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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 436 629
Rank change year-on-year +80 +193 -9
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 402 204 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.35% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 292 159 175
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,750 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% -14.61%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £105,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 26,356 15,132 33,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.79% 37.02% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,908 11,073 26,652
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +54 327 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +28 207 £62,500 -8.09% 130
Work from Home +88 172 £65,508 -12.66% 118
London +42 149 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -28 73 £60,000 -11.76% 40
Yorkshire -33 38 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South West -21 36 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -21 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +16 31 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West -20 23 £63,000 -21.25% 21
Midlands -42 21 £65,000 -10.34% 11
East Midlands -40 15 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -25 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -22 6 £71,250 -6.56% 6
West Midlands -36 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Wales -32 4 £58,248 -10.39% 7
Northern Ireland -38 2 £62,500 - 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 11 (2.74%) Confluence
2 8 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.49%) Apache
3 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 402 (100.00%) GitHub
2 244 (60.70%) Azure
3 235 (58.46%) AWS
4 155 (38.56%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (25.87%) GCP
6 97 (24.13%) Serverless
7 70 (17.41%) Datadog
8 66 (16.42%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (13.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (12.44%) Amazon S3
12 40 (9.95%) Entra ID
13 38 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (6.97%) Azure AKS
16 24 (5.97%) SaaS
17 22 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.18%) Firewall
2 23 (5.72%) VPN
3 22 (5.47%) DNS
4 21 (5.22%) HTTP
5 18 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.98%) Network Security
7 13 (3.23%) DSL
8 12 (2.99%) WAN
9 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.75%) RTP
10 3 (0.75%) SSL
10 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.75%) VoIP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 40 (9.95%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.47%) DynamoDB
4 20 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.49%) Flink
8 9 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.99%) MySQL
10 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 5 (1.24%) Power BI
13 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.00%) Tableau
13 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.75%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 153 (38.06%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.40%) Git
3 65 (16.17%) GitLab
4 23 (5.72%) JIRA
5 12 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.49%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.49%) XCTest
7 9 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.24%) Subversion
8 8 (1.99%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.49%) Storybook
10 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.00%) NUnit
12 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Maven
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
13 2 (0.50%) Selenium
13 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 130 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.11%) Finance
3 41 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 33 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.72%) Banking
5 23 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.22%) Retail
7 19 (4.73%) Law
8 14 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.99%) Front Office
10 10 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.49%) Back Office
11 6 (1.49%) Electronics
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
12 5 (1.24%) Advertising
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Billing
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (22.89%) Senior
2 90 (22.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.15%) Developer
4 49 (12.19%) Lead
5 40 (9.95%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (6.97%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.72%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.22%) Architect
13 20 (4.98%) Senior Developer
13 20 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
15 16 (3.98%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.16%) React
2 62 (15.42%) .NET
3 45 (11.19%) Node.js
4 42 (10.45%) RESTful
5 39 (9.70%) OAuth
6 30 (7.46%) AWS CDK
6 30 (7.46%) CSS
7 28 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (6.47%) .NET Core
9 25 (6.22%) HTML
10 22 (5.47%) ADO
11 21 (5.22%) SAML
12 19 (4.73%) ASP.NET
12 19 (4.73%) REST
12 19 (4.73%) YAML
13 18 (4.48%) Kafka
14 17 (4.23%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.23%) Blazor
14 17 (4.23%) OAuth2
15 16 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.72%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.73%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.99%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.49%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.49%) PKI
11 6 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.00%) Blog
13 4 (1.00%) CMDB
14 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.93%) Linux
2 18 (4.48%) Windows
3 13 (3.23%) VMS
4 12 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.24%) Unix
8 3 (0.75%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (92.79%) CI/CD
2 290 (72.14%) DevOps
3 218 (54.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (37.31%) Containerisation
5 123 (30.60%) Agile
6 121 (30.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (28.61%) Observability
9 72 (17.91%) Incident Response
10 70 (17.41%) Test Automation
11 68 (16.92%) Cloud Security
12 67 (16.67%) DevSecOps
13 62 (15.42%) AI
14 61 (15.17%) Analytics
14 61 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 60 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
15 60 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
16 52 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 50 (12.44%) Mentoring
18 49 (12.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 202 (50.25%) Python
2 111 (27.61%) Bash
3 86 (21.39%) SQL
4 74 (18.41%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.16%) PowerShell
6 60 (14.93%) JavaScript
7 56 (13.93%) Go
8 33 (8.21%) Bicep
9 32 (7.96%) Java
10 25 (6.22%) C#
11 19 (4.73%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.73%) Rust
13 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.49%) Swift
15 7 (1.74%) C++
16 6 (1.49%) Dart
16 6 (1.49%) Scala
17 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
18 4 (1.00%) C
18 4 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (15.17%) Degree
2 39 (9.70%) AWS Certification
2 39 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.48%) CISSP
6 17 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 16 (3.98%) CREST Certified
7 16 (3.98%) SANS
8 15 (3.73%) OSCP
9 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.50%) CCSP
14 2 (0.50%) CISM
14 2 (0.50%) GCIA
14 2 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (8.21%) QA
3 28 (6.97%) GDPR
4 27 (6.72%) SOC 2
5 18 (4.48%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.24%) GRC
8 6 (1.49%) SLA
9 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 155 (38.56%) Docker
2 41 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (59.20%) Terraform
2 169 (42.04%) Kubernetes
3 84 (20.90%) Grafana
4 82 (20.40%) Ansible
5 77 (19.15%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.22%) Argo
7 10 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.24%) Cilium
9 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.49%) Packer
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.00%) logstash
11 4 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 68 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.73%) VMware
3 18 (4.48%) Google
4 16 (3.98%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.49%) Ab Initio
8 9 (2.24%) Amplitude
8 9 (2.24%) Braze
8 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.99%) Databricks
10 6 (1.49%) SAP
10 6 (1.49%) Splunk
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco
11 4 (1.00%) EMC
11 4 (1.00%) F5
11 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow