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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 467 583
Rank change year-on-year +56 +116 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 432 220 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.38% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 311 173 214
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% +5.83% -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 27,748 15,912 28,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.25% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,137 11,067 20,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 30 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 30 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 +49 371 £65,000 -13.33% 237
UK excluding London +61 248 £63,750 +0.39% 120
London -11 141 £80,000 - 138
Work from Home +12 134 £65,000 -10.34% 121
North of England +46 105 £65,000 -5.11% 54
South East +13 58 £62,500 +13.64% 30
Yorkshire +8 47 £65,000 -5.11% 17
North West +28 39 £65,500 -12.67% 31
Midlands -18 31 £65,000 -1.89% 13
Wales -45 22 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East Midlands -3 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -56 20 £62,500 - 9
North East -36 19 £47,500 -17.39% 6
West Midlands -27 10 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Scotland +9 6 £85,000 +31.78% 6
East of England -27 6 £77,575 +24.12% 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 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.08%) Apache
2 9 (2.08%) Confluence
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) CICS
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 432 (100.00%) GitHub
2 278 (64.35%) AWS
3 245 (56.71%) Azure
4 136 (31.48%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (21.06%) GCP
6 87 (20.14%) Serverless
7 75 (17.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (15.74%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 51 (11.81%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
12 47 (10.88%) Datadog
13 37 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (5.09%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.09%) Firebase
17 21 (4.86%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (4.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 19 (4.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.56%) Firewall
2 19 (4.40%) DNS
3 18 (4.17%) VPN
4 17 (3.94%) Network Security
5 14 (3.24%) HTTP
6 13 (3.01%) DMARC
7 11 (2.55%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.62%) DSL
9 5 (1.16%) SAN
10 4 (0.93%) SSH
10 4 (0.93%) SSL
11 3 (0.69%) WAN
12 2 (0.46%) BGP
12 2 (0.46%) VLAN
13 1 (0.23%) LTE
13 1 (0.23%) RTP
13 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.23%) VoIP
13 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 33 (7.64%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (6.71%) DynamoDB
5 25 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 15 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.24%) MySQL
10 12 (2.78%) Power BI
11 11 (2.55%) Redis
12 7 (1.62%) Tableau
13 6 (1.39%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.39%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.39%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.93%) Big Data
14 4 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (37.96%) Jenkins
2 89 (20.60%) Git
3 69 (15.97%) GitLab
4 30 (6.94%) JIRA
5 21 (4.86%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.63%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.47%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.47%) XCTest
8 13 (3.01%) Postman
9 12 (2.78%) Selenium
10 8 (1.85%) fastlane
10 8 (1.85%) Gradle
10 8 (1.85%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.39%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.39%) Gatling
12 6 (1.39%) JUnit
12 6 (1.39%) Storybook
12 6 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.16%) NUnit
General
1 132 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.19%) Finance
3 44 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 36 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.86%) Retail
7 17 (3.94%) Banking
8 14 (3.24%) Law
9 10 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Automotive
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
13 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.69%) Military
14 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 110 (25.46%) Senior
2 98 (22.69%) Developer
3 72 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.12%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (13.43%) Lead
6 44 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.25%) Security Engineer
10 26 (6.02%) Architect
10 26 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.86%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (4.86%) Software Engineer
13 20 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (4.40%) Java Developer
15 16 (3.70%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (19.91%) Node.js
2 72 (16.67%) React
3 54 (12.50%) .NET
4 49 (11.34%) CSS
5 45 (10.42%) Spring Boot
6 43 (9.95%) REST
6 43 (9.95%) RESTful
7 37 (8.56%) OAuth
7 37 (8.56%) Spring
8 32 (7.41%) HTML
9 30 (6.94%) AngularJS
10 27 (6.25%) OAuth2
11 26 (6.02%) YAML
12 25 (5.79%) Playwright
13 23 (5.32%) Jest
14 20 (4.63%) .NET Framework
15 19 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (4.40%) Vue
15 19 (4.40%) Web Services
16 18 (4.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 116 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.18%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.70%) PKI
7 14 (3.24%) Mainframe
8 13 (3.01%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.08%) Blog
13 8 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.62%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 6 (1.39%) CMDB
16 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.20%) Linux
2 22 (5.09%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.86%) Windows
4 13 (3.01%) Android
5 9 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.16%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) AIX
9 1 (0.23%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 273 (63.19%) DevOps
3 225 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (34.26%) Containerisation
5 126 (29.17%) Agile
6 102 (23.61%) Observability
7 99 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (21.06%) AI
9 91 (21.06%) Platform Engineering
10 90 (20.83%) Test Automation
11 88 (20.37%) Software Engineering
12 81 (18.75%) Mentoring
13 69 (15.97%) Cloud Security
14 68 (15.74%) Analytics
15 67 (15.51%) Microservices
16 64 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
17 62 (14.35%) Clean Code
18 55 (12.73%) DevSecOps
18 55 (12.73%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 186 (43.06%) Python
2 86 (19.91%) TypeScript
3 83 (19.21%) Bash
4 80 (18.52%) Java
5 71 (16.44%) JavaScript
6 69 (15.97%) PowerShell
7 62 (14.35%) SQL
8 41 (9.49%) Go
9 40 (9.26%) Kotlin
10 34 (7.87%) C#
11 25 (5.79%) Bicep
12 20 (4.63%) Ruby
13 18 (4.17%) Swift
14 15 (3.47%) Groovy
15 13 (3.01%) Scala
16 12 (2.78%) PHP
17 9 (2.08%) COBOL
18 8 (1.85%) Rust
19 6 (1.39%) Dart
20 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.11%) Degree
3 39 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.80%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.09%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.31%) OSCP
10 9 (2.08%) CISSP
11 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.39%) 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 40 (9.26%) QA
2 33 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.86%) WCAG
5 20 (4.63%) SOC 2
6 13 (3.01%) GRC
7 11 (2.55%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.62%) NCSC
9 6 (1.39%) GDPR
9 6 (1.39%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.93%) NIST
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 154 (35.65%) Docker
2 16 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 230 (53.24%) Terraform
2 164 (37.96%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.58%) Grafana
4 58 (13.43%) Ansible
5 52 (12.04%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.63%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.47%) Argo
8 13 (3.01%) Cilium
9 10 (2.31%) Packer
10 5 (1.16%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.93%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.69%) Puppet
13 2 (0.46%) logstash
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Kibana
14 1 (0.23%) linkerd
14 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.09%) VMware
3 19 (4.40%) Databricks
3 19 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.94%) Google
5 14 (3.24%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.24%) Braze
5 14 (3.24%) New Relic
6 13 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.01%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.78%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.39%) Cisco
9 6 (1.39%) EMC
9 6 (1.39%) F5
9 6 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.16%) Splunk
11 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.69%) Varonis