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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 458 538
Rank change year-on-year +53 +80 +8
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 460 230 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.47% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 311 181 215
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 -
25th Percentile £54,750 £61,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,625
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £82,000
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 27,714 15,667 25,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.82% 31.65% 31.51%
Number of salaries quoted 18,695 10,618 16,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £33,150
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,342 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 6 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 6 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 +47 394 £66,500 -11.33% 389
UK excluding London +53 260 £65,000 - 185
London -30 149 £77,500 - 259
Work from Home -5 138 £70,000 -3.45% 213
North of England +24 113 £65,000 -4.76% 54
South East +1 57 £60,000 -20.00% 51
Yorkshire -7 51 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +15 44 £65,500 +0.77% 26
Midlands -10 33 £65,000 +7.00% 17
Wales -46 24 £60,000 +2.13% 7
South West -62 22 £61,250 +2.08% 19
West Midlands -23 18 £65,000 -3.70% 11
North East -51 18 £57,500 - 10
East Midlands -16 15 £65,000 +22.07% 6
Scotland -1 6 £62,500 -21.88% 16
East of England -30 5 £75,000 +9.09% 10

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 (3.04%) Apache
1 14 (3.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.39%) Confluence
3 9 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.87%) CICS
5 4 (0.87%) CMS
6 3 (0.65%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 460 (100.00%) GitHub
2 294 (63.91%) AWS
3 258 (56.09%) Azure
4 128 (27.83%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (19.57%) GCP
6 86 (18.70%) Serverless
7 83 (18.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (13.26%) Amazon S3
10 57 (12.39%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (10.65%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (10.65%) Datadog
12 37 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
14 30 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
15 29 (6.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 27 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (5.22%) Azure AKS
18 21 (4.57%) Power Platform
19 20 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.00%) Firewall
2 20 (4.35%) VPN
3 13 (2.83%) DMARC
4 12 (2.61%) Network Security
5 10 (2.17%) DNS
6 5 (1.09%) SAN
7 4 (0.87%) SSH
8 3 (0.65%) BGP
8 3 (0.65%) HTTP
8 3 (0.65%) SSL
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.22%) DSL
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
10 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.48%) DynamoDB
3 36 (7.83%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.17%) SQL Server
5 28 (6.09%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.57%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (3.91%) MySQL
8 17 (3.70%) Delta Lake
9 14 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.04%) Power BI
10 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.83%) Redis
11 8 (1.74%) Tableau
12 7 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.52%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 176 (38.26%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.30%) Git
3 72 (15.65%) GitLab
4 33 (7.17%) JIRA
5 30 (6.52%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.35%) Postman
7 18 (3.91%) Selenium
8 16 (3.48%) Crashlytics
9 13 (2.83%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.39%) JUnit
10 11 (2.39%) XCTest
11 10 (2.17%) Gatling
11 10 (2.17%) Gradle
11 10 (2.17%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.96%) Newman
13 8 (1.74%) fastlane
13 8 (1.74%) NUnit
14 7 (1.52%) JMeter
14 7 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.74%) Finance
3 55 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.22%) Banking
7 18 (3.91%) Retail
8 11 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.17%) Law
10 9 (1.96%) Marketing
11 6 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Automotive
12 4 (0.87%) Games
13 3 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.65%) Legal
13 3 (0.65%) Local Government
13 3 (0.65%) Military
14 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 124 (26.96%) Senior
2 108 (23.48%) Developer
3 72 (15.65%) Platform Engineer
4 59 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (12.83%) Lead
5 35 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (6.74%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 29 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 28 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (5.87%) Architect
10 26 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.43%) Java Developer
12 23 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (4.35%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (52.39%) Terraform
2 106 (23.04%) Node.js
3 82 (17.83%) React
4 68 (14.78%) .NET
5 66 (14.35%) Spring Boot
6 58 (12.61%) Spring
7 55 (11.96%) RESTful
8 54 (11.74%) CSS
9 53 (11.52%) REST
10 39 (8.48%) AngularJS
11 35 (7.61%) HTML
12 32 (6.96%) OAuth
13 31 (6.74%) Playwright
14 30 (6.52%) Jest
15 29 (6.30%) OAuth2
16 24 (5.22%) YAML
17 23 (5.00%) Web Services
18 22 (4.78%) GraphQL
18 22 (4.78%) Kafka
18 22 (4.78%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 129 (28.04%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.87%) Mobile App
2 27 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.00%) Mainframe
5 21 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (3.04%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (3.04%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.83%) Blog
9 13 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.39%) PKI
11 10 (2.17%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.74%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (17.17%) Linux
2 21 (4.57%) Windows
3 18 (3.91%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.04%) Android
5 9 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.09%) Unix
7 3 (0.65%) Debian
7 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) AIX
8 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (95.43%) CI/CD
2 286 (62.17%) DevOps
3 236 (51.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (32.17%) Containerisation
5 128 (27.83%) Agile
6 124 (26.96%) Observability
7 116 (25.22%) AI
8 114 (24.78%) Software Engineering
9 108 (23.48%) Platform Engineering
9 108 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (22.17%) Test Automation
11 92 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 87 (18.91%) Analytics
13 83 (18.04%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.09%) Microservices
15 69 (15.00%) Clean Code
16 65 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
17 64 (13.91%) Cloud Security
18 50 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
18 50 (10.87%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 191 (41.52%) Python
2 111 (24.13%) Java
3 99 (21.52%) TypeScript
4 77 (16.74%) Bash
5 74 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.09%) SQL
6 64 (13.91%) PowerShell
7 43 (9.35%) Kotlin
8 38 (8.26%) Go
9 33 (7.17%) C#
10 28 (6.09%) Bicep
11 24 (5.22%) Ruby
12 19 (4.13%) Groovy
13 17 (3.70%) COBOL
13 17 (3.70%) Scala
14 14 (3.04%) Swift
15 13 (2.83%) PHP
16 11 (2.39%) JCL
17 9 (1.96%) Rust
18 6 (1.30%) Dart
Qualifications
1 77 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.30%) Degree
4 34 (7.39%) AWS Certification
5 33 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.65%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.87%) CISSP
12 4 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.65%) OCP
13 3 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.96%) QA
2 36 (7.83%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.43%) WCAG
4 19 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (3.70%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.83%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.96%) GRC
8 7 (1.52%) NCSC
9 6 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.09%) GDPR
10 5 (1.09%) NIST
11 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.87%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.87%) SLA
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 178 (38.70%) Docker
2 15 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.65%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 176 (38.26%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.61%) Grafana
3 46 (10.00%) Ansible
4 45 (9.78%) Prometheus
5 24 (5.22%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.48%) Argo
7 12 (2.61%) Packer
8 10 (2.17%) Cilium
9 5 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.87%) Istio
11 3 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.43%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.43%) logstash
12 2 (0.43%) Puppet
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) linkerd
13 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 62 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.43%) VMware
3 24 (5.22%) Databricks
3 24 (5.22%) Google
4 16 (3.48%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.48%) OneLogin
5 14 (3.04%) New Relic
6 13 (2.83%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.39%) Splunk
9 10 (2.17%) Amplitude
9 10 (2.17%) Braze
10 8 (1.74%) Oracle
11 7 (1.52%) Broadcom
12 6 (1.30%) Cisco
12 6 (1.30%) EMC
12 6 (1.30%) F5
12 6 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.30%) ServiceNow