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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 442 632
Rank change year-on-year +85 +190 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 403 206 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.37% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 290 160 176
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,875 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% -14.61%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £105,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +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 26,443 15,012 33,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.59% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,976 11,072 26,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +32 330 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +31 209 £62,500 -8.09% 130
Work from Home +79 172 £65,515 -12.65% 118
London +45 151 £80,000 -7.25% 101
North of England -17 74 £60,000 -11.76% 40
Yorkshire -28 38 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South West -38 36 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -32 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +9 31 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West -18 24 £63,000 -21.25% 21
Midlands -46 22 £65,000 -10.34% 11
East Midlands -36 16 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -20 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -27 6 £71,250 -6.56% 6
West Midlands -30 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Wales -34 4 £58,248 -10.39% 7
Northern Ireland -39 2 £62,500 - 1

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 (2.73%) Confluence
2 8 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.49%) Apache
3 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.99%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 403 (100.00%) GitHub
2 243 (60.30%) Azure
3 235 (58.31%) AWS
4 156 (38.71%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (25.81%) GCP
6 98 (24.32%) Serverless
7 71 (17.62%) Datadog
8 66 (16.38%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (12.41%) Amazon S3
12 40 (9.93%) Entra ID
13 38 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 37 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
16 28 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (6.70%) Azure AKS
18 24 (5.96%) SaaS
19 22 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
20 19 (4.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.15%) Firewall
2 23 (5.71%) VPN
3 22 (5.46%) DNS
4 21 (5.21%) HTTP
5 18 (4.47%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.22%) Network Security
7 13 (3.23%) DSL
8 12 (2.98%) WAN
9 4 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.74%) RTP
10 3 (0.74%) SSL
10 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.74%) VoIP
10 3 (0.74%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 40 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.46%) DynamoDB
4 20 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.98%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.48%) Flink
8 9 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.99%) MySQL
10 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 5 (1.24%) Power BI
13 4 (0.99%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.99%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.99%) Tableau
13 4 (0.99%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.74%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 152 (37.72%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.35%) Git
3 64 (15.88%) GitLab
4 23 (5.71%) JIRA
5 13 (3.23%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.73%) Crashlytics
6 11 (2.73%) XCTest
7 9 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.23%) Subversion
8 8 (1.99%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.49%) Storybook
10 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.99%) NUnit
12 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.50%) fastlane
13 2 (0.50%) Gatling
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 131 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 110 (27.30%) Finance
3 41 (10.17%) Telecoms
4 33 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.71%) Banking
6 22 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.46%) Retail
7 19 (4.71%) Law
8 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.98%) Front Office
10 10 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.49%) Back Office
11 6 (1.49%) Electronics
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
12 5 (1.24%) Advertising
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (22.58%) Senior
2 89 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.10%) Developer
4 48 (11.91%) Lead
5 41 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (6.95%) .NET Developer
8 28 (6.95%) Security Engineer
9 23 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.21%) Architect
12 20 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) Applications Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) AWS Developer
14 16 (3.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.72%) Python Developer
15 15 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.87%) React
2 61 (15.14%) .NET
3 45 (11.17%) Node.js
4 42 (10.42%) RESTful
5 39 (9.68%) OAuth
6 30 (7.44%) AWS CDK
6 30 (7.44%) CSS
7 28 (6.95%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (6.20%) .NET Core
8 25 (6.20%) HTML
9 22 (5.46%) ADO
10 21 (5.21%) SAML
11 19 (4.71%) ASP.NET
11 19 (4.71%) REST
11 19 (4.71%) YAML
12 18 (4.47%) Kafka
13 17 (4.22%) Blazor
13 17 (4.22%) OAuth2
14 16 (3.97%) .NET Framework
14 16 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 91 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.96%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.98%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) PKI
9 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
12 4 (0.99%) Blog
12 4 (0.99%) CMDB
13 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.40%) Linux
2 16 (3.97%) Windows
3 13 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.23%) VMS
4 7 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.24%) Unix
7 3 (0.74%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.74%) SUSE
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (92.80%) CI/CD
2 290 (71.96%) DevOps
3 219 (54.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (37.22%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.02%) Agile
5 121 (30.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 121 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (29.03%) Observability
7 73 (18.11%) Incident Response
8 70 (17.37%) Test Automation
9 69 (17.12%) Cloud Security
10 67 (16.63%) DevSecOps
11 63 (15.63%) AI
11 63 (15.63%) Analytics
12 62 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
12 62 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 61 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
14 51 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 50 (12.41%) Mentoring
16 49 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 203 (50.37%) Python
2 112 (27.79%) Bash
3 85 (21.09%) SQL
4 74 (18.36%) PowerShell
5 73 (18.11%) TypeScript
6 60 (14.89%) JavaScript
7 57 (14.14%) Go
8 32 (7.94%) Bicep
8 32 (7.94%) Java
9 24 (5.96%) C#
10 20 (4.96%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.72%) Rust
12 12 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (2.73%) Swift
14 7 (1.74%) C++
15 6 (1.49%) Dart
15 6 (1.49%) Scala
16 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.99%) C
17 4 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (15.14%) Degree
2 39 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (9.43%) AWS Certification
4 28 (6.95%) Security Cleared
5 18 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.47%) CISSP
6 16 (3.97%) CREST Certified
6 16 (3.97%) SANS
7 15 (3.72%) OSCP
7 15 (3.72%) SC Cleared
8 12 (2.98%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.73%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CCSP
13 2 (0.50%) CISM
13 2 (0.50%) GCIA
13 2 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (8.19%) QA
3 28 (6.95%) GDPR
3 28 (6.95%) SOC 2
4 18 (4.47%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.73%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.48%) GRC
7 6 (1.49%) SLA
8 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.99%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.50%) ECSS
10 2 (0.50%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 154 (38.21%) Docker
2 41 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.74%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 239 (59.31%) Terraform
2 168 (41.69%) Kubernetes
3 84 (20.84%) Grafana
4 81 (20.10%) Ansible
5 78 (19.35%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.20%) Argo
7 10 (2.48%) Cilium
7 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.49%) Packer
10 4 (0.99%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.99%) logstash
10 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.74%) Rancher
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 68 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.71%) VMware
3 18 (4.47%) Google
4 16 (3.97%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.98%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.48%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.48%) Amplitude
7 10 (2.48%) Braze
8 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.99%) Databricks
10 6 (1.49%) SAP
10 6 (1.49%) Splunk
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco
11 4 (0.99%) EMC
11 4 (0.99%) F5
11 4 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow