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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 458 578
Rank change year-on-year +55 +120 -39
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 437 230 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.44% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 299 183 209
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,100 £48,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% -0.38% -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 27,968 15,935 26,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 32.01% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,446 11,065 19,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -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 11 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 11 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 +45 375 £65,000 -13.33% 375
UK excluding London +67 255 £65,000 +0.39% 182
London -21 139 £77,500 - 230
Work from Home +5 129 £65,000 -10.34% 179
North of England +41 111 £65,000 -2.62% 71
South East +2 55 £62,500 -3.85% 42
Yorkshire +8 50 £65,000 -5.11% 23
North West +18 41 £65,500 +0.77% 39
Midlands -31 32 £65,000 -3.70% 19
South West -60 23 £60,000 -4.00% 16
Wales -44 22 £60,000 +2.13% 9
North East -41 20 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands -8 19 £67,500 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -35 13 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Scotland +7 7 £73,750 +2.08% 11
East of England -31 5 £75,000 +11.11% 8

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 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.29%) Apache
2 10 (2.29%) Confluence
3 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) CICS
5 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
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 (1.37%) 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
1 437 (100.00%) GitHub
2 278 (63.62%) AWS
3 252 (57.67%) Azure
4 135 (30.89%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (20.59%) GCP
6 86 (19.68%) Serverless
7 79 (18.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (12.36%) Amazon S3
11 50 (11.44%) Datadog
12 46 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (8.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (5.72%) Azure Key Vault
16 23 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 22 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (5.03%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.81%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.41%) Firewall
2 15 (3.43%) Network Security
2 15 (3.43%) VPN
3 14 (3.20%) DNS
4 13 (2.97%) DMARC
5 9 (2.06%) HTTP
6 7 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.14%) DSL
7 5 (1.14%) SAN
8 4 (0.92%) SSH
8 4 (0.92%) SSL
9 3 (0.69%) BGP
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
10 2 (0.46%) VLAN
11 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.78%) DynamoDB
4 32 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (6.64%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.72%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (3.89%) Delta Lake
8 15 (3.43%) MySQL
8 15 (3.43%) Power BI
9 13 (2.97%) Redis
10 9 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.83%) Tableau
12 7 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.60%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (37.07%) Jenkins
2 94 (21.51%) Git
3 69 (15.79%) GitLab
4 31 (7.09%) JIRA
5 23 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 19 (4.35%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.43%) Postman
8 14 (3.20%) Selenium
8 14 (3.20%) TeamCity
8 14 (3.20%) XCTest
9 9 (2.06%) JUnit
10 8 (1.83%) fastlane
10 8 (1.83%) Gradle
10 8 (1.83%) NUnit
10 8 (1.83%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.37%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.37%) Gatling
12 6 (1.37%) Storybook
12 6 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 65 (14.87%) Finance
3 48 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.35%) Retail
7 18 (4.12%) Banking
8 15 (3.43%) Law
9 10 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.83%) Marketing
11 7 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Automotive
13 4 (0.92%) Military
14 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.69%) Legal
15 2 (0.46%) Advertising
15 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 112 (25.63%) Senior
2 104 (23.80%) Developer
3 66 (15.10%) Platform Engineer
4 65 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 58 (13.27%) Lead
6 40 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (5.95%) Architect
9 26 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (5.49%) Data Engineer
10 24 (5.49%) Security Engineer
11 23 (5.26%) Java Developer
11 23 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.12%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (21.74%) Node.js
2 78 (17.85%) React
3 66 (15.10%) .NET
4 53 (12.13%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.44%) CSS
6 48 (10.98%) RESTful
7 46 (10.53%) REST
8 45 (10.30%) Spring
9 37 (8.47%) AngularJS
10 35 (8.01%) OAuth
11 32 (7.32%) HTML
12 27 (6.18%) OAuth2
13 25 (5.72%) Jest
13 25 (5.72%) Playwright
13 25 (5.72%) YAML
14 21 (4.81%) Web Services
15 20 (4.58%) .NET Framework
15 20 (4.58%) Tailwind CSS
15 20 (4.58%) Vue
16 19 (4.35%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 123 (28.15%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.09%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.49%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (4.58%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.89%) Mainframe
8 15 (3.43%) PKI
9 13 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.52%) Blog
10 11 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (2.52%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.60%) Digital Wallet
12 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.37%) CMDB
13 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.79%) Linux
2 22 (5.03%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.58%) Windows
4 14 (3.20%) Android
5 9 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.14%) 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
1 411 (94.05%) CI/CD
2 277 (63.39%) DevOps
3 226 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (33.18%) Containerisation
5 127 (29.06%) Agile
6 106 (24.26%) Observability
7 99 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (21.97%) Platform Engineering
8 96 (21.97%) Software Engineering
9 94 (21.51%) AI
10 92 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (20.82%) Test Automation
12 79 (18.08%) Mentoring
13 74 (16.93%) Analytics
14 70 (16.02%) Microservices
15 69 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 63 (14.42%) Clean Code
17 61 (13.96%) Cloud Security
18 51 (11.67%) DevSecOps
19 50 (11.44%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 178 (40.73%) Python
2 92 (21.05%) Java
3 91 (20.82%) TypeScript
4 74 (16.93%) Bash
5 73 (16.70%) JavaScript
6 68 (15.56%) SQL
7 64 (14.65%) PowerShell
8 43 (9.84%) Kotlin
9 35 (8.01%) C#
9 35 (8.01%) Go
10 24 (5.49%) Bicep
11 21 (4.81%) Ruby
12 18 (4.12%) Swift
13 17 (3.89%) Groovy
14 14 (3.20%) Scala
15 13 (2.97%) PHP
16 12 (2.75%) COBOL
17 8 (1.83%) Rust
18 6 (1.37%) Dart
18 6 (1.37%) JCL
Qualifications
1 65 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.98%) Degree
3 45 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.01%) AWS Certification
5 25 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.60%) OSCP
10 6 (1.37%) CISSP
10 6 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.69%) OCP
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.15%) QA
2 33 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.03%) WCAG
4 21 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (3.66%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.75%) GRC
7 7 (1.60%) NCSC
8 6 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.14%) GDPR
9 5 (1.14%) NIST
10 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.69%) 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
1 161 (36.84%) Docker
2 14 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (51.49%) Terraform
2 166 (37.99%) Kubernetes
3 58 (13.27%) Grafana
4 50 (11.44%) Ansible
5 48 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.03%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.43%) Argo
8 12 (2.75%) Cilium
8 12 (2.75%) Packer
9 3 (0.69%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.69%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.69%) Puppet
10 2 (0.46%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.46%) logstash
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) Istio
11 1 (0.23%) Kibana
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.49%) Databricks
3 21 (4.81%) VMware
4 20 (4.58%) Dynatrace
5 19 (4.35%) Google
6 16 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.43%) New Relic
8 13 (2.97%) Amplitude
8 13 (2.97%) Braze
8 13 (2.97%) OneLogin
8 13 (2.97%) SendGrid
9 8 (1.83%) Splunk
10 6 (1.37%) Cisco
10 6 (1.37%) EMC
10 6 (1.37%) F5
10 6 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.14%) Oracle
12 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.69%) Salesforce