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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 450 591
Rank change year-on-year +109 +141 +61
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 394 226 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.30% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 297 170 181
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,688 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.40%

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 23,579 17,370 30,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.59% 37.51% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,682 11,200 25,112
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +83 313 £70,000 - 189
UK excluding London +62 204 £65,000 - 131
Work from Home +104 174 £65,000 -7.14% 116
London +82 140 £80,000 -7.25% 87
North of England +24 70 £60,000 -11.76% 39
South West +1 39 £75,000 +15.38% 22
South East +1 37 £62,500 -3.85% 42
Yorkshire -18 35 £60,000 +21.21% 12
Scotland +18 34 £90,000 +56.52% 5
North West +8 22 £65,000 -23.53% 21
Midlands -15 16 £65,000 - 12
North East -4 13 £47,500 -13.64% 6
East Midlands -15 9 £75,000 +50.75% 6
West Midlands -13 7 £60,000 -12.73% 6
East of England +15 4 £65,000 -14.75% 7
Wales -18 2 £58,248 -10.39% 4
Northern Ireland -29 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.28%) Confluence
2 7 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Appian
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Shopify
2 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 394 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (62.18%) Azure
3 214 (54.31%) AWS
4 163 (41.37%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.40%) GCP
6 89 (22.59%) Serverless
7 64 (16.24%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (15.48%) Datadog
10 55 (13.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (11.42%) Amazon S3
11 45 (11.42%) Entra ID
12 44 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (10.15%) Azure Monitor
14 35 (8.88%) AWS Step Functions
15 34 (8.63%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.36%) SaaS
17 21 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.93%) Firewall
2 21 (5.33%) HTTP
2 21 (5.33%) VPN
3 20 (5.08%) DNS
4 18 (4.57%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.30%) Network Security
6 12 (3.05%) DSL
6 12 (3.05%) WAN
7 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.76%) RTP
8 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.76%) VoIP
8 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) Broadband
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.66%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.39%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.82%) DynamoDB
5 15 (3.81%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.54%) Flink
8 8 (2.03%) MySQL
9 7 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.02%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 167 (42.39%) Jenkins
2 80 (20.30%) Git
3 64 (16.24%) GitLab
4 15 (3.81%) JIRA
5 11 (2.79%) CircleCI
5 11 (2.79%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.28%) Subversion
7 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.27%) NUnit
9 4 (1.02%) Crashlytics
9 4 (1.02%) XCTest
10 3 (0.76%) JMeter
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.51%) JUnit
11 2 (0.51%) MSTest
11 2 (0.51%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 119 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 115 (29.19%) Finance
3 42 (10.66%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.84%) Banking
5 21 (5.33%) Law
5 21 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.82%) Retail
7 14 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.05%) Front Office
9 11 (2.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.52%) Back Office
10 6 (1.52%) Electronics
10 6 (1.52%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Billing
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (23.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (22.84%) Senior
3 75 (19.04%) Developer
4 50 (12.69%) Lead
5 43 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.15%) Platform Engineer
7 31 (7.87%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.36%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
11 20 (5.08%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.06%) Architect
14 15 (3.81%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.55%) AWS Developer
15 14 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (18.02%) React
2 65 (16.50%) .NET
3 52 (13.20%) RESTful
4 44 (11.17%) Node.js
5 40 (10.15%) OAuth
6 30 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (7.36%) AWS CDK
8 25 (6.35%) .NET Core
8 25 (6.35%) YAML
9 24 (6.09%) CSS
9 24 (6.09%) HTML
10 22 (5.58%) ADO
11 21 (5.33%) OAuth2
12 20 (5.08%) ASP.NET
12 20 (5.08%) REST
13 19 (4.82%) Kafka
14 18 (4.57%) JSON
14 18 (4.57%) SAML
15 17 (4.31%) .NET Framework
16 16 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.78%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.78%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.27%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.27%) PKI
9 4 (1.02%) Blog
10 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.51%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.71%) Linux
2 17 (4.31%) VMS
3 14 (3.55%) Windows
4 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.27%) Unix
6 3 (0.76%) SUSE
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (91.12%) CI/CD
2 292 (74.11%) DevOps
3 217 (55.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (40.61%) Containerisation
5 123 (31.22%) Agile
6 113 (28.68%) Observability
7 106 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (18.53%) Test Automation
9 72 (18.27%) Incident Response
10 63 (15.99%) Cloud Security
11 61 (15.48%) DevSecOps
12 57 (14.47%) AI
12 57 (14.47%) Deployment Automation
13 56 (14.21%) Analytics
13 56 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
13 56 (14.21%) RBAC
14 55 (13.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 54 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
16 51 (12.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.02%) Python
2 119 (30.20%) Bash
3 81 (20.56%) SQL
4 73 (18.53%) PowerShell
5 69 (17.51%) TypeScript
6 63 (15.99%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.71%) Go
8 46 (11.68%) Bicep
9 33 (8.38%) Java
10 27 (6.85%) C#
11 14 (3.55%) Rust
12 12 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (2.54%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.52%) C++
15 5 (1.27%) Swift
15 5 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.76%) C
16 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (13.45%) Degree
2 38 (9.64%) AWS Certification
3 36 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (7.61%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.33%) CISSP
5 21 (5.33%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.08%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.08%) SANS
7 19 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.30%) OSCP
9 11 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.25%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.88%) GDPR
1 35 (8.88%) QA
2 30 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (6.09%) SOC 2
4 20 (5.08%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.03%) GRC
7 6 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.02%) SLA
10 3 (0.76%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) ECSS
12 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (41.88%) Docker
2 41 (10.41%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 233 (59.14%) Terraform
2 182 (46.19%) Kubernetes
3 88 (22.34%) Grafana
4 83 (21.07%) Prometheus
5 77 (19.54%) Ansible
6 25 (6.35%) Argo
7 10 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.03%) Cilium
9 7 (1.78%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.02%) logstash
11 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.76%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.33%) Google
3 16 (4.06%) VMware
4 14 (3.55%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.05%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.05%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.03%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.52%) SAP
7 6 (1.52%) Splunk
8 5 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.02%) Amplitude
9 4 (1.02%) Databricks
9 4 (1.02%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.76%) BT
10 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.76%) Mitel