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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 439 510
Rank change year-on-year +30 +71 -10
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 500 247 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 332 195 204
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,542 15,465 23,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.46% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,270 10,400 14,081
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,269 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th 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 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 12 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 12 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 +56 436 £70,000 - 598
UK excluding London +8 271 £65,000 - 260
London +7 176 £80,000 +3.23% 364
Work from Home -22 140 £72,500 +3.57% 301
North of England +44 125 £65,000 -4.41% 75
Yorkshire +7 60 £70,000 +2.19% 32
South East -11 60 £65,000 -13.33% 65
North West +1 39 £65,500 +0.77% 30
Midlands -21 35 £67,500 +25.00% 28
West Midlands -23 27 £70,000 +3.70% 14
North East -43 26 £58,750 -14.55% 13
Wales -52 24 £60,000 +2.13% 10
South West -70 19 £65,000 +15.56% 24
East Midlands -24 8 £65,000 +22.07% 14
Scotland -9 4 £65,000 -18.75% 21
East of England -41 4 £69,500 +2.96% 17

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 12 (2.40%) Apache
2 10 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.00%) Confluence
3 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.40%) CICS
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 500 (100.00%) GitHub
2 308 (61.60%) AWS
3 271 (54.20%) Azure
4 130 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (20.80%) GCP
6 92 (18.40%) Serverless
7 89 (17.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.40%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (13.80%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (13.20%) Amazon S3
11 51 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (10.20%) Datadog
12 44 (8.80%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (7.20%) Azure Key Vault
15 35 (7.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (6.60%) Azure AKS
17 31 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (4.60%) SaaS
19 20 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.20%) VPN
2 25 (5.00%) Firewall
3 15 (3.00%) DMARC
4 12 (2.40%) DNS
5 10 (2.00%) Network Security
6 5 (1.00%) HTTP
6 5 (1.00%) SAN
7 4 (0.80%) SSH
7 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.40%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.80%) DynamoDB
2 44 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 30 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 28 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 22 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.80%) Redis
8 17 (3.40%) MySQL
9 14 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.00%) Power BI
12 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.40%) Db2
14 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 198 (39.60%) Jenkins
2 98 (19.60%) Git
3 91 (18.20%) GitLab
4 33 (6.60%) JIRA
5 32 (6.40%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.80%) Postman
7 19 (3.80%) Selenium
8 12 (2.40%) Gatling
8 12 (2.40%) JUnit
8 12 (2.40%) REST Assured
8 12 (2.40%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.20%) JMeter
10 9 (1.80%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.80%) Gradle
10 9 (1.80%) Newman
11 8 (1.60%) NUnit
11 8 (1.60%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.40%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.20%) Appium
General
1 179 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.20%) Finance
3 74 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.60%) Banking
7 18 (3.60%) Retail
8 11 (2.20%) Law
8 11 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.80%) Marketing
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Games
12 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 137 (27.40%) Senior
2 116 (23.20%) Developer
3 72 (14.40%) Platform Engineer
4 70 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.00%) Lead
6 37 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 34 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (6.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (6.20%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.40%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.80%) Architect
13 23 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.40%) Consultant
14 22 (4.40%) Software Developer
15 21 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.80%) Security Engineer
17 18 (3.60%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (51.40%) Terraform
2 115 (23.00%) Node.js
3 82 (16.40%) Spring Boot
4 81 (16.20%) React
5 74 (14.80%) .NET
5 74 (14.80%) Spring
6 66 (13.20%) REST
7 63 (12.60%) RESTful
8 49 (9.80%) CSS
9 42 (8.40%) AngularJS
10 36 (7.20%) Playwright
11 34 (6.80%) HTML
12 33 (6.60%) GraphQL
13 31 (6.20%) OAuth
13 31 (6.20%) OAuth2
14 30 (6.00%) Jest
15 26 (5.20%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (5.20%) YAML
16 25 (5.00%) Kafka
17 24 (4.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.00%) Mainframe
3 30 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.60%) Legacy Applications
5 22 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.20%) Blog
9 15 (3.00%) Mobile App
9 15 (3.00%) Private Cloud
9 15 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.80%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.60%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
12 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.80%) PKI
13 7 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.40%) Linux
2 16 (3.20%) Windows
3 12 (2.40%) Android
4 11 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.60%) Unix
6 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) AIX
8 3 (0.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (95.60%) CI/CD
2 313 (62.60%) DevOps
3 252 (50.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (35.20%) Containerisation
5 149 (29.80%) Agile
6 146 (29.20%) AI
7 140 (28.00%) Observability
8 128 (25.60%) Software Engineering
9 126 (25.20%) Test Automation
10 115 (23.00%) Platform Engineering
10 115 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (18.20%) Mentoring
13 87 (17.40%) Microservices
14 80 (16.00%) Analytics
15 72 (14.40%) Clean Code
16 70 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
17 67 (13.40%) Cloud Security
18 66 (13.20%) Full-Stack Development
19 63 (12.60%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (43.20%) Python
2 133 (26.60%) Java
3 112 (22.40%) TypeScript
4 96 (19.20%) SQL
5 86 (17.20%) Bash
6 83 (16.60%) JavaScript
7 63 (12.60%) PowerShell
8 46 (9.20%) Go
9 39 (7.80%) Kotlin
10 35 (7.00%) C#
11 32 (6.40%) Bicep
12 28 (5.60%) Ruby
13 24 (4.80%) COBOL
14 20 (4.00%) Groovy
15 18 (3.60%) JCL
16 13 (2.60%) Scala
17 12 (2.40%) PHP
18 8 (1.60%) Rust
18 8 (1.60%) Swift
19 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.60%) Degree
4 35 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.60%) AWS Certification
6 26 (5.20%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.60%) OCP
14 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.40%) QA
2 38 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.80%) WCAG
4 18 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.60%) GDPR
8 7 (1.40%) GRC
9 6 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.20%) NCSC
10 5 (1.00%) NIST
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.60%) SLA
13 2 (0.40%) IFRS
13 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.40%) PERC
13 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 211 (42.20%) Docker
2 11 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 196 (39.20%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.40%) Grafana
3 57 (11.40%) Prometheus
4 49 (9.80%) Ansible
5 27 (5.40%) Argo
6 23 (4.60%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.60%) Cilium
7 8 (1.60%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.40%) logstash
9 6 (1.20%) Packer
10 5 (1.00%) Istio
11 2 (0.40%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.00%) Databricks
2 25 (5.00%) Google
3 24 (4.80%) VMware
4 17 (3.40%) OneLogin
4 17 (3.40%) Splunk
5 15 (3.00%) New Relic
5 15 (3.00%) SendGrid
6 13 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.20%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.80%) Oracle
9 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.80%) Amplitude
11 4 (0.80%) Braze
12 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.40%) EMC
13 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.40%) Veeam