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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 434 498
Rank change year-on-year +40 +64 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 507 247 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.59% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 336 195 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,600 £48,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £51,250
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 26,750 15,506 22,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.54% 31.52% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,407 10,440 13,861
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +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 14 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 14 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 +67 443 £70,000 - 604
UK excluding London +10 273 £65,000 - 255
London +20 181 £80,000 +3.23% 371
Work from Home -14 142 £72,500 +3.57% 313
North of England +40 126 £65,000 -4.41% 71
South East -1 61 £65,000 -13.33% 67
Yorkshire +14 60 £70,000 +2.19% 27
North West +1 40 £65,500 +0.77% 31
Midlands -28 35 £67,500 +25.00% 22
West Midlands -19 27 £70,000 +3.70% 13
North East -47 26 £58,750 -14.55% 13
Wales -55 24 £60,000 +2.13% 10
South West -64 19 £65,000 +15.56% 27
East Midlands -32 8 £65,000 +22.07% 9
Scotland -3 4 £65,000 -18.75% 24
East of England -33 4 £69,500 +2.96% 19

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 (2.37%) Apache
2 10 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.97%) Confluence
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.38%) CICS
5 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.79%) CMS
7 3 (0.59%) IIS
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 507 (100.00%) GitHub
2 312 (61.54%) AWS
3 274 (54.04%) Azure
4 131 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (20.51%) GCP
6 93 (18.34%) Serverless
7 89 (17.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (14.40%) AWS Lambda
9 70 (13.81%) Amazon ECS
10 68 (13.41%) Amazon S3
11 51 (10.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (10.06%) Datadog
12 44 (8.68%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (8.09%) Azure Monitor
14 37 (7.30%) Azure Key Vault
15 36 (7.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 34 (6.71%) Azure AKS
17 32 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (4.54%) SaaS
19 20 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.33%) VPN
2 24 (4.73%) Firewall
3 15 (2.96%) DMARC
4 12 (2.37%) DNS
5 9 (1.78%) Network Security
6 5 (0.99%) HTTP
6 5 (0.99%) SAN
7 4 (0.79%) SSH
7 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.59%) BGP
8 3 (0.59%) WAN
9 2 (0.39%) SSL
9 2 (0.39%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.39%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (8.88%) DynamoDB
3 44 (8.68%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 30 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (5.52%) SQL Server
7 23 (4.54%) MongoDB
8 22 (4.34%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (3.75%) Redis
10 17 (3.35%) MySQL
11 14 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (2.76%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.97%) Power BI
13 8 (1.58%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.58%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.38%) Db2
15 6 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 201 (39.64%) Jenkins
2 100 (19.72%) Git
3 92 (18.15%) GitLab
4 33 (6.51%) JIRA
5 32 (6.31%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.73%) Postman
7 19 (3.75%) Selenium
8 13 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.37%) Gatling
9 12 (2.37%) JUnit
9 12 (2.37%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.17%) JMeter
11 9 (1.78%) Crashlytics
11 9 (1.78%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.78%) Gradle
11 9 (1.78%) Newman
12 8 (1.58%) NUnit
12 8 (1.58%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.38%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.18%) fastlane
General
1 182 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 93 (18.34%) Finance
3 75 (14.79%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.54%) Banking
7 18 (3.55%) Retail
8 11 (2.17%) Law
8 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.78%) Marketing
10 5 (0.99%) Legal
11 4 (0.79%) Automotive
11 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.59%) Games
12 3 (0.59%) Local Government
12 3 (0.59%) Military
13 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 140 (27.61%) Senior
2 118 (23.27%) Developer
3 74 (14.60%) Platform Engineer
4 72 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (13.02%) Lead
6 37 (7.30%) Software Engineer
7 36 (7.10%) Senior Developer
8 34 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (6.51%) Java Developer
10 31 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) Data Engineer
12 27 (5.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.73%) Architect
13 24 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.34%) Consultant
14 22 (4.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.34%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (3.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (51.68%) Terraform
2 117 (23.08%) Node.js
3 84 (16.57%) Spring Boot
4 83 (16.37%) React
5 76 (14.99%) Spring
6 74 (14.60%) .NET
7 68 (13.41%) REST
8 66 (13.02%) RESTful
9 51 (10.06%) CSS
10 42 (8.28%) AngularJS
11 36 (7.10%) HTML
11 36 (7.10%) Playwright
12 34 (6.71%) GraphQL
13 32 (6.31%) OAuth
13 32 (6.31%) OAuth2
14 30 (5.92%) Jest
15 26 (5.13%) Ruby on Rails
15 26 (5.13%) YAML
16 25 (4.93%) Kafka
17 24 (4.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 143 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.92%) Mainframe
3 30 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.54%) Legacy Applications
5 22 (4.34%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.16%) Blog
9 15 (2.96%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.96%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.76%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.37%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.78%) Digital Wallet
12 9 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.78%) PKI
13 7 (1.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.98%) Linux
2 15 (2.96%) Windows
3 12 (2.37%) Android
4 11 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.58%) Unix
6 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.59%) AIX
8 3 (0.59%) Debian
8 3 (0.59%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (95.66%) CI/CD
2 320 (63.12%) DevOps
3 257 (50.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (34.71%) Containerisation
5 151 (29.78%) Agile
6 146 (28.80%) AI
7 145 (28.60%) Observability
8 130 (25.64%) Software Engineering
9 127 (25.05%) Test Automation
10 118 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
11 115 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (18.74%) Mentoring
14 90 (17.75%) Microservices
15 80 (15.78%) Analytics
16 73 (14.40%) Technical Leadership
17 72 (14.20%) Clean Code
18 69 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
19 67 (13.21%) Cloud Security
20 64 (12.62%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 218 (43.00%) Python
2 137 (27.02%) Java
3 115 (22.68%) TypeScript
4 99 (19.53%) SQL
5 87 (17.16%) Bash
6 85 (16.77%) JavaScript
7 63 (12.43%) PowerShell
8 46 (9.07%) Go
9 41 (8.09%) Kotlin
10 35 (6.90%) C#
11 33 (6.51%) Bicep
12 28 (5.52%) Ruby
13 24 (4.73%) COBOL
14 20 (3.94%) Groovy
15 18 (3.55%) JCL
16 13 (2.56%) Scala
17 12 (2.37%) PHP
18 8 (1.58%) Rust
18 8 (1.58%) Swift
19 7 (1.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.47%) Degree
4 35 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.51%) AWS Certification
6 27 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.79%) CISSP
13 4 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.59%) OCP
14 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.43%) QA
2 38 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.73%) WCAG
4 18 (3.55%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.78%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.58%) GDPR
8 7 (1.38%) GRC
9 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.18%) NCSC
10 5 (0.99%) NIST
11 4 (0.79%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.59%) SLA
13 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.39%) IFRS
13 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.39%) PERC
13 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 216 (42.60%) Docker
2 11 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.99%) Firmware
5 4 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 200 (39.45%) Kubernetes
2 79 (15.58%) Grafana
3 58 (11.44%) Prometheus
4 50 (9.86%) Ansible
5 29 (5.72%) Argo
6 23 (4.54%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.58%) Cilium
7 8 (1.58%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.38%) logstash
9 6 (1.18%) Packer
10 5 (0.99%) Istio
11 2 (0.39%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.39%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.13%) Databricks
3 25 (4.93%) Google
4 24 (4.73%) VMware
5 17 (3.35%) OneLogin
5 17 (3.35%) Splunk
6 15 (2.96%) New Relic
6 15 (2.96%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.17%) Broadcom
9 9 (1.78%) Oracle
10 8 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.79%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.79%) Braze
13 3 (0.59%) NVIDIA
14 2 (0.39%) EMC
14 2 (0.39%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.39%) Veeam