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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 458 633
Rank change year-on-year +79 +175 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 403 199 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.30% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 287 156 198
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £44,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £102,250 £103,750 £98,931
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -10.00%

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 27,966 15,270 34,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.63% 35.13% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,636 10,949 26,723
10th Percentile £31,188 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £95,000
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 6 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 6 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 +80 340 £70,400 -6.13% 167
UK excluding London +48 208 £65,000 -4.41% 108
Work from Home +75 158 £65,000 -10.34% 96
London +24 155 £80,000 -3.03% 76
North of England +7 84 £60,000 -11.76% 42
Yorkshire -16 44 £60,000 +2.13% 15
South East -10 35 £62,500 -10.71% 33
South West -41 32 £75,000 +15.38% 14
North West -7 27 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Scotland +5 25 £85,000 +36.00% 7
Midlands -33 20 £65,000 -10.34% 8
East Midlands -26 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East -21 13 £47,500 -17.39% 12
East of England -10 5 £75,000 -1.64% 4
Wales -29 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -34 4 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Northern Ireland -36 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 9 (2.23%) Apache
1 9 (2.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.99%) Appian
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) 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
1 403 (100.00%) GitHub
2 242 (60.05%) Azure
3 228 (56.58%) AWS
4 156 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (24.32%) GCP
6 96 (23.82%) Serverless
7 66 (16.38%) Datadog
8 65 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (12.16%) Amazon S3
11 46 (11.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (9.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (9.18%) Entra ID
13 33 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.44%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.47%) SaaS
19 17 (4.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.15%) Firewall
2 24 (5.96%) VPN
3 23 (5.71%) DNS
4 21 (5.21%) HTTP
5 18 (4.47%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.97%) Network Security
7 13 (3.23%) DSL
7 13 (3.23%) WAN
8 4 (0.99%) SSL
9 3 (0.74%) RTP
9 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) VoIP
9 3 (0.74%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.68%) NoSQL
2 34 (8.44%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.21%) DynamoDB
4 20 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.98%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.23%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.23%) MySQL
9 8 (1.99%) Flink
10 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.49%) Metadata
11 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.24%) Power BI
13 4 (0.99%) Big Data
13 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 72 (17.87%) Git
3 62 (15.38%) GitLab
4 22 (5.46%) JIRA
5 13 (3.23%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.23%) XCTest
6 11 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.99%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.74%) Subversion
8 7 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.49%) Storybook
10 3 (0.74%) Appium
10 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.74%) Gatling
10 3 (0.74%) Maven
10 3 (0.74%) NUnit
10 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.57%) Finance
3 34 (8.44%) Telecoms
4 32 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.96%) Retail
7 19 (4.71%) Law
8 18 (4.47%) Banking
9 13 (3.23%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.99%) Front Office
11 6 (1.49%) Electronics
11 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
11 6 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.24%) Advertising
13 3 (0.74%) Billing
13 3 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 103 (25.56%) Senior
2 89 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (18.86%) Developer
4 51 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
5 43 (10.67%) Lead
6 40 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (5.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.71%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.71%) Architect
9 23 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.46%) Security Engineer
11 19 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.47%) Data Engineer
13 16 (3.97%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.72%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.63%) React
2 50 (12.41%) .NET
3 49 (12.16%) Node.js
4 37 (9.18%) OAuth
5 34 (8.44%) RESTful
6 33 (8.19%) CSS
7 27 (6.70%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.45%) HTML
9 23 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
10 22 (5.46%) .NET Core
11 21 (5.21%) REST
11 21 (5.21%) SAML
12 20 (4.96%) ADO
13 17 (4.22%) Kafka
14 16 (3.97%) YAML
15 15 (3.72%) AngularJS
15 15 (3.72%) ASP.NET
15 15 (3.72%) OAuth2
16 14 (3.47%) Blazor
16 14 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.71%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.47%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.99%) PKI
9 7 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.49%) CMDB
10 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.99%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.39%) Linux
2 17 (4.22%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.72%) Windows
4 14 (3.47%) VMS
5 9 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.24%) Android
8 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.74%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (94.04%) CI/CD
2 285 (70.72%) DevOps
3 227 (56.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (35.48%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (29.53%) Observability
7 115 (28.54%) Agile
8 111 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (17.87%) Platform Engineering
10 70 (17.37%) Analytics
11 69 (17.12%) Cloud Security
11 69 (17.12%) Test Automation
12 68 (16.87%) DevSecOps
13 66 (16.38%) Incident Response
14 63 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
15 62 (15.38%) AI
16 58 (14.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 56 (13.90%) Mentoring
18 51 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
19 48 (11.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (49.88%) Python
2 106 (26.30%) Bash
3 78 (19.35%) SQL
4 76 (18.86%) TypeScript
5 71 (17.62%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.39%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.65%) Go
8 31 (7.69%) Java
9 28 (6.95%) Bicep
10 24 (5.96%) Kotlin
11 20 (4.96%) C#
12 15 (3.72%) Rust
13 13 (3.23%) Swift
14 12 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.99%) Groovy
16 7 (1.74%) Scala
17 6 (1.49%) Dart
18 5 (1.24%) C++
18 5 (1.24%) PHP
19 4 (0.99%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (13.90%) Degree
2 33 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.47%) SC Cleared
7 16 (3.97%) OSCP
8 15 (3.72%) CISSP
9 12 (2.98%) CREST Certified
9 12 (2.98%) SANS
10 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.74%) CCSP
14 3 (0.74%) CISM
14 3 (0.74%) GCIA
14 3 (0.74%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.20%) QA
3 28 (6.95%) GDPR
4 26 (6.45%) SOC 2
5 15 (3.72%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.99%) GRC
7 8 (1.99%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.49%) SLA
9 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.99%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 148 (36.72%) Docker
2 40 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.74%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 249 (61.79%) Terraform
2 167 (41.44%) Kubernetes
3 84 (20.84%) Ansible
4 80 (19.85%) Grafana
5 73 (18.11%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.21%) Argo
7 11 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.23%) Packer
9 8 (1.99%) Cilium
9 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.99%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.99%) logstash
11 3 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.74%) Rancher
12 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 70 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.46%) VMware
3 18 (4.47%) Palo Alto
4 17 (4.22%) Google
5 12 (2.98%) Amplitude
5 12 (2.98%) Braze
5 12 (2.98%) Databricks
5 12 (2.98%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.99%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.74%) SAP
10 6 (1.49%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.49%) Cisco
10 6 (1.49%) EMC
10 6 (1.49%) F5
10 6 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.74%) Tenable