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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 472 541
Rank change year-on-year +145 +69 +116
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 366 248 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.30% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 274 184 184
10th Percentile £52,005 £48,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,391 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +6.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £117,421
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +1.62%

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 21,204 19,150 26,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 36.52% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,542 11,236 21,935
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,623 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.36%

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 January 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 January 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 +93 275 £72,500 +6.62% 308
Work from Home +118 174 £72,500 +11.54% 167
UK excluding London +36 171 £65,000 - 268
London +107 134 £77,500 -12.68% 82
North of England +15 51 £64,000 -5.88% 61
Scotland +32 36 £90,000 +56.52% 8
South West +14 36 £72,500 +11.54% 44
South East -14 28 £75,000 +15.38% 84
Yorkshire -23 28 £60,000 +21.21% 29
North West +31 17 £65,000 -23.53% 27
Midlands -11 11 £60,000 -7.69% 25
West Midlands +10 8 £60,000 -7.69% 12
North East +2 6 £55,000 -13.73% 5
East of England +26 5 £65,000 -29.73% 31
East Midlands -10 3 £70,000 +77.22% 13
Wales -4 2 £63,248 -2.70% 12
Northern Ireland -12 2 £62,500 - 7

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 9 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.09%) Apache
2 4 (1.09%) Appian
3 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.82%) IIS
4 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 366 (100.00%) GitHub
2 235 (64.21%) Azure
3 183 (50.00%) AWS
4 158 (43.17%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (24.04%) GCP
6 83 (22.68%) Serverless
7 62 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (16.12%) Datadog
9 55 (15.03%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (14.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (12.57%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (12.30%) Entra ID
13 43 (11.75%) Amazon EKS
14 41 (11.20%) Amazon S3
15 37 (10.11%) Azure AKS
16 31 (8.47%) SaaS
17 29 (7.92%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
18 21 (5.74%) PaaS
19 20 (5.46%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.38%) Firewall
2 17 (4.64%) VPN
3 12 (3.28%) DNS
4 11 (3.01%) WAN
5 10 (2.73%) HTTP
5 10 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.19%) Network Security
7 6 (1.64%) DSL
8 4 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.55%) RTP
9 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.55%) VoIP
9 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.02%) NoSQL
2 41 (11.20%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.28%) DynamoDB
3 23 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.74%) BigQuery
5 15 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.73%) Flink
7 8 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.19%) MySQL
8 7 (1.91%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.37%) Metadata
11 4 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.09%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 144 (39.34%) Jenkins
2 82 (22.40%) Git
3 46 (12.57%) GitLab
4 15 (4.10%) JIRA
5 9 (2.46%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.46%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.19%) Subversion
7 6 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.37%) NUnit
9 4 (1.09%) JMeter
9 4 (1.09%) Selenium
10 3 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.82%) JUnit
10 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.55%) git-flow
11 2 (0.55%) Postman
11 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 120 (32.79%) Finance
2 116 (31.69%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.74%) Telecoms
4 21 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.46%) Banking
5 20 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.83%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.28%) Front Office
7 12 (3.28%) Law
8 11 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (3.01%) Retail
9 7 (1.91%) Back Office
10 6 (1.64%) Electronics
10 6 (1.64%) Marketing
11 4 (1.09%) Advertising
11 4 (1.09%) Billing
11 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (23.22%) Senior
2 80 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (18.85%) Developer
4 48 (13.11%) Lead
5 38 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (10.38%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (9.02%) .NET Developer
7 25 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.74%) Security Engineer
9 20 (5.46%) Senior DevOps
10 19 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.64%) Azure Developer
12 17 (4.64%) GCP Engineer
13 16 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
13 16 (4.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.10%) GCP DevOps
14 15 (4.10%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.83%) AWS Developer
15 14 (3.83%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.49%) .NET
2 70 (19.13%) React
3 60 (16.39%) RESTful
4 42 (11.48%) Node.js
5 32 (8.74%) OAuth
6 27 (7.38%) AWS CDK
7 26 (7.10%) YAML
8 25 (6.83%) .NET Core
8 25 (6.83%) ADO
9 22 (6.01%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (5.46%) HTML
11 20 (5.46%) OAuth2
11 20 (5.46%) REST
12 19 (5.19%) CSS
12 19 (5.19%) JSON
13 18 (4.92%) .NET Framework
13 18 (4.92%) Razor View Engine
14 17 (4.64%) Blazor
14 17 (4.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.68%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.83%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.64%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.09%) Blog
9 4 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.09%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.55%) Genomics
11 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.11%) Linux
2 19 (5.19%) Windows
3 18 (4.92%) VMS
4 5 (1.37%) Unix
5 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.82%) SUSE
6 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (92.08%) CI/CD
2 284 (77.60%) DevOps
3 196 (53.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (40.16%) Containerisation
5 114 (31.15%) Agile
6 111 (30.33%) Observability
7 104 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (27.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (20.77%) Test Automation
10 63 (17.21%) Incident Response
11 58 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
11 58 (15.85%) RBAC
12 56 (15.30%) AI
13 55 (15.03%) Cloud Security
14 54 (14.75%) Analytics
14 54 (14.75%) Microservices
15 53 (14.48%) Deployment Automation
16 52 (14.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 50 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
18 49 (13.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (51.09%) Python
2 106 (28.96%) Bash
3 85 (23.22%) SQL
4 75 (20.49%) PowerShell
5 65 (17.76%) TypeScript
6 60 (16.39%) JavaScript
7 54 (14.75%) Bicep
8 36 (9.84%) Go
9 34 (9.29%) Java
10 33 (9.02%) C#
11 11 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.91%) Rust
13 5 (1.37%) C++
13 5 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.09%) Ruby
15 2 (0.55%) C
15 2 (0.55%) PHP
15 2 (0.55%) VB
16 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (14.75%) Degree
2 44 (12.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 36 (9.84%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.92%) SC Cleared
6 24 (6.56%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.19%) Master's Degree
8 16 (4.37%) CISSP
8 16 (4.37%) CREST Certified
8 16 (4.37%) SANS
9 11 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.64%) OSCP
11 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.55%) CCNA
13 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.75%) QA
2 40 (10.93%) GDPR
3 30 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.64%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.64%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.09%) GRC
8 4 (1.09%) SLA
9 2 (0.55%) ECSS
9 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 170 (46.45%) Docker
2 45 (12.30%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.55%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 220 (60.11%) Terraform
2 180 (49.18%) Kubernetes
3 77 (21.04%) Grafana
4 74 (20.22%) Prometheus
5 60 (16.39%) Ansible
6 25 (6.83%) Argo
7 9 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.09%) Cilium
8 4 (1.09%) logstash
8 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.82%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.82%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.27%) Nagios
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.83%) Google
3 14 (3.83%) Ab Initio
3 14 (3.83%) VMware
4 11 (3.01%) Palo Alto
4 11 (3.01%) Zscaler
5 8 (2.19%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.91%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.91%) Splunk
7 6 (1.64%) SAP
8 5 (1.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.09%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.55%) BT
11 2 (0.55%) Mitel
11 2 (0.55%) Pega
11 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow