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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 462 616
Rank change year-on-year +73 +154 -29
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 424 224 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.41% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 315 170 219
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 26,886 15,833 33,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.35% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17,488 11,041 25,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,842
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.26% -7.56%

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 July 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 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 +59 368 £67,500 -10.00% 238
UK excluding London +71 239 £65,000 -1.89% 154
London -2 140 £80,000 - 127
Work from Home +45 130 £65,000 -11.86% 121
North of England +36 100 £65,000 -5.11% 49
South East +2 56 £62,500 -16.67% 42
Yorkshire +7 47 £65,000 -5.11% 14
North West +23 36 £65,500 -12.67% 29
Midlands -19 28 £65,000 -3.70% 14
South West -48 26 £73,750 +13.46% 33
East Midlands -2 22 £72,500 +28.89% 6
North East -34 17 £47,000 -18.26% 6
Wales -42 15 £71,500 +19.17% 5
Scotland +12 7 £85,000 +31.78% 9
East of England -9 6 £77,575 +14.93% 2
West Midlands -23 6 £63,750 -5.56% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 1

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
1 11 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.42%) Confluence
4 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) 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
2 261 (61.56%) AWS
3 238 (56.13%) Azure
4 137 (32.31%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.23%) GCP
6 88 (20.75%) Serverless
7 69 (16.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 65 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 48 (11.32%) Datadog
11 44 (10.38%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (6.37%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
18 21 (4.95%) Firebase
19 20 (4.72%) Entra ID
20 19 (4.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.08%) Firewall
2 23 (5.42%) VPN
3 22 (5.19%) DNS
4 19 (4.48%) HTTP
5 17 (4.01%) Network Security
6 14 (3.30%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.07%) DMARC
8 10 (2.36%) DSL
9 5 (1.18%) SAN
9 5 (1.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.94%) SSL
11 3 (0.71%) RTP
11 3 (0.71%) SSH
11 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.71%) VoIP
11 3 (0.71%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.47%) BGP
12 2 (0.47%) VLAN
13 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.42%) DynamoDB
3 23 (5.42%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.54%) MySQL
7 14 (3.30%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.12%) Power BI
9 7 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.42%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.18%) Big Data
11 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.18%) Redis
11 5 (1.18%) Tableau
12 4 (0.94%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 164 (38.68%) Jenkins
2 82 (19.34%) Git
3 67 (15.80%) GitLab
4 27 (6.37%) JIRA
5 20 (4.72%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.54%) XCTest
7 14 (3.30%) TeamCity
8 13 (3.07%) Cypress.io
9 11 (2.59%) Postman
10 10 (2.36%) Selenium
11 8 (1.89%) fastlane
11 8 (1.89%) Gradle
11 8 (1.89%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.65%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.65%) Storybook
12 7 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (1.42%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.42%) Gatling
13 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.18%) JUnit
General
1 125 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 55 (12.97%) Finance
3 36 (8.49%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.66%) Retail
6 23 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.01%) Banking
8 14 (3.30%) Law
8 14 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Advertising
11 4 (0.94%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (25.00%) Senior
2 97 (22.88%) Developer
3 73 (17.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.39%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.74%) Lead
6 45 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (7.08%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.84%) Security Engineer
9 26 (6.13%) Architect
9 26 (6.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 21 (4.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (4.72%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (4.01%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.77%) .NET Developer
15 16 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (18.40%) Node.js
2 60 (14.15%) React
3 48 (11.32%) CSS
4 46 (10.85%) .NET
5 39 (9.20%) RESTful
6 38 (8.96%) Spring Boot
7 37 (8.73%) OAuth
7 37 (8.73%) REST
8 34 (8.02%) HTML
9 31 (7.31%) Spring
10 27 (6.37%) YAML
11 25 (5.90%) AngularJS
11 25 (5.90%) OAuth2
12 22 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.48%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.25%) Playwright
14 18 (4.25%) Web Services
15 16 (3.77%) Vue
16 15 (3.54%) ASP.NET
16 15 (3.54%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 115 (27.12%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.08%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.30%) PKI
8 12 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.12%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.42%) Blog
12 6 (1.42%) CMDB
12 6 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
14 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.04%) Linux
2 20 (4.72%) Apple iOS
2 20 (4.72%) Windows
3 11 (2.59%) Android
4 9 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.94%) VMS
7 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.71%) Unix
8 2 (0.47%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (92.92%) CI/CD
2 270 (63.68%) DevOps
3 228 (53.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (36.56%) Containerisation
5 121 (28.54%) Agile
6 100 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (22.88%) Observability
8 92 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (20.28%) Platform Engineering
10 85 (20.05%) Test Automation
11 78 (18.40%) AI
12 76 (17.92%) Software Engineering
13 74 (17.45%) Mentoring
14 73 (17.22%) Cloud Security
15 67 (15.80%) Analytics
16 62 (14.62%) DevSecOps
17 61 (14.39%) Microservices
18 58 (13.68%) Clean Code
19 57 (13.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 55 (12.97%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 195 (45.99%) Python
2 95 (22.41%) Bash
3 76 (17.92%) PowerShell
3 76 (17.92%) TypeScript
4 72 (16.98%) Java
5 64 (15.09%) SQL
6 62 (14.62%) JavaScript
7 47 (11.08%) Go
8 39 (9.20%) Kotlin
9 33 (7.78%) C#
10 26 (6.13%) Bicep
11 16 (3.77%) Swift
12 15 (3.54%) Groovy
13 14 (3.30%) Ruby
14 12 (2.83%) Rust
14 12 (2.83%) Scala
15 10 (2.36%) PHP
16 7 (1.65%) Dart
17 5 (1.18%) C++
17 5 (1.18%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 55 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.03%) Degree
3 37 (8.73%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.95%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.07%) CISSP
7 13 (3.07%) OSCP
8 12 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.36%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.89%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.89%) SANS
11 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.25%) QA
2 32 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 31 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.19%) SOC 2
5 16 (3.77%) WCAG
6 13 (3.07%) GRC
7 11 (2.59%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.36%) GDPR
9 7 (1.65%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.42%) NCSC
11 5 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.71%) NIST
13 2 (0.47%) IFRS
13 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.47%) SLA
13 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 147 (34.67%) Docker
2 21 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 233 (54.95%) Terraform
2 164 (38.68%) Kubernetes
3 69 (16.27%) Grafana
4 67 (15.80%) Ansible
5 57 (13.44%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.25%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.54%) Argo
8 13 (3.07%) Cilium
9 9 (2.12%) Packer
10 8 (1.89%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.94%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 2 (0.47%) 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%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.90%) VMware
3 18 (4.25%) Dynatrace
4 15 (3.54%) Google
5 14 (3.30%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.30%) Braze
5 14 (3.30%) Databricks
6 13 (3.07%) SendGrid
7 11 (2.59%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.36%) New Relic
9 9 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.89%) OneLogin
11 6 (1.42%) Cisco
11 6 (1.42%) EMC
11 6 (1.42%) F5
11 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.94%) Splunk
13 3 (0.71%) Intel
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.71%) Varonis