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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 456 547
Rank change year-on-year +127 +91 +133
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 369 247 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.29% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 277 183 185
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,094 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +6.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £117,394
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +1.62%

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 21,172 19,107 26,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 36.45% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,528 11,173 22,028
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.74% -6.31%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +84 278 £72,500 +6.62% 333
Work from Home +115 177 £72,500 +11.54% 162
UK excluding London +53 176 £65,000 - 304
London +108 133 £77,500 -12.68% 76
North of England +16 51 £64,000 -5.88% 67
South West +15 37 £72,500 +11.54% 50
Scotland +28 36 £90,000 +56.52% 9
South East -10 30 £75,000 +15.38% 93
Yorkshire -28 28 £60,000 +21.21% 34
North West +26 17 £65,000 -23.53% 27
Midlands -9 12 £62,500 -3.85% 33
West Midlands +8 9 £60,000 -7.69% 15
East of England +27 6 £65,000 -29.73% 36
North East +1 6 £55,000 -13.73% 6
East Midlands -7 3 £70,000 +77.22% 17
Wales -8 2 £63,248 -2.70% 14
Northern Ireland -12 2 £62,500 - 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 9 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.08%) Apache
2 4 (1.08%) Appian
3 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.81%) IIS
4 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.81%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 369 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (64.77%) Azure
3 186 (50.41%) AWS
4 162 (43.90%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (24.93%) GCP
6 81 (21.95%) Serverless
7 62 (16.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (15.99%) Datadog
9 54 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (14.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (12.47%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (12.20%) Entra ID
13 43 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (10.84%) Amazon S3
15 37 (10.03%) Azure AKS
16 35 (9.49%) SaaS
17 29 (7.86%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (5.42%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (5.42%) Cloud Run
18 20 (5.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.59%) Firewall
2 18 (4.88%) VPN
3 12 (3.25%) DNS
4 11 (2.98%) WAN
5 10 (2.71%) HTTP
5 10 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.17%) Network Security
7 6 (1.63%) DSL
8 4 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) RTP
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VoIP
9 2 (0.54%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.92%) NoSQL
1 44 (11.92%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.78%) BigQuery
3 23 (6.23%) DynamoDB
4 22 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.71%) Flink
7 9 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.90%) MySQL
9 7 (1.90%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.63%) Power BI
10 6 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.63%) Tableau
11 5 (1.36%) Looker
11 5 (1.36%) Metadata
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 144 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 86 (23.31%) Git
3 46 (12.47%) GitLab
4 15 (4.07%) JIRA
5 9 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.44%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.17%) Subversion
7 6 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.36%) NUnit
9 4 (1.08%) JMeter
9 4 (1.08%) Selenium
10 3 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.81%) JUnit
10 3 (0.81%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.54%) git-flow
11 2 (0.54%) Postman
11 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (33.60%) Finance
2 119 (32.25%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.67%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.42%) Banking
4 20 (5.42%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.07%) Retail
6 14 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.25%) Front Office
7 12 (3.25%) Law
8 11 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.71%) Marketing
10 7 (1.90%) Back Office
11 6 (1.63%) Electronics
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 4 (1.08%) Billing
12 4 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (23.04%) Senior
2 80 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (18.70%) Developer
4 48 (13.01%) Lead
5 38 (10.30%) Platform Engineer
6 37 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.94%) .NET Developer
8 25 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.69%) Security Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) Azure Developer
13 17 (4.61%) GCP Engineer
14 16 (4.34%) Applications Engineer
14 16 (4.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.07%) GCP DevOps
15 15 (4.07%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.79%) Development Engineer
16 14 (3.79%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.05%) .NET
2 70 (18.97%) React
3 59 (15.99%) RESTful
4 41 (11.11%) Node.js
5 32 (8.67%) OAuth
6 27 (7.32%) AWS CDK
7 26 (7.05%) YAML
8 25 (6.78%) ADO
9 24 (6.50%) .NET Core
10 22 (5.96%) ASP.NET
11 21 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (5.42%) OAuth2
13 19 (5.15%) HTML
13 19 (5.15%) REST
14 18 (4.88%) .NET Framework
14 18 (4.88%) CSS
14 18 (4.88%) JSON
14 18 (4.88%) Razor View Engine
15 17 (4.61%) Blazor
15 17 (4.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.71%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.08%) Blog
9 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.08%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.81%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.54%) Genomics
11 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.01%) Linux
2 19 (5.15%) Windows
3 18 (4.88%) VMS
4 5 (1.36%) Unix
5 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.81%) SUSE
6 3 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (91.06%) CI/CD
2 287 (77.78%) DevOps
3 195 (52.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (39.30%) Containerisation
5 113 (30.62%) Agile
6 110 (29.81%) Observability
7 104 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (20.60%) Test Automation
10 63 (17.07%) Incident Response
11 59 (15.99%) AI
12 58 (15.72%) Platform Engineering
12 58 (15.72%) RBAC
13 57 (15.45%) Analytics
14 55 (14.91%) Cloud Security
15 53 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
15 53 (14.36%) Microservices
16 52 (14.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 49 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 48 (13.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (52.03%) Python
2 106 (28.73%) Bash
3 89 (24.12%) SQL
4 74 (20.05%) PowerShell
5 65 (17.62%) TypeScript
6 59 (15.99%) JavaScript
7 55 (14.91%) Bicep
8 37 (10.03%) Go
9 34 (9.21%) Java
10 32 (8.67%) C#
11 11 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.90%) Rust
13 5 (1.36%) C++
13 5 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.08%) Ruby
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) VB
16 1 (0.27%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 53 (14.36%) Degree
2 43 (11.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (10.03%) AWS Certification
3 37 (10.03%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 16 (4.34%) CISSP
7 16 (4.34%) CREST Certified
7 16 (4.34%) SANS
8 11 (2.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.63%) OSCP
10 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.54%) CCNA
13 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.65%) QA
2 39 (10.57%) GDPR
3 29 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.61%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.61%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.08%) GRC
8 4 (1.08%) SLA
9 2 (0.54%) ECSS
9 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 170 (46.07%) Docker
2 45 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.81%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 220 (59.62%) Terraform
2 180 (48.78%) Kubernetes
3 77 (20.87%) Grafana
4 74 (20.05%) Prometheus
5 59 (15.99%) Ansible
6 25 (6.78%) Argo
7 9 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.08%) Cilium
8 4 (1.08%) logstash
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.81%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.81%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.27%) Nagios
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.86%) Google
3 14 (3.79%) Ab Initio
3 14 (3.79%) VMware
4 11 (2.98%) OpenAI
4 11 (2.98%) Palo Alto
4 11 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.98%) Zscaler
5 8 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.90%) Splunk
7 6 (1.63%) SAP
8 5 (1.36%) Databricks
8 5 (1.36%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.08%) Talend
9 4 (1.08%) Zoho
10 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.54%) Pega