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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 442 513
Rank change year-on-year +39 +71 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 499 248 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.59% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 331 195 210
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,200 £48,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £59,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 26,705 15,573 23,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 31.29% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18,286 10,453 14,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,091 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +57 435 £70,000 - 697
UK excluding London +12 272 £65,000 - 269
London +5 174 £80,000 +3.23% 441
Work from Home -4 140 £72,500 +3.57% 340
North of England +27 125 £65,000 -4.41% 78
Yorkshire +13 60 £70,000 +2.19% 30
South East -14 60 £65,000 -13.33% 67
North West +8 41 £65,500 +0.77% 36
Midlands -21 36 £67,500 +25.00% 30
West Midlands -24 27 £70,000 +3.70% 14
North East -43 24 £57,500 -16.36% 12
Wales -59 24 £60,000 +2.13% 9
South West -74 19 £65,000 +15.56% 28
East Midlands -27 9 £65,000 +22.07% 16
Scotland -2 4 £65,000 -18.75% 19
East of England -43 4 £69,500 +2.96% 22

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 12 (2.40%) Apache
2 10 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.00%) Confluence
3 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.40%) CICS
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 499 (100.00%) GitHub
2 308 (61.72%) AWS
3 271 (54.31%) Azure
4 131 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (20.84%) GCP
6 93 (18.64%) Serverless
7 88 (17.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.43%) AWS Lambda
9 68 (13.63%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (13.03%) Amazon S3
11 52 (10.42%) Datadog
12 50 (10.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
15 35 (7.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 35 (7.01%) Azure Key Vault
16 31 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (6.21%) Azure AKS
17 23 (4.61%) SaaS
18 20 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.21%) VPN
2 25 (5.01%) Firewall
3 15 (3.01%) DMARC
4 12 (2.40%) DNS
5 11 (2.20%) Network Security
6 5 (1.00%) HTTP
6 5 (1.00%) SAN
7 4 (0.80%) SSH
7 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.40%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (8.62%) DynamoDB
2 43 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.81%) SQL Server
5 28 (5.61%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (4.01%) MongoDB
8 19 (3.81%) Redis
9 17 (3.41%) MySQL
10 14 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.81%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.00%) Power BI
13 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.40%) Db2
15 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 197 (39.48%) Jenkins
2 98 (19.64%) Git
3 89 (17.84%) GitLab
4 34 (6.81%) JIRA
5 32 (6.41%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.81%) Postman
7 19 (3.81%) Selenium
8 13 (2.61%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.40%) JUnit
9 12 (2.40%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.20%) Gatling
10 11 (2.20%) JMeter
11 10 (2.00%) Crashlytics
12 9 (1.80%) Gradle
12 9 (1.80%) Newman
13 8 (1.60%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.60%) NUnit
13 8 (1.60%) Zephyr
14 7 (1.40%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.20%) Appium
General
1 178 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.24%) Finance
3 73 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.81%) Banking
7 20 (4.01%) Retail
8 11 (2.20%) Law
8 11 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.80%) Marketing
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Games
12 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 137 (27.45%) Senior
2 116 (23.25%) Developer
3 73 (14.63%) Platform Engineer
4 68 (13.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.03%) Lead
6 36 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.01%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (6.01%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.81%) Architect
13 23 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.41%) Consultant
14 22 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.41%) Software Developer
15 20 (4.01%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (51.30%) Terraform
2 114 (22.85%) Node.js
3 81 (16.23%) React
3 81 (16.23%) Spring Boot
4 75 (15.03%) .NET
5 73 (14.63%) Spring
6 65 (13.03%) REST
7 63 (12.63%) RESTful
8 50 (10.02%) CSS
9 42 (8.42%) AngularJS
10 36 (7.21%) Playwright
11 35 (7.01%) HTML
12 32 (6.41%) GraphQL
13 31 (6.21%) OAuth
13 31 (6.21%) OAuth2
14 30 (6.01%) Jest
15 26 (5.21%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (5.21%) YAML
16 24 (4.81%) Kafka
16 24 (4.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 141 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.01%) Mainframe
4 29 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.61%) Legacy Applications
6 22 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.21%) Blog
9 16 (3.21%) Mobile App
10 15 (3.01%) Private Cloud
10 15 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.81%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.61%) Security Posture
13 10 (2.00%) PKI
14 9 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
14 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.83%) Linux
2 16 (3.21%) Windows
3 12 (2.40%) Android
3 12 (2.40%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.60%) Unix
5 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.60%) AIX
7 3 (0.60%) Debian
7 3 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (95.59%) CI/CD
2 312 (62.53%) DevOps
3 251 (50.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (35.07%) Containerisation
5 146 (29.26%) Agile
6 145 (29.06%) AI
7 140 (28.06%) Observability
8 129 (25.85%) Software Engineering
9 125 (25.05%) Test Automation
10 116 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
12 103 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (18.64%) Mentoring
14 88 (17.64%) Microservices
15 82 (16.43%) Analytics
16 73 (14.63%) Clean Code
17 69 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (13.63%) Cloud Security
19 66 (13.23%) Full-Stack Development
20 61 (12.22%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 214 (42.89%) Python
2 132 (26.45%) Java
3 112 (22.44%) TypeScript
4 95 (19.04%) SQL
5 86 (17.23%) Bash
6 84 (16.83%) JavaScript
7 63 (12.63%) PowerShell
8 47 (9.42%) Go
9 40 (8.02%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.21%) C#
11 30 (6.01%) Bicep
12 28 (5.61%) Ruby
13 24 (4.81%) COBOL
14 20 (4.01%) Groovy
15 18 (3.61%) JCL
16 13 (2.61%) Scala
17 12 (2.40%) PHP
18 9 (1.80%) Swift
19 8 (1.60%) Rust
20 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.62%) Degree
4 34 (6.81%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.01%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
11 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.60%) OCP
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.63%) QA
2 38 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.81%) WCAG
4 18 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.20%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.60%) GDPR
7 8 (1.60%) GRC
8 6 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.20%) NCSC
9 5 (1.00%) NIST
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.60%) SLA
12 2 (0.40%) IFRS
12 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.40%) PERC
12 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 209 (41.88%) Docker
2 11 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 193 (38.68%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.43%) Grafana
3 57 (11.42%) Prometheus
4 49 (9.82%) Ansible
5 27 (5.41%) Argo
6 23 (4.61%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.80%) Cilium
8 8 (1.60%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.20%) logstash
9 6 (1.20%) Packer
10 5 (1.00%) Istio
11 2 (0.40%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.01%) Databricks
2 25 (5.01%) Google
3 24 (4.81%) VMware
4 17 (3.41%) OneLogin
5 16 (3.21%) Splunk
6 15 (3.01%) New Relic
6 15 (3.01%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.61%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.20%) Broadcom
9 9 (1.80%) Oracle
10 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.00%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.00%) Braze
13 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
14 2 (0.40%) EMC
14 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.40%) Veeam