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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 438 516
Rank change year-on-year +24 +78 -36
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 490 242 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.56% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 326 190 213
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,875 £81,250
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 27,491 15,544 24,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.41% 31.40% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 18,741 10,514 15,160
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,901 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +49 423 £67,500 -6.90% 629
UK excluding London -5 272 £65,000 - 264
London -7 162 £77,500 - 406
Work from Home -19 136 £71,500 -1.38% 309
North of England +40 127 £65,000 - 83
Yorkshire +5 60 £67,500 -1.46% 32
South East +1 60 £63,750 -15.00% 67
North West +8 45 £65,500 +0.77% 41
Midlands -29 31 £65,000 +7.00% 25
Wales -47 25 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North East -43 22 £57,500 -11.54% 10
West Midlands -26 21 £65,000 -3.70% 12
South West -70 20 £61,250 +2.08% 32
East Midlands -22 10 £65,000 +22.07% 13
East of England -31 5 £87,500 +29.63% 18
Scotland -3 4 £65,000 -18.75% 13

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 (2.45%) Apache
2 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.04%) Confluence
3 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.02%) CICS
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 490 (100.00%) GitHub
2 312 (63.67%) AWS
3 268 (54.69%) Azure
4 127 (25.92%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (19.59%) GCP
6 90 (18.37%) Serverless
7 87 (17.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
9 67 (13.67%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (13.27%) Amazon S3
11 50 (10.20%) Datadog
12 48 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (7.96%) Azure Monitor
14 35 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 34 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
16 31 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (6.12%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.90%) SaaS
19 20 (4.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.10%) Firewall
2 24 (4.90%) VPN
3 15 (3.06%) DMARC
4 12 (2.45%) Network Security
5 11 (2.24%) DNS
6 5 (1.02%) HTTP
6 5 (1.02%) SAN
7 4 (0.82%) SSH
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 3 (0.61%) SSL
8 3 (0.61%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.57%) DynamoDB
3 40 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 32 (6.53%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 29 (5.92%) NoSQL
7 22 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (4.08%) Redis
9 17 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 17 (3.47%) MySQL
10 14 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.04%) Power BI
13 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.43%) BigQuery
15 5 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.02%) Db2
Development Applications
1 189 (38.57%) Jenkins
2 98 (20.00%) Git
3 80 (16.33%) GitLab
4 36 (7.35%) JIRA
5 34 (6.94%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.10%) Postman
7 19 (3.88%) Selenium
8 13 (2.65%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.45%) JUnit
10 11 (2.24%) Gatling
10 11 (2.24%) JMeter
11 10 (2.04%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.04%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.84%) Gradle
12 9 (1.84%) Newman
13 8 (1.63%) NUnit
14 7 (1.43%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.22%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.22%) fastlane
15 6 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 167 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.76%) Finance
3 67 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.10%) Banking
7 21 (4.29%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Law
8 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.84%) Marketing
10 5 (1.02%) Legal
11 4 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
12 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 134 (27.35%) Senior
2 116 (23.67%) Developer
3 74 (15.10%) Platform Engineer
4 67 (13.67%) Lead
5 62 (12.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (6.73%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 29 (5.92%) Java Developer
9 27 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 26 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (4.49%) Architect
12 22 (4.49%) Security Engineer
12 22 (4.49%) Software Developer
13 20 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (52.45%) Terraform
2 112 (22.86%) Node.js
3 83 (16.94%) React
4 75 (15.31%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.69%) .NET
6 67 (13.67%) Spring
7 62 (12.65%) RESTful
8 61 (12.45%) REST
9 52 (10.61%) CSS
10 42 (8.57%) AngularJS
11 38 (7.76%) Playwright
12 35 (7.14%) HTML
13 31 (6.33%) Jest
13 31 (6.33%) OAuth
13 31 (6.33%) OAuth2
14 27 (5.51%) GraphQL
15 26 (5.31%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (5.31%) YAML
16 25 (5.10%) Web Services
17 24 (4.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 135 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.51%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Legacy Applications
6 18 (3.67%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.06%) Blog
8 15 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (3.06%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.24%) PKI
11 10 (2.04%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.04%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.84%) Digital Wallet
13 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.33%) Linux
2 17 (3.47%) Windows
3 12 (2.45%) Android
3 12 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.63%) Unix
5 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (95.51%) CI/CD
2 305 (62.24%) DevOps
3 254 (51.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (34.29%) Containerisation
5 146 (29.80%) Agile
6 136 (27.76%) Observability
7 135 (27.55%) AI
8 124 (25.31%) Software Engineering
9 118 (24.08%) Test Automation
10 116 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (23.06%) Platform Engineering
12 97 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (17.96%) Mentoring
14 86 (17.55%) Microservices
15 80 (16.33%) Analytics
16 73 (14.90%) Cloud Security
17 71 (14.49%) Clean Code
18 63 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
19 57 (11.63%) Event-Driven
20 56 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 211 (43.06%) Python
2 121 (24.69%) Java
3 110 (22.45%) TypeScript
4 89 (18.16%) SQL
5 88 (17.96%) Bash
6 81 (16.53%) JavaScript
7 67 (13.67%) PowerShell
8 47 (9.59%) Go
9 40 (8.16%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.35%) C#
11 29 (5.92%) Bicep
12 28 (5.71%) Ruby
13 20 (4.08%) COBOL
13 20 (4.08%) Groovy
14 14 (2.86%) JCL
14 14 (2.86%) Scala
15 12 (2.45%) PHP
16 9 (1.84%) Swift
17 8 (1.63%) Rust
18 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.18%) Degree
4 34 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.31%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.02%) CISSP
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.61%) CISM
13 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.65%) QA
2 36 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.90%) WCAG
4 19 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.65%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.84%) GRC
7 8 (1.63%) GDPR
8 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.22%) NCSC
9 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.82%) NIST
10 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.61%) SLA
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.41%) PERC
11 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 204 (41.63%) Docker
2 11 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.61%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 193 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 71 (14.49%) Grafana
3 57 (11.63%) Prometheus
4 46 (9.39%) Ansible
5 24 (4.90%) Progress Chef
6 23 (4.69%) Argo
7 10 (2.04%) Cilium
8 8 (1.63%) Packer
8 8 (1.63%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.22%) logstash
10 4 (0.82%) Istio
11 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.41%) Puppet
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 57 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.10%) Databricks
2 25 (5.10%) Google
2 25 (5.10%) VMware
3 17 (3.47%) OneLogin
4 15 (3.06%) New Relic
4 15 (3.06%) SendGrid
5 14 (2.86%) Splunk
6 13 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.84%) Broadcom
7 9 (1.84%) Oracle
8 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.02%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.02%) Braze
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco
11 3 (0.61%) EMC
11 3 (0.61%) F5
11 3 (0.61%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow