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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 462 580
Rank change year-on-year +44 +118 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 435 227 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.42% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 300 180 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,725
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,375
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 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -1.45%

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 28,003 15,962 26,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.67% 32.18% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,457 11,075 19,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,124 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.73% -7.18% -1.82%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +51 373 £65,000 -13.33% 368
UK excluding London +67 251 £65,000 +0.78% 189
London -12 141 £77,500 -1.59% 218
Work from Home +19 131 £65,000 -10.34% 180
North of England +35 106 £65,000 -5.11% 78
South East +16 55 £62,500 -3.85% 46
Yorkshire +16 49 £65,000 -5.11% 24
North West +22 39 £65,500 -6.43% 43
Midlands -17 33 £65,000 -1.89% 18
Wales -46 22 £60,000 +2.13% 9
South West -54 22 £58,750 -6.00% 13
East Midlands -9 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
North East -38 18 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands -33 12 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Scotland +13 7 £73,750 +2.08% 12
East of England -28 6 £77,575 +14.93% 7

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 14 (3.22%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.30%) Apache
2 10 (2.30%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.46%) CICS
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) 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
1 435 (100.00%) GitHub
2 281 (64.60%) AWS
3 247 (56.78%) Azure
4 133 (30.57%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (20.69%) GCP
6 88 (20.23%) Serverless
7 79 (18.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (12.87%) Amazon S3
10 55 (12.64%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (11.72%) Datadog
12 48 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (5.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 22 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.06%) Firebase
17 21 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (4.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.67%) Firewall
2 16 (3.68%) Network Security
3 15 (3.45%) DNS
3 15 (3.45%) VPN
4 13 (2.99%) DMARC
5 9 (2.07%) HTTP
6 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.15%) DSL
7 5 (1.15%) SAN
8 4 (0.92%) SSH
8 4 (0.92%) SSL
9 2 (0.46%) BGP
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 2 (0.46%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.59%) DynamoDB
5 28 (6.44%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.52%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.91%) Delta Lake
8 16 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.22%) MySQL
9 14 (3.22%) Power BI
10 12 (2.76%) Redis
11 9 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.84%) Tableau
13 7 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.61%) Data Vault
14 5 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.92%) Big Data
15 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (37.24%) Jenkins
2 92 (21.15%) Git
3 68 (15.63%) GitLab
4 31 (7.13%) JIRA
5 23 (5.29%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.60%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.45%) Postman
7 15 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.45%) XCTest
8 14 (3.22%) Selenium
9 9 (2.07%) JUnit
10 8 (1.84%) fastlane
10 8 (1.84%) Gradle
10 8 (1.84%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.61%) NUnit
11 7 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.38%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.38%) Appium
12 6 (1.38%) Gatling
12 6 (1.38%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.71%) Finance
3 47 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.60%) Retail
7 19 (4.37%) Banking
8 15 (3.45%) Law
9 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.84%) Marketing
11 7 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.15%) Military
14 4 (0.92%) Automotive
15 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.69%) Legal
16 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 111 (25.52%) Senior
2 104 (23.91%) Developer
3 66 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 64 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (13.33%) Lead
6 42 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Architect
9 26 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (5.75%) Security Engineer
11 23 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 22 (5.06%) Java Developer
12 22 (5.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 22 (5.06%) Software Engineer
13 21 (4.83%) Automation Engineer
14 20 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (4.14%) Software Developer
16 16 (3.68%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (21.61%) Node.js
2 76 (17.47%) React
3 62 (14.25%) .NET
4 52 (11.95%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.49%) CSS
6 48 (11.03%) RESTful
7 44 (10.11%) REST
7 44 (10.11%) Spring
8 36 (8.28%) AngularJS
8 36 (8.28%) OAuth
9 33 (7.59%) HTML
10 27 (6.21%) OAuth2
11 25 (5.75%) Jest
11 25 (5.75%) Playwright
11 25 (5.75%) YAML
12 20 (4.60%) Vue
12 20 (4.60%) Web Services
13 19 (4.37%) .NET Framework
13 19 (4.37%) GraphQL
13 19 (4.37%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 120 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.36%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.68%) Mainframe
6 16 (3.68%) PKI
7 14 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.53%) Blog
8 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.61%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.38%) CMDB
11 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.40%) Linux
2 23 (5.29%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.60%) Windows
4 14 (3.22%) Android
5 9 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.15%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) AIX
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (94.25%) CI/CD
2 275 (63.22%) DevOps
3 223 (51.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 130 (29.89%) Agile
6 106 (24.37%) Observability
7 99 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (21.61%) Platform Engineering
9 94 (21.61%) Test Automation
10 93 (21.38%) AI
10 93 (21.38%) Software Engineering
11 80 (18.39%) Mentoring
12 74 (17.01%) Analytics
13 71 (16.32%) Microservices
14 68 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 64 (14.71%) Clean Code
16 63 (14.48%) Cloud Security
17 51 (11.72%) Incident Response
18 49 (11.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 179 (41.15%) Python
2 90 (20.69%) Java
2 90 (20.69%) TypeScript
3 75 (17.24%) Bash
4 73 (16.78%) JavaScript
5 66 (15.17%) SQL
6 65 (14.94%) PowerShell
7 43 (9.89%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.82%) C#
8 34 (7.82%) Go
9 25 (5.75%) Bicep
10 21 (4.83%) Ruby
11 19 (4.37%) Swift
12 16 (3.68%) Groovy
13 14 (3.22%) Scala
14 13 (2.99%) PHP
15 11 (2.53%) COBOL
16 6 (1.38%) Dart
16 6 (1.38%) Rust
17 5 (1.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 62 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.26%) Degree
3 43 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 37 (8.51%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.29%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.61%) OSCP
10 6 (1.38%) CISSP
10 6 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.69%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.43%) QA
2 33 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.06%) WCAG
5 18 (4.14%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.99%) GRC
7 12 (2.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.61%) NCSC
9 6 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.15%) GDPR
10 5 (1.15%) NIST
11 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 162 (37.24%) Docker
2 14 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 226 (51.95%) Terraform
2 165 (37.93%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.25%) Grafana
4 52 (11.95%) Ansible
5 50 (11.49%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.83%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.45%) Argo
8 13 (2.99%) Cilium
9 11 (2.53%) Packer
10 4 (0.92%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.69%) Puppet
12 2 (0.46%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.46%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Kibana
13 1 (0.23%) linkerd
13 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.29%) Databricks
3 21 (4.83%) Dynatrace
4 20 (4.60%) VMware
5 18 (4.14%) Google
6 16 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.45%) New Relic
8 14 (3.22%) Amplitude
8 14 (3.22%) Braze
9 13 (2.99%) OneLogin
9 13 (2.99%) SendGrid
10 8 (1.84%) Splunk
11 6 (1.38%) Cisco
11 6 (1.38%) EMC
11 6 (1.38%) F5
11 6 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.15%) Oracle
13 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.69%) Salesforce