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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 443 511
Rank change year-on-year +40 +68 -24
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 492 244 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.57% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 327 191 210
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £81,788 £85,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.31%

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 27,237 15,508 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.10% 31.34% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 10,421 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +59 429 £67,500 -6.90% 653
UK excluding London +12 270 £65,000 - 273
London +5 169 £80,000 +3.23% 428
Work from Home -17 138 £72,500 +3.57% 321
North of England +25 125 £65,000 -4.41% 76
South East -22 61 £63,750 -15.00% 79
Yorkshire +12 58 £70,000 +2.19% 28
North West +4 45 £65,500 +0.77% 36
Midlands -27 31 £65,000 +20.37% 29
Wales -56 24 £60,000 +2.13% 15
North East -46 22 £57,500 -16.36% 12
West Midlands -36 21 £65,000 -3.70% 15
South West -71 20 £61,250 +8.89% 32
East Midlands -26 10 £65,000 +22.07% 14
East of England -30 5 £87,500 +29.63% 19
Scotland +1 4 £65,000 -18.75% 10

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 12 (2.44%) Apache
2 10 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.03%) Confluence
3 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.02%) CICS
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 492 (100.00%) GitHub
2 309 (62.80%) AWS
3 270 (54.88%) Azure
4 129 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (20.73%) GCP
6 88 (17.89%) Serverless
7 85 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
10 62 (12.60%) Amazon S3
11 50 (10.16%) Datadog
12 48 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (7.93%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (6.91%) Azure Key Vault
16 33 (6.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (6.30%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.88%) SaaS
19 19 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.28%) Firewall
1 26 (5.28%) VPN
2 15 (3.05%) DMARC
3 12 (2.44%) Network Security
4 11 (2.24%) DNS
5 5 (1.02%) HTTP
5 5 (1.02%) SAN
6 4 (0.81%) SSH
6 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
7 3 (0.61%) SSL
7 3 (0.61%) WAN
8 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.41%) VLAN
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 40 (8.13%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 26 (5.28%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (4.07%) Redis
7 18 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 17 (3.46%) MySQL
9 15 (3.05%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.03%) Power BI
13 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.63%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.42%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (1.02%) Db2
Development Applications
1 193 (39.23%) Jenkins
2 94 (19.11%) Git
3 83 (16.87%) GitLab
4 34 (6.91%) JIRA
5 32 (6.50%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.88%) Postman
7 19 (3.86%) Selenium
8 13 (2.64%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.44%) JUnit
9 12 (2.44%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.24%) Gatling
10 11 (2.24%) JMeter
11 10 (2.03%) Crashlytics
12 9 (1.83%) Gradle
12 9 (1.83%) Newman
13 8 (1.63%) NUnit
14 7 (1.42%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.22%) Appium
15 6 (1.22%) fastlane
15 6 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.89%) Finance
3 69 (14.02%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.08%) Banking
7 21 (4.27%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Law
8 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.83%) Marketing
10 5 (1.02%) Legal
11 4 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 138 (28.05%) Senior
2 114 (23.17%) Developer
3 72 (14.63%) Platform Engineer
4 66 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.21%) Lead
6 39 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.11%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.91%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (5.69%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (5.28%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (4.47%) Architect
15 22 (4.47%) Security Engineer
15 22 (4.47%) Software Developer
16 20 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
17 19 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (52.64%) Terraform
2 111 (22.56%) Node.js
3 81 (16.46%) React
4 75 (15.24%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.63%) .NET
6 67 (13.62%) Spring
7 63 (12.80%) REST
7 63 (12.80%) RESTful
8 51 (10.37%) CSS
9 40 (8.13%) AngularJS
10 37 (7.52%) Playwright
11 36 (7.32%) HTML
12 31 (6.30%) OAuth
12 31 (6.30%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.89%) GraphQL
13 29 (5.89%) Jest
14 26 (5.28%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (5.28%) YAML
15 25 (5.08%) Web Services
16 24 (4.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 137 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 27 (5.49%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.66%) Legacy Applications
8 17 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.25%) Mobile App
9 16 (3.25%) Private Cloud
10 15 (3.05%) Blog
10 15 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (2.44%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.24%) PKI
13 11 (2.24%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.26%) Linux
2 16 (3.25%) Windows
3 12 (2.44%) Android
3 12 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.63%) Unix
5 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (95.53%) CI/CD
2 309 (62.80%) DevOps
3 257 (52.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (34.96%) Containerisation
5 145 (29.47%) Agile
6 140 (28.46%) AI
7 139 (28.25%) Observability
8 128 (26.02%) Software Engineering
9 119 (24.19%) Test Automation
10 115 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (22.76%) Platform Engineering
12 98 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (18.29%) Mentoring
14 86 (17.48%) Microservices
15 81 (16.46%) Analytics
16 73 (14.84%) Clean Code
17 72 (14.63%) Cloud Security
18 65 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
19 60 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
20 57 (11.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 215 (43.70%) Python
2 122 (24.80%) Java
3 109 (22.15%) TypeScript
4 90 (18.29%) SQL
5 89 (18.09%) Bash
6 83 (16.87%) JavaScript
7 66 (13.41%) PowerShell
8 48 (9.76%) Go
9 38 (7.72%) Kotlin
10 37 (7.52%) C#
11 29 (5.89%) Bicep
12 28 (5.69%) Ruby
13 20 (4.07%) COBOL
13 20 (4.07%) Groovy
14 14 (2.85%) JCL
14 14 (2.85%) Scala
15 12 (2.44%) PHP
16 9 (1.83%) Swift
17 8 (1.63%) Rust
18 7 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.94%) Degree
4 35 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.02%) CISSP
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.40%) QA
2 37 (7.52%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.88%) WCAG
4 19 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.44%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.83%) GRC
8 8 (1.63%) GDPR
9 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.22%) NCSC
10 5 (1.02%) NIST
11 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.41%) IFRS
13 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.41%) PERC
13 2 (0.41%) SLA
13 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 205 (41.67%) Docker
2 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.61%) Firmware
6 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 196 (39.84%) Kubernetes
2 75 (15.24%) Grafana
3 59 (11.99%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.16%) Ansible
5 25 (5.08%) Argo
6 24 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.03%) Cilium
8 9 (1.83%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.42%) Packer
10 6 (1.22%) logstash
11 4 (0.81%) Istio
12 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.41%) Puppet
13 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 55 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.28%) Databricks
2 26 (5.28%) Google
3 25 (5.08%) VMware
4 17 (3.46%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.05%) New Relic
5 15 (3.05%) SendGrid
6 14 (2.85%) Splunk
7 13 (2.64%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.83%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.83%) Oracle
9 7 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.02%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.02%) Braze
11 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.41%) Foundry
12 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.41%) Veeam