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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 465 659
Rank change year-on-year +79 +194 -46
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 398 211 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.41% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 294 157 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -1.45%

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 25,187 14,954 35,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.43% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,324 10,320 27,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,368
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +59 352 £70,000 -6.67% 155
UK excluding London +66 219 £65,000 -4.41% 112
London +7 144 £80,000 - 84
Work from Home +30 123 £65,000 -10.34% 80
North of England +35 97 £62,500 -8.76% 26
South East +13 44 £61,250 -12.50% 37
Yorkshire 0 44 £65,000 -5.11% 8
North West +33 35 £65,500 -12.67% 14
South West -49 27 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Midlands -17 25 £65,000 -1.89% 8
East Midlands -4 22 £72,500 +28.89% 6
North East -34 18 £47,250 -17.83% 5
Wales -43 10 £63,250 +5.42% 3
Scotland +14 9 £85,000 +31.78% 11
East of England -15 5 £80,150 +16.58% 5
West Midlands -29 3 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 10

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 (2.76%) Apache
1 11 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.50%) nginx
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.50%) Magento
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 398 (100.00%) GitHub
2 237 (59.55%) AWS
3 227 (57.04%) Azure
4 137 (34.42%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (21.86%) GCP
6 84 (21.11%) Serverless
7 65 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 61 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (12.81%) Datadog
10 47 (11.81%) Amazon S3
11 41 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (10.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (7.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (7.54%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (5.78%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (5.53%) Azure AKS
17 22 (5.53%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.06%) Firewall
2 23 (5.78%) VPN
3 20 (5.03%) DNS
3 20 (5.03%) HTTP
4 17 (4.27%) Network Security
5 15 (3.77%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.02%) DSL
7 11 (2.76%) DMARC
8 9 (2.26%) WAN
9 4 (1.01%) SSL
10 3 (0.75%) RTP
10 3 (0.75%) SAN
10 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.75%) VoIP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.50%) BGP
11 2 (0.50%) VLAN
12 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.78%) NoSQL
3 22 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.03%) DynamoDB
5 19 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.52%) MySQL
9 13 (3.27%) Delta Lake
10 9 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.26%) Power BI
11 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.26%) Big Data
12 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.26%) Tableau
13 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.01%) Redis
14 3 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 151 (37.94%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.10%) Git
3 59 (14.82%) GitLab
4 22 (5.53%) JIRA
5 20 (5.03%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.77%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.77%) XCTest
7 11 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.01%) fastlane
8 8 (2.01%) Gradle
8 8 (2.01%) Postman
9 7 (1.76%) Selenium
9 7 (1.76%) Storybook
9 7 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.51%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.51%) Gatling
10 6 (1.51%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.26%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.01%) Claude Code
General
1 119 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.57%) Finance
3 26 (6.53%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.03%) Retail
6 21 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.27%) Banking
8 16 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.77%) Law
10 8 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Advertising
13 4 (1.01%) Automotive
14 3 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.75%) Military
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
15 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (25.38%) Senior
2 89 (22.36%) Developer
3 69 (17.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (14.57%) Platform Engineer
5 48 (12.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.05%) Lead
7 34 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.29%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.04%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (6.53%) Architect
12 22 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (5.03%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.03%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (4.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (4.02%) .NET Developer
16 16 (4.02%) Cloud Automation Engineer
17 15 (3.77%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.58%) Node.js
2 56 (14.07%) React
3 45 (11.31%) CSS
4 40 (10.05%) .NET
5 38 (9.55%) OAuth
6 32 (8.04%) RESTful
7 31 (7.79%) HTML
8 30 (7.54%) REST
9 26 (6.53%) YAML
10 25 (6.28%) Spring Boot
11 22 (5.53%) AngularJS
12 21 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (5.28%) OAuth2
12 21 (5.28%) Spring
13 18 (4.52%) AWS CDK
14 15 (3.77%) Playwright
14 15 (3.77%) SAML
14 15 (3.77%) UIKit
14 15 (3.77%) Web Services
15 14 (3.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 102 (25.63%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.54%) Mobile App
3 24 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.52%) PKI
7 14 (3.52%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.51%) CMDB
14 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
15 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.08%) Linux
2 20 (5.03%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.52%) Windows
4 11 (2.76%) Android
5 10 (2.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.01%) VMS
7 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (92.96%) CI/CD
2 253 (63.57%) DevOps
3 218 (54.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (34.92%) Containerisation
5 108 (27.14%) Agile
6 97 (24.37%) Observability
7 96 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.10%) Test Automation
10 73 (18.34%) Platform Engineering
11 72 (18.09%) Analytics
12 70 (17.59%) Cloud Security
13 66 (16.58%) AI
13 66 (16.58%) Mentoring
14 65 (16.33%) Software Engineering
15 59 (14.82%) DevSecOps
16 56 (14.07%) Incident Response
17 54 (13.57%) Clean Code
18 51 (12.81%) Full-Stack Development
19 48 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 180 (45.23%) Python
2 92 (23.12%) Bash
3 72 (18.09%) TypeScript
4 70 (17.59%) PowerShell
4 70 (17.59%) SQL
5 54 (13.57%) Java
6 53 (13.32%) JavaScript
7 47 (11.81%) Go
8 39 (9.80%) Kotlin
9 29 (7.29%) C#
10 22 (5.53%) Bicep
11 16 (4.02%) Swift
12 14 (3.52%) Groovy
12 14 (3.52%) Rust
13 11 (2.76%) Scala
14 8 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.76%) Dart
15 7 (1.76%) Ruby
16 6 (1.51%) PHP
17 5 (1.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (13.57%) Degree
2 43 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.77%) OSCP
8 13 (3.27%) CISSP
9 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.01%) SANS
10 7 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.75%) CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CISM
14 3 (0.75%) GCIA
14 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.04%) QA
3 26 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.53%) SOC 2
4 15 (3.77%) GDPR
5 13 (3.27%) GRC
6 12 (3.02%) WCAG
7 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.75%) NCSC
10 3 (0.75%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 134 (33.67%) Docker
2 25 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 221 (55.53%) Terraform
2 150 (37.69%) Kubernetes
3 68 (17.09%) Ansible
4 65 (16.33%) Grafana
5 56 (14.07%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.27%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.27%) Argo
7 13 (3.27%) Cilium
8 9 (2.26%) Packer
9 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.75%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) linkerd
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.53%) VMware
3 18 (4.52%) Google
4 17 (4.27%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.52%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.52%) Braze
6 13 (3.27%) Databricks
6 13 (3.27%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.76%) SendGrid
8 7 (1.76%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.51%) Cisco
9 6 (1.51%) EMC
9 6 (1.51%) F5
9 6 (1.51%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) New Relic
11 3 (0.75%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.75%) Splunk
11 3 (0.75%) Varonis