GitHub Actions Jobs

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 643 630
Rank change year-on-year +156 -13 -108
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 200 245 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 0.69% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 157 191 233
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,875 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £88,750 £79,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £100,000 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +4.62% -6.40% +15.75%

All Cloud 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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +162 187 £75,000 +15.38% 269
London +124 100 £82,500 +10.00% 172
UK excluding London +163 92 £68,000 +4.62% 110
Work from Home +158 91 £72,500 +11.54% 180
North of England +58 26 £68,000 +4.62% 43
South West +117 23 £65,000 - 12
South East +115 22 £70,000 - 17
Midlands +49 18 £72,500 +20.83% 14
West Midlands +44 17 £73,750 +22.92% 11
North West +17 11 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Yorkshire +56 10 £58,750 -13.60% 12
Wales - 6 £65,000 - 5
Scotland +131 5 £62,500 -33.96% 5
North East +56 5 £57,500 +4.55% 4
East of England +50 2 £76,250 +17.31% 12
Northern Ireland +37 2 - - 4
East Midlands +45 1 £60,000 +29.73% 3

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 12 (6.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.00%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (100.00%) GitHub
2 122 (61.00%) Azure
3 93 (46.50%) AWS
4 83 (41.50%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (17.00%) Serverless
6 31 (15.50%) GCP
7 25 (12.50%) SaaS
8 22 (11.00%) PaaS
9 17 (8.50%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (6.50%) npm
12 12 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.50%) Datadog
13 11 (5.50%) Power Platform
14 10 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
15 9 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) VPN
2 5 (2.50%) MQTT
2 5 (2.50%) SMS
3 4 (2.00%) DNS
3 4 (2.00%) Firewall
4 2 (1.00%) IPv6
4 2 (1.00%) Multicast
4 2 (1.00%) Network Security
4 2 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.00%) MySQL
3 17 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.00%) Power BI
7 7 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.50%) Redis
8 6 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.50%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.00%) Big Data
11 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (23.50%) Git
2 33 (16.50%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 21 (10.50%) GitLab
5 18 (9.00%) JIRA
6 15 (7.50%) CircleCI
6 15 (7.50%) Gradle
7 7 (3.50%) Postman
8 6 (3.00%) Maven
9 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.50%) Selenium
9 5 (2.50%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.00%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.50%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.50%) Vagrant
12 2 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 70 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.00%) Finance
3 29 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.00%) Games
5 12 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.50%) Automotive
7 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.00%) Front Office
8 6 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.50%) Banking
9 5 (2.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (30.50%) Developer
2 57 (28.50%) Senior
3 48 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (18.50%) Lead
5 30 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.00%) Lead Developer
10 11 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Backend Developer
11 10 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Senior Backend Developer
12 9 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.00%) Android Developer
13 8 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.00%) React
2 33 (16.50%) .NET
3 31 (15.50%) RESTful
4 25 (12.50%) Node.js
5 22 (11.00%) GraphQL
6 21 (10.50%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.00%) Kafka
8 12 (6.00%) Django
8 12 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.50%) .NET Core
9 11 (5.50%) CSS
9 11 (5.50%) HTML
10 10 (5.00%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.50%) Flask
11 9 (4.50%) JSON
11 9 (4.50%) REST
12 8 (4.00%) ARM Templates
12 8 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
12 8 (4.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.00%) Mobile Games
3 14 (7.00%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.00%) Life Science
8 4 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.00%) NHS
9 2 (1.00%) PKI
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.50%) Linux
2 9 (4.50%) Android
3 8 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.00%) Windows
4 6 (3.00%) VMS
5 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (81.00%) CI/CD
2 130 (65.00%) DevOps
3 92 (46.00%) Agile
4 87 (43.50%) Software Engineering
5 61 (30.50%) Containerisation
6 55 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 45 (22.50%) Test Automation
9 34 (17.00%) Migration
10 32 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
12 30 (15.00%) Release Management
13 28 (14.00%) Microservices
14 27 (13.50%) Observability
15 24 (12.00%) Computer Science
15 24 (12.00%) DevSecOps
16 21 (10.50%) Sprint Planning
16 21 (10.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 76 (38.00%) Python
2 48 (24.00%) SQL
3 43 (21.50%) TypeScript
4 40 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 39 (19.50%) C#
6 33 (16.50%) Java
7 28 (14.00%) PowerShell
8 20 (10.00%) Bash
9 13 (6.50%) Go
10 10 (5.00%) Kotlin
11 8 (4.00%) Objective-C
11 8 (4.00%) Swift
12 6 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (3.00%) Ruby
13 5 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
14 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.00%) Rust
14 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (19.00%) Degree
2 22 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.00%) QA
2 10 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.00%) NCSC
3 8 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
4 5 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (43.50%) Docker
2 10 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 87 (43.50%) Terraform
3 33 (16.50%) Prometheus
4 25 (12.50%) Ansible
5 19 (9.50%) Grafana
6 14 (7.00%) Argo
7 7 (3.50%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.00%) Packer
9 2 (1.00%) Consul
9 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.50%) Automic
10 1 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.50%) Rancher
10 1 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Databricks
3 14 (7.00%) Google
3 14 (7.00%) New Relic
4 10 (5.00%) VMware
5 9 (4.50%) Citrix
6 5 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.50%) Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.50%) Palantir
9 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk