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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 440 521
Rank change year-on-year +32 +81 -36
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 489 249 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 324 196 209
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £81,788 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,625 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.31%

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 27,107 15,588 23,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.93% 31.34% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 18,490 10,465 14,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,496 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +46 427 £67,500 -6.90% 854
UK excluding London +6 268 £65,000 - 496
London -1 169 £78,750 +1.61% 445
Work from Home -16 135 £72,500 +3.57% 576
North of England +38 125 £65,000 -4.41% 129
South East -12 60 £65,000 -13.33% 109
Yorkshire +3 58 £70,000 +2.19% 48
North West +14 44 £65,500 +0.77% 55
Midlands -23 33 £65,000 +20.37% 69
West Midlands -25 24 £67,500 - 31
North East -39 23 £58,750 -14.55% 26
Wales -57 23 £60,000 +2.13% 29
South West -67 19 £65,000 +8.33% 59
East Midlands -38 9 £65,000 +22.07% 38
Scotland -13 4 £65,000 -18.75% 41
East of England -37 4 £69,500 +2.96% 47

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 12 (2.45%) Apache
2 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.04%) Confluence
3 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.23%) CICS
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.61%) IIS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 489 (100.00%) GitHub
2 304 (62.17%) AWS
3 266 (54.40%) Azure
4 127 (25.97%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (20.65%) GCP
6 88 (18.00%) Serverless
7 85 (17.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (14.31%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (13.50%) Amazon ECS
10 63 (12.88%) Amazon S3
11 49 (10.02%) Datadog
12 47 (9.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (6.95%) Azure Key Vault
16 33 (6.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (6.34%) Azure AKS
18 30 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (4.50%) SaaS
20 20 (4.09%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.11%) VPN
2 24 (4.91%) Firewall
3 15 (3.07%) DMARC
4 11 (2.25%) DNS
5 10 (2.04%) Network Security
6 5 (1.02%) HTTP
6 5 (1.02%) SAN
7 4 (0.82%) SSH
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 3 (0.61%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) SSL
9 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.59%) Relational Database
3 41 (8.38%) DynamoDB
4 29 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (5.73%) SQL Server
6 26 (5.32%) NoSQL
7 20 (4.09%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (3.89%) MongoDB
8 19 (3.89%) Redis
9 17 (3.48%) MySQL
10 14 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.04%) Power BI
13 8 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.64%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
15 6 (1.23%) Db2
16 5 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (39.67%) Jenkins
2 94 (19.22%) Git
3 85 (17.38%) GitLab
4 35 (7.16%) JIRA
5 32 (6.54%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.91%) Postman
7 19 (3.89%) Selenium
8 12 (2.45%) JUnit
8 12 (2.45%) REST Assured
8 12 (2.45%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.25%) Gatling
9 11 (2.25%) JMeter
10 10 (2.04%) Crashlytics
11 9 (1.84%) Gradle
11 9 (1.84%) Newman
12 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.64%) NUnit
13 7 (1.43%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.43%) Zephyr
14 6 (1.23%) Appium
General
1 170 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.38%) Finance
3 71 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.91%) Banking
7 19 (3.89%) Retail
8 11 (2.25%) Law
8 11 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.84%) Marketing
10 5 (1.02%) Legal
11 4 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (27.61%) Senior
2 113 (23.11%) Developer
3 72 (14.72%) Platform Engineer
4 65 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (13.09%) Lead
6 37 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.16%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.95%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (5.73%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (5.32%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.50%) Architect
14 22 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.29%) Software Developer
16 20 (4.09%) Security Engineer
17 19 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
17 19 (3.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (51.74%) Terraform
2 111 (22.70%) Node.js
3 80 (16.36%) React
4 78 (15.95%) Spring Boot
5 73 (14.93%) .NET
6 70 (14.31%) Spring
7 63 (12.88%) REST
7 63 (12.88%) RESTful
8 51 (10.43%) CSS
9 40 (8.18%) AngularJS
10 36 (7.36%) HTML
10 36 (7.36%) Playwright
11 31 (6.34%) OAuth
11 31 (6.34%) OAuth2
12 30 (6.13%) GraphQL
13 29 (5.93%) Jest
14 26 (5.32%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (5.32%) YAML
15 25 (5.11%) Web Services
16 24 (4.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 135 (27.61%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.93%) Mainframe
3 29 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.09%) Legacy Applications
6 18 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.27%) Mobile App
9 15 (3.07%) Blog
9 15 (3.07%) Private Cloud
9 15 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.66%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.25%) Security Posture
13 10 (2.04%) PKI
14 9 (1.84%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.36%) Linux
2 16 (3.27%) Windows
3 12 (2.45%) Android
3 12 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.64%) Unix
5 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (95.50%) CI/CD
2 305 (62.37%) DevOps
3 250 (51.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (34.97%) Containerisation
5 144 (29.45%) Agile
6 140 (28.63%) AI
7 137 (28.02%) Observability
8 125 (25.56%) Software Engineering
9 120 (24.54%) Test Automation
10 117 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (22.90%) Platform Engineering
12 98 (20.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (18.40%) Mentoring
14 85 (17.38%) Microservices
15 81 (16.56%) Analytics
16 73 (14.93%) Clean Code
17 69 (14.11%) Cloud Security
18 65 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
19 60 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
20 58 (11.86%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 215 (43.97%) Python
2 126 (25.77%) Java
3 108 (22.09%) TypeScript
4 89 (18.20%) SQL
5 88 (18.00%) Bash
6 83 (16.97%) JavaScript
7 65 (13.29%) PowerShell
8 47 (9.61%) Go
9 38 (7.77%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.36%) C#
11 29 (5.93%) Bicep
12 28 (5.73%) Ruby
13 22 (4.50%) COBOL
14 20 (4.09%) Groovy
15 16 (3.27%) JCL
16 13 (2.66%) Scala
17 12 (2.45%) PHP
18 9 (1.84%) Swift
19 8 (1.64%) Rust
20 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.41%) Degree
4 34 (6.95%) AWS Certification
5 33 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.11%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.02%) CISSP
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.61%) CISM
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.68%) QA
2 37 (7.57%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.91%) WCAG
4 18 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.25%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.64%) GDPR
7 8 (1.64%) GRC
8 6 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.23%) NCSC
9 5 (1.02%) NIST
10 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.41%) PERC
12 2 (0.41%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 205 (41.92%) Docker
2 11 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) Firmware
6 3 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 194 (39.67%) Kubernetes
2 73 (14.93%) Grafana
3 57 (11.66%) Prometheus
4 48 (9.82%) Ansible
5 26 (5.32%) Argo
6 23 (4.70%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.84%) Cilium
8 8 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.43%) Packer
10 6 (1.23%) logstash
11 5 (1.02%) Istio
12 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.41%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
13 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.32%) Google
3 25 (5.11%) Databricks
4 24 (4.91%) VMware
5 17 (3.48%) OneLogin
6 15 (3.07%) New Relic
6 15 (3.07%) SendGrid
7 14 (2.86%) Splunk
8 13 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.04%) Broadcom
10 9 (1.84%) Oracle
11 7 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.02%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.02%) Braze
13 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
14 2 (0.41%) Cisco
14 2 (0.41%) EMC
14 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow