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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 440 634
Rank change year-on-year +79 +194 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 399 205 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.36% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 287 160 185
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £52,500
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £104,250 £102,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +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 27,607 15,119 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 36.14% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14,229 11,102 26,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,738 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +50 328 £70,200 -6.40% 167
UK excluding London +29 206 £62,500 -8.09% 111
Work from Home +73 168 £65,515 -9.63% 110
London +41 151 £80,000 -3.03% 82
North of England -12 78 £60,000 -11.76% 31
Yorkshire -31 39 £60,000 +21.21% 9
South West -46 34 £75,000 +15.38% 14
South East -33 33 £62,500 -10.71% 32
Scotland +5 30 £85,000 +36.00% 12
North West -14 27 £63,000 -16.00% 21
Midlands -34 20 £65,000 -10.34% 10
East Midlands -42 16 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -31 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
East of England -31 5 £75,000 -1.64% 9
Wales -32 4 £58,248 -10.39% 3
West Midlands -42 4 £62,500 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland -41 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 (2.76%) Confluence
2 8 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 399 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (61.40%) Azure
3 230 (57.64%) AWS
4 159 (39.85%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (25.31%) GCP
6 98 (24.56%) Serverless
7 70 (17.54%) Datadog
8 66 (16.54%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (12.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (12.53%) Amazon S3
11 42 (10.53%) Entra ID
12 39 (9.77%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (7.02%) Azure AKS
16 27 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (5.26%) SaaS
19 18 (4.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.28%) Firewall
2 23 (5.76%) VPN
3 22 (5.51%) DNS
4 21 (5.26%) HTTP
5 18 (4.51%) Network Security
5 18 (4.51%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.26%) DSL
7 12 (3.01%) WAN
8 3 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.75%) RTP
8 3 (0.75%) SSL
8 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.75%) VoIP
8 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) Broadband
9 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.28%) NoSQL
1 41 (10.28%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.76%) DynamoDB
3 20 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.01%) BigQuery
6 10 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (2.51%) Flink
7 8 (2.01%) MySQL
8 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.50%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.50%) Metadata
10 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.25%) Power BI
10 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 147 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.05%) Git
3 62 (15.54%) GitLab
4 24 (6.02%) JIRA
5 13 (3.26%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.76%) Crashlytics
6 11 (2.76%) XCTest
7 9 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.26%) Subversion
8 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.75%) NUnit
11 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.50%) JMeter
12 2 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 132 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 107 (26.82%) Finance
3 39 (9.77%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.76%) Banking
5 23 (5.76%) Retail
6 21 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.76%) Law
8 14 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.01%) Front Office
10 8 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.00%) Back Office
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Billing
14 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (23.56%) Senior
2 87 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (20.55%) Developer
4 48 (12.03%) Lead
5 40 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (10.03%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.27%) .NET Developer
8 26 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 23 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.26%) Architect
12 20 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.76%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 17 (4.26%) AWS Developer
16 16 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
17 15 (3.76%) Data Engineer
17 15 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.79%) React
2 60 (15.04%) .NET
3 46 (11.53%) Node.js
4 42 (10.53%) RESTful
5 39 (9.77%) OAuth
6 31 (7.77%) CSS
7 30 (7.52%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
8 26 (6.52%) HTML
9 25 (6.27%) Elastic Stack
10 22 (5.51%) ADO
11 21 (5.26%) SAML
12 20 (5.01%) ASP.NET
13 19 (4.76%) REST
14 18 (4.51%) Kafka
14 18 (4.51%) YAML
15 17 (4.26%) .NET Framework
15 17 (4.26%) Blazor
15 17 (4.26%) OAuth2
16 16 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.31%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.01%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.01%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.01%) PKI
11 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.00%) CMDB
15 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 3 (0.75%) Blog
15 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.03%) Linux
2 15 (3.76%) Windows
3 13 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.26%) VMS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.75%) Android
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) SUSE
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (93.48%) CI/CD
2 289 (72.43%) DevOps
3 217 (54.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (35.84%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.33%) Agile
5 121 (30.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 120 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (29.82%) Observability
8 72 (18.05%) Incident Response
9 70 (17.54%) Cloud Security
10 68 (17.04%) Analytics
10 68 (17.04%) Test Automation
11 67 (16.79%) DevSecOps
12 62 (15.54%) AI
12 62 (15.54%) Deployment Automation
12 62 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
13 60 (15.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 52 (13.03%) Mentoring
15 51 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 50 (12.53%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 199 (49.87%) Python
2 110 (27.57%) Bash
3 85 (21.30%) SQL
4 75 (18.80%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.30%) PowerShell
6 61 (15.29%) JavaScript
7 57 (14.29%) Go
8 33 (8.27%) Bicep
8 33 (8.27%) Java
9 24 (6.02%) C#
10 21 (5.26%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.76%) Rust
12 12 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (2.76%) Swift
14 7 (1.75%) C++
15 6 (1.50%) Dart
15 6 (1.50%) Scala
16 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.00%) C
17 4 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (15.04%) Degree
2 37 (9.27%) AWS Certification
2 37 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.26%) CISSP
6 16 (4.01%) OSCP
7 15 (3.76%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.51%) CREST Certified
8 14 (3.51%) SANS
9 12 (3.01%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (8.27%) QA
3 28 (7.02%) GDPR
3 28 (7.02%) SOC 2
4 16 (4.01%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.51%) GRC
5 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.50%) SLA
8 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.50%) ECSS
9 2 (0.50%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (37.34%) Docker
2 43 (10.78%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (59.65%) Terraform
2 161 (40.35%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.30%) Grafana
4 80 (20.05%) Ansible
5 75 (18.80%) Prometheus
6 24 (6.02%) Argo
7 10 (2.51%) Cilium
7 10 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.50%) Packer
10 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 4 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.75%) Puppet
11 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 71 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.76%) VMware
3 17 (4.26%) Google
4 16 (4.01%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.01%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.76%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.51%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.51%) Amplitude
7 10 (2.51%) Braze
7 10 (2.51%) Databricks
8 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.01%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco
11 4 (1.00%) EMC
11 4 (1.00%) F5
11 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.00%) Splunk