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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 459 636
Rank change year-on-year +78 +177 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 397 198 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.29% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 284 156 196
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £88,125 £87,813 £79,063
90th Percentile £100,875 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -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 27,337 15,307 34,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 35.18% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,807 10,859 26,762
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +86 337 £71,450 -4.73% 164
UK excluding London +51 206 £65,000 -4.41% 95
London +29 152 £80,000 -3.03% 80
Work from Home +69 148 £65,000 -10.34% 89
North of England -1 86 £60,000 -11.76% 39
Yorkshire -14 46 £61,250 -9.93% 18
South East -1 36 £62,500 -10.71% 28
South West -40 30 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North West -5 25 £65,000 -13.33% 16
Scotland +7 23 £85,000 +36.00% 4
Midlands -37 19 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East Midlands -9 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East -35 15 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -4 5 £75,000 -1.64% 2
Wales -31 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -48 3 £65,000 -11.86% 3
Northern Ireland -32 2 £62,500 - 1

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 9 (2.27%) Apache
2 8 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.02%) Confluence
3 4 (1.01%) Appian
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 397 (100.00%) GitHub
2 238 (59.95%) Azure
3 229 (57.68%) AWS
4 152 (38.29%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (24.69%) Serverless
6 92 (23.17%) GCP
7 68 (17.13%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (16.88%) Datadog
9 62 (15.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.85%) Amazon S3
11 48 (12.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (8.82%) Entra ID
14 33 (8.31%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (7.30%) Azure AKS
17 28 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (4.28%) SaaS
19 17 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.10%) Firewall
2 24 (6.05%) VPN
3 23 (5.79%) DNS
4 21 (5.29%) HTTP
5 18 (4.53%) TCP/IP
6 15 (3.78%) Network Security
7 13 (3.27%) DSL
7 13 (3.27%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) SSL
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) DMARC
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 34 (8.56%) NoSQL
3 23 (5.79%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.77%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.27%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.27%) MySQL
9 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.76%) Flink
9 7 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.51%) Metadata
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.26%) Power BI
12 4 (1.01%) Big Data
12 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (39.04%) Jenkins
2 74 (18.64%) Git
3 60 (15.11%) GitLab
4 21 (5.29%) JIRA
5 15 (3.78%) Crashlytics
6 13 (3.27%) XCTest
7 10 (2.52%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.02%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.51%) Storybook
10 6 (1.51%) Subversion
11 4 (1.01%) fastlane
12 3 (0.76%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.76%) Gatling
12 3 (0.76%) Gradle
12 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.66%) Finance
3 31 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.56%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.79%) Law
7 18 (4.53%) Retail
8 16 (4.03%) Banking
9 10 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.76%) Front Office
12 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.26%) Advertising
13 5 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.76%) Billing
14 3 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Marketing
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 99 (24.94%) Senior
2 87 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.40%) Developer
4 50 (12.59%) Platform Engineer
5 42 (10.58%) Lead
6 38 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.79%) Architect
9 23 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.29%) Security Engineer
11 20 (5.04%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.53%) AWS Developer
13 18 (4.53%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.78%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.12%) React
2 51 (12.85%) Node.js
3 49 (12.34%) .NET
4 37 (9.32%) OAuth
5 35 (8.82%) CSS
6 34 (8.56%) RESTful
7 27 (6.80%) AWS CDK
7 27 (6.80%) HTML
8 23 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (5.54%) .NET Core
9 22 (5.54%) REST
10 21 (5.29%) SAML
11 19 (4.79%) ADO
12 17 (4.28%) AngularJS
13 16 (4.03%) ASP.NET
14 15 (3.78%) OAuth2
14 15 (3.78%) YAML
15 14 (3.53%) .NET Framework
15 14 (3.53%) Blazor
16 13 (3.27%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.30%) Mobile App
4 23 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.53%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.27%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.02%) PKI
12 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.51%) CMDB
13 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.26%) Hackathon
14 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
16 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.36%) Linux
2 17 (4.28%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.78%) Windows
4 14 (3.53%) VMS
5 9 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.76%) Android
7 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.76%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (93.70%) CI/CD
2 280 (70.53%) DevOps
3 221 (55.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (35.01%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (28.72%) Agile
6 114 (28.72%) Observability
7 105 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (17.63%) Analytics
8 70 (17.63%) Test Automation
9 69 (17.38%) DevSecOps
9 69 (17.38%) Platform Engineering
10 68 (17.13%) Cloud Security
11 64 (16.12%) Deployment Automation
12 63 (15.87%) Incident Response
13 60 (15.11%) AI
14 56 (14.11%) Mentoring
15 55 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (13.35%) Continuous Integration
17 50 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 195 (49.12%) Python
2 102 (25.69%) Bash
3 80 (20.15%) SQL
4 76 (19.14%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.38%) PowerShell
6 57 (14.36%) JavaScript
7 53 (13.35%) Go
8 34 (8.56%) Java
9 28 (7.05%) Kotlin
10 23 (5.79%) Bicep
11 20 (5.04%) C#
12 15 (3.78%) Rust
13 13 (3.27%) Swift
14 12 (3.02%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.02%) Groovy
16 7 (1.76%) Scala
17 6 (1.51%) Dart
18 5 (1.26%) C++
18 5 (1.26%) PHP
19 4 (1.01%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (14.11%) Degree
2 33 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.81%) AWS Certification
3 31 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.03%) OSCP
7 15 (3.78%) CISSP
8 12 (3.02%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.02%) SANS
9 10 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.02%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.76%) CISM
13 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.76%) GCIA
13 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.05%) QA
3 27 (6.80%) GDPR
4 25 (6.30%) SOC 2
5 17 (4.28%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.76%) GRC
7 7 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.51%) SLA
9 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.01%) NIST
10 4 (1.01%) WCAG
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (37.03%) Docker
2 38 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 243 (61.21%) Terraform
2 160 (40.30%) Kubernetes
3 83 (20.91%) Ansible
4 79 (19.90%) Grafana
5 70 (17.63%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.04%) Argo
7 11 (2.77%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.27%) Packer
9 8 (2.02%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.76%) Cilium
10 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.01%) logstash
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
12 3 (0.76%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.29%) VMware
3 18 (4.53%) Palo Alto
4 16 (4.03%) Google
5 13 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.02%) Amplitude
6 12 (3.02%) Braze
6 12 (3.02%) Databricks
6 12 (3.02%) Zscaler
7 11 (2.77%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.76%) Ab Initio
10 6 (1.51%) Cisco
10 6 (1.51%) EMC
10 6 (1.51%) F5
10 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.26%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.01%) SAP
13 3 (0.76%) Intel