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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 459 634
Rank change year-on-year +90 +175 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 198 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.31% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 284 155 198
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £44,625
25th Percentile £55,938 £61,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £107,250 £104,000 £98,931
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +8.80% -10.00%

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 27,762 15,082 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.74% 35.11% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,460 10,971 26,714
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +72 336 £71,450 -4.73% 165
UK excluding London +53 205 £62,500 -8.09% 97
Work from Home +59 156 £65,258 -9.99% 100
London +54 154 £80,000 -3.03% 83
North of England -2 82 £60,000 -11.76% 33
Yorkshire -23 44 £60,000 +2.13% 16
South East -17 34 £62,500 -10.71% 30
South West -40 32 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North West -11 26 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Scotland -1 25 £85,000 +36.00% 9
Midlands -33 20 £65,000 -10.34% 9
East Midlands -29 16 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -29 12 £47,500 -17.39% 4
East of England -14 5 £75,000 -1.64% 4
Wales -31 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -26 4 £62,500 -15.25% 6
Northern Ireland -37 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.25%) Apache
1 9 (2.25%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.00%) Appian
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (59.75%) Azure
3 228 (57.00%) AWS
4 156 (39.00%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (24.50%) GCP
5 98 (24.50%) Serverless
6 67 (16.75%) Datadog
7 66 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 38 (9.50%) Entra ID
12 32 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (7.25%) Azure AKS
13 29 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (4.50%) SaaS
16 17 (4.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.25%) Firewall
2 24 (6.00%) VPN
3 23 (5.75%) DNS
4 21 (5.25%) HTTP
5 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.00%) Network Security
7 13 (3.25%) DSL
7 13 (3.25%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.25%) NoSQL
2 36 (9.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.00%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.25%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.25%) MySQL
9 8 (2.00%) Flink
10 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.50%) Metadata
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Power BI
12 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.00%) Big Data
13 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (38.50%) Jenkins
2 72 (18.00%) Git
3 61 (15.25%) GitLab
4 22 (5.50%) JIRA
5 13 (3.25%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.25%) XCTest
6 11 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.75%) Subversion
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
9 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.75%) Appium
10 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.75%) Gatling
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 3 (0.75%) NUnit
10 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 129 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.00%) Finance
3 34 (8.50%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.00%) Retail
7 19 (4.75%) Banking
7 19 (4.75%) Law
8 12 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.00%) Front Office
10 6 (1.50%) Electronics
10 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.50%) Marketing
10 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Billing
12 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 101 (25.25%) Senior
2 89 (22.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (19.50%) Developer
4 47 (11.75%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (11.25%) Lead
6 40 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.25%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.75%) Architect
9 23 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.50%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.25%) AWS Developer
13 17 (4.25%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.00%) React
2 52 (13.00%) .NET
3 48 (12.00%) Node.js
4 37 (9.25%) OAuth
5 36 (9.00%) RESTful
6 32 (8.00%) CSS
7 28 (7.00%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.50%) HTML
9 23 (5.75%) .NET Core
9 23 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.25%) SAML
11 20 (5.00%) ADO
11 20 (5.00%) REST
12 17 (4.25%) Kafka
13 16 (4.00%) ASP.NET
13 16 (4.00%) YAML
14 15 (3.75%) .NET Framework
14 15 (3.75%) AngularJS
14 15 (3.75%) Blazor
14 15 (3.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.25%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.00%) PKI
8 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.25%) CMDB
11 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.00%) Linux
2 17 (4.25%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.50%) Windows
4 13 (3.25%) VMS
5 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (94.25%) CI/CD
2 285 (71.25%) DevOps
3 224 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (35.50%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (29.75%) Observability
7 117 (29.25%) Agile
8 112 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (17.50%) Analytics
9 70 (17.50%) Test Automation
10 69 (17.25%) Cloud Security
11 68 (17.00%) DevSecOps
11 68 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
12 66 (16.50%) Incident Response
13 64 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
14 61 (15.25%) AI
15 58 (14.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 56 (14.00%) Mentoring
17 51 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
18 48 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 199 (49.75%) Python
2 106 (26.50%) Bash
3 79 (19.75%) SQL
4 76 (19.00%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.25%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.50%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.75%) Go
8 31 (7.75%) Java
9 28 (7.00%) Bicep
10 24 (6.00%) Kotlin
11 20 (5.00%) C#
12 15 (3.75%) Rust
13 13 (3.25%) Swift
14 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.75%) Groovy
15 7 (1.75%) Scala
16 6 (1.50%) Dart
17 5 (1.25%) C++
17 5 (1.25%) PHP
18 4 (1.00%) C
Qualifications
1 57 (14.25%) Degree
2 33 (8.25%) AWS Certification
2 33 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.00%) OSCP
5 16 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.75%) CISSP
7 12 (3.00%) CREST Certified
7 12 (3.00%) SANS
8 11 (2.75%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.50%) QA
3 28 (7.00%) GDPR
4 26 (6.50%) SOC 2
5 15 (3.75%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 8 (2.00%) GRC
7 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 148 (37.00%) Docker
2 40 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 246 (61.50%) Terraform
2 165 (41.25%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.25%) Ansible
4 80 (20.00%) Grafana
5 73 (18.25%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.50%) Argo
7 10 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.00%) Cilium
8 8 (2.00%) Packer
8 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.25%) VMware
3 17 (4.25%) Google
3 17 (4.25%) Palo Alto
4 12 (3.00%) Amplitude
4 12 (3.00%) Braze
4 12 (3.00%) Databricks
4 12 (3.00%) Zscaler
5 11 (2.75%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.00%) Ab Initio
8 7 (1.75%) SAP
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.25%) Cisco
10 5 (1.25%) EMC
10 5 (1.25%) F5
10 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.75%) Tenable