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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	399	435	512
Rank change year-on-year	+36	+77	-15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions	520	255	257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	0.52%	0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.94%	1.65%	1.14%
Number of salaries quoted	344	202	201
10^th Percentile	£46,250	£50,525	£48,250
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£60,313	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,000	£72,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-3.45%	+11.54%	-18.37%
75^th Percentile	£82,500	£85,000	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£95,000	£87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£65,000	£65,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-	-	-3.31%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	26,778	15,495	22,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	22.37%	31.72%	32.29%
Number of salaries quoted	18,511	10,429	13,755
10^th Percentile	£31,500	£29,000	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£43,750	£37,500	£47,179
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£83,750	£80,000	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£100,000	£102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£50,000	£55,000
% 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 Salary Trend

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 October 2026.

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 October 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	+56	454	£70,000	-3.45%	593
UK excluding London	-3	281	£65,000	-	250
London	+15	185	£80,000	+3.23%	353
Work from Home	-31	146	£72,500	+3.57%	305
North of England	+34	128	£65,000	-4.41%	77
South East	-24	62	£65,000	-13.33%	65
Yorkshire	+11	61	£68,750	+0.36%	29
North West	-7	41	£65,500	+0.77%	33
Midlands	-34	39	£68,750	+27.31%	22
West Midlands	-27	30	£68,750	+1.85%	14
North East	-41	26	£58,750	-14.55%	15
Wales	-55	25	£60,000	+2.13%	9
South West	-73	18	£61,250	+8.89%	30
East Midlands	-25	9	£67,500	+26.76%	8
East of England	-32	5	£69,500	+4.91%	16
Scotland	-6	4	£65,000	-18.75%	16

GitHub Actions Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub Actions also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for GitHub Actions.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	520
2	CI/CD	95.6%	497
3	DevOps	62.9%	327
4	AWS	60.2%	313
5	Azure	54.4%	283
6	Terraform	51.0%	265
7	Infrastructure as Code	49.8%	259
8	Docker	43.1%	224
8	Python	43.1%	224
10	Jenkins	40.2%	209
11	Kubernetes	40.0%	208
12	Containerisation	34.8%	181
13	Agile	29.4%	153
14	Observability	28.8%	150
15	AI	28.5%	148
16	Java	27.1%	141
17	Azure DevOps	26.2%	136
18	Software Engineering	25.6%	133
19	Test Automation	25.2%	131
20	Platform Engineering	23.1%	120
21	Node.js	22.5%	117
21	Problem-Solving	22.5%	117
21	TypeScript	22.5%	117
24	Continuous Improvement	21.2%	110
25	GCP	20.2%	105
26	Git	19.6%	102
27	SQL	19.0%	99
28	Mentoring	18.8%	98
29	GitLab	18.5%	96
30	Serverless	17.9%	93

GitHub Actions Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	520
2	AWS	60.2%	313
3	Azure	54.4%	283
4	Azure DevOps	26.2%	136
5	GCP	20.2%	105
6	Serverless	17.9%	93
7	AWS CloudFormation	17.1%	89
8	AWS Lambda	13.8%	72
9	Amazon ECS	13.3%	69
10	Amazon S3	12.9%	67
11	Datadog	10.0%	52
12	Amazon CloudWatch	9.8%	51
13	Amazon EC2	8.5%	44
14	Azure Monitor	7.9%	41
15	Azure Key Vault	7.1%	37
16	Amazon OpenSearch	6.7%	35
16	Azure AKS	6.7%	35
18	Amazon EKS	6.3%	33
19	SaaS	4.8%	25
20	Azure Service Bus	4.0%	21