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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 508 494
Rank change year-on-year +80 -14 +143
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 252 252 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.36% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.13% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 199 197 218
10th Percentile £50,400 £48,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £87,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,224
% change year-on-year - -3.31% -3.97%

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 15,452 22,363 24,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 32.35% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,399 13,604 20,073
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,024
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +40 191 £71,250 +9.62% 402
Work from Home +87 115 £71,250 +14.00% 234
UK excluding London +9 113 £65,000 - 287
London +102 94 £77,500 -4.62% 217
South East +12 24 £75,000 +15.38% 151
North of England -33 23 £66,500 -2.21% 64
South West +42 19 £56,250 -13.46% 19
Scotland +9 18 £80,000 +39.13% 10
Midlands +10 13 £54,000 -10.00% 24
West Midlands +31 11 £67,500 +12.50% 16
Yorkshire -35 11 £68,250 +0.37% 11
North West +23 10 £65,000 -3.70% 49
Wales +15 8 £58,750 -9.62% 5
East of England +12 8 £66,250 -17.19% 13
East Midlands +18 2 £53,250 -7.39% 8
North East - 2 £68,750 - 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 6 (2.38%) IIS
2 5 (1.98%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 252 (100.00%) GitHub
2 142 (56.35%) Azure
3 123 (48.81%) AWS
4 110 (43.65%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (19.05%) GCP
6 46 (18.25%) Serverless
7 36 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (13.49%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (13.49%) Amazon S3
9 32 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (9.52%) Datadog
12 23 (9.13%) Azure AKS
13 20 (7.94%) SaaS
14 15 (5.95%) Entra ID
14 15 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.17%) VPN
2 4 (1.59%) DNS
2 4 (1.59%) Firewall
3 3 (1.19%) MQTT
3 3 (1.19%) SMS
4 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) HbbTV
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.73%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) BigQuery
3 14 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.37%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.17%) Power BI
6 6 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.38%) MySQL
7 5 (1.98%) Looker
7 5 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.98%) Tableau
8 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.19%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.19%) Redis
10 2 (0.79%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 88 (34.92%) Jenkins
2 56 (22.22%) Git
3 21 (8.33%) GitLab
4 11 (4.37%) TeamCity
5 8 (3.17%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.78%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.38%) JIRA
7 6 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.59%) Selenium
10 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.19%) JMeter
10 3 (1.19%) JUnit
10 3 (1.19%) Postman
10 3 (1.19%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.19%) webpack
11 2 (0.79%) Babel
General
1 63 (25.00%) Finance
2 58 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.33%) Law
4 18 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.16%) Marketing
7 10 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Banking
10 5 (1.98%) Advertising
10 5 (1.98%) Legal
10 5 (1.98%) Retail
11 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.19%) Back Office
12 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.79%) Games
13 2 (0.79%) Publishing
14 1 (0.40%) Billing
14 1 (0.40%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (25.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (20.63%) Senior
3 47 (18.65%) Lead
4 34 (13.49%) Developer
5 33 (13.10%) Software Engineer
6 26 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (7.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Senior DevOps
9 16 (6.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) .NET Software Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.02%) React
2 53 (21.03%) .NET
3 48 (19.05%) RESTful
4 22 (8.73%) Node.js
5 19 (7.54%) AngularJS
6 17 (6.75%) GraphQL
6 17 (6.75%) REST
7 16 (6.35%) .NET Core
7 16 (6.35%) Spring
8 15 (5.95%) ARM Templates
9 14 (5.56%) JSON
9 14 (5.56%) Spring Boot
10 13 (5.16%) Kafka
11 11 (4.37%) YAML
12 10 (3.97%) Next.js
13 9 (3.57%) .NET Framework
13 9 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.57%) Quarkus
14 8 (3.17%) Blazor
14 8 (3.17%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.75%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
5 8 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.79%) Genomics
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.89%) Linux
2 18 (7.14%) Windows
3 8 (3.17%) VMS
4 6 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.79%) Android
6 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (90.08%) CI/CD
2 183 (72.62%) DevOps
3 105 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (36.11%) Containerisation
5 82 (32.54%) Software Engineering
6 75 (29.76%) Agile
7 63 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 59 (23.41%) Observability
9 48 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (18.25%) Microservices
11 44 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (16.27%) Mentoring
13 39 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (13.10%) Cloud Security
16 32 (12.70%) AI
17 30 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
17 30 (11.90%) RBAC
18 28 (11.11%) Computer Science
19 25 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 130 (51.59%) Python
2 63 (25.00%) Bash
3 51 (20.24%) PowerShell
4 46 (18.25%) SQL
5 38 (15.08%) C#
5 38 (15.08%) Java
5 38 (15.08%) JavaScript
6 37 (14.68%) Bicep
7 34 (13.49%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.94%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.98%) Objective-C
9 5 (1.98%) Ruby
9 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.98%) Swift
10 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.59%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (13.89%) Degree
2 29 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (10.32%) SC Cleared
5 22 (8.73%) Azure Certification
6 16 (6.35%) AWS Certification
7 14 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.38%) CISSP
8 6 (2.38%) CREST Certified
8 6 (2.38%) SANS
9 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.19%) CCNA
10 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.11%) QA
2 19 (7.54%) GDPR
3 18 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (48.02%) Docker
2 17 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.78%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 132 (52.38%) Terraform
3 42 (16.67%) Grafana
4 41 (16.27%) Prometheus
5 27 (10.71%) Ansible
6 15 (5.95%) Argo
7 6 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.79%) Control-M
10 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 48 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.32%) Google
3 14 (5.56%) VMware
4 10 (3.97%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.98%) Databricks
7 4 (1.59%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.59%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.59%) Pega
7 4 (1.59%) Talend
7 4 (1.59%) Zoho
8 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.19%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.19%) Informatica
8 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.19%) Splunk
9 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow