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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 469 551
Rank change year-on-year +63 +82 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 446 227 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.42% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 304 179 207
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £79,092 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,125 £101,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% -0.38% -1.45%

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 27,953 15,998 26,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.16% 31.98% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,487 11,064 18,830
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,779 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 16 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 16 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 +56 384 £65,250 -13.00% 140
UK excluding London +60 261 £65,000 +0.39% 105
London -27 142 £77,500 - 60
Work from Home +11 132 £65,000 -10.34% 81
North of England +34 112 £65,000 -2.62% 44
South East -1 57 £61,250 -5.77% 31
Yorkshire +11 52 £65,000 -5.11% 16
North West +24 40 £65,500 +0.77% 20
Midlands -6 34 £65,000 -1.89% 7
Wales -45 25 £60,000 - 4
South West -66 22 £58,750 -2.08% 15
North East -47 20 £47,500 -17.39% 8
East Midlands -8 19 £67,500 +25.00% 1
West Midlands -24 15 £65,000 -3.70% 6
Scotland -1 6 £62,500 -21.88% 3
East of England -32 5 £75,000 +11.11% 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 14 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.69%) Confluence
3 10 (2.24%) Apache
4 5 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.90%) CICS
6 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.45%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 446 (100.00%) GitHub
2 286 (64.13%) AWS
3 256 (57.40%) Azure
4 135 (30.27%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (20.63%) Serverless
6 89 (19.96%) GCP
7 82 (18.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (16.14%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (12.78%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (12.56%) Amazon S3
11 52 (11.66%) Datadog
12 47 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 23 (5.16%) AWS Step Functions
18 22 (4.93%) Power Platform
19 21 (4.71%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.61%) Firewall
2 16 (3.59%) VPN
3 13 (2.91%) DMARC
4 12 (2.69%) DNS
4 12 (2.69%) Network Security
5 7 (1.57%) HTTP
6 5 (1.12%) DSL
6 5 (1.12%) SAN
6 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.90%) SSH
7 4 (0.90%) SSL
8 3 (0.67%) BGP
8 3 (0.67%) WAN
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.07%) DynamoDB
2 36 (8.07%) SQL Server
3 32 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (7.17%) Relational Database
4 27 (6.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (3.81%) Delta Lake
5 17 (3.81%) MySQL
6 15 (3.36%) Power BI
7 13 (2.91%) Redis
8 9 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.79%) Tableau
10 7 (1.57%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.57%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.90%) Big Data
12 4 (0.90%) Db2
Development Applications
1 171 (38.34%) Jenkins
2 99 (22.20%) Git
3 71 (15.92%) GitLab
4 33 (7.40%) JIRA
5 26 (5.83%) Cypress.io
6 19 (4.26%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.36%) Postman
8 14 (3.14%) Selenium
8 14 (3.14%) XCTest
9 11 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 10 (2.24%) JUnit
11 9 (2.02%) Gradle
12 8 (1.79%) fastlane
12 8 (1.79%) NUnit
12 8 (1.79%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (1.35%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.35%) Appium
14 6 (1.35%) Gatling
14 6 (1.35%) Storybook
General
1 144 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.70%) Finance
3 53 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.81%) Banking
7 16 (3.59%) Retail
8 14 (3.14%) Law
9 10 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.02%) Marketing
11 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.90%) Automotive
14 3 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.67%) Games
14 3 (0.67%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.67%) Legal
14 3 (0.67%) Military
15 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (26.46%) Senior
2 111 (24.89%) Developer
3 67 (15.02%) Platform Engineer
4 63 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.78%) Lead
6 36 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.07%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.28%) Software Engineer
8 27 (6.05%) Architect
8 27 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 24 (5.38%) Java Developer
10 24 (5.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (4.26%) Security Engineer
12 18 (4.04%) Software Developer
13 17 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (22.42%) Node.js
2 84 (18.83%) React
3 68 (15.25%) .NET
4 61 (13.68%) Spring Boot
5 54 (12.11%) CSS
6 53 (11.88%) RESTful
6 53 (11.88%) Spring
7 48 (10.76%) REST
8 38 (8.52%) AngularJS
9 36 (8.07%) HTML
9 36 (8.07%) OAuth
10 29 (6.50%) Jest
11 28 (6.28%) OAuth2
12 27 (6.05%) Playwright
13 25 (5.61%) YAML
14 22 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (4.93%) Web Services
15 20 (4.48%) .NET Framework
15 20 (4.48%) GraphQL
15 20 (4.48%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.25%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.73%) Mobile App
3 27 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.48%) Mainframe
7 18 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.69%) Blog
9 12 (2.69%) PKI
10 11 (2.47%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.47%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.79%) Digital Wallet
13 8 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (16.37%) Linux
2 22 (4.93%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.71%) Windows
4 14 (3.14%) Android
5 9 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.12%) Unix
7 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (94.84%) CI/CD
2 282 (63.23%) DevOps
3 229 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (32.74%) Containerisation
5 131 (29.37%) Agile
6 113 (25.34%) Observability
7 103 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (22.65%) Software Engineering
9 98 (21.97%) Platform Engineering
10 96 (21.52%) AI
10 96 (21.52%) Test Automation
11 94 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (17.94%) Mentoring
13 77 (17.26%) Analytics
14 73 (16.37%) Microservices
15 71 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
16 69 (15.47%) Clean Code
17 59 (13.23%) Cloud Security
18 50 (11.21%) DevSecOps
19 49 (10.99%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 180 (40.36%) Python
2 100 (22.42%) Java
3 98 (21.97%) TypeScript
4 77 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 75 (16.82%) Bash
6 70 (15.70%) SQL
7 64 (14.35%) PowerShell
8 45 (10.09%) Kotlin
9 35 (7.85%) C#
10 34 (7.62%) Go
11 25 (5.61%) Bicep
12 24 (5.38%) Ruby
13 18 (4.04%) Groovy
13 18 (4.04%) Swift
14 16 (3.59%) Scala
15 14 (3.14%) COBOL
15 14 (3.14%) PHP
16 8 (1.79%) JCL
16 8 (1.79%) Rust
17 6 (1.35%) Dart
Qualifications
1 73 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.66%) Degree
2 52 (11.66%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.17%) AWS Certification
4 29 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.57%) OSCP
9 6 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.90%) CISSP
11 4 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.67%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.31%) QA
2 35 (7.85%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.61%) WCAG
4 18 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.91%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.02%) GRC
8 7 (1.57%) NCSC
9 6 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.12%) GDPR
10 5 (1.12%) NIST
11 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.67%) SLA
13 2 (0.45%) IFRS
13 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 168 (37.67%) Docker
2 15 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 228 (51.12%) Terraform
2 169 (37.89%) Kubernetes
3 60 (13.45%) Grafana
4 49 (10.99%) Prometheus
5 47 (10.54%) Ansible
6 23 (5.16%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.36%) Argo
8 12 (2.69%) Packer
9 10 (2.24%) Cilium
10 3 (0.67%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.67%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.67%) Puppet
11 2 (0.45%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.45%) logstash
12 1 (0.22%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
12 1 (0.22%) Kibana
12 1 (0.22%) linkerd
12 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.38%) Databricks
3 21 (4.71%) VMware
4 20 (4.48%) Dynatrace
4 20 (4.48%) Google
5 16 (3.59%) OneLogin
5 16 (3.59%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.36%) New Relic
7 13 (2.91%) Amplitude
7 13 (2.91%) Braze
7 13 (2.91%) SendGrid
8 10 (2.24%) Splunk
9 7 (1.57%) Oracle
10 6 (1.35%) Cisco
10 6 (1.35%) EMC
10 6 (1.35%) F5
10 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.90%) Broadcom