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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 475 593
Rank change year-on-year +70 +118 -32
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 419 217 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.36% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 306 170 208
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -9.03%

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 27,405 15,898 29,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.36% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,887 11,069 21,791
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +61 361 £65,500 -12.67% 209
UK excluding London +65 238 £62,500 -3.10% 117
London -12 138 £78,750 -1.56% 111
Work from Home +36 132 £65,000 -10.34% 109
North of England +45 100 £62,500 -8.76% 55
South East +4 56 £62,500 -20.63% 29
Yorkshire -3 45 £65,000 -5.11% 17
North West +20 38 £65,500 -12.67% 33
Midlands -25 28 £65,000 -1.89% 15
Wales -40 22 £60,000 +2.13% 2
East Midlands -13 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -55 21 £65,000 +8.33% 5
North East -37 17 £47,500 -17.39% 5
West Midlands -29 7 £63,750 -5.56% 13
East of England -9 6 £77,575 +19.35% 3
Scotland +12 5 £85,000 +31.78% 8

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 10 (2.39%) Apache
1 10 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.91%) Confluence
3 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 419 (100.00%) GitHub
2 262 (62.53%) AWS
3 239 (57.04%) Azure
4 133 (31.74%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (21.24%) GCP
6 86 (20.53%) Serverless
7 70 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (15.75%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.65%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.22%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (10.74%) Datadog
12 34 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (5.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (5.25%) Firebase
15 21 (5.01%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (4.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 19 (4.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.07%) Firewall
2 18 (4.30%) DNS
2 18 (4.30%) VPN
3 17 (4.06%) Network Security
4 14 (3.34%) HTTP
5 13 (3.10%) DMARC
6 10 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.67%) DSL
8 5 (1.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) SSH
9 4 (0.95%) SSL
10 3 (0.72%) WAN
11 2 (0.48%) BGP
11 2 (0.48%) RTP
11 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.48%) VLAN
11 2 (0.48%) VoIP
11 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.16%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (6.44%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.49%) NoSQL
6 22 (5.25%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.82%) MySQL
8 15 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.58%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.63%) Power BI
10 10 (2.39%) Redis
11 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.43%) Tableau
13 5 (1.19%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.95%) Big Data
14 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 157 (37.47%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.76%) Git
3 68 (16.23%) GitLab
4 29 (6.92%) JIRA
5 20 (4.77%) Crashlytics
6 19 (4.53%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.58%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.58%) XCTest
8 13 (3.10%) Postman
9 12 (2.86%) Selenium
10 8 (1.91%) fastlane
10 8 (1.91%) Gradle
10 8 (1.91%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.43%) Gatling
12 6 (1.43%) JUnit
12 6 (1.43%) Storybook
12 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
General
1 127 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.93%) Finance
3 43 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (5.01%) Retail
7 17 (4.06%) Banking
8 12 (2.86%) Law
9 10 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Advertising
13 3 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
14 2 (0.48%) Games
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (25.54%) Senior
2 99 (23.63%) Developer
3 70 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (14.32%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (13.37%) Lead
6 42 (10.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.64%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (5.97%) Architect
9 25 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (5.97%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.01%) Automation Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) Data Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Cloud Automation Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.81%) Node.js
2 67 (15.99%) React
3 48 (11.46%) .NET
3 48 (11.46%) CSS
4 43 (10.26%) REST
5 42 (10.02%) RESTful
5 42 (10.02%) Spring Boot
6 37 (8.83%) OAuth
7 34 (8.11%) Spring
8 32 (7.64%) HTML
9 27 (6.44%) AngularJS
9 27 (6.44%) OAuth2
10 26 (6.21%) YAML
11 25 (5.97%) Playwright
12 19 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (4.53%) Jest
12 19 (4.53%) Web Services
13 18 (4.30%) Ruby on Rails
13 18 (4.30%) Vue
14 17 (4.06%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 111 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.40%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.82%) PKI
7 14 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.10%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.86%) Mainframe
10 11 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.91%) Blog
12 8 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.67%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.43%) CMDB
14 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.47%) Linux
2 21 (5.01%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.77%) Windows
4 12 (2.86%) Android
5 9 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Debian
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) AIX
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (93.56%) CI/CD
2 264 (63.01%) DevOps
3 219 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (35.80%) Containerisation
5 124 (29.59%) Agile
6 96 (22.91%) Observability
6 96 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (21.24%) Test Automation
9 88 (21.00%) Platform Engineering
10 87 (20.76%) AI
11 84 (20.05%) Software Engineering
12 79 (18.85%) Mentoring
13 67 (15.99%) Cloud Security
13 67 (15.99%) Microservices
14 65 (15.51%) Analytics
15 62 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 61 (14.56%) Clean Code
17 55 (13.13%) DevSecOps
18 52 (12.41%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 180 (42.96%) Python
2 82 (19.57%) Bash
2 82 (19.57%) TypeScript
3 77 (18.38%) Java
4 70 (16.71%) PowerShell
5 69 (16.47%) JavaScript
6 60 (14.32%) SQL
7 40 (9.55%) Go
8 39 (9.31%) Kotlin
9 31 (7.40%) C#
10 25 (5.97%) Bicep
11 20 (4.77%) Ruby
12 17 (4.06%) Swift
13 15 (3.58%) Groovy
14 12 (2.86%) Scala
15 11 (2.63%) PHP
16 9 (2.15%) Rust
17 7 (1.67%) COBOL
17 7 (1.67%) Dart
18 4 (0.95%) C++
Qualifications
1 58 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.22%) Degree
3 39 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.59%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.25%) Azure Certification
5 22 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.39%) OSCP
9 9 (2.15%) CISSP
10 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.95%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.07%) QA
2 32 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.77%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.77%) WCAG
5 13 (3.10%) GRC
6 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.67%) GDPR
7 7 (1.67%) NCSC
8 6 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.95%) NIST
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 148 (35.32%) Docker
2 16 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 222 (52.98%) Terraform
2 160 (38.19%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.04%) Grafana
4 58 (13.84%) Ansible
5 52 (12.41%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.53%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.58%) Argo
8 13 (3.10%) Cilium
9 10 (2.39%) Packer
10 5 (1.19%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.72%) Puppet
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) Kibana
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 50 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.25%) VMware
3 18 (4.30%) Databricks
3 18 (4.30%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.82%) Google
5 14 (3.34%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.34%) Braze
6 13 (3.10%) New Relic
6 13 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.10%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.86%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.43%) Cisco
9 6 (1.43%) EMC
9 6 (1.43%) F5
9 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.95%) Splunk
11 3 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.72%) Tenable