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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 457 534
Rank change year-on-year +127 +77 +136
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 359 246 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.46% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.28% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 269 182 179
10th Percentile £51,850 £48,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £68,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -14.61% +6.18%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +1.62%

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 21,008 19,262 25,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 36.23% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,455 11,321 20,754
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +92 269 £72,500 +6.62% 475
Work from Home +126 172 £72,500 +11.54% 272
UK excluding London +48 171 £65,000 - 453
London +92 131 £77,500 -10.14% 81
North of England +12 48 £65,000 -4.41% 95
South West +19 38 £72,500 +11.54% 70
Scotland +29 36 £90,000 +56.52% 14
South East -10 27 £75,000 +15.38% 134
Yorkshire -24 26 £60,000 +21.21% 44
North West +23 17 £65,000 -23.53% 40
Midlands +4 12 £62,500 -3.85% 49
West Midlands +2 9 £60,000 -7.69% 18
East of England +26 6 £65,000 -29.73% 61
North East +3 5 £60,000 -17.24% 11
East Midlands -2 3 £70,000 +77.22% 28
Wales -6 2 £63,248 -2.70% 27
Northern Ireland -11 2 £62,500 - 13

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 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.51%) Confluence
2 4 (1.11%) Appian
3 3 (0.84%) Apache
3 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.84%) IIS
4 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.84%) Shopify
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 359 (100.00%) GitHub
2 235 (65.46%) Azure
3 180 (50.14%) AWS
4 159 (44.29%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (24.79%) GCP
6 80 (22.28%) Serverless
7 60 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (15.88%) Datadog
9 53 (14.76%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (13.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (12.53%) Azure Monitor
12 44 (12.26%) Entra ID
13 41 (11.42%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (11.14%) Amazon S3
15 36 (10.03%) Azure AKS
16 35 (9.75%) SaaS
17 28 (7.80%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (5.57%) Azure Logic Apps
19 19 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (5.29%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.69%) Firewall
2 16 (4.46%) VPN
3 10 (2.79%) DNS
3 10 (2.79%) WAN
4 9 (2.51%) Network Security
5 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.95%) HTTP
7 5 (1.39%) DSL
8 4 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.28%) Broadband
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.26%) NoSQL
1 44 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.69%) BigQuery
3 23 (6.41%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.79%) Flink
7 9 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.95%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.95%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.67%) MySQL
10 6 (1.67%) Power BI
10 6 (1.67%) Tableau
11 5 (1.39%) Looker
11 5 (1.39%) Metadata
11 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.11%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 137 (38.16%) Jenkins
2 84 (23.40%) Git
3 42 (11.70%) GitLab
4 14 (3.90%) JIRA
5 9 (2.51%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.51%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.51%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.23%) Subversion
7 6 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.39%) NUnit
9 4 (1.11%) JMeter
9 4 (1.11%) Selenium
10 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) JUnit
10 3 (0.84%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.56%) Deequ
11 2 (0.56%) MSTest
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
11 2 (0.56%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 122 (33.98%) Finance
2 119 (33.15%) Social Skills
3 30 (8.36%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.57%) Banking
4 20 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.90%) Manufacturing
5 14 (3.90%) Retail
6 12 (3.34%) Front Office
7 11 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.79%) Law
8 10 (2.79%) Marketing
9 7 (1.95%) Back Office
10 6 (1.67%) Electronics
11 4 (1.11%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Billing
11 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 83 (23.12%) Senior
2 76 (21.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 67 (18.66%) Developer
4 48 (13.37%) Lead
5 37 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
6 36 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (9.19%) .NET Developer
8 24 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (5.57%) Security Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (4.74%) Azure Developer
12 16 (4.46%) Applications Engineer
12 16 (4.46%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.90%) AWS Developer
14 14 (3.90%) GCP DevOps
14 14 (3.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 14 (3.90%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.61%) .NET
2 69 (19.22%) React
3 58 (16.16%) RESTful
4 41 (11.42%) Node.js
5 30 (8.36%) OAuth
6 26 (7.24%) AWS CDK
7 25 (6.96%) YAML
8 24 (6.69%) .NET Core
8 24 (6.69%) ADO
9 22 (6.13%) ASP.NET
10 19 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (5.29%) HTML
10 19 (5.29%) OAuth2
11 18 (5.01%) .NET Framework
11 18 (5.01%) CSS
11 18 (5.01%) JSON
11 18 (5.01%) Razor View Engine
11 18 (5.01%) REST
12 17 (4.74%) Blazor
12 17 (4.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 79 (22.01%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.96%) Onboarding
2 25 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.11%) Blog
8 4 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.11%) Hackathon
9 3 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.56%) Derivative
10 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (13.09%) Linux
2 19 (5.29%) Windows
3 17 (4.74%) VMS
4 5 (1.39%) Unix
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.84%) SUSE
7 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (90.81%) CI/CD
2 280 (77.99%) DevOps
3 187 (52.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 141 (39.28%) Containerisation
5 112 (31.20%) Agile
6 107 (29.81%) Observability
7 102 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (27.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (20.89%) Test Automation
10 62 (17.27%) Incident Response
11 57 (15.88%) RBAC
12 56 (15.60%) AI
12 56 (15.60%) Analytics
12 56 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
13 54 (15.04%) Cloud Security
14 53 (14.76%) Microservices
15 52 (14.48%) Deployment Automation
16 50 (13.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 48 (13.37%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (12.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (51.53%) Python
2 101 (28.13%) Bash
3 87 (24.23%) SQL
4 75 (20.89%) PowerShell
5 64 (17.83%) TypeScript
6 59 (16.43%) JavaScript
7 56 (15.60%) Bicep
8 34 (9.47%) Java
9 33 (9.19%) Go
10 32 (8.91%) C#
11 10 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.39%) Rust
12 5 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.11%) C++
13 4 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.11%) Ruby
14 2 (0.56%) VB
15 1 (0.28%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (14.21%) Degree
2 43 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (10.31%) Security Cleared
4 35 (9.75%) AWS Certification
5 29 (8.08%) SC Cleared
6 26 (7.24%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.01%) Master's Degree
8 16 (4.46%) CISSP
8 16 (4.46%) CREST Certified
8 16 (4.46%) SANS
9 11 (3.06%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.39%) OSCP
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.56%) CCNA
13 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.98%) QA
2 38 (10.58%) GDPR
3 27 (7.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.74%) Accessibility
5 16 (4.46%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.39%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.11%) GRC
9 4 (1.11%) SLA
10 2 (0.56%) ECSS
10 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 166 (46.24%) Docker
2 44 (12.26%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.84%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 213 (59.33%) Terraform
2 175 (48.75%) Kubernetes
3 73 (20.33%) Grafana
4 69 (19.22%) Prometheus
5 55 (15.32%) Ansible
6 25 (6.96%) Argo
7 9 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.11%) Cilium
8 4 (1.11%) logstash
8 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.84%) Rancher
10 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) Icinga
11 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.28%) Nagios
11 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.80%) Google
3 14 (3.90%) Ab Initio
4 13 (3.62%) VMware
5 11 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.79%) Palo Alto
6 10 (2.79%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.23%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.95%) Splunk
9 6 (1.67%) SAP
10 5 (1.39%) Databricks
10 5 (1.39%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.11%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.11%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.11%) Talend
11 4 (1.11%) Zoho
12 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.56%) Pega