GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 656 626 530
Rank change year-on-year -30 -96 +262
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 250 375 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.86% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 197 228 230
10th Percentile £44,500 £53,381 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £117,236 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +15.75% -15.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Salary trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 15 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 May 2024. 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 -4 222 £65,000 -18.75% 73
UK excluding London -54 140 £65,000 -6.40% 31
Work from Home 0 110 £65,000 -18.75% 42
London +55 81 £75,000 -14.29% 39
North of England -9 56 £65,000 -23.53% 12
Midlands +15 30 £60,000 - 3
North West -1 29 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Yorkshire +43 27 £68,000 -2.08% 7
West Midlands +31 24 £60,000 - 1
South West -13 22 £67,500 -2.80% 8
South East -10 19 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +18 10 £65,000 +30.00% 2
East Midlands - 5 £46,250 - 2
Scotland -85 2 £94,637 +57.73% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (8.00%) Apache
2 14 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.40%) nginx
4 8 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.20%) Confluence
5 6 (2.40%) IIS
6 4 (1.60%) CMS
6 4 (1.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 250 (100.00%) GitHub
2 149 (59.60%) AWS
3 131 (52.40%) Azure
4 85 (34.00%) GCP
5 39 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (11.60%) Serverless
7 26 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (8.40%) PaaS
9 19 (7.60%) SaaS
10 15 (6.00%) IaaS
11 13 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (5.20%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.00%) Datadog
13 10 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.60%) npm
14 9 (3.60%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.80%) Yarn
16 6 (2.40%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.00%) DNS
2 13 (5.20%) Firewall
3 6 (2.40%) VPN
4 5 (2.00%) MQTT
4 5 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.80%) SSL
5 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.20%) MySQL
3 21 (8.40%) Redis
4 18 (7.20%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.40%) BigQuery
6 11 (4.40%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.00%) Big Data
8 9 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.20%) Apache Hive
9 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.20%) Flink
9 8 (3.20%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.20%) Parquet
10 7 (2.80%) GIS
11 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.40%) Looker
11 6 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (22.00%) CircleCI
2 54 (21.60%) Git
3 52 (20.80%) Jenkins
4 43 (17.20%) GitLab
5 25 (10.00%) JIRA
6 19 (7.60%) SonarQube
7 10 (4.00%) Selenium
8 8 (3.20%) CMake
8 8 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.80%) git-flow
9 7 (2.80%) PHPUnit
10 6 (2.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.40%) Maven
11 5 (2.00%) Postman
12 4 (1.60%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.60%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.20%) JMeter
13 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
General
1 54 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.60%) Finance
3 48 (19.20%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (8.40%) Retail
6 19 (7.60%) Marketing
7 18 (7.20%) Banking
8 16 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (6.00%) Legal
10 8 (3.20%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.40%) Electronics
11 6 (2.40%) Games
11 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.80%) Law
15 1 (0.40%) Automotive
15 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (33.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (28.80%) Developer
3 61 (24.40%) Senior
4 28 (11.20%) Lead
5 27 (10.80%) Senior Developer
6 21 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) Full Stack Developer
6 21 (8.40%) Software Developer
6 21 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
7 20 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (6.80%) Data Engineer
10 15 (6.00%) C# Developer
11 13 (5.20%) Lead DevOps
11 13 (5.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.80%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.40%) React
2 35 (14.00%) .NET
3 34 (13.60%) Node.js
4 23 (9.20%) Kafka
5 22 (8.80%) .NET Core
5 22 (8.80%) HTML
6 19 (7.60%) CSS
6 19 (7.60%) RESTful
7 17 (6.80%) Vue
8 16 (6.40%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.60%) JSON
10 13 (5.20%) HTML5
10 13 (5.20%) Laravel
11 12 (4.80%) PySpark
11 12 (4.80%) REST
12 11 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (4.00%) Django
13 10 (4.00%) Next.js
14 9 (3.60%) Flask
14 9 (3.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.40%) Public Cloud
2 36 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.40%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.60%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.60%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.80%) IoT
6 11 (4.40%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.60%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.20%) Distributed Applications
8 8 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.20%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.00%) Replication
10 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.20%) Tandem
11 2 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.00%) Linux
2 19 (7.60%) Windows
3 9 (3.60%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.80%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.40%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.60%) VMS
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 150 (60.00%) DevOps
3 105 (42.00%) Agile
4 96 (38.40%) Containerisation
4 96 (38.40%) Software Engineering
5 85 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (22.40%) Deployment Automation
6 56 (22.40%) Test Automation
7 51 (20.40%) Mentoring
8 39 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (14.40%) Full Stack Development
10 35 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (13.20%) TDD
12 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (12.00%) SDLC
13 28 (11.20%) Continuous Delivery
13 28 (11.20%) Microservices
14 27 (10.80%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (10.40%) Computer Science
16 25 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (34.80%) Python
2 53 (21.20%) Go
3 42 (16.80%) JavaScript
4 37 (14.80%) Java
5 36 (14.40%) C#
6 30 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 29 (11.60%) SQL
8 28 (11.20%) Bash
9 24 (9.60%) PowerShell
10 21 (8.40%) Ruby
11 13 (5.20%) PHP
12 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
13 9 (3.60%) Scala
14 8 (3.20%) Bicep
15 6 (2.40%) R
16 5 (2.00%) Ada
16 5 (2.00%) C
16 5 (2.00%) JSX
17 4 (1.60%) Rust
18 3 (1.20%) Dart
Qualifications
1 31 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.80%) Degree
3 24 (9.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.60%) ISEB
8 4 (1.60%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.80%) GDPR
1 12 (4.80%) NCSC
2 11 (4.40%) QA
3 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (43.20%) Docker
2 8 (3.20%) HDFS
3 6 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 131 (52.40%) Terraform
2 116 (46.40%) Kubernetes
3 52 (20.80%) Ansible
4 16 (6.40%) Progress Chef
5 10 (4.00%) Grafana
5 10 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.00%) Puppet
6 8 (3.20%) Argo
7 6 (2.40%) Kibana
8 4 (1.60%) Istio
9 2 (0.80%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.40%) Consul
10 1 (0.40%) Packer
10 1 (0.40%) Podman
10 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.80%) Google
3 14 (5.60%) Databricks
4 9 (3.60%) Splunk
5 8 (3.20%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.40%) McAfee
6 6 (2.40%) SAP
7 5 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (2.00%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.20%) New Relic
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.80%) Twitter
10 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.40%) Thales
10 1 (0.40%) UiPath
10 1 (0.40%) VMware