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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 454 518
Rank change year-on-year +45 +64 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 482 238 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.52% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 321 188 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,675 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,938 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £73,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +12.69% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,438
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,375 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 27,799 15,627 24,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.92% 31.70% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,735 10,584 15,659
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,331 £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 £101,250 £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 20 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 20 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 +48 416 £66,750 -8.87% 593
UK excluding London +7 268 £65,000 - 260
London -16 160 £77,500 - 378
Work from Home -13 132 £70,000 -3.45% 287
North of England +28 127 £65,000 - 83
Yorkshire +11 61 £67,500 -1.46% 23
South East -9 58 £62,500 -16.67% 66
North West +11 45 £65,500 +0.77% 45
Midlands -30 29 £65,000 +7.00% 25
Wales -52 24 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North East -43 21 £57,500 -11.54% 15
South West -64 21 £57,500 -4.17% 25
West Midlands -37 19 £65,000 -3.70% 10
East Midlands -27 10 £65,000 +22.07% 15
Scotland +2 5 £90,000 +12.50% 19
East of England -36 4 £87,500 +27.27% 20

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 (2.70%) Apache
1 13 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.49%) Confluence
3 8 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.83%) CICS
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 4 (0.83%) IIS
6 3 (0.62%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 482 (100.00%) GitHub
2 310 (64.32%) AWS
3 266 (55.19%) Azure
4 128 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (19.92%) GCP
6 90 (18.67%) Serverless
7 89 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (13.69%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (13.69%) Amazon S3
10 51 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (10.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (10.37%) Datadog
12 37 (7.68%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (7.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 32 (6.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 31 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (6.02%) Azure AKS
17 23 (4.77%) SaaS
18 21 (4.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.77%) Firewall
2 22 (4.56%) VPN
3 14 (2.90%) DMARC
4 11 (2.28%) Network Security
5 10 (2.07%) DNS
6 5 (1.04%) HTTP
6 5 (1.04%) SAN
7 4 (0.83%) SSH
7 4 (0.83%) SSL
7 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 3 (0.62%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.71%) DynamoDB
3 38 (7.88%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (6.43%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.22%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (3.73%) Redis
9 17 (3.53%) Delta Lake
9 17 (3.53%) MySQL
10 15 (3.11%) MongoDB
11 14 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (2.70%) Power BI
13 12 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (1.66%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.66%) Tableau
15 7 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.45%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.24%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 187 (38.80%) Jenkins
2 100 (20.75%) Git
3 77 (15.98%) GitLab
4 37 (7.68%) JIRA
5 33 (6.85%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.19%) Postman
7 19 (3.94%) Selenium
8 13 (2.70%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.49%) JMeter
9 12 (2.49%) JUnit
10 11 (2.28%) Gatling
11 10 (2.07%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.07%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.87%) Gradle
12 9 (1.87%) Newman
13 8 (1.66%) NUnit
14 6 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.24%) fastlane
14 6 (1.24%) Maven
14 6 (1.24%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.22%) Finance
3 61 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.19%) Banking
7 21 (4.36%) Retail
8 11 (2.28%) Law
8 11 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.87%) Marketing
10 5 (1.04%) Legal
11 4 (0.83%) Automotive
11 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Games
12 3 (0.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.62%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Advertising
13 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (26.97%) Senior
2 113 (23.44%) Developer
3 74 (15.35%) Platform Engineer
4 64 (13.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (12.66%) Lead
6 39 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (6.43%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (6.22%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.19%) Architect
13 23 (4.77%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
14 22 (4.56%) Security Engineer
15 21 (4.36%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (53.11%) Terraform
2 111 (23.03%) Node.js
3 81 (16.80%) React
4 70 (14.52%) Spring Boot
5 69 (14.32%) .NET
6 62 (12.86%) Spring
7 59 (12.24%) RESTful
8 57 (11.83%) REST
9 52 (10.79%) CSS
10 42 (8.71%) AngularJS
11 37 (7.68%) Playwright
12 35 (7.26%) HTML
13 30 (6.22%) OAuth
13 30 (6.22%) OAuth2
14 29 (6.02%) Jest
15 25 (5.19%) Web Services
15 25 (5.19%) YAML
16 24 (4.98%) GraphQL
16 24 (4.98%) Ruby on Rails
17 23 (4.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (27.39%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.98%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.73%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.11%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (3.11%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.90%) Blog
9 14 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.28%) PKI
12 10 (2.07%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.87%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.66%) Digital Wallet
14 8 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.63%) Linux
2 19 (3.94%) Windows
3 12 (2.49%) Android
3 12 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.66%) Unix
4 8 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.62%) Debian
6 3 (0.62%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.41%) AIX
7 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (95.44%) CI/CD
2 305 (63.28%) DevOps
3 250 (51.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (33.61%) Containerisation
5 142 (29.46%) Agile
6 132 (27.39%) AI
7 129 (26.76%) Observability
8 120 (24.90%) Software Engineering
9 113 (23.44%) Platform Engineering
9 113 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (22.61%) Test Automation
11 93 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (17.43%) Mentoring
13 82 (17.01%) Analytics
14 80 (16.60%) Microservices
15 70 (14.52%) Cloud Security
16 68 (14.11%) Clean Code
17 64 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 54 (11.20%) Event-Driven
18 54 (11.20%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 211 (43.78%) Python
2 117 (24.27%) Java
3 109 (22.61%) TypeScript
4 89 (18.46%) Bash
5 88 (18.26%) SQL
6 80 (16.60%) JavaScript
7 70 (14.52%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.34%) Go
9 41 (8.51%) Kotlin
10 34 (7.05%) C#
11 29 (6.02%) Bicep
12 26 (5.39%) Ruby
13 21 (4.36%) Groovy
14 18 (3.73%) COBOL
15 17 (3.53%) Scala
16 13 (2.70%) PHP
17 12 (2.49%) JCL
18 9 (1.87%) Swift
19 8 (1.66%) Rust
20 7 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.54%) Degree
4 36 (7.47%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.83%) CISSP
12 4 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.62%) OCP
13 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.45%) QA
2 35 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.77%) WCAG
4 18 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.49%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.87%) GRC
7 7 (1.45%) GDPR
7 7 (1.45%) NCSC
8 6 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.83%) NIST
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.62%) SLA
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 199 (41.29%) Docker
2 13 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.62%) Firmware
6 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 190 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 65 (13.49%) Grafana
3 55 (11.41%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.37%) Ansible
5 26 (5.39%) Progress Chef
6 21 (4.36%) Argo
7 10 (2.07%) Cilium
7 10 (2.07%) Packer
8 8 (1.66%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.04%) logstash
10 4 (0.83%) Istio
11 3 (0.62%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.62%) Puppet
12 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) Consul
13 1 (0.21%) linkerd
13 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 59 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.81%) Databricks
3 26 (5.39%) VMware
4 25 (5.19%) Google
5 16 (3.32%) OneLogin
6 15 (3.11%) New Relic
7 14 (2.90%) SendGrid
7 14 (2.90%) Splunk
8 12 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.66%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.66%) Oracle
11 6 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.04%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.04%) Braze
13 4 (0.83%) Cisco
13 4 (0.83%) EMC
13 4 (0.83%) F5
13 4 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.83%) ServiceNow