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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 465 629
Rank change year-on-year +71 +164 -25
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 390 194 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.35% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 275 152 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £59,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -6.40%

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 26,956 14,399 34,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 33.54% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,246 9,913 26,655
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +8.50% -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 May 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 22 May 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 +68 337 £70,400 -6.13% 131
UK excluding London +67 200 £65,000 -4.41% 80
London +17 150 £80,000 -3.03% 67
Work from Home +64 139 £65,000 -10.34% 78
North of England +25 88 £60,000 -11.76% 33
Yorkshire -7 46 £62,500 -8.09% 11
South East -17 35 £60,000 -14.29% 21
South West -49 27 £75,000 +22.45% 13
North West +10 26 £65,500 -12.67% 17
Midlands -30 22 £65,000 -10.34% 4
East Midlands -19 18 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Scotland +7 17 £85,000 +36.00% 2
North East -24 16 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -12 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
West Midlands -36 4 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Wales -39 4 £63,250 +5.42%
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 4

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 (2.82%) Apache
2 10 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.54%) Confluence
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.03%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 390 (100.00%) GitHub
2 234 (60.00%) AWS
3 227 (58.21%) Azure
4 145 (37.18%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (23.33%) Serverless
6 87 (22.31%) GCP
7 65 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (16.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 61 (15.64%) Datadog
10 50 (12.82%) Amazon S3
11 44 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.74%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (7.44%) Entra ID
16 26 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (6.41%) Azure AKS
18 18 (4.62%) Firebase
19 16 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.56%) Firewall
2 22 (5.64%) VPN
3 20 (5.13%) DNS
4 19 (4.87%) HTTP
5 18 (4.62%) Network Security
6 15 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.33%) DSL
8 11 (2.82%) WAN
9 4 (1.03%) SSL
10 3 (0.77%) DMARC
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 1 (0.26%) BGP
11 1 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.15%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.56%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.56%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.56%) MySQL
8 6 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.54%) Power BI
9 5 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.28%) Flink
9 5 (1.28%) Metadata
9 5 (1.28%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.03%) Big Data
10 4 (1.03%) Redis
10 4 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 75 (19.23%) Git
3 53 (13.59%) GitLab
4 17 (4.36%) Crashlytics
4 17 (4.36%) JIRA
5 15 (3.85%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.59%) XCTest
7 8 (2.05%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.54%) Storybook
10 5 (1.28%) fastlane
11 4 (1.03%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.03%) Gradle
11 4 (1.03%) Subversion
12 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.77%) Maven
12 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
General
1 125 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.72%) Finance
3 28 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.15%) Retail
5 21 (5.38%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.13%) Banking
7 17 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.85%) Law
9 10 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Advertising
12 5 (1.28%) Front Office
13 3 (0.77%) Automotive
13 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.77%) Military
13 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 101 (25.90%) Senior
2 88 (22.56%) Developer
3 78 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (12.05%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (9.74%) Lead
7 34 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.90%) .NET Developer
8 23 (5.90%) Architect
8 23 (5.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 22 (5.64%) Security Engineer
10 21 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.38%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.87%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.36%) AWS Developer
12 17 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
13 16 (4.10%) Python Developer
14 15 (3.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.15%) React
2 57 (14.62%) Node.js
3 48 (12.31%) .NET
4 39 (10.00%) CSS
5 36 (9.23%) OAuth
6 30 (7.69%) RESTful
7 27 (6.92%) HTML
7 27 (6.92%) REST
8 26 (6.67%) AWS CDK
9 20 (5.13%) .NET Core
10 19 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (4.62%) AngularJS
11 18 (4.62%) SAML
11 18 (4.62%) YAML
12 17 (4.36%) ASP.NET
13 16 (4.10%) OAuth2
14 15 (3.85%) ADO
15 14 (3.59%) UIKit
16 13 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (3.33%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.92%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.59%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.33%) PKI
9 11 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.54%) CMDB
12 6 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.77%) Hackathon
14 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.36%) Linux
2 18 (4.62%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.59%) Windows
4 12 (3.08%) VMS
5 9 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.05%) Android
7 5 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (93.59%) CI/CD
2 263 (67.44%) DevOps
3 219 (56.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (35.13%) Containerisation
5 109 (27.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 108 (27.69%) Agile
7 103 (26.41%) Observability
8 95 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.46%) Test Automation
10 71 (18.21%) Analytics
11 69 (17.69%) Cloud Security
12 65 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (16.41%) AI
13 64 (16.41%) DevSecOps
14 60 (15.38%) Incident Response
15 59 (15.13%) Deployment Automation
16 56 (14.36%) Software Engineering
17 53 (13.59%) Mentoring
18 50 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
19 49 (12.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 187 (47.95%) Python
2 93 (23.85%) Bash
3 80 (20.51%) SQL
4 77 (19.74%) TypeScript
5 67 (17.18%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.87%) JavaScript
7 53 (13.59%) Go
8 34 (8.72%) Java
9 31 (7.95%) Kotlin
10 25 (6.41%) C#
11 22 (5.64%) Bicep
12 15 (3.85%) Rust
13 14 (3.59%) Swift
14 10 (2.56%) Groovy
14 10 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.79%) Scala
16 6 (1.54%) Dart
16 6 (1.54%) PHP
16 6 (1.54%) T-SQL
17 5 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (13.85%) Degree
2 34 (8.72%) AWS Certification
3 33 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.10%) OSCP
7 11 (2.82%) CISSP
8 8 (2.05%) CREST Certified
8 8 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.05%) SANS
9 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.77%) CCSP
12 3 (0.77%) CISM
12 3 (0.77%) GCIA
12 3 (0.77%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.18%) SOC 2
3 26 (6.67%) QA
4 22 (5.64%) GDPR
5 14 (3.59%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.08%) GRC
7 11 (2.82%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.79%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.28%) WCAG
10 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.03%) NIST
10 4 (1.03%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 143 (36.67%) Docker
2 32 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (60.26%) Terraform
2 154 (39.49%) Kubernetes
3 73 (18.72%) Ansible
4 69 (17.69%) Grafana
5 58 (14.87%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.85%) Argo
7 13 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.08%) Cilium
9 9 (2.31%) Packer
10 8 (2.05%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.77%) logstash
12 3 (0.77%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.26%) Consul
14 1 (0.26%) Kibana
14 1 (0.26%) Rancher
14 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 60 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.64%) VMware
3 16 (4.10%) Google
3 16 (4.10%) Palo Alto
4 14 (3.59%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.33%) Amplitude
5 13 (3.33%) Braze
6 11 (2.82%) Databricks
6 11 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.56%) Zscaler
8 9 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.54%) Cisco
9 6 (1.54%) EMC
9 6 (1.54%) F5
9 6 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.28%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Intel
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel
11 3 (0.77%) SAP