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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 450 563
Rank change year-on-year +40 +113 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 444 227 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.42% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 302 177 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,300 £47,575
25th Percentile £52,625 £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 £91,250 £101,250 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -1.45%

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 27,713 15,936 26,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 31.95% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 18,448 10,949 18,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
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 21 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 21 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 +69 380 £65,000 -11.86% 140
UK excluding London +44 257 £65,000 +0.78% 99
London -32 140 £77,500 - 64
Work from Home +4 131 £65,000 -10.34% 85
North of England +47 113 £65,000 -2.62% 44
South East +5 55 £61,250 -5.77% 26
Yorkshire +4 53 £65,000 -5.11% 18
North West +12 41 £65,500 +0.77% 20
Midlands -21 31 £65,000 -3.70% 9
Wales -38 25 £60,000 +2.13% 4
South West -57 22 £61,250 +2.08% 14
North East -39 19 £55,000 -4.35% 7
East Midlands -7 16 £65,000 +20.37% 1
West Midlands -29 15 £63,750 -8.93% 8
Scotland +8 6 £62,500 -21.88% 2
East of England -19 5 £75,000 +11.11% 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 14 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.70%) Confluence
3 11 (2.48%) Apache
4 6 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.90%) CICS
6 4 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.68%) IIS
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 444 (100.00%) GitHub
2 283 (63.74%) AWS
3 255 (57.43%) Azure
4 132 (29.73%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (20.27%) Serverless
6 87 (19.59%) GCP
7 82 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (13.06%) Amazon ECS
9 58 (13.06%) Amazon S3
10 53 (11.94%) Datadog
11 47 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (6.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 27 (6.08%) Azure Key Vault
15 25 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (5.18%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (4.95%) Power Platform
18 19 (4.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.18%) Firewall
2 17 (3.83%) VPN
3 13 (2.93%) DMARC
4 12 (2.70%) DNS
4 12 (2.70%) Network Security
5 5 (1.13%) HTTP
5 5 (1.13%) SAN
6 4 (0.90%) SSH
6 4 (0.90%) SSL
6 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.68%) BGP
7 3 (0.68%) DSL
7 3 (0.68%) WAN
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) LTE
9 1 (0.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.78%) DynamoDB
3 36 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 34 (7.66%) Relational Database
5 33 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (6.76%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (4.05%) MySQL
9 17 (3.83%) Delta Lake
10 15 (3.38%) Power BI
11 13 (2.93%) Redis
12 11 (2.48%) MongoDB
13 10 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.80%) Tableau
15 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.58%) Data Vault
16 6 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 4 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 168 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 100 (22.52%) Git
3 67 (15.09%) GitLab
4 33 (7.43%) JIRA
5 26 (5.86%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.83%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.38%) Postman
8 14 (3.15%) Selenium
9 12 (2.70%) XCTest
10 11 (2.48%) JUnit
11 10 (2.25%) Gradle
11 10 (2.25%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.80%) fastlane
12 8 (1.80%) NUnit
12 8 (1.80%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (1.35%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.35%) Gatling
14 6 (1.35%) Storybook
14 6 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 149 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.99%) Finance
3 52 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.05%) Banking
7 16 (3.60%) Retail
8 12 (2.70%) Law
9 11 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.03%) Marketing
11 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Automotive
12 4 (0.90%) Games
13 3 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.68%) Legal
13 3 (0.68%) Local Government
13 3 (0.68%) Military
13 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (26.58%) Senior
2 112 (25.23%) Developer
3 69 (15.54%) Platform Engineer
4 59 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (12.39%) Lead
6 35 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.66%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.76%) Software Engineer
9 27 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (5.86%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.86%) Java Developer
11 25 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 24 (5.41%) Architect
13 20 (4.50%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.05%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (51.13%) Terraform
2 104 (23.42%) Node.js
3 83 (18.69%) React
4 68 (15.32%) .NET
5 64 (14.41%) Spring Boot
6 56 (12.61%) Spring
7 54 (12.16%) CSS
7 54 (12.16%) RESTful
8 49 (11.04%) REST
9 40 (9.01%) AngularJS
10 35 (7.88%) HTML
10 35 (7.88%) OAuth
11 30 (6.76%) Jest
12 28 (6.31%) OAuth2
12 28 (6.31%) Playwright
13 25 (5.63%) YAML
14 22 (4.95%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (4.95%) Web Services
15 21 (4.73%) GraphQL
15 21 (4.73%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 125 (28.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.31%) Mobile App
3 27 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.73%) Mainframe
7 18 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.70%) Blog
10 12 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.48%) PKI
11 11 (2.48%) Private Cloud
11 11 (2.48%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.35%) CMDB
14 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (16.67%) Linux
2 21 (4.73%) Windows
3 20 (4.50%) Apple iOS
4 14 (3.15%) Android
5 9 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.13%) Unix
7 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.45%) AIX
8 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (95.05%) CI/CD
2 282 (63.51%) DevOps
3 228 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (32.88%) Containerisation
5 130 (29.28%) Agile
6 114 (25.68%) Observability
7 106 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (23.65%) Software Engineering
9 101 (22.75%) Platform Engineering
10 100 (22.52%) AI
11 94 (21.17%) Test Automation
12 93 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (17.57%) Analytics
13 78 (17.57%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.67%) Microservices
15 70 (15.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 68 (15.32%) Clean Code
17 58 (13.06%) Cloud Security
18 49 (11.04%) RBAC
19 48 (10.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 177 (39.86%) Python
2 104 (23.42%) Java
3 101 (22.75%) TypeScript
4 75 (16.89%) JavaScript
5 74 (16.67%) Bash
6 73 (16.44%) SQL
7 64 (14.41%) PowerShell
8 46 (10.36%) Kotlin
9 34 (7.66%) C#
10 32 (7.21%) Go
11 25 (5.63%) Bicep
12 24 (5.41%) Ruby
13 18 (4.05%) Groovy
14 16 (3.60%) Scala
14 16 (3.60%) Swift
15 15 (3.38%) COBOL
16 13 (2.93%) PHP
17 9 (2.03%) JCL
17 9 (2.03%) Rust
18 6 (1.35%) Dart
Qualifications
1 75 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.49%) Degree
4 32 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.13%) OSCP
12 4 (0.90%) CISSP
12 4 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.68%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.81%) QA
2 35 (7.88%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.63%) WCAG
4 18 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.93%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.70%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.03%) GRC
8 7 (1.58%) NCSC
9 6 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.13%) GDPR
10 5 (1.13%) NIST
11 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.90%) SLA
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 173 (38.96%) Docker
2 15 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 168 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 58 (13.06%) Grafana
3 47 (10.59%) Prometheus
4 45 (10.14%) Ansible
5 23 (5.18%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.38%) Argo
7 12 (2.70%) Packer
8 10 (2.25%) Cilium
9 3 (0.68%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.68%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.68%) Puppet
10 2 (0.45%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.45%) logstash
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) Istio
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.41%) Databricks
3 22 (4.95%) VMware
4 20 (4.50%) Google
5 19 (4.28%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.60%) OneLogin
7 15 (3.38%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.15%) New Relic
9 13 (2.93%) SendGrid
10 11 (2.48%) Amplitude
10 11 (2.48%) Braze
11 10 (2.25%) Splunk
12 8 (1.80%) Oracle
13 6 (1.35%) Cisco
13 6 (1.35%) EMC
13 6 (1.35%) F5
13 6 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.13%) Broadcom