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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 467 583
Rank change year-on-year +59 +116 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 424 220 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.38% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 307 173 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% -8.37%

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 27,568 15,912 28,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.25% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,019 11,067 20,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +51 365 £65,000 -13.33% 229
UK excluding London +64 243 £62,500 -1.57% 122
London -4 140 £80,000 - 126
Work from Home +13 131 £65,000 -10.34% 119
North of England +43 101 £63,750 -6.93% 58
South East +10 58 £62,500 +13.64% 28
Yorkshire +6 45 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +14 37 £65,500 -12.67% 33
Midlands -22 30 £65,000 -1.89% 15
Wales -42 22 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East Midlands -9 21 £70,000 +29.63% 3
South West -51 20 £62,500 - 8
North East -36 19 £47,500 -17.39% 7
West Midlands -33 9 £63,750 -5.56% 12
Scotland +8 6 £85,000 +31.78% 5
East of England -23 6 £77,575 +24.12% 4

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 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.12%) Apache
3 8 (1.89%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) WordPress
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 424 (100.00%) GitHub
2 270 (63.68%) AWS
3 242 (57.08%) Azure
4 134 (31.60%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.23%) GCP
6 86 (20.28%) Serverless
7 72 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (15.80%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.74%) Amazon S3
10 49 (11.56%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (10.61%) Datadog
13 36 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.19%) Firebase
17 21 (4.95%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (4.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.73%) Firewall
2 18 (4.25%) DNS
2 18 (4.25%) VPN
3 17 (4.01%) Network Security
4 13 (3.07%) DMARC
4 13 (3.07%) HTTP
5 10 (2.36%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.65%) DSL
7 5 (1.18%) SAN
8 4 (0.94%) SSH
8 4 (0.94%) SSL
9 3 (0.71%) WAN
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) VLAN
11 1 (0.24%) LTE
11 1 (0.24%) RTP
11 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.24%) VoIP
11 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.02%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.31%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (6.60%) DynamoDB
5 24 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 23 (5.42%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.77%) Delta Lake
8 15 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.30%) MySQL
10 12 (2.83%) Power BI
11 10 (2.36%) Redis
12 7 (1.65%) Tableau
13 6 (1.42%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.42%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.94%) Big Data
14 4 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 161 (37.97%) Jenkins
2 88 (20.75%) Git
3 69 (16.27%) GitLab
4 29 (6.84%) JIRA
5 20 (4.72%) Crashlytics
6 19 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.54%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.54%) XCTest
8 13 (3.07%) Postman
9 12 (2.83%) Selenium
10 8 (1.89%) fastlane
10 8 (1.89%) Gradle
10 8 (1.89%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.42%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.42%) Gatling
12 6 (1.42%) JUnit
12 6 (1.42%) Storybook
12 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.94%) Claude Code
General
1 128 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.74%) Finance
3 44 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.95%) Retail
7 17 (4.01%) Banking
8 13 (3.07%) Law
9 10 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Automotive
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Games
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (25.47%) Senior
2 98 (23.11%) Developer
3 71 (16.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (13.92%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (13.21%) Lead
6 42 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.37%) Security Engineer
10 26 (6.13%) Architect
11 24 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.95%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 21 (4.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.72%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.48%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.77%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (20.05%) Node.js
2 68 (16.04%) React
3 52 (12.26%) .NET
4 48 (11.32%) CSS
5 45 (10.61%) Spring Boot
6 43 (10.14%) REST
7 41 (9.67%) RESTful
8 37 (8.73%) OAuth
8 37 (8.73%) Spring
9 31 (7.31%) HTML
10 27 (6.37%) AngularJS
10 27 (6.37%) OAuth2
11 26 (6.13%) YAML
12 25 (5.90%) Playwright
13 19 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.48%) Jest
13 19 (4.48%) Web Services
14 18 (4.25%) Ruby on Rails
14 18 (4.25%) Tailwind CSS
14 18 (4.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.65%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.08%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.77%) PKI
7 14 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.30%) Mainframe
8 13 (3.07%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.36%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.89%) Blog
12 8 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.65%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.65%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.42%) CMDB
15 4 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.27%) Linux
2 21 (4.95%) Apple iOS
2 21 (4.95%) Windows
3 12 (2.83%) Android
4 9 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.94%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) AIX
8 1 (0.24%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (93.63%) CI/CD
2 267 (62.97%) DevOps
3 221 (52.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (34.67%) Containerisation
5 124 (29.25%) Agile
6 98 (23.11%) Observability
6 98 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (21.23%) AI
9 89 (20.99%) Platform Engineering
10 87 (20.52%) Test Automation
11 84 (19.81%) Software Engineering
12 80 (18.87%) Mentoring
13 68 (16.04%) Cloud Security
14 67 (15.80%) Analytics
14 67 (15.80%) Microservices
15 63 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
16 61 (14.39%) Clean Code
17 55 (12.97%) DevSecOps
18 54 (12.74%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 185 (43.63%) Python
2 83 (19.58%) Bash
2 83 (19.58%) TypeScript
3 80 (18.87%) Java
4 69 (16.27%) JavaScript
4 69 (16.27%) PowerShell
5 60 (14.15%) SQL
6 41 (9.67%) Go
7 39 (9.20%) Kotlin
8 32 (7.55%) C#
9 25 (5.90%) Bicep
10 20 (4.72%) Ruby
11 17 (4.01%) Swift
12 15 (3.54%) Groovy
13 13 (3.07%) Scala
14 11 (2.59%) PHP
15 9 (2.12%) COBOL
16 8 (1.89%) Rust
17 6 (1.42%) Dart
18 4 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.08%) Degree
3 39 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.96%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 22 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.36%) OSCP
9 9 (2.12%) CISSP
10 7 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.94%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.96%) QA
2 32 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.72%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.72%) WCAG
5 13 (3.07%) GRC
6 11 (2.59%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.65%) NCSC
8 6 (1.42%) GDPR
8 6 (1.42%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.94%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (35.14%) Docker
2 16 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.47%) Firmware
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (53.30%) Terraform
2 159 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.62%) Grafana
4 58 (13.68%) Ansible
5 52 (12.26%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.72%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.54%) Argo
8 13 (3.07%) Cilium
9 10 (2.36%) Packer
10 5 (1.18%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.94%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.24%) Istio
13 1 (0.24%) Kibana
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
13 1 (0.24%) logstash
13 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.19%) VMware
3 19 (4.48%) Databricks
3 19 (4.48%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.77%) Google
5 14 (3.30%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.30%) Braze
5 14 (3.30%) New Relic
6 13 (3.07%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.07%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.83%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.42%) Cisco
9 6 (1.42%) EMC
9 6 (1.42%) F5
9 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.18%) Splunk
11 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.71%) Tenable