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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 468 625
Rank change year-on-year +96 +157 -9
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 393 198 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.30% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 280 155 196
10th Percentile £46,975 £51,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £57,188 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £101,500 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -13.60%

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 27,680 15,182 34,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.54% 34.96% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,644 10,852 26,766
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £82,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
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 8 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 8 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 +70 333 £72,500 -3.33% 179
UK excluding London +44 202 £65,000 -4.41% 111
London +40 152 £80,000 -3.03% 83
Work from Home +69 150 £65,000 -10.34% 105
North of England +6 82 £60,000 -11.76% 46
Yorkshire -13 44 £60,000 -11.76% 20
South East -15 36 £62,500 -10.71% 34
South West -43 30 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North West -7 25 £65,000 -13.33% 19
Scotland +13 23 £85,000 +36.00% 6
Midlands -25 19 £70,000 -3.45% 9
East Midlands -14 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East -26 13 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -11 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -30 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -39 3 £65,000 -11.86% 5
Northern Ireland -34 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 (2.29%) Apache
2 8 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.04%) Confluence
3 4 (1.02%) Appian
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 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
2 234 (59.54%) Azure
3 227 (57.76%) AWS
4 150 (38.17%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (24.17%) GCP
5 95 (24.17%) Serverless
6 65 (16.54%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (16.54%) Datadog
7 60 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (12.47%) Amazon S3
9 46 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (9.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (8.91%) Entra ID
12 33 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (7.38%) Azure AKS
15 27 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.33%) SaaS
17 17 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.49%) Firewall
2 24 (6.11%) VPN
3 23 (5.85%) DNS
4 21 (5.34%) HTTP
5 18 (4.58%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.07%) Network Security
7 13 (3.31%) DSL
7 13 (3.31%) WAN
8 4 (1.02%) SSL
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) 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 35 (8.91%) SQL Server
2 34 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.34%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.29%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.29%) MySQL
8 7 (1.78%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.78%) Flink
9 6 (1.53%) Metadata
9 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.27%) Power BI
11 4 (1.02%) Big Data
11 4 (1.02%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 154 (39.19%) Jenkins
2 71 (18.07%) Git
3 61 (15.52%) GitLab
4 21 (5.34%) JIRA
5 13 (3.31%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.31%) XCTest
6 11 (2.80%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.04%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.53%) Storybook
9 6 (1.53%) Subversion
10 3 (0.76%) Appium
10 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.76%) Gatling
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) NUnit
10 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 88 (22.39%) Finance
3 31 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 19 (4.83%) Law
4 19 (4.83%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.83%) Retail
5 17 (4.33%) Banking
6 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.78%) Front Office
8 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Advertising
9 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.02%) Electronics
10 4 (1.02%) Marketing
11 3 (0.76%) Billing
11 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 99 (25.19%) Senior
2 86 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (19.59%) Developer
4 50 (12.72%) Platform Engineer
5 41 (10.43%) Lead
6 39 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.16%) 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
10 22 (5.60%) Security Engineer
11 19 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.58%) Data Engineer
12 18 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.07%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.82%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 13 (3.31%) AWS Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.03%) React
2 49 (12.47%) .NET
3 48 (12.21%) Node.js
4 36 (9.16%) OAuth
5 34 (8.65%) CSS
6 32 (8.14%) RESTful
7 27 (6.87%) AWS CDK
7 27 (6.87%) HTML
8 23 (5.85%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (5.60%) .NET Core
10 21 (5.34%) REST
10 21 (5.34%) SAML
11 19 (4.83%) ADO
12 16 (4.07%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 15 (3.82%) Kafka
14 14 (3.56%) .NET Framework
14 14 (3.56%) Blazor
14 14 (3.56%) OAuth2
14 14 (3.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.85%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.56%) Private Cloud
7 13 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.04%) PKI
11 7 (1.78%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.53%) CMDB
12 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.27%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
15 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.76%) Linux
2 17 (4.33%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.82%) Windows
4 14 (3.56%) VMS
5 9 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.27%) Android
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.76%) SUSE
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (93.89%) CI/CD
2 275 (69.97%) DevOps
3 221 (56.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (35.11%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (29.26%) Observability
7 113 (28.75%) Agile
8 107 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (17.56%) Cloud Security
9 69 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
10 68 (17.30%) Analytics
11 67 (17.05%) DevSecOps
11 67 (17.05%) Test Automation
12 64 (16.28%) Incident Response
13 62 (15.78%) Deployment Automation
14 60 (15.27%) AI
15 56 (14.25%) Mentoring
15 56 (14.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 51 (12.98%) Continuous Integration
17 49 (12.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 197 (50.13%) Python
2 104 (26.46%) Bash
3 79 (20.10%) SQL
4 74 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.56%) PowerShell
6 57 (14.50%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.99%) Go
8 30 (7.63%) Java
9 24 (6.11%) Kotlin
10 23 (5.85%) Bicep
11 20 (5.09%) C#
12 15 (3.82%) Rust
13 13 (3.31%) Swift
14 12 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.04%) Groovy
16 7 (1.78%) Scala
17 6 (1.53%) Dart
18 5 (1.27%) C++
18 5 (1.27%) PHP
19 4 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (14.25%) Degree
2 33 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.14%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.07%) OSCP
8 15 (3.82%) CISSP
9 12 (3.05%) CREST Certified
9 12 (3.05%) SANS
10 10 (2.54%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (6.87%) GDPR
2 27 (6.87%) QA
3 26 (6.62%) SOC 2
4 15 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.04%) GRC
6 8 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.53%) SLA
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.02%) NIST
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.51%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (36.64%) Docker
2 38 (9.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 244 (62.09%) Terraform
2 161 (40.97%) Kubernetes
3 84 (21.37%) Ansible
4 79 (20.10%) Grafana
5 71 (18.07%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.09%) Argo
7 11 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.29%) Packer
9 8 (2.04%) Cilium
9 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.02%) logstash
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
12 3 (0.76%) Rancher
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Nagios
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.60%) VMware
3 18 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 15 (3.82%) Google
5 12 (3.05%) Amplitude
5 12 (3.05%) Braze
5 12 (3.05%) Databricks
5 12 (3.05%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.78%) Ab Initio
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
9 6 (1.53%) EMC
9 6 (1.53%) F5
9 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.27%) SAP
11 3 (0.76%) Tenable