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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 451 536
Rank change year-on-year +38 +85 -18
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 463 233 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.48% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 308 184 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,938 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +13.46% -17.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 27,559 15,732 24,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.30% 31.71% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,622 10,630 16,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 September 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 September 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 +48 395 £65,500 -12.67% 389
UK excluding London +27 263 £65,000 - 178
London -9 147 £77,500 - 259
Work from Home -3 134 £70,000 -3.45% 576
North of England +41 120 £65,000 -2.26% 53
Yorkshire -2 58 £65,000 -5.11% 19
South East +3 56 £61,250 -18.33% 58
North West +17 44 £65,500 +0.77% 25
Midlands -17 32 £65,000 +7.00% 13
Wales -54 24 £60,000 +2.13% 7
South West -69 22 £61,250 +2.08% 17
West Midlands -30 19 £65,000 -3.70% 9
North East -47 18 £57,500 - 9
East Midlands -24 13 £65,000 +22.07% 4
Scotland +1 6 £62,500 -21.88% 13
East of England -30 3 £87,500 +27.27% 10

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 13 (2.81%) Apache
1 13 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.38%) Confluence
3 8 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.86%) CICS
5 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 3 (0.65%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 463 (100.00%) GitHub
2 297 (64.15%) AWS
3 256 (55.29%) Azure
4 127 (27.43%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (19.65%) GCP
6 89 (19.22%) Serverless
7 82 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (15.77%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (14.25%) Amazon S3
10 62 (13.39%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (10.58%) Datadog
13 44 (9.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (7.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 30 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
17 28 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
18 24 (5.18%) Azure AKS
19 21 (4.54%) AWS Step Functions
19 21 (4.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.54%) Firewall
2 20 (4.32%) VPN
3 13 (2.81%) DMARC
4 11 (2.38%) Network Security
5 10 (2.16%) DNS
6 5 (1.08%) SAN
7 4 (0.86%) HTTP
7 4 (0.86%) SSH
7 4 (0.86%) SSL
8 3 (0.65%) BGP
8 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.22%) LTE
10 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.07%) DynamoDB
3 38 (8.21%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (6.91%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.48%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (3.89%) MySQL
9 17 (3.67%) Delta Lake
10 14 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.02%) Redis
11 13 (2.81%) MongoDB
11 13 (2.81%) Power BI
12 8 (1.73%) Tableau
13 7 (1.51%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.51%) Data Vault
13 7 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (38.23%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.17%) Git
3 71 (15.33%) GitLab
4 36 (7.78%) JIRA
5 34 (7.34%) Cypress.io
6 24 (5.18%) Postman
7 18 (3.89%) Selenium
8 14 (3.02%) Crashlytics
9 13 (2.81%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.38%) JMeter
10 11 (2.38%) JUnit
11 10 (2.16%) Gatling
11 10 (2.16%) Gradle
11 10 (2.16%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.94%) Newman
12 9 (1.94%) XCTest
13 8 (1.73%) fastlane
13 8 (1.73%) NUnit
14 7 (1.51%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.30%) Appium
General
1 160 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.06%) Finance
3 57 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.40%) Banking
7 19 (4.10%) Retail
8 11 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.16%) Law
10 9 (1.94%) Marketing
11 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.65%) Games
13 3 (0.65%) Legal
13 3 (0.65%) Local Government
13 3 (0.65%) Military
14 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 126 (27.21%) Senior
2 111 (23.97%) Developer
3 69 (14.90%) Platform Engineer
4 59 (12.74%) Lead
5 57 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (6.70%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.70%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.05%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.83%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.62%) Architect
11 26 (5.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (5.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (4.97%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (4.54%) Security Engineer
16 20 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
18 18 (3.89%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (51.40%) Terraform
2 109 (23.54%) Node.js
3 82 (17.71%) React
4 69 (14.90%) .NET
5 68 (14.69%) Spring Boot
6 60 (12.96%) Spring
7 58 (12.53%) RESTful
8 55 (11.88%) REST
9 54 (11.66%) CSS
10 42 (9.07%) AngularJS
11 35 (7.56%) HTML
11 35 (7.56%) Playwright
12 30 (6.48%) Jest
12 30 (6.48%) OAuth
13 29 (6.26%) OAuth2
14 24 (5.18%) Ruby on Rails
14 24 (5.18%) YAML
15 23 (4.97%) GraphQL
15 23 (4.97%) Web Services
16 22 (4.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 126 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 28 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (5.40%) Mobile App
5 24 (5.18%) Mainframe
6 22 (4.75%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.24%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (3.02%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.81%) Blog
10 13 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.38%) PKI
12 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (2.16%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.73%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (17.06%) Linux
2 19 (4.10%) Windows
3 16 (3.46%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.02%) Android
5 8 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.51%) Unix
7 3 (0.65%) Debian
7 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) AIX
8 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (95.68%) CI/CD
2 290 (62.63%) DevOps
3 235 (50.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (31.75%) Containerisation
5 133 (28.73%) Agile
6 122 (26.35%) Observability
7 120 (25.92%) AI
8 113 (24.41%) Software Engineering
9 108 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (22.89%) Test Automation
11 104 (22.46%) Platform Engineering
12 87 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 84 (18.14%) Analytics
14 83 (17.93%) Mentoring
15 75 (16.20%) Microservices
16 68 (14.69%) Clean Code
17 65 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
18 63 (13.61%) Cloud Security
19 51 (11.02%) RBAC
20 50 (10.80%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (41.04%) Python
2 114 (24.62%) Java
3 107 (23.11%) TypeScript
4 80 (17.28%) SQL
5 78 (16.85%) JavaScript
6 76 (16.41%) Bash
7 62 (13.39%) PowerShell
8 44 (9.50%) Kotlin
9 40 (8.64%) Go
10 33 (7.13%) C#
11 27 (5.83%) Bicep
12 26 (5.62%) Ruby
13 19 (4.10%) Groovy
14 18 (3.89%) COBOL
15 17 (3.67%) Scala
16 13 (2.81%) PHP
17 12 (2.59%) JCL
17 12 (2.59%) Swift
18 8 (1.73%) Rust
19 6 (1.30%) Dart
Qualifications
1 76 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.66%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.58%) Degree
4 34 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 33 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.40%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.86%) CISSP
12 4 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.65%) OCP
13 3 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (12.53%) QA
2 37 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.40%) WCAG
4 19 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (3.67%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.81%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.94%) GRC
8 7 (1.51%) NCSC
9 6 (1.30%) GDPR
9 6 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.86%) NIST
11 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.65%) SLA
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.22%) PERC
System Software
1 181 (39.09%) Docker
2 13 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.65%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 173 (37.37%) Kubernetes
2 57 (12.31%) Grafana
3 46 (9.94%) Prometheus
4 44 (9.50%) Ansible
5 24 (5.18%) Progress Chef
6 17 (3.67%) Argo
7 11 (2.38%) Packer
8 10 (2.16%) Cilium
9 6 (1.30%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.86%) Istio
11 3 (0.65%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.65%) logstash
12 2 (0.43%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.43%) Puppet
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) linkerd
13 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 59 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.40%) VMware
3 24 (5.18%) Databricks
3 24 (5.18%) Google
4 16 (3.46%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.24%) New Relic
6 14 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.81%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.59%) Splunk
9 10 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.73%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.73%) Braze
10 8 (1.73%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.73%) Oracle
11 6 (1.30%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.08%) Cisco
12 5 (1.08%) EMC
12 5 (1.08%) F5
12 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow