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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 467 588
Rank change year-on-year +56 +121 -23
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 421 218 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.36% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 306 171 207
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -8.37%

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 27,520 16,006 28,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.17% 32.38% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,969 11,160 21,276
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +61 363 £65,500 -12.67% 210
UK excluding London +71 239 £62,500 -3.10% 113
London +9 140 £80,000 - 115
Work from Home +22 131 £65,000 -10.34% 109
North of England +47 100 £62,500 -8.76% 55
South East +21 56 £62,500 -20.63% 30
Yorkshire +2 45 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +24 38 £65,500 -12.67% 33
Midlands -17 29 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Wales -41 22 £60,000 +2.13% 2
East Midlands -9 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -52 21 £65,000 +6.12% 3
North East -38 17 £47,500 -17.39% 4
West Midlands -30 8 £63,750 -5.56% 10
East of England -12 6 £77,575 +19.35% 3
Scotland +7 5 £85,000 +31.78% 8

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 10 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.14%) Apache
3 8 (1.90%) Confluence
4 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.48%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.48%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 421 (100.00%) GitHub
2 265 (62.95%) AWS
3 242 (57.48%) Azure
4 135 (32.07%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.38%) GCP
6 86 (20.43%) Serverless
7 70 (16.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (15.68%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.59%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.16%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.69%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (10.69%) Datadog
12 34 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
15 22 (5.23%) Firebase
16 21 (4.99%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (4.75%) Power Platform
18 19 (4.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.03%) Firewall
2 18 (4.28%) DNS
2 18 (4.28%) VPN
3 17 (4.04%) Network Security
4 13 (3.09%) DMARC
4 13 (3.09%) HTTP
5 10 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.66%) DSL
7 5 (1.19%) SAN
8 4 (0.95%) SSH
8 4 (0.95%) SSL
9 3 (0.71%) WAN
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
11 1 (0.24%) LTE
11 1 (0.24%) RTP
11 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.24%) VoIP
11 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.08%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (6.41%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.80%) Delta Lake
8 15 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.56%) MySQL
9 12 (2.85%) Power BI
10 10 (2.38%) Redis
11 7 (1.66%) Tableau
12 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.43%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.43%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.95%) Big Data
13 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 159 (37.77%) Jenkins
2 86 (20.43%) Git
3 69 (16.39%) GitLab
4 29 (6.89%) JIRA
5 20 (4.75%) Crashlytics
6 19 (4.51%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.56%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.56%) XCTest
8 13 (3.09%) Postman
9 12 (2.85%) Selenium
10 8 (1.90%) fastlane
10 8 (1.90%) Gradle
10 8 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.43%) Gatling
12 6 (1.43%) JUnit
12 6 (1.43%) Storybook
12 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
General
1 126 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.11%) Finance
3 44 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.99%) Retail
7 17 (4.04%) Banking
8 12 (2.85%) Law
9 10 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.71%) Marketing
14 2 (0.48%) Games
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (25.65%) Senior
2 97 (23.04%) Developer
3 70 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (14.25%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (13.30%) Lead
6 42 (9.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.18%) Architect
10 25 (5.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.94%) Security Engineer
11 22 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.99%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (4.99%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.51%) Software Engineer
14 18 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.80%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (19.95%) Node.js
2 67 (15.91%) React
3 50 (11.88%) .NET
4 48 (11.40%) CSS
5 43 (10.21%) REST
5 43 (10.21%) Spring Boot
6 42 (9.98%) RESTful
7 36 (8.55%) OAuth
8 35 (8.31%) Spring
9 32 (7.60%) HTML
10 27 (6.41%) AngularJS
11 26 (6.18%) OAuth2
11 26 (6.18%) YAML
12 25 (5.94%) Playwright
13 19 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.51%) Jest
13 19 (4.51%) Web Services
14 18 (4.28%) Ruby on Rails
14 18 (4.28%) Vue
15 17 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 112 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.36%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.80%) PKI
7 14 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.09%) Mainframe
8 13 (3.09%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.38%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.90%) Blog
12 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.66%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.43%) CMDB
14 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.39%) Linux
2 21 (4.99%) Apple iOS
2 21 (4.99%) Windows
3 12 (2.85%) Android
4 9 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Debian
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) AIX
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (93.59%) CI/CD
2 268 (63.66%) DevOps
3 220 (52.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (35.39%) Containerisation
5 124 (29.45%) Agile
6 96 (22.80%) Observability
6 96 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (21.14%) Platform Engineering
8 89 (21.14%) Test Automation
9 88 (20.90%) AI
10 83 (19.71%) Software Engineering
11 80 (19.00%) Mentoring
12 68 (16.15%) Microservices
13 67 (15.91%) Analytics
13 67 (15.91%) Cloud Security
14 62 (14.73%) Full-Stack Development
15 61 (14.49%) Clean Code
16 55 (13.06%) DevSecOps
17 52 (12.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 181 (42.99%) Python
2 83 (19.71%) Bash
3 82 (19.48%) TypeScript
4 78 (18.53%) Java
5 71 (16.86%) PowerShell
6 70 (16.63%) JavaScript
7 60 (14.25%) SQL
8 40 (9.50%) Go
9 39 (9.26%) Kotlin
10 32 (7.60%) C#
11 25 (5.94%) Bicep
12 20 (4.75%) Ruby
13 17 (4.04%) Swift
14 15 (3.56%) Groovy
15 13 (3.09%) Scala
16 12 (2.85%) PHP
17 8 (1.90%) COBOL
17 8 (1.90%) Rust
18 6 (1.43%) Dart
19 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.40%) Degree
3 39 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.55%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.23%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.85%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.38%) OSCP
10 9 (2.14%) CISSP
11 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.95%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.03%) QA
2 32 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.75%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.75%) WCAG
5 13 (3.09%) GRC
6 11 (2.61%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.66%) GDPR
7 7 (1.66%) NCSC
8 6 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.95%) NIST
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 147 (34.92%) Docker
2 16 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 224 (53.21%) Terraform
2 160 (38.00%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.73%) Grafana
4 59 (14.01%) Ansible
5 51 (12.11%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.51%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.33%) Argo
8 13 (3.09%) Cilium
9 10 (2.38%) Packer
10 5 (1.19%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) Kibana
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 50 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.23%) VMware
3 19 (4.51%) Databricks
4 18 (4.28%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.80%) Google
6 14 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.33%) Braze
7 13 (3.09%) New Relic
7 13 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.09%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.85%) OneLogin
9 7 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.43%) Cisco
10 6 (1.43%) EMC
10 6 (1.43%) F5
10 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.95%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.71%) Tenable