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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 601 544
Rank change year-on-year +4 -57 +183
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 253 301 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.37% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 0.89% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 207 212 267
10th Percentile £46,500 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.91% -7.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £97,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £117,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,478 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.37% +4.76% -16.67%

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 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 14 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 July 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 +1 238 £65,000 -18.37% 30
UK excluding London +8 173 £60,000 -8.37% 20
Work from Home +2 89 £60,000 -20.00% 22
North of England +19 75 £65,000 -23.53% 3
London +17 66 £72,000 -10.00% 14
Yorkshire +75 58 £68,000 +0.74% 2
Midlands +16 38 £60,000 -1.23% 2
West Midlands +25 30 £60,000 -1.23%
South West +9 23 £67,500 -2.80%
South East 0 23 £62,500 - 12
North West -15 17 £65,000 -23.53% 1
East of England -10 9 £65,000 +30.00% 1
East Midlands - 7 £50,000 - 2
Scotland -56 5 £94,637 +64.59% 1

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 14 (5.53%) Apache
2 11 (4.35%) nginx
3 8 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.98%) IIS
5 4 (1.58%) CMS
5 4 (1.58%) Confluence
5 4 (1.58%) Umbraco
6 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 253 (100.00%) GitHub
2 152 (60.08%) AWS
3 123 (48.62%) Azure
4 79 (31.23%) GCP
5 42 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (11.46%) PaaS
6 29 (11.46%) SaaS
7 21 (8.30%) IaaS
7 21 (8.30%) Serverless
8 18 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (5.93%) Amazon S3
11 13 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (4.74%) Datadog
13 10 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.77%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.37%) Azure AKS
15 6 (2.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.72%) DNS
2 16 (6.32%) Firewall
3 10 (3.95%) VPN
4 7 (2.77%) MQTT
5 5 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.79%) SMS
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.46%) MySQL
2 27 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.93%) Redis
4 14 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.56%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.16%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.77%) GIS
10 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.37%) Looker
10 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.37%) Tableau
11 5 (1.98%) Airbyte
11 5 (1.98%) Big Data
11 5 (1.98%) Redshift Spectrum
11 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.58%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 71 (28.06%) CircleCI
2 38 (15.02%) Git
3 32 (12.65%) Jenkins
4 31 (12.25%) GitLab
5 17 (6.72%) JIRA
6 15 (5.93%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.37%) Spinnaker
8 5 (1.98%) Postman
8 5 (1.98%) Selenium
9 4 (1.58%) CMake
9 4 (1.58%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.19%) Storybook
11 2 (0.79%) JMeter
11 2 (0.79%) Mocha
11 2 (0.79%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.79%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.79%) Vite
General
1 82 (32.41%) Public Sector
2 76 (30.04%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 32 (12.65%) Finance
5 25 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (7.51%) Retail
7 14 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.74%) Marketing
9 8 (3.16%) Banking
9 8 (3.16%) Legal
10 7 (2.77%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.37%) Electronics
11 6 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.58%) Law
12 4 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Automotive
13 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 80 (31.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (25.30%) Developer
3 57 (22.53%) Senior
4 47 (18.58%) Lead
5 37 (14.62%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (9.49%) Senior DevOps
7 24 (9.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Software Developer
10 20 (7.91%) Lead DevOps
10 20 (7.91%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 19 (7.51%) Senior Developer
12 18 (7.11%) C# Developer
13 17 (6.72%) .NET Software Engineer
13 17 (6.72%) C# Software Developer
13 17 (6.72%) C# Software Engineer
14 16 (6.32%) Full Stack Developer
15 12 (4.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 11 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.32%) React
2 47 (18.58%) .NET
3 45 (17.79%) RESTful
4 34 (13.44%) .NET Core
5 33 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 25 (9.88%) Node.js
7 21 (8.30%) HTML
8 19 (7.51%) CSS
9 16 (6.32%) ARM Templates
10 15 (5.93%) Azure Blueprints
11 13 (5.14%) HTML5
11 13 (5.14%) Laravel
12 12 (4.74%) Django
13 11 (4.35%) Flask
14 10 (3.95%) JSON
14 10 (3.95%) REST
15 9 (3.56%) GraphQL
15 9 (3.56%) React Native
16 8 (3.16%) Kafka
17 7 (2.77%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.67%) Public Cloud
2 64 (25.30%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.30%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.93%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.77%) IoT
7 7 (2.77%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.98%) Replication
9 3 (1.19%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Tandem
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.79%) PropTech
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 49 (19.37%) Linux
2 16 (6.32%) Windows
3 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.58%) VMS
3 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.19%) Alpine Linux
4 3 (1.19%) Debian
4 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 144 (56.92%) DevOps
3 124 (49.01%) Containerisation
4 102 (40.32%) Software Engineering
5 101 (39.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 85 (33.60%) Deployment Automation
7 80 (31.62%) Agile
8 66 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 61 (24.11%) Mentoring
10 52 (20.55%) Full Stack Development
10 52 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 48 (18.97%) Microservices
12 44 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (11.46%) DevSecOps
14 25 (9.88%) Computer Science
14 25 (9.88%) Open Source
15 24 (9.49%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (9.49%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (9.49%) TDD
16 21 (8.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (33.20%) Python
2 43 (17.00%) C#
2 43 (17.00%) JavaScript
3 33 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 29 (11.46%) Bash
5 27 (10.67%) Go
5 27 (10.67%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.88%) SQL
7 15 (5.93%) Java
8 13 (5.14%) PHP
9 9 (3.56%) Bicep
10 6 (2.37%) R
10 6 (2.37%) Ruby
11 5 (1.98%) JSX
12 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.19%) Scala
14 2 (0.79%) C
14 2 (0.79%) C++
15 1 (0.40%) Ada
15 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.07%) Degree
3 21 (8.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.58%) ISEB
8 4 (1.58%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.51%) NCSC
2 11 (4.35%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.58%) SLA
5 3 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (55.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.79%) Firmware
2 2 (0.79%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (57.71%) Terraform
2 137 (54.15%) Kubernetes
3 40 (15.81%) Ansible
4 14 (5.53%) Grafana
4 14 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.37%) Argo
5 6 (2.37%) Kibana
6 4 (1.58%) Istio
6 4 (1.58%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.79%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.40%) Consul
8 1 (0.40%) Packer
8 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.51%) Google
3 9 (3.56%) Databricks
3 9 (3.56%) Splunk
4 6 (2.37%) SAP
5 5 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (1.98%) PagerDuty
5 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.19%) New Relic
6 3 (1.19%) VMware
7 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.79%) Twitter
8 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Thales