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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 432 626
Rank change year-on-year +87 +194 +13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 401 206 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.36% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 298 163 161
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,375 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.35% +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 25,022 15,116 32,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.24% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,251 10,963 26,251
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,580 £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 £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +50 320 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +44 202 £63,000 -7.35% 130
Work from Home +84 174 £66,508 -8.27% 118
London +50 149 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -5 68 £60,000 -11.76% 40
South West -28 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Yorkshire -32 36 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South East -30 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +6 33 £87,500 +48.94% 10
North West -10 20 £64,000 -14.67% 21
Midlands -37 20 £65,000 -10.34% 11
East Midlands -35 14 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -21 12 £47,500 -15.56% 5
West Midlands -28 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
East of England -18 5 £67,500 -11.48% 6
Wales -30 3 £61,496 -5.39% 7
Northern Ireland -35 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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) 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 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
2 2 (0.50%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 401 (100.00%) GitHub
2 240 (59.85%) Azure
3 230 (57.36%) AWS
4 154 (38.40%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (25.94%) GCP
6 101 (25.19%) Serverless
7 70 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (16.71%) Datadog
9 65 (16.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (13.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (13.22%) Amazon S3
12 42 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (9.98%) Entra ID
14 36 (8.98%) AWS Step Functions
15 32 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (7.98%) Azure Monitor
16 29 (7.23%) Azure AKS
17 25 (6.23%) SaaS
18 24 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.72%) Firewall
2 22 (5.49%) DNS
2 22 (5.49%) VPN
3 21 (5.24%) HTTP
4 18 (4.49%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.49%) Network Security
6 13 (3.24%) DSL
7 12 (2.99%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.50%) SSL
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.22%) NoSQL
2 40 (9.98%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (4.99%) DynamoDB
5 19 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.24%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.49%) Flink
8 8 (2.00%) MySQL
9 7 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.25%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Power BI
12 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
12 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 157 (39.15%) Jenkins
2 81 (20.20%) Git
3 70 (17.46%) GitLab
4 22 (5.49%) JIRA
5 11 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.49%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.49%) XCTest
7 9 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.24%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.24%) Subversion
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.50%) Storybook
9 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.00%) NUnit
11 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.50%) fastlane
12 2 (0.50%) git-flow
12 2 (0.50%) Postman
12 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 130 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 108 (26.93%) Finance
3 41 (10.22%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.49%) Banking
5 22 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.74%) Law
6 19 (4.74%) Retail
7 14 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.99%) Front Office
9 11 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.50%) Back Office
10 6 (1.50%) Electronics
10 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.50%) Marketing
11 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (22.44%) Senior
3 77 (19.20%) Developer
4 48 (11.97%) Lead
5 41 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.23%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.73%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.24%) Architect
12 20 (4.99%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
13 18 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.74%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.49%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.71%) React
2 61 (15.21%) .NET
3 44 (10.97%) RESTful
4 43 (10.72%) Node.js
5 40 (9.98%) OAuth
6 31 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (7.48%) AWS CDK
7 30 (7.48%) CSS
8 25 (6.23%) .NET Core
8 25 (6.23%) HTML
9 22 (5.49%) ADO
10 21 (5.24%) SAML
10 21 (5.24%) YAML
11 19 (4.74%) REST
12 18 (4.49%) ASP.NET
12 18 (4.49%) OAuth2
13 17 (4.24%) Kafka
14 16 (3.99%) .NET Framework
14 16 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (3.99%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.74%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.74%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.25%) PKI
13 4 (1.00%) Blog
13 4 (1.00%) CMDB
14 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
15 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.71%) Linux
2 18 (4.49%) Windows
3 13 (3.24%) VMS
4 12 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.75%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (92.02%) CI/CD
2 286 (71.32%) DevOps
3 218 (54.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 154 (38.40%) Containerisation
5 125 (31.17%) Agile
6 117 (29.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (27.43%) Observability
8 74 (18.45%) Test Automation
9 69 (17.21%) Incident Response
10 64 (15.96%) Cloud Security
10 64 (15.96%) DevSecOps
11 62 (15.46%) Analytics
12 61 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
13 60 (14.96%) AI
14 58 (14.46%) Deployment Automation
15 57 (14.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 52 (12.97%) Full-Stack Development
17 51 (12.72%) Mentoring
18 50 (12.47%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 204 (50.87%) Python
2 114 (28.43%) Bash
3 83 (20.70%) SQL
4 72 (17.96%) PowerShell
4 72 (17.96%) TypeScript
5 61 (15.21%) JavaScript
6 54 (13.47%) Go
7 36 (8.98%) Bicep
8 28 (6.98%) Java
9 23 (5.74%) C#
10 17 (4.24%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.74%) Rust
12 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (2.49%) Swift
14 7 (1.75%) C++
15 6 (1.50%) Dart
16 5 (1.25%) Scala
16 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.00%) PHP
18 3 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (15.46%) Degree
2 40 (9.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.73%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.99%) CISSP
5 20 (4.99%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.49%) CREST Certified
6 18 (4.49%) SANS
7 15 (3.74%) OSCP
8 13 (3.24%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) 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 34 (8.48%) QA
2 32 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.48%) GDPR
4 25 (6.23%) SOC 2
5 20 (4.99%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.00%) GRC
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.50%) ECSS
12 2 (0.50%) WCAG
13 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 155 (38.65%) Docker
2 41 (10.22%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 236 (58.85%) Terraform
2 169 (42.14%) Kubernetes
3 88 (21.95%) Grafana
4 81 (20.20%) Ansible
4 81 (20.20%) Prometheus
5 24 (5.99%) Argo
6 10 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.00%) Cilium
8 7 (1.75%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.25%) Packer
10 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.00%) logstash
11 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.50%) Puppet
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.74%) Google
3 18 (4.49%) VMware
4 16 (3.99%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.74%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.24%) Amplitude
8 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.00%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.75%) Databricks
11 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 6 (1.50%) Splunk
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco
12 4 (1.00%) EMC
12 4 (1.00%) F5
12 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow