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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 445 569
Rank change year-on-year +39 +124 -24
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 449 227 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.42% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 304 179 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,400 -
25th Percentile £53,563 £59,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,125 £100,250 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% -0.38% -

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 27,688 15,968 26,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.41% 31.95% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 10,948 18,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +60 386 £65,000 -10.34% 288
UK excluding London +54 262 £65,000 +0.39% 155
London -25 141 £77,500 - 171
Work from Home +29 132 £65,000 -10.34% 172
North of England +43 116 £65,000 -2.62% 61
South East +6 55 £61,250 -18.33% 27
Yorkshire +7 54 £65,000 -5.11% 22
North West +26 42 £65,500 +0.77% 34
Midlands -15 33 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Wales -42 25 £60,000 +2.13% 5
South West -61 22 £61,250 +2.08% 26
North East -46 20 £55,000 -4.35% 6
West Midlands -22 17 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands -7 16 £65,000 +20.37% 7
Scotland 0 6 £62,500 -21.88% 8
East of England -26 5 £75,000 +11.11% 5

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 14 (3.12%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.45%) Confluence
3 10 (2.23%) Apache
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.89%) CICS
5 4 (0.89%) CMS
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 449 (100.00%) GitHub
2 289 (64.37%) AWS
3 254 (56.57%) Azure
4 130 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (19.82%) Serverless
6 88 (19.60%) GCP
7 84 (18.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (15.81%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (13.14%) Amazon ECS
10 58 (12.92%) Amazon S3
11 51 (11.36%) Datadog
12 48 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (6.24%) Azure Key Vault
16 26 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (5.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 22 (4.90%) Power Platform
18 21 (4.68%) AWS Step Functions
19 19 (4.23%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.35%) Firewall
2 18 (4.01%) VPN
3 13 (2.90%) DMARC
4 12 (2.67%) DNS
4 12 (2.67%) Network Security
5 5 (1.11%) HTTP
5 5 (1.11%) SAN
6 4 (0.89%) SSH
6 4 (0.89%) SSL
6 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.67%) BGP
7 3 (0.67%) WAN
8 2 (0.45%) DSL
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (8.91%) DynamoDB
3 35 (7.80%) Relational Database
4 34 (7.57%) SQL Server
5 33 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (6.46%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.01%) MySQL
8 17 (3.79%) Delta Lake
9 15 (3.34%) Power BI
10 13 (2.90%) Redis
11 12 (2.67%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.78%) Tableau
14 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.56%) Data Vault
15 6 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.89%) Big Data
17 4 (0.89%) Db2
Development Applications
1 173 (38.53%) Jenkins
2 101 (22.49%) Git
3 67 (14.92%) GitLab
4 33 (7.35%) JIRA
5 27 (6.01%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.79%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.56%) Postman
8 15 (3.34%) Selenium
9 12 (2.67%) XCTest
10 11 (2.45%) JUnit
11 10 (2.23%) Gradle
11 10 (2.23%) TeamCity
12 9 (2.00%) REST Assured
13 8 (1.78%) fastlane
13 8 (1.78%) NUnit
14 7 (1.56%) Gatling
14 7 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.56%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.34%) Android Studio
15 6 (1.34%) Appium
General
1 152 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 75 (16.70%) Finance
3 54 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.45%) Banking
7 17 (3.79%) Retail
8 12 (2.67%) Law
9 11 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.00%) Marketing
11 6 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Automotive
12 4 (0.89%) Games
13 3 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.67%) Legal
13 3 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Military
13 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 120 (26.73%) Senior
2 111 (24.72%) Developer
3 70 (15.59%) Platform Engineer
4 59 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (12.25%) Lead
6 35 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.57%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.79%) Java Developer
10 26 (5.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.57%) Data Engineer
12 24 (5.35%) Architect
13 20 (4.45%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (51.22%) Terraform
2 106 (23.61%) Node.js
3 83 (18.49%) React
4 68 (15.14%) .NET
5 65 (14.48%) Spring Boot
6 57 (12.69%) Spring
7 55 (12.25%) RESTful
8 54 (12.03%) CSS
9 49 (10.91%) REST
10 40 (8.91%) AngularJS
11 35 (7.80%) HTML
12 34 (7.57%) OAuth
13 31 (6.90%) Jest
14 29 (6.46%) OAuth2
14 29 (6.46%) Playwright
15 24 (5.35%) YAML
16 23 (5.12%) Web Services
17 22 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
18 21 (4.68%) GraphQL
18 21 (4.68%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.24%) Mobile App
3 27 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.90%) Mainframe
6 21 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.90%) Blog
9 13 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.67%) Private Cloud
11 11 (2.45%) PKI
11 11 (2.45%) Public Cloud
12 10 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.78%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.34%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 77 (17.15%) Linux
2 21 (4.68%) Windows
3 20 (4.45%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.12%) Android
5 9 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.45%) AIX
8 2 (0.45%) Debian
8 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.45%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (95.10%) CI/CD
2 283 (63.03%) DevOps
3 229 (51.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (32.52%) Containerisation
5 129 (28.73%) Agile
6 116 (25.84%) Observability
7 108 (24.05%) Software Engineering
8 103 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (22.72%) AI
9 102 (22.72%) Platform Engineering
10 97 (21.60%) Test Automation
11 92 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (17.82%) Analytics
13 78 (17.37%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.48%) Microservices
15 69 (15.37%) Clean Code
16 67 (14.92%) Full-Stack Development
17 58 (12.92%) Cloud Security
18 49 (10.91%) RBAC
19 47 (10.47%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 180 (40.09%) Python
2 107 (23.83%) Java
3 100 (22.27%) TypeScript
4 75 (16.70%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.48%) Bash
6 70 (15.59%) SQL
7 63 (14.03%) PowerShell
8 45 (10.02%) Kotlin
9 34 (7.57%) C#
10 33 (7.35%) Go
11 26 (5.79%) Bicep
12 24 (5.35%) Ruby
13 19 (4.23%) Groovy
14 17 (3.79%) Scala
15 16 (3.56%) COBOL
15 16 (3.56%) Swift
16 13 (2.90%) PHP
17 10 (2.23%) JCL
18 8 (1.78%) Rust
19 6 (1.34%) Dart
Qualifications
1 76 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.58%) Degree
4 33 (7.35%) AWS Certification
5 32 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CISSP
12 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.89%) OSCP
13 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.67%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.14%) QA
2 36 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.57%) WCAG
4 19 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.90%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.00%) GRC
8 7 (1.56%) NCSC
9 6 (1.34%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.11%) GDPR
10 5 (1.11%) NIST
11 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.89%) SLA
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 173 (38.53%) Docker
2 15 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.67%) Firmware
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 171 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.14%) Grafana
3 46 (10.24%) Ansible
3 46 (10.24%) Prometheus
4 24 (5.35%) Progress Chef
5 15 (3.34%) Argo
6 12 (2.67%) Packer
7 10 (2.23%) Cilium
8 4 (0.89%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.67%) Puppet
10 2 (0.45%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.45%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Consul
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) linkerd
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.35%) Databricks
3 23 (5.12%) VMware
4 21 (4.68%) Google
5 17 (3.79%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.56%) OneLogin
7 14 (3.12%) New Relic
8 13 (2.90%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.90%) SendGrid
9 11 (2.45%) Amplitude
9 11 (2.45%) Braze
9 11 (2.45%) Splunk
10 8 (1.78%) Oracle
11 6 (1.34%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.34%) Cisco
11 6 (1.34%) EMC
11 6 (1.34%) F5
11 6 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.34%) ServiceNow