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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 459 641
Rank change year-on-year +81 +182 -31
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 393 193 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.28% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 281 154 197
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
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 26,671 15,071 34,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.33% 34.63% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,912 10,556 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,687 £43,750 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
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 15 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 15 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 +84 335 £70,400 -6.13% 180
UK excluding London +55 201 £65,000 -4.41% 106
London +23 151 £80,000 -3.03% 86
Work from Home +82 144 £65,000 -10.34% 164
North of England +24 83 £60,000 -11.76% 48
Yorkshire -18 44 £62,500 -8.09% 20
South East -3 36 £62,500 -10.71% 33
South West -44 29 £75,000 +17.65% 11
North West +12 25 £65,500 -12.67% 23
Midlands -29 21 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Scotland +12 20 £85,000 +36.00% 5
East Midlands -4 18 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -27 14 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -9 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -31 5 £61,496 -5.39%
West Midlands -42 3 £65,000 -11.86% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.80%) Apache
2 10 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.78%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) IIS
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 393 (100.00%) GitHub
2 231 (58.78%) Azure
3 228 (58.02%) AWS
4 148 (37.66%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (23.92%) Serverless
6 89 (22.65%) GCP
7 66 (16.79%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (16.54%) Datadog
9 62 (15.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (12.72%) Amazon S3
11 47 (11.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 32 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (8.14%) Entra ID
14 31 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (6.87%) Azure AKS
15 27 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.33%) Firebase
18 16 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.47%) Firewall
2 23 (5.85%) VPN
3 20 (5.09%) DNS
4 19 (4.83%) HTTP
5 17 (4.33%) Network Security
6 15 (3.82%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.31%) DSL
8 12 (3.05%) WAN
9 4 (1.02%) SSL
10 3 (0.76%) RTP
10 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.51%) DMARC
11 2 (0.51%) SAN
12 1 (0.25%) BGP
12 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.11%) DynamoDB
4 23 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.29%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.29%) MySQL
9 8 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.78%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.53%) Flink
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.27%) Metadata
12 5 (1.27%) Power BI
13 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.02%) Redis
13 4 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 145 (36.90%) Jenkins
2 74 (18.83%) Git
3 57 (14.50%) GitLab
4 19 (4.83%) JIRA
5 16 (4.07%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.56%) XCTest
7 13 (3.31%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.04%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.53%) Storybook
11 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.27%) Subversion
12 4 (1.02%) fastlane
13 3 (0.76%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.76%) Appium
13 3 (0.76%) Gatling
13 3 (0.76%) Maven
13 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.61%) Finance
3 30 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.11%) Telecoms
5 21 (5.34%) Retail
6 19 (4.83%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.58%) Banking
8 15 (3.82%) Law
9 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.53%) Front Office
11 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Advertising
13 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.76%) Billing
14 3 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Marketing
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 102 (25.95%) Senior
2 85 (21.63%) Developer
3 81 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (12.47%) Platform Engineer
5 42 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.18%) Lead
7 35 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.85%) .NET Developer
8 23 (5.85%) Architect
8 23 (5.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.60%) Security Engineer
10 21 (5.34%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.83%) Data Engineer
12 18 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.33%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.82%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.56%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.56%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.03%) React
2 55 (13.99%) Node.js
3 49 (12.47%) .NET
4 36 (9.16%) OAuth
5 35 (8.91%) CSS
6 31 (7.89%) RESTful
7 27 (6.87%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.62%) HTML
9 23 (5.85%) REST
10 21 (5.34%) .NET Core
11 20 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (5.09%) SAML
12 18 (4.58%) YAML
13 17 (4.33%) ADO
13 17 (4.33%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.07%) ASP.NET
15 15 (3.82%) OAuth2
16 14 (3.56%) UIKit
17 13 (3.31%) .NET Framework
17 13 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.37%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.62%) Mobile App
2 26 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.82%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.56%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.80%) PKI
9 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.53%) CMDB
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.02%) Hackathon
14 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.25%) Linux
2 18 (4.58%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.82%) Windows
4 13 (3.31%) VMS
5 9 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.78%) Android
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
9 2 (0.51%) SUSE
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (93.64%) CI/CD
2 269 (68.45%) DevOps
3 221 (56.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (34.86%) Containerisation
5 115 (29.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 112 (28.50%) Agile
7 109 (27.74%) Observability
8 101 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.32%) Analytics
9 72 (18.32%) Test Automation
10 70 (17.81%) Cloud Security
11 67 (17.05%) Platform Engineering
12 64 (16.28%) DevSecOps
13 63 (16.03%) AI
13 63 (16.03%) Deployment Automation
13 63 (16.03%) Incident Response
14 53 (13.49%) Mentoring
15 51 (12.98%) Software Engineering
16 49 (12.47%) Continuous Integration
16 49 (12.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (48.85%) Python
2 98 (24.94%) Bash
3 81 (20.61%) SQL
4 77 (19.59%) TypeScript
5 69 (17.56%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.76%) JavaScript
7 52 (13.23%) Go
8 33 (8.40%) Java
9 29 (7.38%) Kotlin
10 23 (5.85%) Bicep
10 23 (5.85%) C#
11 15 (3.82%) Rust
12 14 (3.56%) Swift
13 11 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (2.04%) Groovy
15 7 (1.78%) Scala
16 6 (1.53%) Dart
16 6 (1.53%) PHP
16 6 (1.53%) T-SQL
17 5 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (14.25%) Degree
2 33 (8.40%) AWS Certification
2 33 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.34%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.07%) OSCP
7 13 (3.31%) CISSP
8 10 (2.54%) CREST Certified
8 10 (2.54%) SANS
9 9 (2.29%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (6.87%) QA
2 27 (6.87%) SOC 2
3 25 (6.36%) GDPR
4 15 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.80%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.54%) GRC
7 7 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.27%) SLA
9 4 (1.02%) NIST
9 4 (1.02%) WCAG
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 145 (36.90%) Docker
2 35 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 239 (60.81%) Terraform
2 158 (40.20%) Kubernetes
3 76 (19.34%) Ansible
4 72 (18.32%) Grafana
5 63 (16.03%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.33%) Argo
7 11 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.54%) Cilium
9 9 (2.29%) Packer
10 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
12 4 (1.02%) logstash
13 3 (0.76%) Puppet
14 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.51%) Rancher
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Kibana
15 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 64 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.34%) VMware
3 17 (4.33%) Palo Alto
4 16 (4.07%) Google
5 13 (3.31%) Amplitude
5 13 (3.31%) Braze
5 13 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.80%) Zscaler
7 10 (2.54%) Databricks
8 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.53%) Ab Initio
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
9 6 (1.53%) EMC
9 6 (1.53%) F5
9 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.02%) SAP
11 3 (0.76%) Intel