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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 483 597
Rank change year-on-year +79 +114 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 417 218 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.37% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 306 171 211
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,004 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -7.69%

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 27,285 15,896 29,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.14% 32.38% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17,820 11,065 22,258
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,219 £41,250 £42,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 24 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 24 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 +51 359 £65,500 -12.67% 217
UK excluding London +64 236 £62,500 -3.10% 118
London -8 137 £78,750 -1.56% 121
Work from Home +30 132 £65,000 -10.34% 112
North of England +38 99 £63,750 -6.93% 60
South East +25 56 £62,500 -20.63% 29
Yorkshire +3 45 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +23 37 £65,500 -12.67% 35
Midlands -22 28 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Wales -41 22 £60,000 +2.13% 2
East Midlands -8 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -52 20 £65,000 +6.12% 5
North East -35 17 £47,500 -17.39% 7
West Midlands -39 7 £63,750 -5.56% 10
East of England -11 6 £77,575 +19.35% 2
Scotland +9 5 £85,000 +31.78% 8

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 10 (2.40%) Apache
1 10 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.92%) Confluence
3 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) GitHub
2 260 (62.35%) AWS
3 237 (56.83%) Azure
4 131 (31.41%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (21.10%) GCP
6 86 (20.62%) Serverless
7 69 (16.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (15.83%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.71%) Amazon S3
10 47 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.79%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (10.55%) Datadog
13 34 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (5.28%) Azure Key Vault
15 22 (5.28%) Firebase
16 21 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (4.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 19 (4.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.11%) Firewall
2 18 (4.32%) DNS
2 18 (4.32%) VPN
3 17 (4.08%) Network Security
4 14 (3.36%) HTTP
5 13 (3.12%) DMARC
6 10 (2.40%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.68%) DSL
8 5 (1.20%) SAN
9 4 (0.96%) SSH
9 4 (0.96%) SSL
10 3 (0.72%) WAN
11 2 (0.48%) BGP
11 2 (0.48%) RTP
11 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.48%) VLAN
11 2 (0.48%) VoIP
11 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.67%) SQL Server
3 30 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (6.47%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.52%) NoSQL
6 22 (5.28%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.84%) MySQL
8 15 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.60%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.64%) Power BI
10 10 (2.40%) Redis
11 7 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.44%) Tableau
13 5 (1.20%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.96%) Big Data
14 4 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 155 (37.17%) Jenkins
2 87 (20.86%) Git
3 67 (16.07%) GitLab
4 30 (7.19%) JIRA
5 20 (4.80%) Crashlytics
6 18 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.60%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.60%) XCTest
8 12 (2.88%) Postman
9 11 (2.64%) Selenium
10 8 (1.92%) fastlane
10 8 (1.92%) Gradle
10 8 (1.92%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.44%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.44%) Gatling
12 6 (1.44%) Storybook
12 6 (1.44%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.20%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 126 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 49 (11.75%) Finance
3 43 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (5.04%) Retail
7 17 (4.08%) Banking
8 10 (2.40%) Law
8 10 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.96%) Automotive
12 3 (0.72%) Advertising
12 3 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.72%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (25.90%) Senior
2 98 (23.50%) Developer
3 71 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (14.39%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (13.19%) Lead
6 42 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.67%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.24%) Security Engineer
10 25 (6.00%) Architect
10 25 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (5.04%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.56%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.32%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 15 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (19.66%) Node.js
2 65 (15.59%) React
3 48 (11.51%) CSS
4 46 (11.03%) .NET
5 42 (10.07%) RESTful
5 42 (10.07%) Spring Boot
6 41 (9.83%) REST
7 37 (8.87%) OAuth
8 34 (8.15%) Spring
9 32 (7.67%) HTML
10 27 (6.47%) OAuth2
11 26 (6.24%) YAML
12 25 (6.00%) AngularJS
12 25 (6.00%) Playwright
13 20 (4.80%) Web Services
14 19 (4.56%) Jest
15 18 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (4.32%) Ruby on Rails
15 18 (4.32%) Vue
16 17 (4.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 109 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.43%) Mobile App
3 25 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.84%) PKI
6 14 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.12%) Private Cloud
8 12 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.88%) Mainframe
9 11 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.92%) Blog
11 8 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.68%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.44%) CMDB
13 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.96%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.55%) Linux
2 21 (5.04%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.80%) Windows
4 12 (2.88%) Android
5 9 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.96%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Debian
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) AIX
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (93.53%) CI/CD
2 263 (63.07%) DevOps
3 217 (52.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (35.97%) Containerisation
5 123 (29.50%) Agile
6 97 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (22.78%) Observability
8 89 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (21.10%) Platform Engineering
10 87 (20.86%) Test Automation
11 86 (20.62%) AI
12 81 (19.42%) Software Engineering
13 78 (18.71%) Mentoring
14 67 (16.07%) Cloud Security
15 66 (15.83%) Microservices
16 65 (15.59%) Analytics
17 61 (14.63%) Clean Code
18 60 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 55 (13.19%) DevSecOps
20 52 (12.47%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 178 (42.69%) Python
2 82 (19.66%) Bash
2 82 (19.66%) TypeScript
3 76 (18.23%) Java
4 70 (16.79%) PowerShell
5 68 (16.31%) JavaScript
6 60 (14.39%) SQL
7 39 (9.35%) Go
7 39 (9.35%) Kotlin
8 30 (7.19%) C#
9 25 (6.00%) Bicep
10 20 (4.80%) Ruby
11 17 (4.08%) Swift
12 15 (3.60%) Groovy
13 12 (2.88%) Scala
14 11 (2.64%) PHP
15 9 (2.16%) Rust
16 7 (1.68%) COBOL
16 7 (1.68%) Dart
17 4 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.27%) Degree
3 37 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.63%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.28%) Azure Certification
5 22 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.40%) OSCP
9 9 (2.16%) CISSP
10 7 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.96%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.87%) QA
2 32 (7.67%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.80%) SOC 2
4 20 (4.80%) WCAG
5 13 (3.12%) GRC
6 11 (2.64%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.68%) GDPR
7 7 (1.68%) NCSC
8 6 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.72%) NIST
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 146 (35.01%) Docker
2 16 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 220 (52.76%) Terraform
2 159 (38.13%) Kubernetes
3 61 (14.63%) Grafana
4 59 (14.15%) Ansible
5 50 (11.99%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.56%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.60%) Argo
8 13 (3.12%) Cilium
9 10 (2.40%) Packer
10 5 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.96%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.72%) Puppet
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) Kibana
14 1 (0.24%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.28%) VMware
3 18 (4.32%) Databricks
3 18 (4.32%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.84%) Google
5 14 (3.36%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.36%) Braze
6 13 (3.12%) New Relic
6 13 (3.12%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.88%) OneLogin
7 12 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.44%) Cisco
9 6 (1.44%) EMC
9 6 (1.44%) F5
9 6 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.72%) Splunk
11 3 (0.72%) Tenable