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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 465 569
Rank change year-on-year +60 +104 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 430 220 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.38% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 309 172 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +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 27,731 15,939 28,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 32.25% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18,198 11,095 20,714
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,079 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,550 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.69% -1.81% -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 31 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 31 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 +57 370 £65,250 -13.00% 235
UK excluding London +74 248 £65,000 +0.78% 121
London -14 140 £78,750 -1.56% 135
Work from Home +25 131 £65,000 -10.34% 122
North of England +54 105 £65,000 -5.11% 54
South East +7 57 £62,500 +13.64% 30
Yorkshire +4 47 £65,000 -5.11% 16
North West +34 40 £65,500 -12.67% 32
Midlands -26 31 £65,000 -1.89% 14
Wales -44 22 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East Midlands -5 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -54 21 £65,000 +4.00% 9
North East -35 18 £47,500 -17.39% 6
West Midlands -24 10 £65,000 -3.70% 12
Scotland +5 6 £85,000 +17.65% 6
East of England -19 6 £77,575 +19.35% 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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.09%) Apache
2 9 (2.09%) Confluence
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) CICS
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 430 (100.00%) GitHub
2 276 (64.19%) AWS
3 242 (56.28%) Azure
4 133 (30.93%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (20.70%) GCP
6 87 (20.23%) Serverless
7 75 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (15.81%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.56%) Amazon S3
10 52 (12.09%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
11 47 (10.93%) Datadog
12 36 (8.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (5.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 22 (5.12%) Firebase
15 21 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 21 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
16 19 (4.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.67%) Firewall
2 17 (3.95%) DNS
2 17 (3.95%) Network Security
3 16 (3.72%) VPN
4 13 (3.02%) DMARC
5 12 (2.79%) HTTP
6 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.63%) DSL
8 5 (1.16%) SAN
9 4 (0.93%) SSH
9 4 (0.93%) SSL
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) VLAN
10 2 (0.47%) WAN
11 1 (0.23%) LTE
11 1 (0.23%) RTP
11 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.23%) VoIP
11 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.14%) SQL Server
3 33 (7.67%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (6.98%) DynamoDB
5 26 (6.05%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.58%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.72%) Delta Lake
8 14 (3.26%) MySQL
9 12 (2.79%) Power BI
10 11 (2.56%) Redis
11 7 (1.63%) Tableau
12 6 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.40%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.93%) Big Data
13 4 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (37.67%) Jenkins
2 91 (21.16%) Git
3 68 (15.81%) GitLab
4 30 (6.98%) JIRA
5 21 (4.88%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.65%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.49%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.49%) XCTest
8 13 (3.02%) Postman
9 12 (2.79%) Selenium
10 8 (1.86%) fastlane
10 8 (1.86%) Gradle
10 8 (1.86%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.63%) JUnit
11 7 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.40%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.40%) Gatling
12 6 (1.40%) Storybook
12 6 (1.40%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.16%) Appium
General
1 134 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.02%) Finance
3 44 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.65%) Retail
7 17 (3.95%) Banking
8 12 (2.79%) Law
9 9 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Automotive
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
13 3 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.70%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Games
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (25.58%) Senior
2 99 (23.02%) Developer
3 68 (15.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 62 (14.42%) Platform Engineer
5 57 (13.26%) Lead
6 43 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.44%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (6.28%) Security Engineer
9 26 (6.05%) Architect
10 25 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (5.12%) Data Engineer
12 22 (5.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 21 (4.88%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.72%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.72%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (20.23%) Node.js
2 71 (16.51%) React
3 53 (12.33%) .NET
4 49 (11.40%) CSS
5 46 (10.70%) Spring Boot
6 44 (10.23%) REST
6 44 (10.23%) RESTful
7 38 (8.84%) Spring
8 36 (8.37%) OAuth
9 32 (7.44%) HTML
10 31 (7.21%) AngularJS
11 27 (6.28%) OAuth2
12 25 (5.81%) Playwright
12 25 (5.81%) YAML
13 23 (5.35%) Jest
14 19 (4.42%) .NET Framework
14 19 (4.42%) Vue
14 19 (4.42%) Web Services
15 18 (4.19%) GraphQL
15 18 (4.19%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 116 (26.98%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.21%) Mobile App
3 27 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.72%) PKI
8 14 (3.26%) Mainframe
9 13 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.79%) Private Cloud
11 11 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
13 9 (2.09%) Blog
14 7 (1.63%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.63%) Security Posture
15 6 (1.40%) CMDB
16 4 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.28%) Linux
2 22 (5.12%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.88%) Windows
4 13 (3.02%) Android
5 9 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.16%) Unix
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.23%) AIX
9 1 (0.23%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (93.72%) CI/CD
2 271 (63.02%) DevOps
3 222 (51.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (34.19%) Containerisation
5 126 (29.30%) Agile
6 100 (23.26%) Observability
7 98 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (21.40%) Platform Engineering
9 91 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (20.93%) AI
10 90 (20.93%) Test Automation
11 87 (20.23%) Software Engineering
12 80 (18.60%) Mentoring
13 68 (15.81%) Analytics
13 68 (15.81%) Cloud Security
14 67 (15.58%) Microservices
15 63 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
16 62 (14.42%) Clean Code
17 55 (12.79%) Incident Response
18 54 (12.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 183 (42.56%) Python
2 86 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 82 (19.07%) Bash
3 82 (19.07%) Java
4 71 (16.51%) JavaScript
5 69 (16.05%) PowerShell
6 63 (14.65%) SQL
7 41 (9.53%) Kotlin
8 39 (9.07%) Go
9 34 (7.91%) C#
10 25 (5.81%) Bicep
11 20 (4.65%) Ruby
12 18 (4.19%) Swift
13 15 (3.49%) Groovy
14 13 (3.02%) Scala
15 12 (2.79%) PHP
16 9 (2.09%) COBOL
16 9 (2.09%) Rust
17 6 (1.40%) Dart
18 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.16%) Degree
3 40 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.37%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.12%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.33%) OSCP
10 9 (2.09%) CISSP
11 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.16%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.93%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.07%) QA
2 34 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.88%) WCAG
5 19 (4.42%) SOC 2
6 13 (3.02%) GRC
7 11 (2.56%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.63%) NCSC
9 6 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.16%) GDPR
10 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.93%) NIST
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.47%) SLA
12 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 154 (35.81%) Docker
2 15 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 227 (52.79%) Terraform
2 163 (37.91%) Kubernetes
3 59 (13.72%) Grafana
4 54 (12.56%) Ansible
5 48 (11.16%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.65%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.49%) Argo
8 13 (3.02%) Cilium
9 10 (2.33%) Packer
10 4 (0.93%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.93%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.70%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.70%) Puppet
12 2 (0.47%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Kibana
13 1 (0.23%) linkerd
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 48 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.12%) VMware
3 19 (4.42%) Databricks
3 19 (4.42%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.95%) Google
5 14 (3.26%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.26%) Braze
5 14 (3.26%) New Relic
6 13 (3.02%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.02%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.79%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.40%) Cisco
8 6 (1.40%) EMC
8 6 (1.40%) F5
8 6 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.16%) Splunk
10 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.93%) Oracle
11 3 (0.70%) Tenable