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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 465 555
Rank change year-on-year +61 +90 -18
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 452 232 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.45% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 307 183 213
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,550 £47,650
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,000 £82,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 27,651 16,009 25,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.15% 31.95% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,548 10,944 17,588
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £44,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +64 388 £65,500 -9.66% 314
UK excluding London +35 260 £65,000 - 166
London -15 145 £77,500 - 199
Work from Home -6 133 £65,000 -10.34% 166
North of England +24 115 £65,000 -5.11% 57
South East +7 54 £62,500 -16.67% 38
Yorkshire +6 54 £65,000 -5.11% 22
North West +24 41 £65,500 +0.77% 28
Midlands -15 33 £65,000 +1.96% 16
Wales -50 25 £60,000 +2.13% 7
South West -58 22 £61,250 +2.08% 21
North East -43 20 £55,000 -4.35% 8
West Midlands -21 17 £65,000 -3.70% 14
East Midlands -12 16 £65,000 +20.37% 2
Scotland -7 6 £62,500 -21.88% 10
East of England -15 5 £75,000 +11.11% 7

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 14 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.43%) Apache
2 11 (2.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.88%) CICS
5 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 452 (100.00%) GitHub
2 290 (64.16%) AWS
3 253 (55.97%) Azure
4 128 (28.32%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (19.47%) GCP
5 88 (19.47%) Serverless
6 83 (18.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 70 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (13.05%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (13.05%) Amazon S3
9 50 (11.06%) Datadog
10 48 (10.62%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 27 (5.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 26 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (4.87%) Power Platform
17 20 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (4.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.31%) Firewall
2 18 (3.98%) VPN
3 13 (2.88%) DMARC
4 12 (2.65%) DNS
4 12 (2.65%) Network Security
5 5 (1.11%) HTTP
5 5 (1.11%) SAN
6 4 (0.88%) SSH
6 4 (0.88%) SSL
6 4 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.66%) BGP
7 3 (0.66%) WAN
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) DSL
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (8.85%) DynamoDB
3 35 (7.74%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.52%) SQL Server
5 33 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (6.42%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (3.98%) MySQL
9 17 (3.76%) Delta Lake
10 15 (3.32%) Power BI
11 13 (2.88%) Redis
12 12 (2.65%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.77%) Tableau
15 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.55%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
18 4 (0.88%) Big Data
18 4 (0.88%) Db2
Development Applications
1 175 (38.72%) Jenkins
2 100 (22.12%) Git
3 69 (15.27%) GitLab
4 33 (7.30%) JIRA
5 30 (6.64%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.42%) Postman
7 18 (3.98%) Selenium
8 17 (3.76%) Crashlytics
9 13 (2.88%) REST Assured
10 12 (2.65%) XCTest
11 11 (2.43%) JUnit
12 10 (2.21%) Gatling
12 10 (2.21%) Gradle
12 10 (2.21%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.99%) Newman
14 8 (1.77%) fastlane
14 8 (1.77%) NUnit
15 7 (1.55%) JMeter
15 7 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (1.55%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 76 (16.81%) Finance
3 54 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.31%) Banking
7 17 (3.76%) Retail
8 12 (2.65%) Law
9 11 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.99%) Marketing
11 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Automotive
12 4 (0.88%) Games
13 3 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Military
13 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 119 (26.33%) Senior
2 110 (24.34%) Developer
3 71 (15.71%) Platform Engineer
4 58 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.61%) Lead
6 35 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (7.30%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.86%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.75%) Java Developer
10 26 (5.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.53%) Architect
11 25 (5.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Security Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (4.20%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (51.33%) Terraform
2 105 (23.23%) Node.js
3 82 (18.14%) React
4 68 (15.04%) .NET
5 65 (14.38%) Spring Boot
6 57 (12.61%) Spring
7 55 (12.17%) RESTful
8 53 (11.73%) CSS
8 53 (11.73%) REST
9 40 (8.85%) AngularJS
10 34 (7.52%) HTML
11 32 (7.08%) OAuth
11 32 (7.08%) Playwright
12 31 (6.86%) Jest
13 29 (6.42%) OAuth2
14 24 (5.31%) YAML
15 23 (5.09%) Web Services
16 22 (4.87%) Ruby on Rails
17 21 (4.65%) GraphQL
17 21 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 127 (28.10%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 27 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.87%) Mainframe
6 21 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.88%) Blog
9 13 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.65%) Private Cloud
10 12 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.43%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (2.43%) PKI
12 10 (2.21%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.77%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (17.26%) Linux
2 21 (4.65%) Windows
3 19 (4.20%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.10%) Android
5 9 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.44%) AIX
8 2 (0.44%) Debian
8 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (95.13%) CI/CD
2 283 (62.61%) DevOps
3 230 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (32.30%) Containerisation
5 128 (28.32%) Agile
6 117 (25.88%) Observability
7 110 (24.34%) Software Engineering
8 107 (23.67%) AI
9 104 (23.01%) Platform Engineering
10 102 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (22.35%) Test Automation
12 90 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (17.92%) Mentoring
14 80 (17.70%) Analytics
15 74 (16.37%) Microservices
16 69 (15.27%) Clean Code
17 66 (14.60%) Full-Stack Development
18 58 (12.83%) Cloud Security
19 49 (10.84%) RBAC
20 47 (10.40%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 181 (40.04%) Python
2 111 (24.56%) Java
3 99 (21.90%) TypeScript
4 74 (16.37%) Bash
4 74 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 71 (15.71%) SQL
6 62 (13.72%) PowerShell
7 45 (9.96%) Kotlin
8 37 (8.19%) Go
9 34 (7.52%) C#
10 26 (5.75%) Bicep
11 24 (5.31%) Ruby
12 19 (4.20%) Groovy
13 17 (3.76%) Scala
14 16 (3.54%) COBOL
15 15 (3.32%) Swift
16 13 (2.88%) PHP
17 10 (2.21%) JCL
18 8 (1.77%) Rust
19 6 (1.33%) Dart
Qualifications
1 77 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.06%) Degree
4 33 (7.30%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.88%) CISSP
12 4 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.66%) OCP
13 3 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.95%) QA
2 36 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.53%) WCAG
4 19 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.88%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.99%) GRC
7 7 (1.55%) NCSC
8 6 (1.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.11%) GDPR
9 5 (1.11%) NIST
10 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.88%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.88%) SLA
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 173 (38.27%) Docker
2 15 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.66%) Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 171 (37.83%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.83%) Grafana
3 46 (10.18%) Ansible
4 45 (9.96%) Prometheus
5 24 (5.31%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.32%) Argo
7 12 (2.65%) Packer
8 10 (2.21%) Cilium
9 4 (0.88%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.66%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.66%) Puppet
11 2 (0.44%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.44%) Istio
11 2 (0.44%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) linkerd
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.31%) Databricks
2 24 (5.31%) VMware
3 22 (4.87%) Google
4 16 (3.54%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.54%) OneLogin
5 14 (3.10%) New Relic
6 13 (2.88%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.43%) Amplitude
8 11 (2.43%) Braze
8 11 (2.43%) Splunk
9 8 (1.77%) Oracle
10 6 (1.33%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.33%) Cisco
10 6 (1.33%) EMC
10 6 (1.33%) F5
10 6 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.33%) ServiceNow