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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 464 648
Rank change year-on-year +86 +184 -31
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 395 194 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.29% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 281 155 198
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £86,000 £86,875 £78,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +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 26,775 15,094 34,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 34.49% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15,020 10,570 26,680
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% +8.88% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +70 336 £70,400 -6.13% 188
UK excluding London +49 201 £65,000 -4.41% 106
London +40 152 £80,000 -3.03% 89
Work from Home +75 146 £65,000 -10.34% 159
North of England +29 83 £60,000 -11.76% 50
Yorkshire -18 44 £62,500 -8.09% 20
South East -2 36 £62,500 -10.71% 31
South West -41 29 £75,000 +17.65% 12
North West +17 25 £65,500 -12.67% 25
Midlands -19 21 £70,000 -3.45% 7
Scotland +11 20 £85,000 +36.00% 1
East Midlands -11 18 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -30 14 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -9 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -28 5 £61,496 -5.39%
West Midlands -50 3 £65,000 -11.86% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 2

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 (2.78%) Apache
2 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.77%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) IIS
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) GitHub
2 231 (58.48%) Azure
3 229 (57.97%) AWS
4 148 (37.47%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (23.80%) Serverless
6 90 (22.78%) GCP
7 66 (16.71%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (16.46%) Datadog
9 63 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (12.66%) Amazon S3
11 47 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.62%) AWS Step Functions
13 32 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (8.10%) Entra ID
14 31 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (6.84%) Azure AKS
15 27 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.30%) Firebase
18 16 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.41%) Firewall
2 23 (5.82%) VPN
3 20 (5.06%) DNS
4 19 (4.81%) HTTP
5 17 (4.30%) Network Security
6 15 (3.80%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.29%) DSL
8 12 (3.04%) WAN
9 4 (1.01%) SSL
10 3 (0.76%) RTP
10 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.51%) DMARC
11 2 (0.51%) SAN
12 1 (0.25%) BGP
12 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.08%) DynamoDB
4 23 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.04%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.53%) MySQL
9 9 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 8 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.52%) Flink
12 6 (1.52%) Power BI
13 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.27%) Metadata
13 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.01%) Redis
14 4 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 145 (36.71%) Jenkins
2 74 (18.73%) Git
3 57 (14.43%) GitLab
4 19 (4.81%) JIRA
5 16 (4.05%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.54%) XCTest
7 13 (3.29%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.03%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.52%) Storybook
11 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.27%) Subversion
12 4 (1.01%) fastlane
13 3 (0.76%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.76%) Gatling
13 3 (0.76%) Gradle
13 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.76%) Finance
3 30 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.08%) Telecoms
5 22 (5.57%) Retail
6 19 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.56%) Banking
8 15 (3.80%) Law
9 10 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.52%) Front Office
11 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Advertising
13 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.76%) Billing
14 3 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Marketing
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 102 (25.82%) Senior
2 86 (21.77%) Developer
3 82 (20.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (12.41%) Platform Engineer
5 42 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.13%) Lead
7 35 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.08%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.82%) Architect
9 23 (5.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.57%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.81%) Data Engineer
13 18 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.30%) AWS Developer
15 15 (3.80%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.54%) Java Developer
16 14 (3.54%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.95%) React
2 55 (13.92%) Node.js
3 50 (12.66%) .NET
4 37 (9.37%) OAuth
5 36 (9.11%) CSS
6 31 (7.85%) RESTful
7 27 (6.84%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.58%) HTML
9 24 (6.08%) REST
10 21 (5.32%) .NET Core
11 20 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (5.06%) SAML
12 18 (4.56%) YAML
13 17 (4.30%) ADO
13 17 (4.30%) AngularJS
13 17 (4.30%) ASP.NET
14 16 (4.05%) OAuth2
15 14 (3.54%) UIKit
16 13 (3.29%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (3.29%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.58%) Mobile App
2 26 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.57%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.54%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.78%) PKI
9 9 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.52%) CMDB
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.01%) Hackathon
14 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.51%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.18%) Linux
2 18 (4.56%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.80%) Windows
4 13 (3.29%) VMS
5 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.77%) Android
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
9 2 (0.51%) SUSE
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (93.42%) CI/CD
2 270 (68.35%) DevOps
3 222 (56.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (34.94%) Containerisation
5 116 (29.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 112 (28.35%) Agile
7 110 (27.85%) Observability
8 102 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.23%) Analytics
9 72 (18.23%) Test Automation
10 71 (17.97%) Cloud Security
11 67 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
12 64 (16.20%) DevSecOps
13 63 (15.95%) AI
13 63 (15.95%) Deployment Automation
13 63 (15.95%) Incident Response
14 53 (13.42%) Mentoring
15 51 (12.91%) Software Engineering
16 49 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
16 49 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (48.61%) Python
2 98 (24.81%) Bash
3 82 (20.76%) SQL
4 77 (19.49%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.47%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.94%) JavaScript
7 52 (13.16%) Go
8 33 (8.35%) Java
9 29 (7.34%) Kotlin
10 24 (6.08%) C#
11 23 (5.82%) Bicep
12 15 (3.80%) Rust
13 14 (3.54%) Swift
14 11 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.03%) Groovy
16 7 (1.77%) Scala
17 6 (1.52%) Dart
17 6 (1.52%) PHP
17 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
18 5 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (14.18%) Degree
2 33 (8.35%) AWS Certification
2 33 (8.35%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.56%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.05%) OSCP
7 13 (3.29%) CISSP
8 10 (2.53%) CREST Certified
8 10 (2.53%) SANS
9 9 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.03%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (6.84%) QA
2 27 (6.84%) SOC 2
3 25 (6.33%) GDPR
4 15 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.53%) GRC
7 7 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.27%) SLA
9 4 (1.01%) NIST
9 4 (1.01%) WCAG
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 145 (36.71%) Docker
2 35 (8.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 240 (60.76%) Terraform
2 159 (40.25%) Kubernetes
3 76 (19.24%) Ansible
4 72 (18.23%) Grafana
5 63 (15.95%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.30%) Argo
7 11 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.53%) Cilium
9 9 (2.28%) Packer
10 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
12 4 (1.01%) logstash
13 3 (0.76%) Puppet
14 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.51%) Rancher
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Kibana
15 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 64 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.32%) VMware
3 17 (4.30%) Google
3 17 (4.30%) Palo Alto
4 13 (3.29%) Amplitude
4 13 (3.29%) Braze
4 13 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.78%) Zscaler
6 10 (2.53%) Databricks
7 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.52%) Ab Initio
8 6 (1.52%) Cisco
8 6 (1.52%) EMC
8 6 (1.52%) F5
8 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.01%) SAP
10 3 (0.76%) Intel