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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 477 640
Rank change year-on-year +75 +163 -22
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 393 193 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.29% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 277 154 198
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,188 £78,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +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 26,875 15,016 34,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.13% 34.05% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,172 10,550 26,689
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 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 20 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 +70 337 £70,400 -6.13% 135
UK excluding London +52 202 £65,000 -4.41% 88
London +38 150 £80,000 -3.03% 66
Work from Home +77 144 £65,000 -10.34% 71
North of England +25 87 £60,000 -11.76% 34
Yorkshire -8 47 £62,500 -8.09% 12
South East +1 36 £60,000 -14.29% 25
South West -55 28 £75,000 +17.65% 13
North West +16 25 £65,500 -12.67% 20
Midlands -27 21 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Scotland +16 19 £85,000 +36.00% 5
East Midlands -13 18 £75,000 +25.00% 2
North East -28 15 £47,500 -15.56% 2
East of England -14 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -29 4 £63,250 -2.69%
West Midlands -45 3 £65,000 -11.86% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 3

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 (2.80%) Apache
2 10 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.78%) Confluence
4 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.02%) IIS
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.51%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 393 (100.00%) GitHub
2 235 (59.80%) AWS
3 230 (58.52%) Azure
4 147 (37.40%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (23.41%) Serverless
6 88 (22.39%) GCP
7 66 (16.79%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (16.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 63 (16.03%) Datadog
10 51 (12.98%) Amazon S3
11 46 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.63%) Entra ID
16 26 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (6.62%) Azure AKS
16 26 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (4.58%) Firebase
18 16 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.21%) Firewall
2 22 (5.60%) VPN
3 20 (5.09%) DNS
4 19 (4.83%) HTTP
5 16 (4.07%) Network Security
6 15 (3.82%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.31%) DSL
8 11 (2.80%) WAN
9 4 (1.02%) SSL
10 3 (0.76%) RTP
10 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.51%) DMARC
11 2 (0.51%) SAN
12 1 (0.25%) BGP
12 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.36%) DynamoDB
4 24 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.54%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.54%) MySQL
8 10 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.53%) Flink
9 6 (1.53%) Power BI
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.27%) Metadata
10 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) Big Data
11 4 (1.02%) Redis
11 4 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 144 (36.64%) Jenkins
2 74 (18.83%) Git
3 55 (13.99%) GitLab
4 18 (4.58%) JIRA
5 17 (4.33%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.56%) XCTest
7 13 (3.31%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.04%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.53%) Storybook
11 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.27%) fastlane
11 5 (1.27%) Subversion
12 4 (1.02%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.02%) Gradle
13 3 (0.76%) Appium
13 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 126 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.59%) Finance
3 29 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.60%) Retail
4 22 (5.60%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.58%) Banking
5 18 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.82%) Law
7 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.53%) Front Office
9 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.27%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.76%) Automotive
12 3 (0.76%) Billing
12 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.76%) Military
13 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (25.70%) Senior
2 89 (22.65%) Developer
3 81 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (12.47%) Platform Engineer
5 43 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (9.67%) Lead
7 34 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.11%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.85%) Architect
9 23 (5.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 20 (5.09%) Security Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Data Engineer
14 18 (4.58%) AWS Developer
14 18 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (4.07%) Python Developer
16 15 (3.82%) Java Developer
17 14 (3.56%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.03%) React
2 55 (13.99%) Node.js
3 50 (12.72%) .NET
4 38 (9.67%) CSS
5 36 (9.16%) OAuth
6 31 (7.89%) RESTful
7 27 (6.87%) AWS CDK
7 27 (6.87%) HTML
8 25 (6.36%) REST
9 21 (5.34%) .NET Core
10 19 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (4.58%) AngularJS
11 18 (4.58%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.58%) SAML
12 17 (4.33%) YAML
13 16 (4.07%) ADO
13 16 (4.07%) OAuth2
14 14 (3.56%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (3.56%) UIKit
15 13 (3.31%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 83 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.87%) Mobile App
2 27 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.56%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.80%) PKI
8 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.53%) CMDB
10 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.76%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.76%) Linux
2 18 (4.58%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.56%) Windows
4 12 (3.05%) VMS
5 9 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.04%) Android
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
9 2 (0.51%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (93.64%) CI/CD
2 268 (68.19%) DevOps
3 220 (55.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (34.86%) Containerisation
5 112 (28.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (28.24%) Agile
7 107 (27.23%) Observability
8 98 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.32%) Analytics
9 72 (18.32%) Test Automation
10 70 (17.81%) Cloud Security
11 69 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
12 65 (16.54%) DevSecOps
13 63 (16.03%) AI
13 63 (16.03%) Deployment Automation
14 61 (15.52%) Incident Response
15 54 (13.74%) Software Engineering
16 51 (12.98%) Mentoring
17 49 (12.47%) Full-Stack Development
18 48 (12.21%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 190 (48.35%) Python
2 95 (24.17%) Bash
3 81 (20.61%) SQL
4 76 (19.34%) TypeScript
5 66 (16.79%) PowerShell
6 59 (15.01%) JavaScript
7 51 (12.98%) Go
8 34 (8.65%) Java
9 31 (7.89%) Kotlin
10 25 (6.36%) C#
11 23 (5.85%) Bicep
12 15 (3.82%) Rust
13 14 (3.56%) Swift
14 10 (2.54%) Groovy
14 10 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.78%) Scala
16 6 (1.53%) Dart
16 6 (1.53%) PHP
16 6 (1.53%) T-SQL
17 5 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (13.74%) Degree
2 34 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.40%) AWS Certification
4 27 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.09%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.07%) OSCP
8 11 (2.80%) CISSP
9 8 (2.04%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.04%) SANS
10 7 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.78%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.76%) CCSP
13 3 (0.76%) CISM
13 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (0.76%) GCIA
13 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (6.62%) QA
2 26 (6.62%) SOC 2
3 24 (6.11%) GDPR
4 14 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.80%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.54%) GRC
7 7 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.27%) WCAG
9 4 (1.02%) NIST
9 4 (1.02%) SLA
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (37.15%) Docker
2 33 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (60.31%) Terraform
2 157 (39.95%) Kubernetes
3 74 (18.83%) Ansible
4 71 (18.07%) Grafana
5 61 (15.52%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.33%) Argo
7 13 (3.31%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.54%) Cilium
9 9 (2.29%) Packer
10 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
12 4 (1.02%) logstash
13 3 (0.76%) Puppet
14 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.51%) Rancher
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Kibana
15 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.60%) VMware
3 17 (4.33%) Google
4 16 (4.07%) Palo Alto
5 14 (3.56%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.31%) Amplitude
6 13 (3.31%) Braze
7 11 (2.80%) Databricks
7 11 (2.80%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.54%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.53%) Ab Initio
10 6 (1.53%) Cisco
10 6 (1.53%) EMC
10 6 (1.53%) F5
10 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.76%) SAP
12 3 (0.76%) Varonis