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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 468 640
Rank change year-on-year +80 +172 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 392 206 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.40% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 285 161 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -13.60%

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 26,349 14,711 35,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.43% 33.58% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,694 10,086 26,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +76 344 £70,400 -6.13% 222
UK excluding London +52 211 £65,000 -3.70% 126
London +19 145 £80,000 -1.54% 117
Work from Home +46 131 £65,000 -10.34% 158
North of England +16 95 £61,250 -9.93% 54
Yorkshire -4 47 £62,500 -8.09% 16
South East -9 40 £62,500 -10.71% 27
North West +13 31 £65,500 -12.67% 30
South West -43 27 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Midlands -26 23 £65,000 -7.14% 10
East Midlands -9 19 £75,000 +33.33% 6
North East -35 17 £47,500 -17.39% 9
Scotland +12 11 £85,000 +33.86% 7
Wales -40 8 £63,250 +5.42% 4
East of England -19 5 £80,150 +16.58% 6
West Midlands -45 4 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 5

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 (2.81%) Apache
2 10 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) IIS
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 392 (100.00%) GitHub
2 237 (60.46%) AWS
3 220 (56.12%) Azure
4 140 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (23.72%) Serverless
6 82 (20.92%) GCP
7 69 (17.60%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (16.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (13.52%) Datadog
10 51 (13.01%) Amazon S3
11 42 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (9.18%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (6.12%) Entra ID
18 23 (5.87%) Azure AKS
19 20 (5.10%) Firebase
20 19 (4.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.99%) Firewall
2 21 (5.36%) VPN
3 19 (4.85%) DNS
3 19 (4.85%) HTTP
4 16 (4.08%) Network Security
5 15 (3.83%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.32%) DSL
7 10 (2.55%) WAN
8 7 (1.79%) DMARC
9 4 (1.02%) SSL
10 3 (0.77%) RTP
10 3 (0.77%) SAN
10 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.51%) BGP
12 1 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 23 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.57%) MySQL
8 11 (2.81%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.55%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.04%) Power BI
11 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.28%) Tableau
13 4 (1.02%) Big Data
13 4 (1.02%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.02%) Metadata
13 4 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 145 (36.99%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.90%) Git
3 56 (14.29%) GitLab
4 22 (5.61%) JIRA
5 19 (4.85%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.83%) XCTest
7 14 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.55%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.79%) fastlane
9 7 (1.79%) Postman
9 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.53%) Storybook
11 5 (1.28%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.28%) Gradle
11 5 (1.28%) Selenium
12 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.02%) Gatling
13 3 (0.77%) MLflow
General
1 121 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.56%) Finance
3 26 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.12%) Retail
5 21 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.59%) Banking
6 18 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.83%) Law
8 8 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.28%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Automotive
12 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.77%) Military
13 2 (0.51%) Billing
13 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Games
13 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (25.00%) Senior
2 91 (23.21%) Developer
3 72 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (10.46%) Lead
7 34 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.63%) Security Engineer
9 25 (6.38%) Architect
9 25 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.61%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.59%) Data Engineer
13 17 (4.34%) AWS Developer
13 17 (4.34%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.83%) Mobile Engineer
15 15 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.56%) Node.js
2 56 (14.29%) React
3 44 (11.22%) .NET
4 43 (10.97%) CSS
5 37 (9.44%) OAuth
6 30 (7.65%) REST
6 30 (7.65%) RESTful
7 29 (7.40%) HTML
8 24 (6.12%) AWS CDK
9 21 (5.36%) YAML
10 19 (4.85%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.85%) OAuth2
11 18 (4.59%) .NET Core
11 18 (4.59%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (4.08%) SAML
13 15 (3.83%) UIKit
14 14 (3.57%) Spring Boot
14 14 (3.57%) SwiftUI
14 14 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.40%) Mobile App
3 25 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.32%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.32%) PKI
9 11 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.55%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.53%) CMDB
13 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.77%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.78%) Linux
2 20 (5.10%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.57%) Windows
4 10 (2.55%) Android
5 9 (2.30%) VMS
6 8 (2.04%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 253 (64.54%) DevOps
3 217 (55.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (33.93%) Containerisation
5 104 (26.53%) Agile
6 96 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (23.47%) Observability
8 85 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 68 (17.35%) Analytics
11 67 (17.09%) AI
11 67 (17.09%) Cloud Security
11 67 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
12 62 (15.82%) Mentoring
13 61 (15.56%) DevSecOps
14 59 (15.05%) Software Engineering
15 53 (13.52%) Incident Response
16 52 (13.27%) Deployment Automation
17 49 (12.50%) Clean Code
18 48 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 177 (45.15%) Python
2 89 (22.70%) Bash
3 78 (19.90%) SQL
4 73 (18.62%) TypeScript
5 65 (16.58%) PowerShell
6 56 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.50%) Go
8 41 (10.46%) Java
9 36 (9.18%) Kotlin
10 29 (7.40%) C#
11 19 (4.85%) Bicep
12 16 (4.08%) Swift
13 15 (3.83%) Rust
14 13 (3.32%) Groovy
15 9 (2.30%) Scala
16 8 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.79%) Dart
18 6 (1.53%) PHP
18 6 (1.53%) Ruby
19 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (13.27%) Degree
2 41 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.42%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.10%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.08%) OSCP
8 11 (2.81%) CISSP
9 8 (2.04%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.04%) SANS
10 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.77%) CCSP
14 3 (0.77%) CISM
14 3 (0.77%) GCIA
14 3 (0.77%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.14%) QA
3 26 (6.63%) SOC 2
4 20 (5.10%) Accessibility
5 16 (4.08%) GDPR
6 12 (3.06%) GRC
7 11 (2.81%) Data Quality
8 8 (2.04%) WCAG
9 7 (1.79%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.02%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.51%) NCSC
11 2 (0.51%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 133 (33.93%) Docker
2 27 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 223 (56.89%) Terraform
2 142 (36.22%) Kubernetes
3 67 (17.09%) Ansible
4 62 (15.82%) Grafana
5 52 (13.27%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.06%) Cilium
8 11 (2.81%) Argo
9 9 (2.30%) Packer
10 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.77%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.26%) Consul
14 1 (0.26%) Kibana
14 1 (0.26%) logstash
14 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.10%) VMware
3 17 (4.34%) Google
4 15 (3.83%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.57%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.57%) Braze
5 14 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.81%) Databricks
6 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.04%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.79%) SendGrid
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
9 6 (1.53%) EMC
9 6 (1.53%) F5
9 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.02%) New Relic
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel
11 3 (0.77%) Varonis