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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 429 627
Rank change year-on-year +70 +198 +9
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 395 208 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.37% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 294 165 164
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £55,313 £62,500 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,750 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% +4.62% -6.40%

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 24,984 15,220 32,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 37.15% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,202 10,983 26,112
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% +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 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 17 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 26 March 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 +54 317 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +31 201 £62,750 -7.72% 130
Work from Home +69 171 £65,250 -11.53% 118
London +53 146 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -12 68 £60,000 -11.76% 40
South West -20 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Yorkshire -20 36 £60,000 +21.21% 14
Scotland +4 33 £87,500 +48.94% 10
South East -21 33 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Midlands -45 21 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North West -17 20 £64,000 -14.67% 21
East Midlands -30 14 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -17 12 £47,500 -15.56% 5
West Midlands -24 7 £60,000 -20.00% 8
East of England -15 5 £67,500 -11.48% 6
Wales -30 2 £58,248 -10.39% 7
Northern Ireland -33 2 £62,500 - 1

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 11 (2.78%) Confluence
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.77%) Apache
3 7 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.01%) Appian
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) GitHub
2 238 (60.25%) Azure
3 228 (57.72%) AWS
4 154 (38.99%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.33%) GCP
6 100 (25.32%) Serverless
7 70 (17.72%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (17.22%) Datadog
9 67 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (13.42%) Amazon S3
12 44 (11.14%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (9.87%) Entra ID
14 36 (9.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 33 (8.35%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (7.85%) Azure AKS
17 29 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (6.33%) SaaS
19 24 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
20 22 (5.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.66%) Firewall
2 22 (5.57%) DNS
2 22 (5.57%) VPN
3 21 (5.32%) HTTP
4 18 (4.56%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.54%) Network Security
6 13 (3.29%) DSL
7 12 (3.04%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.51%) SSL
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.13%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.06%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.29%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.53%) Flink
8 8 (2.03%) MySQL
9 7 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
11 5 (1.27%) Power BI
12 4 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.01%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.01%) Tableau
12 4 (1.01%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 158 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 79 (20.00%) Git
3 70 (17.72%) GitLab
4 20 (5.06%) JIRA
5 11 (2.78%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.53%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.53%) XCTest
7 9 (2.28%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.28%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.28%) Subversion
8 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.01%) NUnit
9 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Storybook
11 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) JMeter
11 2 (0.51%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 128 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 107 (27.09%) Finance
3 41 (10.38%) Telecoms
4 30 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.57%) Banking
5 22 (5.57%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.81%) Law
6 19 (4.81%) Retail
7 14 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.04%) Front Office
9 11 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.52%) Back Office
10 6 (1.52%) Electronics
10 6 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.52%) Marketing
11 5 (1.27%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.76%) Billing
13 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (23.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (23.04%) Senior
3 74 (18.73%) Developer
4 45 (11.39%) Lead
5 39 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (9.87%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (7.09%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.84%) Security Engineer
9 23 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.32%) Architect
12 20 (5.06%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.56%) Applications Engineer
13 18 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.80%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.54%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.96%) React
2 60 (15.19%) .NET
3 44 (11.14%) RESTful
4 43 (10.89%) Node.js
5 40 (10.13%) OAuth
6 31 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (7.59%) AWS CDK
8 27 (6.84%) CSS
9 25 (6.33%) .NET Core
9 25 (6.33%) HTML
10 22 (5.57%) ADO
11 21 (5.32%) SAML
11 21 (5.32%) YAML
12 19 (4.81%) REST
13 18 (4.56%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.56%) OAuth2
14 17 (4.30%) Kafka
15 16 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
15 16 (4.05%) Blazor
16 15 (3.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.52%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.27%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.27%) PKI
13 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.01%) Blog
15 3 (0.76%) CMDB
15 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
16 2 (0.51%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.94%) Linux
2 18 (4.56%) Windows
3 13 (3.29%) VMS
4 11 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.27%) Unix
7 3 (0.76%) SUSE
8 2 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
8 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (92.15%) CI/CD
2 286 (72.41%) DevOps
3 217 (54.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (38.99%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.89%) Agile
6 114 (28.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (27.59%) Observability
8 72 (18.23%) Test Automation
9 70 (17.72%) Incident Response
10 64 (16.20%) DevSecOps
11 63 (15.95%) Cloud Security
12 62 (15.70%) Analytics
13 59 (14.94%) AI
14 58 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
14 58 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
15 57 (14.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 51 (12.91%) Full-Stack Development
16 51 (12.91%) RBAC
17 47 (11.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 205 (51.90%) Python
2 116 (29.37%) Bash
3 82 (20.76%) SQL
4 73 (18.48%) PowerShell
5 67 (16.96%) TypeScript
6 60 (15.19%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.67%) Go
8 38 (9.62%) Bicep
9 28 (7.09%) Java
10 23 (5.82%) C#
11 17 (4.30%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.80%) Rust
13 12 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.53%) Swift
15 7 (1.77%) C++
16 5 (1.27%) Scala
16 5 (1.27%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.01%) PHP
18 3 (0.76%) C
18 3 (0.76%) Dart
Qualifications
1 59 (14.94%) Degree
2 39 (9.87%) AWS Certification
2 39 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.06%) CISSP
6 18 (4.56%) CREST Certified
6 18 (4.56%) SANS
7 15 (3.80%) OSCP
8 13 (3.29%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.51%) CCSP
14 2 (0.51%) CISM
14 2 (0.51%) GCIA
14 2 (0.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 32 (8.10%) QA
2 30 (7.59%) GDPR
3 25 (6.33%) SOC 2
4 20 (5.06%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.03%) GRC
7 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.27%) SLA
8 4 (1.01%) NIST
9 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) ECSS
10 2 (0.51%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 155 (39.24%) Docker
2 40 (10.13%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (59.49%) Terraform
2 169 (42.78%) Kubernetes
3 89 (22.53%) Grafana
4 81 (20.51%) Ansible
4 81 (20.51%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.08%) Argo
6 10 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.03%) Cilium
8 7 (1.77%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.01%) logstash
9 4 (1.01%) Packer
10 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.76%) Rancher
11 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.51%) Puppet
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.81%) Google
3 17 (4.30%) VMware
4 15 (3.80%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.04%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.78%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.28%) Amplitude
8 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.03%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.77%) Databricks
11 6 (1.52%) SAP
11 6 (1.52%) Splunk
12 5 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
13 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
14 3 (0.76%) Cisco
14 3 (0.76%) F5
14 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow