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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 451 574
Rank change year-on-year +111 +123 +71
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 387 228 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.32% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 291 172 176
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,313 £97,290
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £111,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 23,010 17,328 29,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.83% 37.07% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12,378 10,878 24,451
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +91 303 £70,000 - 388
UK excluding London +59 196 £65,000 - 338
Work from Home +85 174 £65,250 -6.79% 281
London +76 138 £80,000 -11.11% 95
North of England +16 65 £60,000 -11.76% 69
South West -5 39 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Scotland +19 35 £90,000 +56.52% 12
South East -18 35 £65,000 - 117
Yorkshire -22 33 £60,000 +21.21% 26
North West +14 21 £65,000 -23.53% 30
Midlands -22 15 £65,000 - 29
North East -1 11 £47,500 -13.64% 13
East Midlands -23 8 £75,000 +89.87% 15
West Midlands -6 7 £60,000 -7.69% 13
East of England +10 4 £65,000 -38.10% 48
Northern Ireland -27 2 £62,500 - 7
Wales -20 1 £61,496 -5.39% 17

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 (2.33%) Confluence
2 7 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.29%) Apache
4 4 (1.03%) Appian
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (63.31%) Azure
3 206 (53.23%) AWS
4 163 (42.12%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (25.84%) GCP
6 86 (22.22%) Serverless
7 61 (15.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (15.76%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (15.50%) Datadog
9 54 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (11.89%) Entra ID
11 44 (11.37%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (11.37%) Amazon S3
12 41 (10.59%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (9.30%) Azure AKS
14 33 (8.53%) AWS Step Functions
15 29 (7.49%) SaaS
16 21 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (5.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.11%) Firewall
2 20 (5.17%) VPN
3 19 (4.91%) HTTP
4 18 (4.65%) DNS
5 16 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.36%) Network Security
7 12 (3.10%) WAN
8 11 (2.84%) DSL
9 4 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.78%) RTP
10 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.78%) VoIP
10 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.56%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 15 (3.88%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.58%) Flink
8 8 (2.07%) MySQL
9 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.81%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.29%) Metadata
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.03%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 161 (41.60%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.90%) Git
3 61 (15.76%) GitLab
4 15 (3.88%) JIRA
5 12 (3.10%) CircleCI
5 12 (3.10%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.33%) Subversion
7 6 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.29%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.29%) NUnit
9 3 (0.78%) Crashlytics
9 3 (0.78%) JMeter
9 3 (0.78%) Selenium
9 3 (0.78%) XCTest
10 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.52%) Deequ
10 2 (0.52%) JUnit
10 2 (0.52%) MSTest
10 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 119 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 115 (29.72%) Finance
3 40 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.94%) Banking
5 21 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.17%) Law
7 18 (4.65%) Retail
8 14 (3.62%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.10%) Front Office
10 11 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.55%) Back Office
11 6 (1.55%) Electronics
11 6 (1.55%) Marketing
12 4 (1.03%) Advertising
12 4 (1.03%) Billing
12 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (23.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (22.48%) Senior
3 72 (18.60%) Developer
4 52 (13.44%) Lead
5 44 (11.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.27%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.49%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.17%) Applications Engineer
12 18 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.39%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.88%) Architect
15 14 (3.62%) AWS Developer
15 14 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.62%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.09%) React
2 67 (17.31%) .NET
3 53 (13.70%) RESTful
4 42 (10.85%) Node.js
5 38 (9.82%) OAuth
6 28 (7.24%) AWS CDK
6 28 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.46%) YAML
8 24 (6.20%) .NET Core
9 23 (5.94%) ADO
9 23 (5.94%) CSS
9 23 (5.94%) HTML
10 21 (5.43%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.43%) OAuth2
11 20 (5.17%) REST
12 19 (4.91%) JSON
13 18 (4.65%) Kafka
14 17 (4.39%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.39%) SAML
15 16 (4.13%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.29%) Hackathon
7 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.29%) PKI
8 4 (1.03%) Blog
9 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.52%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.70%) Linux
2 17 (4.39%) VMS
3 15 (3.88%) Windows
4 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.29%) Unix
6 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) SUSE
8 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (91.21%) CI/CD
2 289 (74.68%) DevOps
3 212 (54.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (40.57%) Containerisation
5 122 (31.52%) Agile
6 110 (28.42%) Observability
7 107 (27.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 107 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (18.86%) Test Automation
9 72 (18.60%) Incident Response
10 62 (16.02%) Cloud Security
11 57 (14.73%) AI
11 57 (14.73%) Deployment Automation
11 57 (14.73%) DevSecOps
11 57 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (14.47%) RBAC
13 54 (13.95%) Analytics
13 54 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 53 (13.70%) Microservices
15 52 (13.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 198 (51.16%) Python
2 116 (29.97%) Bash
3 81 (20.93%) SQL
4 73 (18.86%) PowerShell
5 67 (17.31%) TypeScript
6 63 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.92%) Go
8 48 (12.40%) Bicep
9 32 (8.27%) Java
10 27 (6.98%) C#
11 13 (3.36%) Rust
12 12 (3.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.55%) C++
15 4 (1.03%) Swift
15 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.78%) C
16 3 (0.78%) Ruby
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
17 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (13.95%) Degree
2 38 (9.82%) AWS Certification
3 37 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (8.27%) Security Cleared
5 23 (5.94%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.43%) CISSP
7 20 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 20 (5.17%) CREST Certified
7 20 (5.17%) SANS
8 14 (3.62%) Master's Degree
9 12 (3.10%) OSCP
10 11 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA CySA+
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.56%) QA
2 35 (9.04%) GDPR
3 31 (8.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.20%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.17%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.07%) GRC
8 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.03%) SLA
11 3 (0.78%) NIST
12 2 (0.52%) ECSS
13 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (42.64%) Docker
2 42 (10.85%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 231 (59.69%) Terraform
2 179 (46.25%) Kubernetes
3 85 (21.96%) Grafana
4 79 (20.41%) Prometheus
5 74 (19.12%) Ansible
6 25 (6.46%) Argo
7 10 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.07%) Cilium
9 6 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.03%) logstash
11 3 (0.78%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.17%) Google
3 16 (4.13%) VMware
4 14 (3.62%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.10%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.10%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.55%) SAP
7 6 (1.55%) Splunk
8 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.29%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.03%) Databricks
9 4 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.78%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.78%) BT
10 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.78%) Mitel