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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 479 594
Rank change year-on-year +84 +115 -13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 420 217 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.36% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 312 170 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,725 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,012 £57,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.16% +3.20% -3.85%

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 27,181 15,908 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,798 11,057 22,992
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +67 362 £65,500 -12.67% 208
UK excluding London +59 237 £63,750 -1.16% 112
London -8 138 £80,000 - 115
Work from Home +38 132 £65,000 -10.34% 110
North of England +46 100 £62,500 -8.76% 54
South East +15 56 £62,500 -16.67% 32
Yorkshire -3 46 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +23 37 £65,500 -12.67% 30
Midlands -11 28 £65,000 -1.89% 10
East Midlands -7 21 £70,000 +29.63% 4
South West -58 21 £68,750 +12.24% 3
Wales -45 20 £60,000 +2.13% 4
North East -39 17 £47,500 -17.39% 6
West Midlands -21 7 £63,750 -5.56% 6
Scotland +11 6 £85,000 +31.78% 6
East of England -4 6 £77,575 +19.35% 2

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 9 (2.14%) Apache
1 9 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.67%) Confluence
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.71%) IIS
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.48%) nginx
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) WordPress
5 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
1 420 (100.00%) GitHub
2 260 (61.90%) AWS
3 238 (56.67%) Azure
4 134 (31.90%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.43%) GCP
6 83 (19.76%) Serverless
7 71 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (15.24%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.86%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.19%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.71%) Datadog
12 43 (10.24%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (5.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (5.00%) Firebase
18 19 (4.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 18 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.00%) Firewall
2 20 (4.76%) DNS
2 20 (4.76%) VPN
3 17 (4.05%) Network Security
4 16 (3.81%) HTTP
5 13 (3.10%) DMARC
6 12 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.90%) DSL
8 5 (1.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) SSH
9 4 (0.95%) SSL
9 4 (0.95%) WAN
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) RTP
10 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
10 2 (0.48%) VoIP
10 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 23 (5.48%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.81%) MySQL
7 15 (3.57%) Delta Lake
8 14 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (2.38%) Power BI
10 8 (1.90%) Redis
11 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.43%) Tableau
13 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.19%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.95%) Big Data
14 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 162 (38.57%) Jenkins
2 84 (20.00%) Git
3 70 (16.67%) GitLab
4 29 (6.90%) JIRA
5 20 (4.76%) Crashlytics
6 16 (3.81%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.57%) XCTest
8 14 (3.33%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.86%) Postman
10 11 (2.62%) Selenium
11 8 (1.90%) fastlane
11 8 (1.90%) Gradle
11 8 (1.90%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.43%) Gatling
13 6 (1.43%) Storybook
13 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 128 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.14%) Finance
3 40 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.24%) Retail
7 17 (4.05%) Banking
8 12 (2.86%) Law
8 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Games
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (25.48%) Senior
2 96 (22.86%) Developer
3 74 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.86%) Lead
6 43 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (7.38%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (6.67%) Security Engineer
10 26 (6.19%) Architect
10 26 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (4.76%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.52%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.29%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.81%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.05%) Node.js
2 63 (15.00%) React
3 48 (11.43%) CSS
4 44 (10.48%) .NET
5 40 (9.52%) RESTful
5 40 (9.52%) Spring Boot
6 39 (9.29%) REST
7 38 (9.05%) OAuth
8 32 (7.62%) HTML
8 32 (7.62%) Spring
9 27 (6.43%) OAuth2
9 27 (6.43%) YAML
10 23 (5.48%) AngularJS
11 22 (5.24%) Playwright
12 20 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.52%) Web Services
14 18 (4.29%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.29%) Vue
15 16 (3.81%) Jest
15 16 (3.81%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.90%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.38%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.57%) PKI
8 14 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.33%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (2.62%) Mainframe
11 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.67%) Blog
13 6 (1.43%) CMDB
13 6 (1.43%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.19%) Linux
2 21 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.76%) Windows
4 12 (2.86%) Android
5 9 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.71%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (93.10%) CI/CD
2 267 (63.57%) DevOps
3 219 (52.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (36.67%) Containerisation
5 121 (28.81%) Agile
6 97 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (22.62%) Observability
8 93 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (21.19%) Platform Engineering
10 86 (20.48%) AI
11 85 (20.24%) Test Automation
12 81 (19.29%) Software Engineering
13 75 (17.86%) Mentoring
14 68 (16.19%) Cloud Security
15 66 (15.71%) Analytics
16 64 (15.24%) Microservices
17 59 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
18 58 (13.81%) Clean Code
18 58 (13.81%) DevSecOps
19 52 (12.38%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 187 (44.52%) Python
2 87 (20.71%) Bash
3 77 (18.33%) TypeScript
4 74 (17.62%) Java
5 71 (16.90%) PowerShell
6 65 (15.48%) JavaScript
7 60 (14.29%) SQL
8 42 (10.00%) Go
9 39 (9.29%) Kotlin
10 30 (7.14%) C#
11 25 (5.95%) Bicep
12 17 (4.05%) Ruby
12 17 (4.05%) Swift
13 15 (3.57%) Groovy
14 12 (2.86%) Scala
15 11 (2.62%) PHP
16 10 (2.38%) Rust
17 7 (1.67%) COBOL
17 7 (1.67%) Dart
18 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.43%) Degree
3 38 (9.05%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 22 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.62%) CISSP
7 11 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.62%) OSCP
8 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.43%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.43%) SANS
9 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.57%) QA
2 32 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 29 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 18 (4.29%) WCAG
6 13 (3.10%) GRC
7 10 (2.38%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.90%) GDPR
9 7 (1.67%) NCSC
10 6 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.71%) NIST
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.48%) SLA
13 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 147 (35.00%) Docker
2 17 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.90%) 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
1 225 (53.57%) Terraform
2 161 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.00%) Grafana
4 62 (14.76%) Ansible
5 54 (12.86%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.52%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.57%) Argo
8 13 (3.10%) Cilium
9 9 (2.14%) Packer
10 6 (1.43%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) Kibana
14 1 (0.24%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 48 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.48%) VMware
3 18 (4.29%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.05%) Google
5 16 (3.81%) Databricks
6 14 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.33%) Braze
7 13 (3.10%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.86%) New Relic
9 11 (2.62%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.38%) OneLogin
11 8 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.43%) Cisco
12 6 (1.43%) EMC
12 6 (1.43%) F5
12 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (0.71%) Splunk
14 3 (0.71%) Tenable