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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 476 473
Rank change year-on-year +128 -3 +196
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 335 255 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.24% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 250 200 193
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £65,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -17.75% +9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £103,250 £98,875 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.90% +0.82%

All Cloud 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 20,606 20,605 21,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.19% 35.93% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11,346 12,438 17,501
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 +87 247 £72,500 +9.85% 174
Work from Home +150 172 £72,500 +11.54% 98
UK excluding London +48 160 £67,500 +3.85% 135
London +86 119 £77,500 -8.82% 71
North of England +7 42 £65,000 +31.31% 41
Scotland +39 36 £90,000 +56.52% 3
South West +26 28 £65,000 - 24
South East +2 28 £75,000 +15.38% 43
Yorkshire -38 22 £60,000 +21.21% 18
North West +35 17 £65,000 -16.13% 17
Midlands +9 15 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands +6 12 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England +26 7 £65,000 -18.75% 11
Wales -8 4 £60,748 -6.54% 1
North East +5 3 £65,000 -10.34% 7
East Midlands +1 3 £60,000 +23.71% 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 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.69%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) IIS
3 4 (1.19%) Appian
4 3 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 335 (100.00%) GitHub
2 219 (65.37%) Azure
3 161 (48.06%) AWS
4 155 (46.27%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (21.49%) GCP
6 67 (20.00%) Serverless
7 53 (15.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (14.63%) Datadog
9 42 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (12.54%) Azure Monitor
10 41 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (11.04%) Entra ID
12 35 (10.45%) Amazon S3
13 34 (10.15%) Azure AKS
13 34 (10.15%) SaaS
14 22 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (5.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (5.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.78%) Firewall
2 9 (2.69%) Network Security
2 9 (2.69%) VPN
3 7 (2.09%) DNS
4 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.49%) WAN
5 4 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.90%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 38 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.27%) BigQuery
4 19 (5.67%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.99%) Flink
9 7 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.09%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.79%) Power BI
10 6 (1.79%) Tableau
11 5 (1.49%) Looker
11 5 (1.49%) Metadata
11 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.19%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 119 (35.52%) Jenkins
2 75 (22.39%) Git
3 38 (11.34%) GitLab
4 15 (4.48%) JIRA
5 12 (3.58%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.69%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.39%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.39%) Subversion
8 7 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.49%) Selenium
10 4 (1.19%) JMeter
10 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.90%) JUnit
11 3 (0.90%) Postman
11 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.60%) MSTest
12 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 107 (31.94%) Finance
2 106 (31.64%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.76%) Telecoms
4 22 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.57%) Banking
5 21 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.58%) Front Office
7 12 (3.58%) Retail
8 11 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.99%) Law
9 10 (2.99%) Marketing
10 8 (2.39%) Back Office
11 6 (1.79%) Electronics
12 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.19%) Advertising
13 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.60%) Billing
15 2 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 74 (22.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (20.90%) Senior
3 52 (15.52%) Lead
4 49 (14.63%) Developer
5 38 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (10.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (8.36%) .NET Developer
8 21 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (5.07%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.78%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.18%) Azure Developer
13 14 (4.18%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.88%) Applications Engineer
14 13 (3.88%) Development Engineer
14 13 (3.88%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.99%) .NET
2 65 (19.40%) React
3 57 (17.01%) RESTful
4 29 (8.66%) Node.js
5 21 (6.27%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.27%) ARM Templates
5 21 (6.27%) JSON
5 21 (6.27%) YAML
6 20 (5.97%) ASP.NET
7 19 (5.67%) OAuth
8 18 (5.37%) ADO
8 18 (5.37%) Kafka
9 17 (5.07%) .NET Framework
9 17 (5.07%) AWS CDK
9 17 (5.07%) REST
10 16 (4.78%) Blazor
10 16 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 15 (4.48%) GraphQL
12 14 (4.18%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.19%) Blog
8 4 (1.19%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.19%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.84%) Linux
2 20 (5.97%) Windows
3 14 (4.18%) VMS
4 5 (1.49%) Unix
4 5 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.90%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (91.04%) CI/CD
2 268 (80.00%) DevOps
3 164 (48.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (38.21%) Containerisation
5 108 (32.24%) Agile
6 93 (27.76%) Observability
7 92 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (22.09%) Test Automation
10 59 (17.61%) Software Engineering
11 56 (16.72%) AI
11 56 (16.72%) Platform Engineering
12 55 (16.42%) Microservices
13 51 (15.22%) Incident Response
14 50 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
14 50 (14.93%) RBAC
15 49 (14.63%) Cloud Security
16 48 (14.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 46 (13.73%) Analytics
17 46 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 171 (51.04%) Python
2 95 (28.36%) Bash
3 79 (23.58%) SQL
4 74 (22.09%) PowerShell
5 59 (17.61%) Bicep
6 51 (15.22%) JavaScript
7 47 (14.03%) TypeScript
8 37 (11.04%) C#
9 35 (10.45%) Java
10 27 (8.06%) Go
11 5 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.49%) Ruby
12 4 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.19%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.19%) Scala
12 4 (1.19%) Swift
12 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (14.63%) Degree
2 41 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.85%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.25%) AWS Certification
5 28 (8.36%) SC Cleared
6 27 (8.06%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.67%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.58%) CISSP
8 12 (3.58%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.58%) SANS
9 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.90%) CCNA
11 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.13%) QA
2 33 (9.85%) GDPR
3 24 (7.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (4.78%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.28%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.19%) GRC
8 4 (1.19%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) ECSS
9 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 159 (47.46%) Docker
2 38 (11.34%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.49%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 201 (60.00%) Terraform
2 173 (51.64%) Kubernetes
3 64 (19.10%) Prometheus
4 62 (18.51%) Grafana
5 45 (13.43%) Ansible
6 23 (6.87%) Argo
7 9 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.19%) Cilium
8 4 (1.19%) logstash
8 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.90%) Rancher
10 2 (0.60%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.46%) Google
3 15 (4.48%) VMware
4 14 (4.18%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.88%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.69%) Databricks
8 8 (2.39%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (1.79%) SAP
9 6 (1.79%) Splunk
10 5 (1.49%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.49%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.49%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.19%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.19%) Talend
11 4 (1.19%) Zoho
12 3 (0.90%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace