microservices
16 67 (14.26%) Cloud Security
17 66 (14.04%) Clean Code
18 63 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
19 52 (11.06%) Infrastructure Automation
19 52 (11.06%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 201 (42.77%) Python
2 115 (24.47%) Java
3 106 (22.55%) TypeScript
4 83 (17.66%) SQL
5 81 (17.23%) Bash
6 78 (16.60%) JavaScript
7 63 (13.40%) PowerShell
8 44 (9.36%) Go
9 42 (8.94%) Kotlin
10 34 (7.23%) C#
11 27 (5.74%) Bicep
12 26 (5.53%) Ruby
13 21 (4.47%) Groovy
14 18 (3.83%) COBOL
15 17 (3.62%) Scala
16 12 (2.55%) JCL
16 12 (2.55%) PHP
17 10 (2.13%) Swift
18 8 (1.70%) Rust
19 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.57%) Degree
4 36 (7.66%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.85%) CISSP
12 4 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.64%) OCP
13 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.55%) QA
2 35 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.89%) WCAG
4 18 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.55%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.91%) GRC
7 7 (1.49%) NCSC
8 6 (1.28%) GDPR
8 6 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.85%) NIST
10 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.64%) SLA
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 192 (40.85%) Docker
2 13 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 181 (38.51%) Kubernetes
2 60 (12.77%) Grafana
3 50 (10.64%) Prometheus
4 46 (9.79%) Ansible
5 26 (5.53%) Progress Chef
6 19 (4.04%) Argo
7 10 (2.13%) Cilium
7 10 (2.13%) Packer
8 8 (1.70%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.06%) logstash
10 4 (0.85%) Istio
11 3 (0.64%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.43%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.43%) Puppet
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) Consul
13 1 (0.21%) linkerd
13 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 59 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.53%) VMware
3 25 (5.32%) Databricks
4 24 (5.11%) Google
5 16 (3.40%) OneLogin
6 15 (3.19%) New Relic
7 13 (2.77%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.77%) Splunk
8 12 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.70%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.70%) Oracle
11 6 (1.28%) Amplitude
11 6 (1.28%) Braze
11 6 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.85%) Cisco
12 4 (0.85%) EMC
12 4 (0.85%) F5
12 4 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow