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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 448 522
Rank change year-on-year +44 +74 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 485 236 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.53% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 323 186 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,625 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,313 £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 £80,000 £85,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £96,250 £99,375 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.77%

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 27,639 15,451 24,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.79% 31.57% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,715 10,447 15,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +53 418 £67,500 -6.90% 679
UK excluding London +16 268 £65,000 - 298
London -14 161 £77,500 - 431
Work from Home -12 132 £70,000 -3.45% 391
North of England +34 127 £65,000 - 101
Yorkshire +5 61 £67,500 -1.46% 28
South East -5 59 £62,500 -16.67% 71
North West -2 45 £65,500 +0.77% 59
Midlands -27 29 £65,000 +7.00% 30
Wales -58 24 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North East -46 21 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South West -70 20 £61,250 +2.08% 28
West Midlands -39 19 £65,000 -3.70% 14
East Midlands -20 10 £65,000 +22.07% 16
Scotland -5 5 £90,000 +12.50% 23
East of England -29 4 £87,500 +27.27% 18

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 13 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.47%) Apache
3 11 (2.27%) Confluence
4 8 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.82%) CICS
6 4 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.62%) IIS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 485 (100.00%) GitHub
2 312 (64.33%) AWS
3 268 (55.26%) Azure
4 129 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (19.79%) GCP
6 91 (18.76%) Serverless
7 89 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
9 67 (13.81%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (13.40%) Amazon S3
11 51 (10.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (10.52%) Datadog
12 50 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (7.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 33 (6.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 30 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (6.19%) Azure AKS
17 23 (4.74%) SaaS
18 21 (4.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.15%) Firewall
2 24 (4.95%) VPN
3 14 (2.89%) DMARC
4 12 (2.47%) Network Security
5 11 (2.27%) DNS
6 5 (1.03%) HTTP
6 5 (1.03%) SAN
7 4 (0.82%) SSH
7 4 (0.82%) SSL
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 3 (0.62%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.61%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (8.66%) DynamoDB
3 38 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (6.19%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.19%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (3.92%) Redis
8 17 (3.51%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.51%) MySQL
9 16 (3.30%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (2.68%) Power BI
12 8 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.65%) Tableau
13 7 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.44%) Data Vault
14 6 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.24%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 188 (38.76%) Jenkins
2 101 (20.82%) Git
3 77 (15.88%) GitLab
4 37 (7.63%) JIRA
5 33 (6.80%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.15%) Postman
7 19 (3.92%) Selenium
8 13 (2.68%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.47%) JUnit
10 11 (2.27%) JMeter
11 10 (2.06%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.06%) Gatling
11 10 (2.06%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.86%) Gradle
12 9 (1.86%) Newman
13 8 (1.65%) NUnit
14 6 (1.24%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.24%) fastlane
14 6 (1.24%) Maven
14 6 (1.24%) Zephyr
General
1 167 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.32%) Finance
3 63 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.15%) Banking
7 21 (4.33%) Retail
8 11 (2.27%) Law
8 11 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.86%) Marketing
10 5 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (0.82%) Automotive
11 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Games
12 3 (0.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.62%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Advertising
13 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (27.01%) Senior
2 114 (23.51%) Developer
3 74 (15.26%) Platform Engineer
4 63 (12.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (12.99%) Lead
5 39 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (6.39%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.98%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.57%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.36%) Architect
11 26 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (4.54%) Security Engineer
13 22 (4.54%) Software Developer
14 21 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (53.20%) Terraform
2 112 (23.09%) Node.js
3 81 (16.70%) React
4 70 (14.43%) Spring Boot
5 68 (14.02%) .NET
6 62 (12.78%) Spring
7 59 (12.16%) RESTful
8 58 (11.96%) REST
9 52 (10.72%) CSS
10 42 (8.66%) AngularJS
11 37 (7.63%) Playwright
12 35 (7.22%) HTML
13 30 (6.19%) Jest
13 30 (6.19%) OAuth
13 30 (6.19%) OAuth2
14 25 (5.15%) Web Services
14 25 (5.15%) YAML
15 24 (4.95%) GraphQL
15 24 (4.95%) Ruby on Rails
16 23 (4.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 133 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.95%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.54%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.71%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.30%) Legacy Applications
8 16 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.30%) Private Cloud
9 15 (3.09%) Blog
9 15 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.27%) PKI
13 10 (2.06%) AI Agents
13 10 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.86%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.86%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.32%) Linux
2 18 (3.71%) Windows
3 12 (2.47%) Android
3 12 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.65%) Unix
5 7 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.62%) Debian
7 3 (0.62%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) AIX
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (95.46%) CI/CD
2 308 (63.51%) DevOps
3 253 (52.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (33.81%) Containerisation
5 143 (29.48%) Agile
6 134 (27.63%) AI
7 132 (27.22%) Observability
8 120 (24.74%) Software Engineering
9 114 (23.51%) Platform Engineering
9 114 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
10 111 (22.89%) Test Automation
11 95 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (17.32%) Mentoring
13 83 (17.11%) Analytics
14 82 (16.91%) Microservices
15 71 (14.64%) Cloud Security
16 69 (14.23%) Clean Code
17 64 (13.20%) Full-Stack Development
18 56 (11.55%) Infrastructure Automation
19 55 (11.34%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 212 (43.71%) Python
2 117 (24.12%) Java
3 109 (22.47%) TypeScript
4 89 (18.35%) Bash
4 89 (18.35%) SQL
5 80 (16.49%) JavaScript
6 70 (14.43%) PowerShell
7 45 (9.28%) Go
8 41 (8.45%) Kotlin
9 34 (7.01%) C#
10 30 (6.19%) Bicep
11 26 (5.36%) Ruby
12 21 (4.33%) Groovy
13 18 (3.71%) COBOL
14 17 (3.51%) Scala
15 12 (2.47%) JCL
15 12 (2.47%) PHP
16 9 (1.86%) Swift
17 8 (1.65%) Rust
18 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.48%) Degree
4 35 (7.22%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (5.77%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.82%) CISSP
11 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.62%) OCP
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.37%) QA
2 35 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.74%) WCAG
4 18 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.47%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.86%) GRC
7 7 (1.44%) GDPR
8 6 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.24%) NCSC
9 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.82%) NIST
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.62%) SLA
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 201 (41.44%) Docker
2 12 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.62%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (39.59%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.81%) Grafana
3 56 (11.55%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.31%) Ansible
5 25 (5.15%) Progress Chef
6 21 (4.33%) Argo
7 10 (2.06%) Cilium
8 9 (1.86%) Packer
9 8 (1.65%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.24%) logstash
11 4 (0.82%) Istio
12 3 (0.62%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.41%) Puppet
13 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.21%) linkerd
14 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 59 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.77%) Databricks
3 26 (5.36%) VMware
4 25 (5.15%) Google
5 16 (3.30%) OneLogin
6 15 (3.09%) New Relic
7 14 (2.89%) SendGrid
7 14 (2.89%) Splunk
8 13 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.65%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.65%) Oracle
11 6 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.03%) Amplitude
12 5 (1.03%) Braze
13 4 (0.82%) Cisco
13 4 (0.82%) EMC
13 4 (0.82%) F5
13 4 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.82%) ServiceNow