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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 461 554
Rank change year-on-year +131 +93 +86
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 388 238 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.31% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 291 176 189
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,813 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -2.91%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £97,290
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £116,250
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 22,709 18,202 28,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.22% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,291 10,989 23,763
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 20 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 20 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 +84 300 £72,500 +3.57% 166
UK excluding London +50 195 £65,000 - 122
Work from Home +118 180 £65,500 -6.43% 98
London +89 137 £80,000 -11.11% 65
North of England +21 63 £60,000 -11.76% 37
South West -5 38 £75,000 +15.38% 16
Scotland +25 37 £90,000 +56.52% 3
South East -23 35 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire -22 33 £60,000 +21.21% 13
North West +12 21 £65,000 -23.53% 20
Midlands -18 15 £65,000 - 17
North East -3 9 £47,500 -25.49% 4
West Midlands -10 8 £60,000 -7.69% 12
East Midlands -9 7 £75,000 +89.87% 5
East of England +16 4 £65,000 -38.10% 3
Northern Ireland -24 2 £62,500 - 1
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 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.06%) Confluence
2 4 (1.03%) Apache
2 4 (1.03%) Appian
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 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
1 388 (100.00%) GitHub
2 247 (63.66%) Azure
3 205 (52.84%) AWS
4 162 (41.75%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (25.77%) GCP
6 84 (21.65%) Serverless
7 64 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (15.98%) Datadog
9 58 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (13.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (12.11%) Entra ID
12 46 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (11.08%) Amazon S3
14 42 (10.82%) Azure Monitor
15 38 (9.79%) Azure AKS
16 30 (7.73%) AWS Step Functions
16 30 (7.73%) SaaS
17 21 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (5.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.57%) Firewall
2 20 (5.15%) VPN
3 17 (4.38%) HTTP
4 16 (4.12%) DNS
5 14 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.35%) Network Security
7 12 (3.09%) WAN
8 9 (2.32%) DSL
9 4 (1.03%) 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 (11.08%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.54%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.64%) BigQuery
4 18 (4.64%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.58%) Flink
7 9 (2.32%) MySQL
8 7 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.80%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.29%) Metadata
11 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.03%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.52%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 160 (41.24%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.85%) Git
3 57 (14.69%) GitLab
4 14 (3.61%) JIRA
5 13 (3.35%) TeamCity
6 12 (3.09%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.32%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.32%) Subversion
8 6 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.29%) NUnit
10 3 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.52%) JUnit
11 2 (0.52%) MSTest
11 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 121 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 118 (30.41%) Finance
3 38 (9.79%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.93%) Banking
5 21 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.64%) Law
6 18 (4.64%) Retail
7 14 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.09%) Front Office
9 11 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.55%) Back Office
10 6 (1.55%) Electronics
10 6 (1.55%) Marketing
11 5 (1.29%) Advertising
12 4 (1.03%) Billing
12 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (22.94%) DevOps Engineer
1 89 (22.94%) Senior
2 70 (18.04%) Developer
3 53 (13.66%) Lead
4 46 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
6 32 (8.25%) .NET Developer
7 29 (7.47%) Security Engineer
8 27 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.15%) Applications Engineer
10 20 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.12%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (3.87%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.61%) AWS Developer
15 14 (3.61%) GCP Engineer
16 13 (3.35%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.04%) .NET
2 69 (17.78%) React
3 56 (14.43%) RESTful
4 43 (11.08%) Node.js
5 36 (9.28%) OAuth
6 26 (6.70%) AWS CDK
6 26 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.44%) .NET Core
7 25 (6.44%) ADO
8 24 (6.19%) YAML
9 23 (5.93%) CSS
9 23 (5.93%) HTML
10 21 (5.41%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.41%) OAuth2
11 20 (5.15%) JSON
11 20 (5.15%) REST
12 17 (4.38%) .NET Framework
12 17 (4.38%) Kafka
13 16 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (4.12%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.29%) PKI
8 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.03%) Blog
8 4 (1.03%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.66%) Linux
2 18 (4.64%) VMS
3 16 (4.12%) Windows
4 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.29%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) SUSE
7 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.52%) Debian
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (91.49%) CI/CD
2 294 (75.77%) DevOps
3 211 (54.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (40.21%) Containerisation
5 120 (30.93%) Agile
6 115 (29.64%) Observability
7 108 (27.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (19.85%) Test Automation
10 71 (18.30%) Incident Response
11 65 (16.75%) Cloud Security
12 60 (15.46%) AI
13 59 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
14 58 (14.95%) RBAC
15 56 (14.43%) Deployment Automation
15 56 (14.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 55 (14.18%) DevSecOps
17 54 (13.92%) Analytics
17 54 (13.92%) Microservices
18 52 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.80%) Python
2 117 (30.15%) Bash
3 79 (20.36%) SQL
4 75 (19.33%) PowerShell
5 65 (16.75%) JavaScript
5 65 (16.75%) TypeScript
6 50 (12.89%) Bicep
7 48 (12.37%) Go
8 32 (8.25%) Java
9 28 (7.22%) C#
10 12 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (2.84%) Rust
12 6 (1.55%) C++
12 6 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.77%) C
14 3 (0.77%) PHP
14 3 (0.77%) Ruby
15 2 (0.52%) Swift
15 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (13.92%) Degree
2 39 (10.05%) AWS Certification
2 39 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (9.28%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.41%) CISSP
6 20 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.15%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.15%) SANS
7 16 (4.12%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (2.58%) OSCP
10 7 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.05%) QA
2 38 (9.79%) GDPR
3 35 (9.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.19%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.15%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.06%) GRC
8 7 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.03%) SLA
12 3 (0.77%) NIST
13 2 (0.52%) ECSS
14 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 167 (43.04%) Docker
2 44 (11.34%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 234 (60.31%) Terraform
2 185 (47.68%) Kubernetes
3 85 (21.91%) Grafana
4 79 (20.36%) Prometheus
5 74 (19.07%) Ansible
6 27 (6.96%) Argo
7 10 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.06%) Cilium
9 6 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.03%) logstash
11 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) 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 72 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.93%) Google
3 17 (4.38%) VMware
4 14 (3.61%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.09%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.09%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.06%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.80%) Splunk
8 6 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 5 (1.29%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.03%) Databricks
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel
12 2 (0.52%) Pega
12 2 (0.52%) Red Hat