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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 471 639
Rank change year-on-year +76 +168 -13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 388 205 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.40% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 282 160 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -13.60%

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 27,179 14,601 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 33.54% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,654 10,028 27,023
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +65 342 £70,400 -2.90% 203
UK excluding London +53 204 £65,000 -4.41% 118
London +30 148 £80,000 -3.03% 103
Work from Home +57 134 £65,000 -10.34% 138
North of England +33 91 £60,000 -11.76% 52
Yorkshire -13 44 £62,500 -8.09% 18
South East +6 39 £61,250 -12.50% 24
North West +15 30 £65,500 -12.67% 27
South West -54 27 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Midlands -24 23 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands +2 19 £75,000 +33.33% 6
North East -34 17 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Scotland +7 13 £85,000 +33.86% 5
East of England -18 5 £80,150 +16.58% 3
Wales -44 4 £63,250 +5.42% 6
West Midlands -47 4 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 5

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 (2.84%) Apache
2 10 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.80%) Confluence
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) IIS
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.52%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.52%) Magento
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 388 (100.00%) GitHub
2 231 (59.54%) AWS
3 221 (56.96%) Azure
4 140 (36.08%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (23.20%) Serverless
6 81 (20.88%) GCP
7 66 (17.01%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (16.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (13.92%) Datadog
10 51 (13.14%) Amazon S3
11 43 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (9.54%) AWS Step Functions
13 29 (7.47%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (7.47%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (6.19%) Entra ID
16 22 (5.67%) Azure AKS
17 20 (5.15%) Firebase
18 19 (4.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.11%) Firewall
2 20 (5.15%) VPN
3 19 (4.90%) DNS
3 19 (4.90%) HTTP
4 16 (4.12%) Network Security
5 15 (3.87%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.35%) DSL
7 9 (2.32%) WAN
8 7 (1.80%) DMARC
9 4 (1.03%) SSL
10 3 (0.77%) RTP
10 3 (0.77%) SAN
10 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) BGP
11 1 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.28%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.44%) DynamoDB
4 23 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.35%) MySQL
9 10 (2.58%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.58%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.80%) Power BI
11 6 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.55%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.03%) Big Data
13 4 (1.03%) Flink
13 4 (1.03%) Metadata
13 4 (1.03%) Redis
13 4 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 138 (35.57%) Jenkins
2 78 (20.10%) Git
3 55 (14.18%) GitLab
4 21 (5.41%) JIRA
5 19 (4.90%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.87%) XCTest
7 14 (3.61%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.06%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.80%) fastlane
9 7 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.55%) Storybook
11 5 (1.29%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.29%) Gradle
11 5 (1.29%) Postman
12 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.77%) Appium
13 3 (0.77%) Gatling
13 3 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 121 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.01%) Finance
3 27 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.19%) Retail
5 20 (5.15%) Banking
6 19 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.87%) Law
9 14 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.29%) Advertising
13 4 (1.03%) Automotive
13 4 (1.03%) Front Office
14 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.77%) Military
15 2 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Games
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (25.26%) Senior
2 91 (23.45%) Developer
3 75 (19.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.86%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (11.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 42 (10.82%) Lead
7 34 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.70%) Security Engineer
9 25 (6.44%) Senior Developer
10 24 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.93%) .NET Developer
11 23 (5.93%) Architect
12 21 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 20 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.64%) Data Engineer
15 17 (4.38%) AWS Developer
15 17 (4.38%) Java Developer
16 16 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
16 16 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
17 15 (3.87%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.69%) Node.js
1 57 (14.69%) React
2 46 (11.86%) .NET
3 42 (10.82%) CSS
4 38 (9.79%) OAuth
5 31 (7.99%) RESTful
6 28 (7.22%) HTML
6 28 (7.22%) REST
7 24 (6.19%) AWS CDK
8 21 (5.41%) YAML
9 20 (5.15%) OAuth2
10 19 (4.90%) .NET Core
10 19 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.90%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (4.12%) SAML
13 15 (3.87%) UIKit
14 14 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (3.61%) SwiftUI
15 13 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.47%) Mobile App
3 24 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.61%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.35%) PKI
9 11 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.32%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.55%) CMDB
12 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.14%) Linux
2 20 (5.15%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.35%) Windows
4 10 (2.58%) Android
5 9 (2.32%) VMS
6 8 (2.06%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (92.78%) CI/CD
2 254 (65.46%) DevOps
3 211 (54.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (33.51%) Containerisation
5 104 (26.80%) Agile
6 96 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (23.45%) Observability
8 87 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.33%) Test Automation
10 67 (17.27%) Analytics
10 67 (17.27%) Cloud Security
11 65 (16.75%) AI
12 63 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (15.98%) DevSecOps
14 61 (15.72%) Mentoring
15 56 (14.43%) Software Engineering
16 55 (14.18%) Incident Response
17 54 (13.92%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (12.63%) Clean Code
19 47 (12.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 176 (45.36%) Python
2 90 (23.20%) Bash
3 78 (20.10%) SQL
4 73 (18.81%) TypeScript
5 65 (16.75%) PowerShell
6 55 (14.18%) JavaScript
7 51 (13.14%) Go
8 39 (10.05%) Java
9 36 (9.28%) Kotlin
10 29 (7.47%) C#
11 20 (5.15%) Bicep
12 16 (4.12%) Swift
13 15 (3.87%) Rust
14 10 (2.58%) Groovy
15 8 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.06%) Scala
16 7 (1.80%) Dart
17 6 (1.55%) PHP
18 5 (1.29%) C++
18 5 (1.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (13.14%) Degree
2 34 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.51%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.90%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.12%) OSCP
8 11 (2.84%) CISSP
9 8 (2.06%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.06%) SANS
10 7 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.77%) CCSP
14 3 (0.77%) CISM
14 3 (0.77%) GCIA
14 3 (0.77%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.47%) QA
3 26 (6.70%) SOC 2
4 18 (4.64%) Accessibility
5 17 (4.38%) GDPR
6 12 (3.09%) GRC
7 11 (2.84%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.80%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.55%) WCAG
10 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.03%) NIST
11 2 (0.52%) IFRS
11 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.52%) SLA
11 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (34.02%) Docker
2 27 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 221 (56.96%) Terraform
2 141 (36.34%) Kubernetes
3 66 (17.01%) Ansible
4 63 (16.24%) Grafana
5 53 (13.66%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.35%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.09%) Argo
7 12 (3.09%) Cilium
8 9 (2.32%) Packer
9 8 (2.06%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.77%) Puppet
11 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.52%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.52%) logstash
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Consul
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 55 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.15%) VMware
3 17 (4.38%) Google
4 15 (3.87%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.61%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.61%) Braze
5 14 (3.61%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.58%) Databricks
8 8 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.06%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.80%) SendGrid
10 6 (1.55%) Cisco
10 6 (1.55%) EMC
10 6 (1.55%) F5
10 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.03%) New Relic
12 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.77%) Mitel
12 3 (0.77%) Varonis