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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 444 641
Rank change year-on-year +75 +197 -25
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 398 202 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.35% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 286 158 189
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,350 £43,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £89,375 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +8.80% -10.00%

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 27,721 15,016 34,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 35.45% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14,398 11,000 26,689
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +64 333 £70,400 -6.13% 135
UK excluding London +35 206 £62,500 -8.09% 85
Work from Home +63 160 £65,000 -10.34% 82
London +36 151 £80,000 -3.03% 70
North of England +2 82 £60,000 -11.76% 21
Yorkshire -31 42 £60,000 +21.21% 9
South West -34 34 £75,000 +15.38% 11
South East -22 33 £62,500 -10.71% 28
North West -15 28 £64,000 -14.67% 10
Scotland -3 25 £85,000 +36.00% 8
Midlands -31 20 £65,000 -10.34% 8
East Midlands -34 16 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -31 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
East of England -15 5 £75,000 -1.64% 7
Wales -31 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -43 4 £62,500 -15.25% 5
Northern Ireland -36 2 £62,500 - 3

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 10 (2.51%) Confluence
2 9 (2.26%) Apache
3 8 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.01%) Appian
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.50%) IIS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.50%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 398 (100.00%) GitHub
2 241 (60.55%) Azure
3 225 (56.53%) AWS
4 158 (39.70%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (24.37%) Serverless
6 96 (24.12%) GCP
7 67 (16.83%) Datadog
8 64 (16.08%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (14.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (12.31%) Amazon S3
11 47 (11.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.05%) Entra ID
13 37 (9.30%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (7.29%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.52%) SaaS
19 17 (4.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.32%) Firewall
2 24 (6.03%) VPN
3 23 (5.78%) DNS
4 21 (5.28%) HTTP
5 18 (4.52%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.02%) Network Security
7 13 (3.27%) DSL
7 13 (3.27%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.30%) NoSQL
1 37 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.28%) DynamoDB
3 20 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.02%) BigQuery
6 10 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (2.26%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.26%) Flink
7 9 (2.26%) MySQL
8 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.76%) Metadata
8 7 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.26%) Power BI
9 5 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.01%) Big Data
10 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 149 (37.44%) Jenkins
2 73 (18.34%) Git
3 61 (15.33%) GitLab
4 23 (5.78%) JIRA
5 13 (3.27%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.27%) XCTest
6 11 (2.76%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.01%) Subversion
8 6 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.51%) Storybook
8 6 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.75%) Appium
9 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.75%) Gatling
9 3 (0.75%) Maven
9 3 (0.75%) NUnit
9 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 131 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 98 (24.62%) Finance
3 36 (9.05%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.53%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.28%) Retail
7 19 (4.77%) Banking
7 19 (4.77%) Law
8 13 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.51%) Front Office
10 7 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.51%) Electronics
11 6 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.51%) Marketing
12 5 (1.26%) Advertising
12 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Billing
13 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 98 (24.62%) Senior
2 90 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (19.60%) Developer
4 47 (11.81%) Lead
5 45 (11.31%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.53%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.53%) Architect
10 22 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.53%) Security Engineer
11 20 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.77%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.77%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.27%) Data Engineer
14 16 (4.02%) AWS Developer
15 15 (3.77%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.08%) React
2 53 (13.32%) .NET
3 47 (11.81%) Node.js
4 37 (9.30%) OAuth
5 36 (9.05%) RESTful
6 32 (8.04%) CSS
7 28 (7.04%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.53%) HTML
9 24 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
10 23 (5.78%) .NET Core
11 21 (5.28%) SAML
12 20 (5.03%) ADO
13 19 (4.77%) REST
14 18 (4.52%) Kafka
14 18 (4.52%) YAML
15 16 (4.02%) ASP.NET
16 15 (3.77%) .NET Framework
16 15 (3.77%) AngularJS
16 15 (3.77%) Blazor
16 15 (3.77%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.78%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.27%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.01%) PKI
9 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.26%) CMDB
12 5 (1.26%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.26%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.07%) Linux
2 17 (4.27%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.77%) Windows
4 13 (3.27%) VMS
5 8 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.26%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (94.22%) CI/CD
2 287 (72.11%) DevOps
3 220 (55.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (35.18%) Containerisation
5 120 (30.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (29.40%) Observability
7 116 (29.15%) Agile
8 114 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (17.84%) Analytics
10 70 (17.59%) Test Automation
11 68 (17.09%) Cloud Security
12 67 (16.83%) Incident Response
13 66 (16.58%) DevSecOps
14 65 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
15 63 (15.83%) AI
15 63 (15.83%) Deployment Automation
16 58 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 55 (13.82%) Mentoring
18 50 (12.56%) Continuous Integration
19 48 (12.06%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 198 (49.75%) Python
2 106 (26.63%) Bash
3 81 (20.35%) SQL
4 75 (18.84%) TypeScript
5 71 (17.84%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.57%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.82%) Go
8 31 (7.79%) Bicep
9 30 (7.54%) Java
10 23 (5.78%) Kotlin
11 21 (5.28%) C#
12 15 (3.77%) Rust
13 13 (3.27%) Swift
14 12 (3.02%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.76%) Scala
16 6 (1.51%) Dart
17 5 (1.26%) C++
17 5 (1.26%) Groovy
17 5 (1.26%) PHP
18 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (14.57%) Degree
2 34 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (8.29%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.54%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.02%) OSCP
6 16 (4.02%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.77%) CISSP
8 12 (3.02%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.02%) SANS
9 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.76%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.54%) QA
3 28 (7.04%) GDPR
4 26 (6.53%) SOC 2
5 15 (3.77%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 8 (2.01%) GRC
7 8 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.51%) SLA
9 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.01%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (36.93%) Docker
2 42 (10.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 240 (60.30%) Terraform
2 162 (40.70%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.35%) Ansible
4 80 (20.10%) Grafana
5 73 (18.34%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.78%) Argo
7 9 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.01%) Cilium
8 8 (2.01%) Packer
8 8 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.01%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.25%) Consul
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 72 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.28%) VMware
3 17 (4.27%) Google
3 17 (4.27%) Palo Alto
4 13 (3.27%) Databricks
5 12 (3.02%) Amplitude
5 12 (3.02%) Braze
5 12 (3.02%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.76%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.01%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.76%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.51%) SAP
11 5 (1.26%) Cisco
11 5 (1.26%) EMC
11 5 (1.26%) F5
11 5 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.75%) Tenable