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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 465 640
Rank change year-on-year +76 +175 -28
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 399 208 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.39% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 294 156 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,063 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -5.51%

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 25,087 14,945 35,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.53% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,217 10,308 27,353
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +51 352 £70,000 -6.67% 170
UK excluding London +77 220 £65,000 -4.41% 110
London +4 144 £80,000 - 92
Work from Home +30 124 £65,000 -10.34% 94
North of England +40 98 £62,500 -8.76% 29
Yorkshire -1 45 £63,750 -6.25% 8
South East +13 44 £62,500 -10.71% 37
North West +28 35 £65,500 -12.67% 15
South West -43 28 £75,000 +15.38% 13
Midlands -3 24 £67,500 - 10
East Midlands -3 21 £75,000 +33.33% 7
North East -31 18 £47,250 -17.83% 7
Wales -42 10 £63,250 +5.42% 3
Scotland +4 9 £85,000 +31.78% 12
East of England -16 5 £80,150 +16.58% 5
West Midlands -31 3 £65,000 -10.34% 3
Northern Ireland - 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%) Apache
1 11 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.50%) nginx
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.50%) Magento
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 399 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (59.90%) AWS
3 227 (56.89%) Azure
4 138 (34.59%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (22.06%) GCP
5 88 (22.06%) Serverless
6 66 (16.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (16.29%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (12.78%) Datadog
9 50 (12.53%) Amazon S3
10 43 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (8.27%) AWS Step Functions
13 32 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (5.51%) Azure AKS
16 22 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.51%) Entra ID
17 21 (5.26%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.78%) Firewall
2 21 (5.26%) VPN
3 20 (5.01%) HTTP
4 19 (4.76%) DNS
5 17 (4.26%) Network Security
6 15 (3.76%) TCP/IP
7 12 (3.01%) DSL
8 10 (2.51%) DMARC
9 9 (2.26%) WAN
10 4 (1.00%) SSL
11 3 (0.75%) RTP
11 3 (0.75%) SAN
11 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.75%) VoIP
11 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.50%) BGP
13 1 (0.25%) LTE
13 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 22 (5.51%) DynamoDB
3 22 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (4.01%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.76%) MySQL
7 13 (3.26%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.26%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.26%) Power BI
9 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.25%) Big Data
10 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.25%) Tableau
11 4 (1.00%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.00%) Redis
12 3 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 149 (37.34%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.05%) Git
3 59 (14.79%) GitLab
4 22 (5.51%) JIRA
5 20 (5.01%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.76%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.76%) XCTest
7 10 (2.51%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.01%) fastlane
8 8 (2.01%) Gradle
8 8 (2.01%) Postman
9 7 (1.75%) Storybook
9 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.50%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.50%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.50%) Selenium
11 5 (1.25%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.00%) Claude Code
12 4 (1.00%) Gatling
General
1 121 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.04%) Finance
3 25 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.27%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.27%) Retail
4 20 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (4.26%) Banking
6 16 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.76%) Law
8 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 4 (1.00%) Automotive
12 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Billing
13 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (25.31%) Senior
2 91 (22.81%) Developer
3 69 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 48 (12.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (10.28%) Lead
7 34 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.27%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.02%) Senior Developer
10 26 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (6.27%) Architect
12 22 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (5.01%) Data Engineer
14 19 (4.76%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.51%) .NET Developer
15 18 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 17 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (4.01%) Cloud Automation Engineer
17 16 (4.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 15 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.54%) Node.js
2 57 (14.29%) React
3 45 (11.28%) CSS
4 43 (10.78%) .NET
5 38 (9.52%) OAuth
6 32 (8.02%) REST
6 32 (8.02%) RESTful
7 31 (7.77%) HTML
8 25 (6.27%) YAML
9 23 (5.76%) Spring Boot
10 22 (5.51%) AngularJS
11 21 (5.26%) AWS CDK
11 21 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (5.26%) OAuth2
12 19 (4.76%) Spring
13 15 (3.76%) .NET Core
13 15 (3.76%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.76%) SAML
13 15 (3.76%) UIKit
14 14 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 102 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.52%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.51%) PKI
6 14 (3.51%) Private Cloud
7 13 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.50%) CMDB
13 4 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.54%) Linux
2 20 (5.01%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.26%) Windows
4 11 (2.76%) Android
5 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.01%) VMS
7 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (92.98%) CI/CD
2 255 (63.91%) DevOps
3 220 (55.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (34.84%) Containerisation
5 108 (27.07%) Agile
6 97 (24.31%) Observability
7 96 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (18.55%) Test Automation
10 73 (18.30%) Analytics
11 72 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
12 70 (17.54%) Cloud Security
13 68 (17.04%) Mentoring
14 66 (16.54%) AI
15 65 (16.29%) Software Engineering
16 60 (15.04%) DevSecOps
17 55 (13.78%) Incident Response
18 54 (13.53%) Clean Code
19 51 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
20 49 (12.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 177 (44.36%) Python
2 91 (22.81%) Bash
3 74 (18.55%) TypeScript
4 73 (18.30%) SQL
5 69 (17.29%) PowerShell
6 54 (13.53%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.53%) Java
8 47 (11.78%) Go
9 39 (9.77%) Kotlin
10 31 (7.77%) C#
11 22 (5.51%) Bicep
12 16 (4.01%) Swift
13 14 (3.51%) Rust
14 13 (3.26%) Groovy
15 10 (2.51%) Scala
16 8 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.75%) Dart
17 7 (1.75%) Ruby
18 6 (1.50%) PHP
19 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (13.53%) Degree
2 42 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.52%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.51%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.76%) OSCP
8 12 (3.01%) CISSP
9 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.01%) SANS
10 7 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.75%) CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (7.77%) QA
3 26 (6.52%) SOC 2
4 25 (6.27%) Accessibility
5 15 (3.76%) GDPR
6 13 (3.26%) GRC
7 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.76%) WCAG
8 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 3 (0.75%) NCSC
12 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.50%) IFRS
12 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.50%) SLA
12 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 136 (34.09%) Docker
2 25 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 222 (55.64%) Terraform
2 148 (37.09%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.79%) Ansible
4 65 (16.29%) Grafana
5 55 (13.78%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.01%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.51%) Argo
8 13 (3.26%) Cilium
9 9 (2.26%) Packer
10 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
13 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Istio
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) linkerd
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.26%) VMware
3 18 (4.51%) Google
4 17 (4.26%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.51%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.51%) Braze
6 13 (3.26%) Databricks
6 13 (3.26%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.51%) SendGrid
9 7 (1.75%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco
10 6 (1.50%) EMC
10 6 (1.50%) F5
10 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.25%) New Relic
11 5 (1.25%) OneLogin
11 5 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Tenable