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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 457 565
Rank change year-on-year +106 +108 +77
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 391 233 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.32% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 294 175 182
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,375 £97,290
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,500 £115,625
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 22,925 17,597 29,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.18% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,335 10,796 23,910
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,404
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +75 305 £70,000 - 178
UK excluding London +58 199 £65,000 - 125
Work from Home +118 177 £65,508 -6.42% 113
London +74 138 £80,000 -11.11% 72
North of England +12 65 £60,000 -11.76% 39
South West -7 38 £75,000 +15.38% 18
South East -17 37 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Scotland +18 36 £90,000 +56.52% 2
Yorkshire -22 33 £60,000 +21.21% 13
North West +15 21 £65,000 -23.53% 21
Midlands -18 16 £65,000 - 17
North East +1 11 £47,500 -25.49% 5
West Midlands -12 8 £60,000 -7.69% 12
East Midlands -16 8 £75,000 +89.87% 5
East of England +11 4 £65,000 -38.10% 3
Northern Ireland -29 2 £62,500 -
Wales -15 1 £61,496 -5.39%

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 8 (2.05%) Confluence
2 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.02%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) Appian
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 391 (100.00%) GitHub
2 248 (63.43%) Azure
3 208 (53.20%) AWS
4 164 (41.94%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (26.09%) GCP
6 84 (21.48%) Serverless
7 63 (16.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (16.11%) Datadog
8 59 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (13.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (12.02%) Entra ID
11 44 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (11.00%) Amazon S3
13 41 (10.49%) Azure Monitor
14 37 (9.46%) Azure AKS
15 31 (7.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 29 (7.42%) SaaS
17 21 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (5.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.00%) Firewall
2 20 (5.12%) VPN
3 19 (4.86%) HTTP
4 18 (4.60%) DNS
5 16 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.32%) Network Security
7 12 (3.07%) WAN
8 10 (2.56%) DSL
9 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.77%) RTP
10 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.00%) NoSQL
2 36 (9.21%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.60%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.56%) Flink
8 8 (2.05%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.28%) Metadata
11 5 (1.28%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 163 (41.69%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.95%) Git
3 60 (15.35%) GitLab
4 14 (3.58%) JIRA
5 13 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 12 (3.07%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.30%) Subversion
8 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.28%) NUnit
10 3 (0.77%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.77%) XCTest
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 121 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.92%) Finance
3 40 (10.23%) Telecoms
4 24 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.88%) Banking
6 21 (5.37%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.12%) Law
8 18 (4.60%) Retail
9 14 (3.58%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.07%) Front Office
11 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.53%) Back Office
12 6 (1.53%) Electronics
12 6 (1.53%) Marketing
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (23.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 88 (22.51%) Senior
3 71 (18.16%) Developer
4 53 (13.55%) Lead
5 45 (11.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.18%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.42%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.12%) Applications Engineer
12 19 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (4.35%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.58%) Architect
16 14 (3.58%) AWS Developer
16 14 (3.58%) Azure Developer
16 14 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.90%) React
2 68 (17.39%) .NET
3 54 (13.81%) RESTful
4 43 (11.00%) Node.js
5 38 (9.72%) OAuth
6 28 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (6.91%) AWS CDK
8 24 (6.14%) .NET Core
8 24 (6.14%) ADO
8 24 (6.14%) YAML
9 23 (5.88%) CSS
9 23 (5.88%) HTML
10 21 (5.37%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.37%) OAuth2
11 19 (4.86%) JSON
11 19 (4.86%) REST
12 17 (4.35%) .NET Framework
12 17 (4.35%) Kafka
12 17 (4.35%) SAML
13 16 (4.09%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.12%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
7 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.28%) PKI
8 4 (1.02%) Blog
9 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.55%) Linux
2 18 (4.60%) VMS
3 15 (3.84%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) SUSE
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 294 (75.19%) DevOps
3 213 (54.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (40.66%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.95%) Agile
6 114 (29.16%) Observability
7 108 (27.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.44%) Test Automation
10 71 (18.16%) Incident Response
11 64 (16.37%) Cloud Security
12 59 (15.09%) AI
13 58 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
14 57 (14.58%) DevSecOps
14 57 (14.58%) RBAC
15 56 (14.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 54 (13.81%) Analytics
17 53 (13.55%) Microservices
18 52 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 200 (51.15%) Python
2 119 (30.43%) Bash
3 79 (20.20%) SQL
4 75 (19.18%) PowerShell
5 67 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 64 (16.37%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.79%) Go
8 49 (12.53%) Bicep
9 32 (8.18%) Java
10 27 (6.91%) C#
11 12 (3.07%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (3.07%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.53%) C++
14 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.77%) C
15 3 (0.77%) Ruby
15 3 (0.77%) Swift
16 2 (0.51%) PHP
16 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (13.81%) Degree
2 38 (9.72%) AWS Certification
2 38 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.37%) CISSP
6 20 (5.12%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.12%) SANS
7 19 (4.86%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.58%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (2.81%) OSCP
10 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.72%) QA
2 37 (9.46%) GDPR
3 33 (8.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.14%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.12%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.05%) GRC
8 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.02%) SLA
12 3 (0.77%) NIST
13 2 (0.51%) ECSS
14 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (42.97%) Docker
2 43 (11.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 236 (60.36%) Terraform
2 184 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 87 (22.25%) Grafana
4 82 (20.97%) Prometheus
5 75 (19.18%) Ansible
6 26 (6.65%) Argo
7 10 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.05%) Cilium
9 6 (1.53%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.02%) logstash
11 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.63%) Google
3 17 (4.35%) VMware
4 14 (3.58%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.07%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.07%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.53%) SAP
9 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.02%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.77%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel