GitHub Actions Jobs

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 643 621
Rank change year-on-year +124 -22 -105
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 195 256 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 0.72% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 153 201 226
10th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £53,135
25th Percentile £59,250 £50,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £98,474 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +8.80% -10.00% +18.21%

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 15,101 35,567 42,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.49% 35.24% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,922 26,732 27,774
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,231 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,747 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.50% -9.09% +4.76%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Salary trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 24 May 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 24 May 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 +99 181 £75,000 +15.38% 2,312
London +146 103 £82,500 +10.00% 452
Work from Home +100 91 £72,500 +11.54% 1,692
UK excluding London +119 84 £68,000 +8.80% 2,172
North of England +11 26 £68,000 +4.62% 505
South West +105 18 £61,250 -9.26% 253
South East +84 17 £70,000 - 607
Midlands +43 15 £72,500 +20.83% 372
West Midlands +41 14 £73,750 +22.92% 202
North West -18 12 £75,000 +15.38% 242
Yorkshire +40 9 £68,000 - 199
Wales - 7 £60,000 - 58
Scotland +122 5 £62,500 -33.96% 90
North East - 5 £57,500 - 64
East of England +22 2 £76,250 +17.31% 303
East Midlands +26 1 £60,000 +29.73% 145

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.59%) Confluence
2 6 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.56%) CMS
4 3 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.54%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.03%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) GitHub
2 116 (59.49%) Azure
3 95 (48.72%) AWS
4 81 (41.54%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (20.51%) Serverless
6 25 (12.82%) GCP
7 24 (12.31%) SaaS
8 20 (10.26%) PaaS
9 19 (9.74%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (9.74%) Amazon S3
10 18 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (8.72%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (6.67%) npm
14 12 (6.15%) Datadog
15 11 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.15%) VPN
2 5 (2.56%) MQTT
2 5 (2.56%) SMS
3 3 (1.54%) DNS
4 2 (1.03%) Firewall
4 2 (1.03%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (10.77%) MySQL
3 14 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (7.18%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (5.64%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.13%) Power BI
7 9 (4.62%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.54%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.54%) Redis
11 2 (1.03%) Big Data
12 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (20.51%) Git
2 36 (18.46%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.77%) SonarQube
4 17 (8.72%) GitLab
5 15 (7.69%) JIRA
6 12 (6.15%) Gradle
7 11 (5.64%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.59%) Postman
9 5 (2.56%) Maven
9 5 (2.56%) Selenium
9 5 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.05%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.54%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.54%) webpack
12 2 (1.03%) Babel
General
1 62 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.44%) Finance
3 23 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.18%) Games
5 12 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Automotive
7 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Retail
8 4 (2.05%) Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Front Office
8 4 (2.05%) Marketing
8 4 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.54%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (28.21%) Senior
2 53 (27.18%) Developer
2 53 (27.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (18.46%) Lead
4 27 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (9.74%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) iOS Android Developer
11 7 (3.59%) Lead iOS Developer
11 7 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.69%) React
2 32 (16.41%) .NET
3 27 (13.85%) RESTful
4 25 (12.82%) Node.js
5 20 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 20 (10.26%) GraphQL
6 14 (7.18%) Kafka
7 11 (5.64%) CSS
7 11 (5.64%) HTML
7 11 (5.64%) REST
8 10 (5.13%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (4.62%) Django
9 9 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.62%) JSON
10 8 (4.10%) Spring
11 7 (3.59%) FastAPI
11 7 (3.59%) Next.js
11 7 (3.59%) React Native
11 7 (3.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.18%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.15%) Mobile Games
4 10 (5.13%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.05%) Life Science
9 4 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.03%) NHS
12 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 7 (3.59%) Android
2 7 (3.59%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.59%) Windows
3 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.05%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (83.08%) CI/CD
2 126 (64.62%) DevOps
3 93 (47.69%) Agile
4 84 (43.08%) Software Engineering
5 60 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 60 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 43 (22.05%) Mentoring
8 42 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (16.92%) Migration
10 32 (16.41%) Release Management
11 30 (15.38%) Observability
12 29 (14.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 28 (14.36%) Microservices
13 28 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (13.85%) DevSecOps
15 26 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
16 20 (10.26%) Computer Science
16 20 (10.26%) Data Engineering
16 20 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 80 (41.03%) Python
2 43 (22.05%) TypeScript
3 42 (21.54%) SQL
4 38 (19.49%) JavaScript
5 37 (18.97%) Java
6 32 (16.41%) C#
7 27 (13.85%) PowerShell
8 21 (10.77%) Bash
9 15 (7.69%) Go
10 10 (5.13%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.59%) Objective-C
11 7 (3.59%) Swift
12 6 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (1.54%) Ruby
14 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.03%) Bicep
15 2 (1.03%) Rust
16 1 (0.51%) SHACL
16 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.44%) Degree
2 18 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.10%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.03%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.28%) QA
2 12 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.08%) NCSC
6 5 (2.56%) GDPR
6 5 (2.56%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (42.05%) Docker
2 13 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (47.69%) Terraform
2 84 (43.08%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.90%) Prometheus
4 24 (12.31%) Ansible
5 20 (10.26%) Grafana
6 10 (5.13%) Argo
7 9 (4.62%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.05%) Packer
9 3 (1.54%) Puppet
10 2 (1.03%) Consul
11 1 (0.51%) Automic
11 1 (0.51%) Rancher
11 1 (0.51%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.72%) Databricks
3 14 (7.18%) Google
4 13 (6.67%) VMware
5 12 (6.15%) New Relic
6 9 (4.62%) Citrix
7 5 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.03%) Pega
10 1 (0.51%) Foundry
10 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.51%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.51%) Palantir
10 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.51%) Splunk