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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 457 651
Rank change year-on-year +59 +194 -31
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 393 196 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.36% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 285 155 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -6.40%

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 27,315 14,369 34,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.51% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,661 9,890 26,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +54 346 £70,400 -6.13% 87
UK excluding London +48 205 £65,000 -4.41% 59
London +24 151 £80,000 -3.03% 38
Work from Home +62 135 £65,000 -10.34% 46
North of England +18 92 £61,250 -9.93% 24
Yorkshire -19 45 £63,750 -6.25% 7
South East -8 39 £61,250 -12.50% 18
North West +14 30 £65,500 -12.67% 14
South West -48 27 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Midlands -23 22 £65,000 -10.34% 4
East Midlands -17 18 £75,000 +25.00% 1
North East -24 17 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Scotland +6 13 £85,000 +36.00% 2
East of England -16 6 £77,575 +1.74% 4
Wales -38 4 £63,250 +5.42%
West Midlands -44 4 £62,500 -15.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.80%) Apache
2 10 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.78%) Confluence
4 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Endur
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 393 (100.00%) GitHub
2 234 (59.54%) AWS
3 225 (57.25%) Azure
4 141 (35.88%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (23.41%) Serverless
6 84 (21.37%) GCP
7 67 (17.05%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (14.76%) Datadog
10 51 (12.98%) Amazon S3
11 43 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (9.41%) AWS Step Functions
13 29 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (6.62%) Entra ID
15 23 (5.85%) Azure AKS
16 19 (4.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 19 (4.83%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.21%) Firewall
2 21 (5.34%) VPN
3 19 (4.83%) DNS
3 19 (4.83%) HTTP
4 17 (4.33%) Network Security
5 15 (3.82%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.31%) DSL
7 10 (2.54%) WAN
8 7 (1.78%) DMARC
9 4 (1.02%) SSL
10 3 (0.76%) RTP
10 3 (0.76%) SAN
10 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) BGP
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.63%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.36%) DynamoDB
4 24 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (3.31%) MySQL
7 13 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.54%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.54%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.78%) Power BI
10 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.27%) Metadata
12 4 (1.02%) Big Data
12 4 (1.02%) Flink
12 4 (1.02%) Redis
12 4 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (35.62%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.85%) Git
3 54 (13.74%) GitLab
4 20 (5.09%) JIRA
5 18 (4.58%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.56%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.56%) XCTest
7 8 (2.04%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.78%) fastlane
8 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.53%) Storybook
10 5 (1.27%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.27%) Gradle
11 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.02%) Postman
12 3 (0.76%) Appium
12 3 (0.76%) Gatling
12 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.79%) Finance
3 27 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.11%) Retail
5 20 (5.09%) Banking
6 19 (4.83%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.33%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.82%) Law
9 12 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Advertising
13 4 (1.02%) Automotive
13 4 (1.02%) Front Office
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Military
15 2 (0.51%) Billing
15 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (25.45%) Senior
2 94 (23.92%) Developer
3 75 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 44 (11.20%) Lead
7 34 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (6.36%) Security Engineer
8 25 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 24 (6.11%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.85%) Architect
11 21 (5.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Data Engineer
14 18 (4.58%) AWS Developer
15 17 (4.33%) Java Developer
16 16 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
16 16 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
17 15 (3.82%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.27%) Node.js
2 59 (15.01%) React
3 48 (12.21%) .NET
4 42 (10.69%) CSS
5 39 (9.92%) OAuth
6 32 (8.14%) RESTful
7 30 (7.63%) REST
8 28 (7.12%) HTML
9 24 (6.11%) AWS CDK
10 21 (5.34%) YAML
11 20 (5.09%) OAuth2
12 19 (4.83%) .NET Core
12 19 (4.83%) AngularJS
12 19 (4.83%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (4.33%) SAML
15 14 (3.56%) .NET Framework
15 14 (3.56%) ASP.NET Core
15 14 (3.56%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (3.56%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.12%) Mobile App
3 24 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.56%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.31%) PKI
9 11 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.53%) CMDB
12 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.49%) Linux
2 19 (4.83%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.31%) Windows
4 10 (2.54%) Android
4 10 (2.54%) VMS
5 8 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (92.88%) CI/CD
2 259 (65.90%) DevOps
3 214 (54.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (33.84%) Containerisation
5 108 (27.48%) Agile
6 100 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (23.66%) Observability
8 91 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.08%) Test Automation
10 69 (17.56%) Analytics
10 69 (17.56%) Cloud Security
11 68 (17.30%) AI
12 65 (16.54%) DevSecOps
13 62 (15.78%) Platform Engineering
14 61 (15.52%) Mentoring
15 58 (14.76%) Incident Response
16 57 (14.50%) Software Engineering
17 54 (13.74%) Deployment Automation
18 50 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
19 49 (12.47%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 180 (45.80%) Python
2 92 (23.41%) Bash
3 81 (20.61%) SQL
4 77 (19.59%) TypeScript
5 67 (17.05%) PowerShell
6 57 (14.50%) JavaScript
7 52 (13.23%) Go
8 39 (9.92%) Java
9 35 (8.91%) Kotlin
10 30 (7.63%) C#
11 19 (4.83%) Bicep
12 15 (3.82%) Rust
12 15 (3.82%) Swift
13 10 (2.54%) Groovy
14 9 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.04%) Scala
16 7 (1.78%) Dart
17 6 (1.53%) PHP
18 5 (1.27%) C++
18 5 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (13.49%) Degree
2 34 (8.65%) AWS Certification
2 34 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.83%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.07%) OSCP
7 11 (2.80%) CISSP
8 8 (2.04%) CREST Certified
8 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.04%) SANS
9 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.76%) CCSP
12 3 (0.76%) CISM
12 3 (0.76%) GCIA
12 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (7.38%) QA
3 27 (6.87%) SOC 2
4 18 (4.58%) GDPR
5 17 (4.33%) Accessibility
6 12 (3.05%) GRC
7 11 (2.80%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.53%) WCAG
10 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.02%) NIST
11 3 (0.76%) SLA
12 2 (0.51%) IFRS
12 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 136 (34.61%) Docker
2 29 (7.38%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 225 (57.25%) Terraform
2 145 (36.90%) Kubernetes
3 69 (17.56%) Ansible
4 65 (16.54%) Grafana
5 53 (13.49%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.05%) Argo
7 12 (3.05%) Cilium
8 9 (2.29%) Packer
9 8 (2.04%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.76%) Puppet
11 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.51%) logstash
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 58 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.09%) VMware
3 17 (4.33%) Google
4 15 (3.82%) Dynatrace
4 15 (3.82%) Palo Alto
5 13 (3.31%) Amplitude
5 13 (3.31%) Braze
6 11 (2.80%) Databricks
6 11 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.29%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.78%) SendGrid
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
9 6 (1.53%) EMC
9 6 (1.53%) F5
9 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.02%) New Relic
10 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.76%) Varonis