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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 479 483
Rank change year-on-year +132 +4 +181
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 332 257 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.24% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 249 202 192
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -17.75% +9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £103,125
90th Percentile £104,000 £98,375 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.90% +0.82%

All Cloud 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 20,624 20,647 20,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 36.01% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,480 17,362
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,253 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 16 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 17 December 2025. 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 +75 244 £71,250 +7.95% 143
Work from Home +156 171 £72,500 +11.54% 92
UK excluding London +43 160 £67,500 +3.85% 117
London +95 116 £77,500 -8.82% 59
North of England +6 41 £65,000 +31.31% 31
Scotland +37 36 £90,000 +56.52% 6
South West +16 29 £70,000 +7.69% 16
South East +8 28 £75,000 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire -39 21 £60,000 +21.21% 17
North West +47 17 £65,000 -16.13% 9
Midlands +10 15 £60,000 -7.69% 14
West Midlands +9 12 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England +31 7 £65,000 -18.75% 7
Wales -4 4 £60,748 -6.54% 4
North East +7 3 £65,000 -10.34% 6
East Midlands +4 3 £60,000 +23.71% 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 9 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.71%) Confluence
2 5 (1.51%) IIS
3 4 (1.20%) Appian
4 3 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) GitHub
2 219 (65.96%) Azure
3 160 (48.19%) AWS
4 154 (46.39%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (21.99%) GCP
6 68 (20.48%) Serverless
7 53 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (14.76%) Datadog
9 43 (12.95%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (12.65%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (11.14%) Entra ID
13 34 (10.24%) Amazon S3
13 34 (10.24%) Azure AKS
13 34 (10.24%) SaaS
14 22 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (5.72%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (5.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.71%) Network Security
2 9 (2.71%) VPN
3 7 (2.11%) DNS
4 5 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.51%) WAN
5 4 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.90%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.75%) NoSQL
1 39 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.33%) BigQuery
3 19 (5.72%) DynamoDB
4 18 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.01%) Flink
8 7 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.11%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.81%) Power BI
9 6 (1.81%) Tableau
10 5 (1.51%) Looker
10 5 (1.51%) Metadata
10 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.20%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (36.14%) Jenkins
2 74 (22.29%) Git
3 39 (11.75%) GitLab
4 15 (4.52%) JIRA
5 12 (3.61%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.71%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.41%) Subversion
8 7 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.51%) Selenium
10 4 (1.20%) JMeter
10 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.90%) JUnit
11 3 (0.90%) Postman
11 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.60%) Appium
12 2 (0.60%) git-flow
12 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (32.23%) Finance
1 107 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.83%) Telecoms
3 22 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.02%) Banking
6 14 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.61%) Front Office
7 12 (3.61%) Retail
8 11 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.01%) Law
9 10 (3.01%) Marketing
10 8 (2.41%) Back Office
11 6 (1.81%) Electronics
12 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.60%) Billing
15 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (21.08%) Senior
3 52 (15.66%) Lead
4 50 (15.06%) Developer
5 37 (11.14%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (8.43%) .NET Developer
8 21 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.72%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.82%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.22%) Azure Developer
13 14 (4.22%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Development Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (23.49%) .NET
2 65 (19.58%) React
3 57 (17.17%) RESTful
4 31 (9.34%) Node.js
5 22 (6.63%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.33%) ARM Templates
6 21 (6.33%) JSON
6 21 (6.33%) YAML
7 20 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 19 (5.72%) OAuth
9 18 (5.42%) ADO
9 18 (5.42%) Kafka
10 17 (5.12%) .NET Framework
10 17 (5.12%) AWS CDK
10 17 (5.12%) Blazor
10 17 (5.12%) REST
11 16 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (4.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 14 (4.22%) AngularJS
13 14 (4.22%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.81%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.20%) Blog
9 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.20%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Derivative
11 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.95%) Linux
2 20 (6.02%) Windows
3 14 (4.22%) VMS
4 5 (1.51%) Unix
4 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.90%) SUSE
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (90.96%) CI/CD
2 268 (80.72%) DevOps
3 163 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (38.55%) Containerisation
5 106 (31.93%) Agile
6 92 (27.71%) Observability
6 92 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (23.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (21.99%) Test Automation
9 58 (17.47%) Software Engineering
10 57 (17.17%) AI
11 55 (16.57%) Microservices
11 55 (16.57%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (15.36%) Deployment Automation
12 51 (15.36%) Incident Response
13 50 (15.06%) RBAC
14 49 (14.76%) Cloud Security
15 48 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (13.86%) Analytics
17 45 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 171 (51.51%) Python
2 94 (28.31%) Bash
3 80 (24.10%) SQL
4 73 (21.99%) PowerShell
5 59 (17.77%) Bicep
6 53 (15.96%) JavaScript
7 49 (14.76%) TypeScript
8 38 (11.45%) C#
9 33 (9.94%) Java
10 24 (7.23%) Go
11 5 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.51%) Ruby
12 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.20%) Scala
12 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.90%) Swift
14 2 (0.60%) C++
15 1 (0.30%) Dart
15 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (14.16%) Degree
2 39 (11.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (10.24%) Security Cleared
4 32 (9.64%) AWS Certification
5 29 (8.73%) SC Cleared
6 28 (8.43%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.42%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.61%) CISSP
8 12 (3.61%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.61%) SANS
9 10 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.90%) CCNA
11 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.25%) QA
2 33 (9.94%) GDPR
3 24 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.52%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.31%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.20%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) ECSS
9 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 157 (47.29%) Docker
2 38 (11.45%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 198 (59.64%) Terraform
2 171 (51.51%) Kubernetes
3 64 (19.28%) Prometheus
4 62 (18.67%) Grafana
5 45 (13.55%) Ansible
6 24 (7.23%) Argo
7 9 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.20%) Cilium
8 4 (1.20%) logstash
8 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.90%) Rancher
10 2 (0.60%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.53%) Google
3 14 (4.22%) OpenAI
3 14 (4.22%) VMware
4 13 (3.92%) Ab Initio
5 11 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.71%) Databricks
7 8 (2.41%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.81%) SAP
8 6 (1.81%) Splunk
9 5 (1.51%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.51%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.20%) Talend
10 4 (1.20%) Zoho
11 3 (0.90%) Informatica
11 3 (0.90%) Pega