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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 461 619
Rank change year-on-year +72 +158 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 399 196 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.38% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 284 153 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £53,438 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £96,250
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 27,048 14,241 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 33.46% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15,424 9,798 26,792
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £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 £83,738 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 26 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 26 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 +60 346 £70,400 -6.13% 135
UK excluding London +63 204 £65,000 -4.41% 80
London +26 155 £80,000 -3.03% 69
Work from Home +53 141 £65,000 -10.34% 74
North of England +27 90 £62,500 -8.09% 36
Yorkshire -14 46 £63,750 -6.25% 12
South East +8 37 £61,250 -12.50% 17
North West +9 28 £65,500 -12.67% 17
South West -53 27 £75,000 +22.45% 12
Midlands -33 22 £65,000 -10.34% 4
East Midlands -15 18 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Scotland +11 17 £85,000 +36.00% 3
North East -30 16 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -21 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -35 4 £63,250 +5.42%
West Midlands -54 4 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 5

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 (2.76%) Apache
2 10 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.50%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (0.50%) Appian
6 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
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
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 399 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (59.90%) AWS
3 233 (58.40%) Azure
4 147 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (23.31%) Serverless
6 88 (22.06%) GCP
7 68 (17.04%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 60 (15.04%) Datadog
10 53 (13.28%) Amazon S3
11 44 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (9.27%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (6.77%) Entra ID
17 25 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (6.02%) Azure AKS
19 17 (4.26%) Firebase
19 17 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.03%) Firewall
2 21 (5.26%) VPN
3 19 (4.76%) DNS
3 19 (4.76%) HTTP
4 17 (4.26%) Network Security
5 15 (3.76%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.26%) DSL
7 10 (2.51%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) DMARC
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) SAN
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%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.77%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.52%) DynamoDB
3 26 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.76%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.76%) MySQL
8 10 (2.51%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.75%) Power BI
10 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.25%) Flink
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
12 4 (1.00%) Big Data
12 4 (1.00%) Redis
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 142 (35.59%) Jenkins
2 80 (20.05%) Git
3 54 (13.53%) GitLab
4 19 (4.76%) JIRA
5 17 (4.26%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.76%) TeamCity
7 14 (3.51%) XCTest
8 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.50%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) fastlane
12 4 (1.00%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.00%) Gradle
12 4 (1.00%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.00%) Subversion
13 3 (0.75%) Maven
13 3 (0.75%) NUnit
General
1 127 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.05%) Finance
3 28 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.27%) Retail
5 21 (5.26%) Banking
5 21 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.51%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.76%) Law
8 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
10 5 (1.25%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Automotive
11 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.75%) Military
11 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (25.81%) Senior
2 91 (22.81%) Developer
3 78 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.78%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (10.28%) Lead
7 35 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.27%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.76%) Architect
10 23 (5.76%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.76%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.76%) Data Engineer
14 17 (4.26%) AWS Developer
14 17 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (4.01%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (4.01%) Python Developer
16 15 (3.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.04%) React
2 59 (14.79%) Node.js
3 52 (13.03%) .NET
4 43 (10.78%) CSS
5 38 (9.52%) OAuth
6 31 (7.77%) RESTful
7 30 (7.52%) REST
8 29 (7.27%) HTML
9 26 (6.52%) AWS CDK
10 21 (5.26%) .NET Core
11 20 (5.01%) ASP.NET
12 19 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (4.76%) OAuth2
13 18 (4.51%) AngularJS
13 18 (4.51%) YAML
14 17 (4.26%) SAML
15 15 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
16 14 (3.51%) .NET Framework
16 14 (3.51%) ADO
16 14 (3.51%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 88 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.52%) Mobile App
2 26 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.76%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.51%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.26%) PKI
9 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.50%) CMDB
12 6 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.04%) Linux
2 18 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.51%) Windows
4 10 (2.51%) VMS
5 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.01%) Android
7 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (93.48%) CI/CD
2 267 (66.92%) DevOps
3 221 (55.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (34.59%) Containerisation
5 112 (28.07%) Agile
6 109 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 102 (25.56%) Observability
8 98 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (18.80%) Test Automation
10 71 (17.79%) Analytics
11 69 (17.29%) Cloud Security
12 67 (16.79%) AI
13 66 (16.54%) Platform Engineering
14 64 (16.04%) DevSecOps
15 60 (15.04%) Incident Response
16 59 (14.79%) Deployment Automation
17 57 (14.29%) Software Engineering
18 56 (14.04%) Mentoring
19 52 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
20 49 (12.28%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 188 (47.12%) Python
2 94 (23.56%) Bash
3 80 (20.05%) SQL
4 79 (19.80%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.29%) PowerShell
6 61 (15.29%) JavaScript
7 53 (13.28%) Go
8 36 (9.02%) Java
9 31 (7.77%) Kotlin
10 29 (7.27%) C#
11 22 (5.51%) Bicep
12 15 (3.76%) Rust
13 14 (3.51%) Swift
14 10 (2.51%) Groovy
15 9 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (1.75%) Scala
17 6 (1.50%) Dart
17 6 (1.50%) PHP
18 5 (1.25%) C++
18 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (13.78%) Degree
2 36 (9.02%) AWS Certification
3 34 (8.52%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.01%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.01%) OSCP
8 11 (2.76%) CISSP
9 8 (2.01%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.01%) SANS
10 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.52%) QA
3 27 (6.77%) SOC 2
4 21 (5.26%) GDPR
5 15 (3.76%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.01%) GRC
7 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.25%) WCAG
10 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
10 4 (1.00%) SLA
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (36.09%) Docker
2 31 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (59.40%) Terraform
2 154 (38.60%) Kubernetes
3 72 (18.05%) Ansible
4 69 (17.29%) Grafana
5 58 (14.54%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.76%) Argo
7 13 (3.26%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.01%) Cilium
9 9 (2.26%) Packer
10 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.75%) logstash
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
13 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Rancher
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 59 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.51%) VMware
3 17 (4.26%) Google
4 15 (3.76%) Palo Alto
5 14 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.26%) Amplitude
6 13 (3.26%) Braze
7 11 (2.76%) Databricks
7 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.26%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.50%) Cisco
9 6 (1.50%) EMC
9 6 (1.50%) F5
9 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.25%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.00%) SendGrid
12 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.75%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.75%) Varonis