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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 458 544
Rank change year-on-year +129 +86 +117
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 382 241 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.32% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 286 177 196
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,250 £48,153
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +3.42%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £97,342
90th Percentile £109,375 £100,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year - -5.45% -1.00%

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 22,328 18,304 28,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.20% 37.10% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,074 10,889 23,837
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 17 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 February 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 +84 292 £72,500 +3.57% 188
UK excluding London +68 187 £65,000 - 131
Work from Home +113 176 £67,500 -3.57% 113
London +85 137 £80,000 -11.11% 75
North of England +4 61 £60,000 -11.76% 44
Scotland +22 37 £90,000 +56.52% 4
South West +4 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -7 33 £75,000 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire -26 32 £60,000 +21.21% 18
North West +20 20 £65,000 -23.53% 23
Midlands -13 12 £60,000 -7.69% 18
North East +4 9 £47,500 -25.49% 3
West Midlands -5 7 £60,000 -7.69% 13
East Midlands -9 5 £72,500 +83.54% 5
East of England +23 4 £65,000 -38.10% 4
Northern Ireland -20 2 £62,500 - 1
Wales -14 1 £61,496 -5.39% 1

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 8 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.09%) Confluence
2 4 (1.05%) Apache
2 4 (1.05%) Appian
3 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) GitHub
2 243 (63.61%) Azure
3 201 (52.62%) AWS
4 159 (41.62%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (25.92%) GCP
6 81 (21.20%) Serverless
7 64 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 61 (15.97%) Datadog
9 56 (14.66%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (14.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (12.30%) Entra ID
12 43 (11.26%) Amazon S3
13 42 (10.99%) Azure Monitor
14 37 (9.69%) Azure AKS
15 30 (7.85%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (7.85%) SaaS
16 21 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (5.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.73%) Firewall
2 20 (5.24%) VPN
3 17 (4.45%) DNS
3 17 (4.45%) HTTP
4 14 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.40%) Network Security
6 12 (3.14%) WAN
7 8 (2.09%) DSL
8 4 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.79%) RTP
9 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.79%) VoIP
9 3 (0.79%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.26%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.95%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.97%) DynamoDB
5 18 (4.71%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.62%) Flink
8 9 (2.36%) MySQL
9 8 (2.09%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.57%) Pinecone
12 5 (1.31%) Metadata
12 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.05%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.79%) Redis
15 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 159 (41.62%) Jenkins
2 77 (20.16%) Git
3 54 (14.14%) GitLab
4 13 (3.40%) JIRA
4 13 (3.40%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.88%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.36%) Subversion
7 5 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.31%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.31%) NUnit
8 3 (0.79%) JMeter
8 3 (0.79%) Selenium
9 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.52%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) MSTest
9 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 120 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 118 (30.89%) Finance
3 38 (9.95%) Telecoms
4 24 (6.28%) Banking
5 23 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.71%) Law
7 18 (4.71%) Retail
8 14 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.14%) Front Office
10 11 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.57%) Back Office
11 6 (1.57%) Electronics
11 6 (1.57%) Marketing
12 5 (1.31%) Advertising
13 4 (1.05%) Billing
13 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 87 (22.77%) Senior
2 68 (17.80%) Developer
3 51 (13.35%) Lead
4 45 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.73%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (8.12%) .NET Developer
7 29 (7.59%) Security Engineer
8 27 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.24%) Applications Engineer
10 20 (5.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (3.93%) Azure Developer
13 14 (3.66%) AWS Developer
13 14 (3.66%) GCP Engineer
14 13 (3.40%) GCP DevOps
14 13 (3.40%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (18.06%) .NET
2 67 (17.54%) React
3 56 (14.66%) RESTful
4 44 (11.52%) Node.js
5 35 (9.16%) OAuth
6 26 (6.81%) AWS CDK
6 26 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.54%) ADO
7 25 (6.54%) YAML
8 24 (6.28%) .NET Core
9 21 (5.50%) ASP.NET
9 21 (5.50%) CSS
9 21 (5.50%) HTML
9 21 (5.50%) OAuth2
10 20 (5.24%) REST
11 19 (4.97%) JSON
12 17 (4.45%) .NET Framework
12 17 (4.45%) Kafka
13 16 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (4.19%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.51%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.76%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.57%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.57%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.05%) Blog
7 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.05%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.05%) PKI
8 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.40%) Linux
2 18 (4.71%) VMS
3 17 (4.45%) Windows
4 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.31%) Unix
6 3 (0.79%) SUSE
6 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (91.36%) CI/CD
2 290 (75.92%) DevOps
3 207 (54.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (40.31%) Containerisation
5 117 (30.63%) Agile
6 112 (29.32%) Observability
7 106 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (27.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (20.16%) Test Automation
10 70 (18.32%) Incident Response
11 64 (16.75%) Cloud Security
12 60 (15.71%) AI
12 60 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
13 59 (15.45%) RBAC
14 56 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 54 (14.14%) Deployment Automation
15 54 (14.14%) DevSecOps
15 54 (14.14%) Microservices
16 53 (13.87%) Analytics
17 49 (12.83%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 200 (52.36%) Python
2 116 (30.37%) Bash
3 80 (20.94%) SQL
4 75 (19.63%) PowerShell
5 63 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 63 (16.49%) TypeScript
6 49 (12.83%) Bicep
7 48 (12.57%) Go
8 32 (8.38%) Java
9 28 (7.33%) C#
10 12 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (2.62%) Rust
12 6 (1.57%) C++
13 5 (1.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.05%) Ruby
14 4 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.79%) C
16 2 (0.52%) PHP
16 2 (0.52%) VB
17 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (14.14%) Degree
2 41 (10.73%) AWS Certification
3 40 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (9.69%) Security Cleared
5 28 (7.33%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.50%) CISSP
7 20 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 20 (5.24%) CREST Certified
7 20 (5.24%) SANS
8 16 (4.19%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (2.36%) OSCP
11 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CCNA
14 1 (0.26%) CCSP
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.47%) QA
2 38 (9.95%) GDPR
3 37 (9.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.28%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.24%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.14%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.09%) GRC
8 7 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.05%) SLA
12 3 (0.79%) NIST
13 2 (0.52%) ECSS
14 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 166 (43.46%) Docker
2 44 (11.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.79%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 231 (60.47%) Terraform
2 184 (48.17%) Kubernetes
3 85 (22.25%) Grafana
4 78 (20.42%) Prometheus
5 74 (19.37%) Ansible
6 27 (7.07%) Argo
7 9 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.09%) Cilium
9 6 (1.57%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.05%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.05%) logstash
11 3 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.79%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.02%) Google
3 18 (4.71%) VMware
4 14 (3.66%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.14%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.14%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.09%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.83%) Splunk
8 6 (1.57%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.57%) SAP
9 5 (1.31%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (0.79%) BT
11 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.79%) Mitel
12 2 (0.52%) Pega
13 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow