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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 440 494
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 501 249 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 333 197 207
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,300 £48,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.40%

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 26,793 15,536 23,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.47% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,282 10,452 14,136
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,250 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,400 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -10.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +58 437 £70,000 - 659
UK excluding London +21 272 £65,000 - 269
London +17 176 £80,000 +3.23% 418
Work from Home -13 140 £72,500 +3.57% 332
North of England +33 126 £65,000 -4.41% 76
Yorkshire +5 60 £70,000 +2.19% 33
South East -10 60 £65,000 -13.33% 67
North West +7 40 £65,500 +0.77% 30
Midlands -26 35 £67,500 +25.00% 29
West Midlands -32 27 £70,000 +3.70% 14
North East -43 26 £58,750 -14.55% 13
Wales -58 24 £60,000 +2.13% 10
South West -70 19 £65,000 +15.56% 24
East Midlands -23 8 £65,000 +22.07% 15
Scotland -2 4 £65,000 -18.75% 23
East of England -45 4 £69,500 +2.96% 20

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 12 (2.40%) Apache
2 10 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.00%) Confluence
3 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.40%) CICS
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 501 (100.00%) GitHub
2 308 (61.48%) AWS
3 272 (54.29%) Azure
4 131 (26.15%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (20.76%) GCP
6 92 (18.36%) Serverless
7 89 (17.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.37%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (13.77%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (13.17%) Amazon S3
11 51 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (10.18%) Datadog
12 44 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
14 36 (7.19%) Azure Key Vault
15 35 (6.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (6.59%) Azure AKS
17 31 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (4.59%) SaaS
19 20 (3.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.19%) VPN
2 25 (4.99%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) DMARC
4 12 (2.40%) DNS
5 10 (2.00%) Network Security
6 5 (1.00%) HTTP
6 5 (1.00%) SAN
7 4 (0.80%) SSH
7 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.40%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.78%) DynamoDB
2 44 (8.78%) Relational Database
3 30 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.79%) SQL Server
5 28 (5.59%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (4.19%) MongoDB
8 19 (3.79%) Redis
9 17 (3.39%) MySQL
10 14 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.79%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.00%) Power BI
13 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.40%) Db2
15 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 198 (39.52%) Jenkins
2 99 (19.76%) Git
3 91 (18.16%) GitLab
4 34 (6.79%) JIRA
5 32 (6.39%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.79%) Postman
7 19 (3.79%) Selenium
8 12 (2.40%) Gatling
8 12 (2.40%) JUnit
8 12 (2.40%) REST Assured
8 12 (2.40%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.20%) JMeter
10 9 (1.80%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.80%) Gradle
10 9 (1.80%) Newman
11 8 (1.60%) NUnit
11 8 (1.60%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.40%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.20%) Appium
General
1 179 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.16%) Finance
3 74 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.59%) Banking
7 19 (3.79%) Retail
8 11 (2.20%) Law
8 11 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.80%) Marketing
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Games
12 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 137 (27.35%) Senior
2 117 (23.35%) Developer
3 72 (14.37%) Platform Engineer
4 70 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (12.97%) Lead
6 37 (7.39%) Software Engineer
7 35 (6.99%) Senior Developer
8 34 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (6.19%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.79%) Architect
13 23 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.39%) Consultant
14 22 (4.39%) Software Developer
15 21 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.79%) Security Engineer
17 18 (3.59%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (51.30%) Terraform
2 115 (22.95%) Node.js
3 82 (16.37%) Spring Boot
4 81 (16.17%) React
5 75 (14.97%) .NET
6 74 (14.77%) Spring
7 66 (13.17%) REST
8 63 (12.57%) RESTful
9 50 (9.98%) CSS
10 42 (8.38%) AngularJS
11 36 (7.19%) Playwright
12 35 (6.99%) HTML
13 33 (6.59%) GraphQL
14 31 (6.19%) OAuth
14 31 (6.19%) OAuth2
15 30 (5.99%) Jest
16 26 (5.19%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (5.19%) YAML
17 25 (4.99%) Kafka
18 24 (4.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.99%) Mainframe
3 30 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.59%) Legacy Applications
5 22 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.19%) Blog
9 15 (2.99%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.99%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.79%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.59%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
12 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.80%) PKI
13 7 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.37%) Linux
2 16 (3.19%) Windows
3 12 (2.40%) Android
4 11 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.60%) Unix
6 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) AIX
8 3 (0.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (95.61%) CI/CD
2 314 (62.67%) DevOps
3 252 (50.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (35.13%) Containerisation
5 149 (29.74%) Agile
6 146 (29.14%) AI
7 140 (27.94%) Observability
8 128 (25.55%) Software Engineering
9 126 (25.15%) Test Automation
10 116 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (22.95%) Platform Engineering
12 104 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 92 (18.36%) Mentoring
14 87 (17.37%) Microservices
15 80 (15.97%) Analytics
16 72 (14.37%) Clean Code
17 70 (13.97%) Technical Leadership
18 67 (13.37%) Cloud Security
19 66 (13.17%) Full-Stack Development
20 63 (12.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (43.11%) Python
2 133 (26.55%) Java
3 113 (22.55%) TypeScript
4 96 (19.16%) SQL
5 86 (17.17%) Bash
6 84 (16.77%) JavaScript
7 63 (12.57%) PowerShell
8 46 (9.18%) Go
9 39 (7.78%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.19%) C#
11 32 (6.39%) Bicep
12 28 (5.59%) Ruby
13 24 (4.79%) COBOL
14 20 (3.99%) Groovy
15 18 (3.59%) JCL
16 13 (2.59%) Scala
17 12 (2.40%) PHP
18 8 (1.60%) Rust
18 8 (1.60%) Swift
19 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.78%) Degree
4 35 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.59%) AWS Certification
6 26 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.00%) CISSP
12 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.60%) OCP
14 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.57%) QA
2 38 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.79%) WCAG
4 18 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.60%) GDPR
8 7 (1.40%) GRC
9 6 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.20%) NCSC
10 5 (1.00%) NIST
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.60%) SLA
13 2 (0.40%) IFRS
13 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.40%) PERC
13 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 212 (42.32%) Docker
2 11 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 196 (39.12%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.37%) Grafana
3 57 (11.38%) Prometheus
4 49 (9.78%) Ansible
5 27 (5.39%) Argo
6 23 (4.59%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.60%) Cilium
7 8 (1.60%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.40%) logstash
9 6 (1.20%) Packer
10 5 (1.00%) Istio
11 2 (0.40%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.99%) Databricks
2 25 (4.99%) Google
3 24 (4.79%) VMware
4 17 (3.39%) OneLogin
4 17 (3.39%) Splunk
5 15 (2.99%) New Relic
5 15 (2.99%) SendGrid
6 13 (2.59%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.20%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.80%) Oracle
9 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.80%) Amplitude
11 4 (0.80%) Braze
12 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.40%) EMC
13 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.40%) Veeam