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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 459 485
Rank change year-on-year +111 +26 +173
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 338 258 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.28% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 253 198 185
10th Percentile £50,850 £48,250 £54,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -17.12% +9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £99,125 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,250 £65,000 £70,288
% change year-on-year +0.38% -7.52% +0.41%

All Cloud 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 20,683 20,198 21,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.50% 36.13% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,338 12,040 17,635
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.74% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £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 26 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +72 248 £70,000 +3.70% 860
Work from Home +137 172 £72,500 +11.54% 614
UK excluding London +55 160 £65,250 +0.38% 792
London +92 122 £77,500 -8.82% 138
North of England +15 44 £65,000 +10.64% 194
Scotland +40 38 £90,000 +56.52% 32
South West +19 28 £65,000 - 87
South East -7 25 £75,000 +15.38% 206
Yorkshire -37 24 £60,000 +21.21% 91
North West +40 16 £65,250 -24.35% 89
Midlands +10 14 £60,000 -7.69% 143
West Midlands +17 11 £60,000 -7.69% 72
East of England +27 7 £65,000 -18.75% 114
North East +17 4 £62,500 -13.79% 15
Wales +1 4 £60,748 -6.54% 20
East Midlands -5 3 £60,000 +51.90% 63

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 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.66%) Confluence
2 5 (1.48%) IIS
3 4 (1.18%) Appian
4 3 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) GitHub
2 224 (66.27%) Azure
3 165 (48.82%) AWS
4 156 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (22.19%) GCP
6 69 (20.41%) Serverless
7 56 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (14.79%) Datadog
9 46 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (13.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (12.43%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (12.43%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (10.95%) Entra ID
13 36 (10.65%) Amazon S3
14 33 (9.76%) Azure AKS
15 32 (9.47%) SaaS
16 23 (6.80%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (5.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.73%) Firewall
2 10 (2.96%) VPN
3 9 (2.66%) Network Security
4 8 (2.37%) DNS
5 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.78%) WAN
6 4 (1.18%) HTTP
6 4 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.59%) DSL
8 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.43%) NoSQL
2 41 (12.13%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.51%) BigQuery
3 22 (6.51%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.96%) Flink
7 9 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.07%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.78%) Power BI
9 6 (1.78%) Tableau
10 5 (1.48%) Looker
10 5 (1.48%) Metadata
10 5 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.18%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 121 (35.80%) Jenkins
2 77 (22.78%) Git
3 40 (11.83%) GitLab
4 14 (4.14%) JIRA
5 12 (3.55%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.66%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.37%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.37%) Subversion
8 7 (2.07%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.48%) Selenium
10 4 (1.18%) JMeter
10 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.89%) JUnit
11 3 (0.89%) NUnit
11 3 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.89%) Postman
11 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 113 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 110 (32.54%) Finance
3 27 (7.99%) Telecoms
4 23 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.92%) Banking
7 14 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.85%) Retail
9 12 (3.55%) Front Office
10 11 (3.25%) Law
10 11 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.96%) Marketing
12 8 (2.37%) Back Office
13 6 (1.78%) Electronics
14 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.59%) Advertising
17 2 (0.59%) Billing
17 2 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 75 (22.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (21.30%) Senior
3 55 (16.27%) Developer
4 51 (15.09%) Lead
5 36 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.88%) .NET Developer
8 20 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
11 17 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.73%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.14%) Azure Developer
14 14 (4.14%) Development Engineer
14 14 (4.14%) GCP Engineer
14 14 (4.14%) Lead Developer
15 13 (3.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.78%) .NET
2 68 (20.12%) React
3 59 (17.46%) RESTful
4 34 (10.06%) Node.js
5 25 (7.40%) .NET Core
6 22 (6.51%) ASP.NET
6 22 (6.51%) JSON
6 22 (6.51%) OAuth
6 22 (6.51%) YAML
7 21 (6.21%) AWS CDK
8 20 (5.92%) ADO
9 19 (5.62%) ARM Templates
9 19 (5.62%) Blazor
9 19 (5.62%) Kafka
10 18 (5.33%) REST
11 17 (5.03%) .NET Framework
11 17 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (4.73%) OAuth2
13 15 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 14 (4.14%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 76 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.78%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.18%) Blog
7 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.18%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.59%) Derivative
9 2 (0.59%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.02%) Linux
2 20 (5.92%) Windows
3 13 (3.85%) VMS
4 5 (1.48%) Unix
4 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.89%) SUSE
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (90.83%) CI/CD
2 272 (80.47%) DevOps
3 169 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (39.35%) Containerisation
5 103 (30.47%) Agile
6 98 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (27.81%) Observability
8 82 (24.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (21.30%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.16%) Microservices
11 57 (16.86%) AI
12 55 (16.27%) Deployment Automation
12 55 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
13 53 (15.68%) Incident Response
14 52 (15.38%) Software Engineering
15 51 (15.09%) RBAC
16 49 (14.50%) Analytics
17 48 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (14.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 47 (13.91%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 172 (50.89%) Python
2 93 (27.51%) Bash
3 81 (23.96%) SQL
4 70 (20.71%) PowerShell
5 60 (17.75%) Bicep
6 55 (16.27%) JavaScript
7 51 (15.09%) TypeScript
8 35 (10.36%) C#
9 33 (9.76%) Java
10 26 (7.69%) Go
11 6 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.18%) Ruby
12 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.89%) C++
13 3 (0.89%) Scala
14 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.59%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.59%) Rust
14 2 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (14.50%) Degree
2 40 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (10.36%) Security Cleared
4 33 (9.76%) AWS Certification
5 30 (8.88%) SC Cleared
6 27 (7.99%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.03%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.55%) CISSP
8 12 (3.55%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.55%) SANS
9 11 (3.25%) 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
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.59%) OSCP
12 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.72%) QA
2 35 (10.36%) GDPR
3 25 (7.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.14%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.55%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.18%) GRC
8 4 (1.18%) SLA
9 2 (0.59%) ECSS
9 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 162 (47.93%) Docker
2 38 (11.24%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.48%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 203 (60.06%) Terraform
2 171 (50.59%) Kubernetes
3 66 (19.53%) Prometheus
4 65 (19.23%) Grafana
5 47 (13.91%) Ansible
6 24 (7.10%) Argo
7 9 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.18%) Cilium
8 4 (1.18%) logstash
8 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.89%) Rancher
10 2 (0.59%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.69%) Google
3 14 (4.14%) Ab Initio
3 14 (4.14%) OpenAI
3 14 (4.14%) VMware
4 12 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.07%) Databricks
7 6 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
7 6 (1.78%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.78%) SAP
7 6 (1.78%) Splunk
7 6 (1.78%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.48%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.48%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.18%) Talend
9 4 (1.18%) Zoho
10 3 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.89%) Pega