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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 495 471
Rank change year-on-year +140 -24 +213
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 326 255 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.18% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 240 199 200
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -17.12% +12.95%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £65,000 £70,288
% change year-on-year +2.31% -7.52% +0.41%

All Cloud 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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +99 241 £70,000 +6.06% 248
Work from Home +154 166 £72,500 +11.54% 162
UK excluding London +82 158 £66,500 +2.31% 219
London +104 113 £77,500 -8.82% 72
North of England +13 41 £65,000 -4.41% 55
Scotland +36 35 £90,000 +56.52% 12
South East +19 30 £75,000 +15.38% 67
South West +34 27 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Yorkshire -38 21 £60,000 +21.21% 26
North West +56 17 £65,000 -16.13% 21
Midlands +16 14 £60,000 -7.69% 25
West Midlands +15 11 £60,000 -7.69% 16
East of England +29 7 £65,000 -18.75% 22
Wales -4 4 £60,748 -6.54% 4
East Midlands +14 3 £60,000 +23.71% 8
North East +11 3 £65,000 -10.34% 9

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 8 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.45%) Confluence
2 5 (1.53%) IIS
3 4 (1.23%) Appian
4 3 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.92%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 326 (100.00%) GitHub
2 213 (65.34%) Azure
3 155 (47.55%) AWS
4 149 (45.71%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (22.39%) GCP
6 60 (18.40%) Serverless
7 48 (14.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (14.42%) Datadog
9 40 (12.27%) Azure Monitor
10 39 (11.96%) Amazon EKS
11 38 (11.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (10.43%) Entra ID
14 33 (10.12%) SaaS
15 32 (9.82%) Amazon S3
16 31 (9.51%) Azure AKS
17 22 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (5.52%) PaaS
20 17 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.60%) Firewall
2 9 (2.76%) Network Security
3 8 (2.45%) VPN
4 7 (2.15%) DNS
5 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.92%) HTTP
8 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 34 (10.43%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.83%) BigQuery
4 16 (4.91%) DynamoDB
5 15 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.45%) Flink
7 8 (2.45%) Power BI
8 7 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.15%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.53%) Looker
9 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.53%) Tableau
10 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.23%) Metadata
10 4 (1.23%) Weaviate
11 3 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 111 (34.05%) Jenkins
2 69 (21.17%) Git
3 37 (11.35%) GitLab
4 14 (4.29%) JIRA
5 12 (3.68%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.45%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.15%) Subversion
8 5 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.53%) Selenium
9 4 (1.23%) JMeter
9 4 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.92%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.92%) JUnit
10 3 (0.92%) Postman
10 3 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.61%) Appium
General
1 104 (31.90%) Finance
2 98 (30.06%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.36%) Telecoms
4 21 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.13%) Banking
5 20 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.60%) Law
7 12 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.68%) Marketing
7 12 (3.68%) Retail
8 10 (3.07%) Front Office
8 10 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.45%) Back Office
10 6 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.53%) Advertising
11 5 (1.53%) Electronics
11 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 68 (20.86%) Senior
3 56 (17.18%) Lead
4 41 (12.58%) Developer
5 39 (11.96%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (10.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.36%) .NET Developer
8 22 (6.75%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
10 19 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.91%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (4.29%) Lead Developer
15 13 (3.99%) Applications Engineer
15 13 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (3.99%) Azure Developer
15 13 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 12 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (22.70%) .NET
2 62 (19.02%) React
3 57 (17.48%) RESTful
4 25 (7.67%) Node.js
5 20 (6.13%) .NET Core
5 20 (6.13%) ARM Templates
5 20 (6.13%) JSON
5 20 (6.13%) YAML
6 19 (5.83%) Kafka
7 17 (5.21%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.21%) GraphQL
7 17 (5.21%) OAuth
7 17 (5.21%) REST
8 16 (4.91%) .NET Framework
8 16 (4.91%) ADO
8 16 (4.91%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 14 (4.29%) Blazor
10 13 (3.99%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 78 (23.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.98%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.84%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.23%) Blog
8 4 (1.23%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.23%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.58%) Linux
2 20 (6.13%) Windows
3 13 (3.99%) VMS
4 5 (1.53%) Unix
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) SUSE
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (90.80%) CI/CD
2 257 (78.83%) DevOps
3 157 (48.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (38.04%) Containerisation
5 99 (30.37%) Agile
6 89 (27.30%) Observability
7 87 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (22.09%) Test Automation
10 67 (20.55%) Software Engineering
11 55 (16.87%) Microservices
11 55 (16.87%) Platform Engineering
12 53 (16.26%) AI
13 47 (14.42%) Incident Response
13 47 (14.42%) RBAC
14 46 (14.11%) Cloud Security
14 46 (14.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 46 (14.11%) Mentoring
14 46 (14.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 45 (13.80%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 164 (50.31%) Python
2 93 (28.53%) Bash
3 73 (22.39%) PowerShell
4 72 (22.09%) SQL
5 56 (17.18%) Bicep
6 48 (14.72%) JavaScript
7 45 (13.80%) TypeScript
8 40 (12.27%) C#
9 38 (11.66%) Java
10 28 (8.59%) Go
11 5 (1.53%) Ruby
12 4 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.23%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.23%) Scala
12 4 (1.23%) Swift
12 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.92%) C++
13 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (14.11%) Degree
2 39 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (9.20%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 26 (7.98%) Azure Certification
6 25 (7.67%) SC Cleared
7 18 (5.52%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.68%) CISSP
8 12 (3.68%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.68%) SANS
9 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.92%) CCNA
12 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.31%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.88%) QA
2 31 (9.51%) GDPR
3 23 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (4.91%) Accessibility
5 10 (3.07%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.23%) GRC
8 4 (1.23%) SLA
9 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.61%) ECSS
9 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 155 (47.55%) Docker
2 35 (10.74%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.53%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 191 (58.59%) Terraform
2 177 (54.29%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.02%) Prometheus
4 60 (18.40%) Grafana
5 44 (13.50%) Ansible
6 24 (7.36%) Argo
7 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.23%) Cilium
8 4 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.92%) logstash
9 3 (0.92%) Rancher
10 2 (0.61%) Control-M
11 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.31%) Icinga
11 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
11 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.67%) Google
3 15 (4.60%) VMware
4 14 (4.29%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.68%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.76%) Databricks
7 7 (2.15%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.84%) Splunk
9 5 (1.53%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.53%) SAP
10 4 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.23%) Talend
10 4 (1.23%) Zoho
10 4 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.92%) Informatica
11 3 (0.92%) Pega