GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 497 685 626
Rank change year-on-year +188 -59 +118
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 246 418 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 0.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 199 268 181
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,632 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £105,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,288 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.41% -6.67% +197.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,781 53,145 59,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.80% 46.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 35,622 42,063
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,351 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Salary trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 15 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 5 December 2023. 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 +186 210 £79,632 +9.84% 70
Work from Home +167 141 £70,576 +0.82% 33
London +184 136 £90,000 +16.13% 46
UK excluding London +143 85 £70,288 +0.41% 31
South West +95 25 £70,576 +6.98%
North of England +81 18 £79,632 +13.76% 7
South East +146 17 £70,000 - 14
Scotland +57 12 £85,901 +44.31% 1
North West +99 10 £72,316 +0.13% 4
East of England +129 8 £65,000 +4.00%
Yorkshire +76 6 £79,632 +14.67% 1
West Midlands +105 5 £60,000 -20.00% 9
Midlands +99 5 £60,000 -20.00% 9
Wales +19 4 £57,500 -11.54%
North East +30 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (20.73%) Apache
2 50 (20.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.44%) Confluence
4 5 (2.03%) WordPress
5 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.81%) MS Exchange
6 2 (0.81%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Campfire
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 246 (100.00%) GitHub
2 120 (48.78%) AWS
3 118 (47.97%) Azure
4 116 (47.15%) GCP
5 49 (19.92%) Power Platform
6 47 (19.11%) Vertex AI
7 46 (18.70%) Serverless
8 37 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (13.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (13.82%) OpenShift
10 23 (9.35%) Azure AKS
11 22 (8.94%) Amazon S3
12 20 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.28%) Entra ID
14 12 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (4.88%) SaaS
15 11 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.50%) DNS
2 14 (5.69%) Firewall
3 5 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (24.39%) NoSQL
2 56 (22.76%) MySQL
2 56 (22.76%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (20.33%) Big Data
3 50 (20.33%) Data Lake
4 49 (19.92%) Power BI
4 49 (19.92%) Relational Database
4 49 (19.92%) Tableau
5 48 (19.51%) BigQuery
6 47 (19.11%) Bigtable
6 47 (19.11%) Looker
7 14 (5.69%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.85%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.81%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 133 (54.07%) Jenkins
2 50 (20.33%) GitLab
3 45 (18.29%) Git
4 18 (7.32%) JIRA
5 14 (5.69%) SonarQube
6 13 (5.28%) CircleCI
7 12 (4.88%) TeamCity
8 11 (4.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (3.25%) Artifactory
9 8 (3.25%) Postman
10 7 (2.85%) Gradle
10 7 (2.85%) Selenium
10 7 (2.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.03%) git-flow
11 5 (2.03%) Maven
12 4 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (1.63%) webpack
13 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (54.47%) Finance
2 105 (42.68%) Banking
3 36 (14.63%) Retail
4 35 (14.23%) Investment Banking
5 33 (13.41%) Front Office
6 25 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 21 (8.54%) Social Skills
8 19 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (3.66%) Health Technology
12 5 (2.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.63%) Publishing
14 3 (1.22%) Billing
15 2 (0.81%) Legal
15 2 (0.81%) Public Speaking
15 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.41%) Automotive
16 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (36.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (20.33%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (17.48%) AWS DevOps
3 43 (17.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 38 (15.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (13.01%) Senior
6 26 (10.57%) Python Engineer
7 25 (10.16%) Developer
8 23 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 20 (8.13%) Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Chief Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Chief Data Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Data Analytics Architect
9 20 (8.13%) Data Architect
10 19 (7.72%) Lead
11 18 (7.32%) Data Engineer
12 15 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.36%) Kafka
2 17 (6.91%) Node.js
3 15 (6.10%) .NET
4 14 (5.69%) React
5 13 (5.28%) AWS CDK
5 13 (5.28%) RESTful
6 11 (4.47%) YAML
7 10 (4.07%) REST
7 10 (4.07%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.66%) Next.js
8 9 (3.66%) Spring
9 7 (2.85%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.85%) Flutter
10 6 (2.44%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.44%) Micronaut
11 5 (2.03%) CSS
11 5 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.03%) HTML
11 5 (2.03%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (2.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.70%) Public Cloud
2 15 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (5.28%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.66%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.63%) Blog
10 4 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.22%) Media Streaming
12 2 (0.81%) BBC
12 2 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.81%) IVR
12 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.41%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.41%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.85%) Linux
2 17 (6.91%) Windows
3 12 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.07%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (76.83%) CI/CD
2 175 (71.14%) Agile
3 138 (56.10%) DevOps
4 125 (50.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (27.24%) Software Engineering
6 65 (26.42%) Cloud Security
7 62 (25.20%) Analytics
8 59 (23.98%) Artificial Intelligence
9 58 (23.58%) Data Analytics
10 57 (23.17%) Machine Learning
11 53 (21.54%) Test Automation
12 50 (20.33%) Continuous Integration
13 49 (19.92%) Data Pipeline
13 49 (19.92%) ETL
14 48 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
15 47 (19.11%) Data Integration
15 47 (19.11%) Data Visualisation
15 47 (19.11%) Database Optimisation
15 47 (19.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 93 (37.80%) Python
2 76 (30.89%) Java
3 46 (18.70%) Go
4 38 (15.45%) Bash
5 31 (12.60%) PowerShell
6 28 (11.38%) C#
7 26 (10.57%) TypeScript
8 21 (8.54%) JavaScript
9 17 (6.91%) SQL
10 10 (4.07%) Bicep
10 10 (4.07%) PHP
11 9 (3.66%) Ruby
11 9 (3.66%) Rust
12 6 (2.44%) C
12 6 (2.44%) C++
13 5 (2.03%) Scala
13 5 (2.03%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.22%) Ada
14 3 (1.22%) Dart
15 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.69%) Azure Certification
4 13 (5.28%) Degree
5 11 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.81%) MCSA
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) QA
2 4 (1.63%) GDPR
3 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (31.71%) Docker
2 18 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.81%) HDFS
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 184 (74.80%) Terraform
2 103 (41.87%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.29%) Ansible
4 36 (14.63%) Argo
5 33 (13.41%) Rancher
6 18 (7.32%) Grafana
7 14 (5.69%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.63%) Kibana
8 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.22%) Puppet
10 2 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.81%) Istio
10 2 (0.81%) linkerd
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.81%) Podman
11 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 63 (25.61%) Google
2 22 (8.94%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.32%) New Relic
4 6 (2.44%) Databricks
5 5 (2.03%) McAfee
6 4 (1.63%) Apple
6 4 (1.63%) Splunk
7 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.81%) Twitter
8 2 (0.81%) VMware
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.41%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.41%) Confluent
9 1 (0.41%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.41%) IBM
9 1 (0.41%) SAP