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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 457 557
Rank change year-on-year +116 +100 +112
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 371 231 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.23% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 279 167 190
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,750 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +6.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £99,375
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +0.80%

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 21,730 18,713 28,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 36.67% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,741 11,079 23,507
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +97 279 £72,500 +6.62% 186
UK excluding London +51 177 £65,000 - 134
Work from Home +137 173 £68,750 +5.77% 115
London +94 133 £80,000 -11.11% 75
North of England +7 56 £60,000 -11.76% 46
Scotland +29 37 £90,000 +50.00% 7
South West +13 36 £75,000 +15.38% 20
South East -9 31 £75,000 +15.38% 35
Yorkshire -17 30 £60,000 +21.21% 22
North West +21 19 £65,000 -23.53% 23
Midlands -5 10 £60,000 -7.69% 16
West Midlands +5 7 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North East -4 7 £50,000 -21.57% 1
East of England +21 3 £65,000 -38.10% 6
East Midlands -12 3 £70,000 +77.22% 5
Wales -8 2 £63,248 -2.70% 2
Northern Ireland -17 2 £62,500 - 2

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 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.16%) Confluence
3 4 (1.08%) Apache
3 4 (1.08%) Appian
4 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.54%) IIS
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.81%) Shopify
2 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) GitHub
2 238 (64.15%) Azure
3 189 (50.94%) AWS
4 158 (42.59%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (24.80%) GCP
6 82 (22.10%) Serverless
7 64 (17.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (16.17%) Datadog
9 57 (15.36%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (14.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (12.67%) Entra ID
12 45 (12.13%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (12.13%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (11.05%) Amazon S3
14 38 (10.24%) Azure AKS
15 30 (8.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (8.09%) SaaS
16 21 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (5.39%) PaaS
18 19 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.16%) Firewall
2 19 (5.12%) VPN
3 15 (4.04%) DNS
4 14 (3.77%) HTTP
5 13 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.23%) WAN
7 9 (2.43%) Network Security
8 8 (2.16%) DSL
9 4 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.81%) RTP
10 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.81%) VoIP
10 3 (0.81%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 39 (10.51%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.12%) BigQuery
6 14 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.70%) Flink
8 9 (2.43%) MySQL
9 8 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.35%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.08%) Metadata
12 4 (1.08%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 154 (41.51%) Jenkins
2 77 (20.75%) Git
3 50 (13.48%) GitLab
4 13 (3.50%) JIRA
5 10 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.43%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.16%) Subversion
8 5 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.35%) NUnit
9 4 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.81%) JMeter
10 3 (0.81%) Selenium
11 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.54%) JUnit
11 2 (0.54%) MSTest
11 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 119 (32.08%) Finance
2 116 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.43%) Telecoms
4 21 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.39%) Banking
5 20 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.04%) Law
7 14 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.23%) Front Office
8 12 (3.23%) Retail
9 11 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.62%) Back Office
10 6 (1.62%) Electronics
10 6 (1.62%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Advertising
11 4 (1.08%) Billing
11 4 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 88 (23.72%) Senior
2 85 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (18.60%) Developer
4 47 (12.67%) Lead
5 40 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (10.78%) Platform Engineer
6 32 (8.63%) .NET Developer
7 25 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.20%) Security Engineer
9 21 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
11 18 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Azure Developer
12 15 (4.04%) GCP Engineer
13 14 (3.77%) AWS Developer
13 14 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.77%) Development Engineer
13 14 (3.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (19.41%) .NET
2 69 (18.60%) React
3 57 (15.36%) RESTful
4 43 (11.59%) Node.js
5 34 (9.16%) OAuth
6 28 (7.55%) AWS CDK
7 26 (7.01%) ADO
7 26 (7.01%) YAML
8 25 (6.74%) .NET Core
9 24 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
10 22 (5.93%) ASP.NET
11 21 (5.66%) HTML
11 21 (5.66%) OAuth2
12 20 (5.39%) CSS
12 20 (5.39%) REST
13 19 (5.12%) JSON
14 17 (4.58%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.58%) Blazor
14 17 (4.58%) Kafka
14 17 (4.58%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.91%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.62%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.08%) Blog
9 4 (1.08%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.54%) Derivative
11 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.02%) Linux
2 19 (5.12%) VMS
2 19 (5.12%) Windows
3 5 (1.35%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.35%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) SUSE
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (91.64%) CI/CD
2 286 (77.09%) DevOps
3 200 (53.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 114 (30.73%) Agile
6 112 (30.19%) Observability
7 104 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (27.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (20.22%) Test Automation
10 67 (18.06%) Incident Response
11 60 (16.17%) Platform Engineering
12 59 (15.90%) Cloud Security
13 58 (15.63%) AI
14 57 (15.36%) RBAC
15 54 (14.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (14.29%) Analytics
17 52 (14.02%) Deployment Automation
17 52 (14.02%) DevSecOps
18 51 (13.75%) Microservices
19 50 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 191 (51.48%) Python
2 112 (30.19%) Bash
3 81 (21.83%) SQL
4 74 (19.95%) PowerShell
5 65 (17.52%) TypeScript
6 62 (16.71%) JavaScript
7 51 (13.75%) Bicep
8 43 (11.59%) Go
9 33 (8.89%) Java
10 30 (8.09%) C#
11 12 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (2.43%) Rust
13 6 (1.62%) C++
14 5 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.08%) Ruby
16 3 (0.81%) C
17 2 (0.54%) PHP
17 2 (0.54%) VB
18 1 (0.27%) Dart
Qualifications
1 52 (14.02%) Degree
2 40 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (10.24%) AWS Certification
4 37 (9.97%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.82%) SC Cleared
6 22 (5.93%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.12%) CISSP
8 18 (4.85%) CREST Certified
8 18 (4.85%) SANS
9 16 (4.31%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.43%) OSCP
12 5 (1.35%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 1 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.78%) QA
2 39 (10.51%) GDPR
3 33 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (5.12%) Accessibility
4 19 (5.12%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.08%) GRC
7 4 (1.08%) SLA
8 3 (0.81%) NIST
9 2 (0.54%) ECSS
10 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (45.28%) Docker
2 45 (12.13%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.81%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 224 (60.38%) Terraform
2 182 (49.06%) Kubernetes
3 81 (21.83%) Grafana
4 76 (20.49%) Prometheus
5 67 (18.06%) Ansible
6 26 (7.01%) Argo
7 9 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.08%) Cilium
8 4 (1.08%) logstash
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.08%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.81%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) Nagios
10 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.47%) Google
3 15 (4.04%) VMware
4 14 (3.77%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.23%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.16%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.89%) Splunk
8 6 (1.62%) SAP
9 5 (1.35%) Databricks
9 5 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.81%) BT
11 3 (0.81%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.81%) Mitel
12 2 (0.54%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.54%) Pega
13 1 (0.27%) Foundry