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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 487 501
Rank change year-on-year +149 +14 +162
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 337 244 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.45% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.26% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 253 186 178
10th Percentile £50,850 £48,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,750 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -16.18% +7.98%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £111,000 £96,264 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -7.90% +0.82%

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 20,472 19,401 22,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.37% 36.15% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,396 18,402
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,608 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
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 10 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 10 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 +91 253 £72,500 +7.41% 444
Work from Home +141 169 £72,500 +11.54% 245
UK excluding London +57 158 £65,000 - 423
London +95 126 £77,500 -8.82% 78
North of England +8 45 £65,000 -4.41% 90
Scotland +40 36 £90,000 +56.52% 13
South West +15 31 £72,500 +11.54% 62
South East -9 24 £75,000 +15.38% 128
Yorkshire -34 24 £60,000 +21.21% 43
North West +34 17 £65,000 -24.64% 35
Midlands +12 13 £60,000 -7.69% 48
West Midlands +7 10 £60,000 -7.69% 15
East of England +19 6 £65,000 -18.75% 58
North East +9 4 £62,500 -13.79% 12
East Midlands +6 3 £60,000 +51.90% 30
Wales -8 2 £63,248 -2.70% 23
Northern Ireland -10 1 £62,500 - 12

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 (2.67%) Confluence
2 8 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.19%) Appian
4 3 (0.89%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) GitHub
2 230 (68.25%) Azure
3 163 (48.37%) AWS
4 157 (46.59%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (24.04%) GCP
6 68 (20.18%) Serverless
7 59 (17.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (16.02%) Datadog
9 45 (13.35%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (13.35%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (13.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (11.87%) Entra ID
12 38 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (10.98%) Azure AKS
14 35 (10.39%) Amazon S3
15 34 (10.09%) SaaS
16 22 (6.53%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (5.64%) Cloud Run
19 18 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.64%) Firewall
2 13 (3.86%) VPN
3 9 (2.67%) Network Security
3 9 (2.67%) WAN
4 8 (2.37%) DNS
5 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.19%) HTTP
6 4 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.89%) DSL
8 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.46%) NoSQL
2 40 (11.87%) SQL Server
3 24 (7.12%) BigQuery
4 21 (6.23%) DynamoDB
5 20 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.97%) Flink
8 9 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.08%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.78%) Power BI
10 6 (1.78%) Tableau
11 5 (1.48%) Looker
11 5 (1.48%) Metadata
11 5 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.19%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.89%) Redis
13 3 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 127 (37.69%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.15%) Git
3 41 (12.17%) GitLab
4 14 (4.15%) JIRA
5 9 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 9 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 8 (2.37%) Subversion
7 7 (2.08%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.48%) Selenium
9 4 (1.19%) JMeter
9 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.89%) JUnit
10 3 (0.89%) NUnit
10 3 (0.89%) Postman
11 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (33.23%) Finance
1 112 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.31%) Telecoms
3 21 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.93%) Banking
4 20 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.15%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.56%) Front Office
6 12 (3.56%) Retail
7 11 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.97%) Marketing
9 9 (2.67%) Law
10 7 (2.08%) Back Office
11 6 (1.78%) Electronics
12 4 (1.19%) Billing
12 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.89%) Advertising
13 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (22.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (21.36%) Senior
3 57 (16.91%) Developer
4 47 (13.95%) Lead
5 37 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.90%) .NET Developer
8 24 (7.12%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) GCP Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) Security Engineer
10 16 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (4.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.45%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) Azure Developer
12 14 (4.15%) Development Engineer
12 14 (4.15%) GCP DevOps
12 14 (4.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.86%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.07%) .NET
2 66 (19.58%) React
3 56 (16.62%) RESTful
4 36 (10.68%) Node.js
5 26 (7.72%) OAuth
6 24 (7.12%) YAML
7 23 (6.82%) .NET Core
7 23 (6.82%) ADO
8 22 (6.53%) AWS CDK
9 20 (5.93%) ASP.NET
10 19 (5.64%) ARM Templates
10 19 (5.64%) JSON
11 18 (5.34%) Blazor
12 17 (5.04%) .NET Framework
12 17 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (5.04%) Kafka
13 16 (4.75%) OAuth2
13 16 (4.75%) REST
14 15 (4.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 15 (4.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.96%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.19%) Blog
9 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.19%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.59%) Derivative
11 2 (0.59%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.59%) Genomics
11 2 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.46%) Linux
2 19 (5.64%) Windows
3 16 (4.75%) VMS
4 5 (1.48%) Unix
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.89%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (91.10%) CI/CD
2 270 (80.12%) DevOps
3 175 (51.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (39.17%) Containerisation
5 104 (30.86%) Agile
6 97 (28.78%) Observability
7 95 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (25.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (20.77%) Test Automation
10 57 (16.91%) Incident Response
11 56 (16.62%) AI
11 56 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
12 55 (16.32%) RBAC
13 53 (15.73%) Analytics
14 52 (15.43%) Deployment Automation
14 52 (15.43%) Microservices
15 49 (14.54%) Cloud Security
16 47 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 46 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (13.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 173 (51.34%) Python
2 94 (27.89%) Bash
3 82 (24.33%) SQL
4 71 (21.07%) PowerShell
5 60 (17.80%) Bicep
6 55 (16.32%) JavaScript
6 55 (16.32%) TypeScript
7 32 (9.50%) Java
8 31 (9.20%) C#
9 27 (8.01%) Go
10 9 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.19%) Ruby
11 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.89%) C++
12 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.89%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (14.24%) Degree
2 40 (11.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (10.09%) Security Cleared
4 33 (9.79%) AWS Certification
5 29 (8.61%) SC Cleared
6 27 (8.01%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.04%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.56%) CISSP
8 12 (3.56%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.56%) SANS
9 11 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.89%) CCNA
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.89%) OSCP
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.17%) QA
2 38 (11.28%) GDPR
3 26 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.45%) SOC 2
5 13 (3.86%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.19%) GRC
8 4 (1.19%) SLA
9 2 (0.59%) ECSS
9 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 158 (46.88%) Docker
2 40 (11.87%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 205 (60.83%) Terraform
2 170 (50.45%) Kubernetes
3 64 (18.99%) Grafana
3 64 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 48 (14.24%) Ansible
5 24 (7.12%) Argo
6 9 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.19%) Cilium
7 4 (1.19%) logstash
7 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.89%) Rancher
9 1 (0.30%) Control-M
9 1 (0.30%) Icinga
9 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.30%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.31%) Google
3 14 (4.15%) Ab Initio
4 12 (3.56%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.26%) VMware
6 9 (2.67%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.67%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.78%) Databricks
8 6 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.78%) SAP
8 6 (1.78%) Splunk
9 5 (1.48%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.19%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.19%) Talend
10 4 (1.19%) Zoho
11 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow