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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 497 469
Rank change year-on-year +149 -28 +224
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 321 248 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.14% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 237 194 199
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -17.75% +13.36%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,625 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £70,288
% change year-on-year +0.77% -7.52% +0.41%

All Cloud 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 17,855 21,843 21,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.69% 34.43% 42.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,213 13,287 18,042
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,410 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +121 238 £70,000 +6.06% 171
Work from Home +153 160 £72,500 +11.54% 106
UK excluding London +69 156 £65,500 +0.77% 148
London +90 111 £76,250 -10.29% 73
North of England +15 40 £65,000 -4.41% 40
Scotland +46 33 £90,000 +56.52% 4
South East +26 30 £75,000 +15.38% 64
South West +29 27 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Yorkshire -28 20 £60,000 +21.21% 16
North West +56 17 £65,000 -16.13% 18
Midlands +35 14 £60,000 -7.69% 11
West Midlands +24 11 £60,000 -7.69% 9
East of England +43 7 £65,000 -18.75% 6
Wales +1 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands +18 3 £60,000 +23.71% 2
North East +16 3 £65,000 -10.34% 7

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 7 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (2.18%) Confluence
2 6 (1.87%) IIS
3 4 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.93%) Appian
4 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 321 (100.00%) GitHub
2 208 (64.80%) Azure
3 151 (47.04%) AWS
4 147 (45.79%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (22.74%) GCP
6 59 (18.38%) Serverless
7 47 (14.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (14.02%) Datadog
9 39 (12.15%) Azure Monitor
10 37 (11.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (11.53%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (10.28%) Entra ID
12 33 (10.28%) SaaS
13 31 (9.66%) Amazon S3
14 30 (9.35%) Azure AKS
15 22 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (5.61%) PaaS
17 16 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.67%) Firewall
2 9 (2.80%) Network Security
3 8 (2.49%) VPN
4 7 (2.18%) DNS
5 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.25%) WAN
7 3 (0.93%) HTTP
8 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 33 (10.28%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.92%) BigQuery
4 15 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (4.67%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.49%) Power BI
8 7 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.87%) Flink
9 6 (1.87%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.56%) Looker
10 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.56%) Tableau
11 4 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.93%) Metadata
12 3 (0.93%) Redis
12 3 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 110 (34.27%) Jenkins
2 70 (21.81%) Git
3 36 (11.21%) GitLab
4 13 (4.05%) JIRA
4 13 (4.05%) TeamCity
5 9 (2.80%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.87%) Subversion
8 5 (1.56%) Selenium
9 4 (1.25%) JMeter
9 4 (1.25%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.93%) JUnit
10 3 (0.93%) Postman
10 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (31.78%) Finance
2 93 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.17%) Telecoms
4 20 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.61%) Banking
6 17 (5.30%) Law
7 13 (4.05%) Marketing
8 12 (3.74%) Retail
9 11 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.49%) Back Office
11 8 (2.49%) Front Office
12 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.56%) Advertising
13 5 (1.56%) Electronics
14 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 70 (21.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (20.25%) Senior
3 56 (17.45%) Lead
4 40 (12.46%) Developer
4 40 (12.46%) Platform Engineer
5 33 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.17%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.92%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.98%) Security Engineer
11 15 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.36%) Lead Developer
13 13 (4.05%) Applications Engineer
13 13 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.05%) Azure Developer
13 13 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.74%) GCP Engineer
14 12 (3.74%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.74%) .NET
2 60 (18.69%) React
3 58 (18.07%) RESTful
4 23 (7.17%) Node.js
5 20 (6.23%) .NET Core
5 20 (6.23%) ARM Templates
5 20 (6.23%) JSON
5 20 (6.23%) YAML
6 17 (5.30%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.30%) Kafka
7 16 (4.98%) .NET Framework
7 16 (4.98%) ASP.NET
7 16 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.98%) GraphQL
7 16 (4.98%) OAuth
8 15 (4.67%) ADO
8 15 (4.67%) REST
9 14 (4.36%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 13 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
10 13 (4.05%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.12%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.87%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.25%) Blog
8 4 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.93%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.62%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.46%) Linux
2 21 (6.54%) Windows
3 13 (4.05%) VMS
4 6 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.56%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.93%) SUSE
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (90.34%) CI/CD
2 250 (77.88%) DevOps
3 155 (48.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (38.63%) Containerisation
5 94 (29.28%) Agile
6 85 (26.48%) Observability
6 85 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (22.12%) Test Automation
9 70 (21.81%) Software Engineering
10 54 (16.82%) Microservices
10 54 (16.82%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (15.58%) AI
12 46 (14.33%) Mentoring
12 46 (14.33%) RBAC
13 45 (14.02%) Cloud Security
13 45 (14.02%) Deployment Automation
13 45 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 45 (14.02%) Incident Response
14 42 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (49.84%) Python
2 92 (28.66%) Bash
3 73 (22.74%) PowerShell
4 69 (21.50%) SQL
5 54 (16.82%) Bicep
6 46 (14.33%) JavaScript
7 44 (13.71%) TypeScript
8 40 (12.46%) C#
9 37 (11.53%) Java
10 26 (8.10%) Go
11 5 (1.56%) Ruby
12 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.25%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.25%) Scala
12 4 (1.25%) Swift
12 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.93%) C++
13 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (14.02%) Degree
2 38 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.72%) AWS Certification
5 25 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 25 (7.79%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.61%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.74%) CISSP
7 12 (3.74%) CREST Certified
7 12 (3.74%) SANS
8 7 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.93%) CCNA
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.31%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.77%) QA
2 30 (9.35%) GDPR
3 23 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (4.98%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.12%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.25%) GRC
9 3 (0.93%) SLA
10 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.62%) ECSS
10 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 152 (47.35%) Docker
2 34 (10.59%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.56%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 185 (57.63%) Terraform
2 175 (54.52%) Kubernetes
3 61 (19.00%) Prometheus
4 59 (18.38%) Grafana
5 43 (13.40%) Ansible
6 23 (7.17%) Argo
7 7 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.25%) Cilium
8 4 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.93%) Rancher
10 2 (0.62%) Control-M
10 2 (0.62%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
11 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.10%) Google
3 15 (4.67%) VMware
4 13 (4.05%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.43%) Ab Initio
6 8 (2.49%) Databricks
6 8 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.87%) Splunk
8 5 (1.56%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.56%) SAP
9 4 (1.25%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.25%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.25%) Talend
9 4 (1.25%) Zoho
9 4 (1.25%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.93%) Informatica
10 3 (0.93%) Pega