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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 445 524
Rank change year-on-year +31 +79 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 493 245 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.58% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 326 192 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £81,341 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,125 £82,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.31%

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 27,231 15,542 23,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.05% 31.34% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 18,628 10,428 14,769
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +50 430 £67,500 -6.90% 650
UK excluding London +12 272 £65,000 - 274
London +3 168 £78,750 +1.61% 429
Work from Home -11 138 £72,500 +1.75% 321
North of England +35 125 £65,000 -4.41% 75
South East -12 61 £63,750 -15.00% 77
Yorkshire +14 58 £70,000 +2.19% 28
North West +2 45 £65,500 +0.77% 35
Midlands -28 34 £65,000 +20.37% 30
West Midlands -29 24 £67,500 - 15
Wales -59 24 £60,000 +2.13% 15
North East -42 22 £57,500 -16.36% 12
South West -65 20 £61,250 +8.89% 30
East Midlands -31 10 £65,000 +22.07% 15
Scotland -5 4 £65,000 -18.75% 15
East of England -43 4 £69,500 +2.96% 19

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 (2.43%) Apache
2 10 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.03%) Confluence
3 8 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.22%) CICS
5 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) CMS
7 3 (0.61%) IIS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 493 (100.00%) GitHub
2 308 (62.47%) AWS
3 270 (54.77%) Azure
4 130 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (20.69%) GCP
6 88 (17.85%) Serverless
7 85 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (13.18%) Amazon ECS
10 62 (12.58%) Amazon S3
11 50 (10.14%) Datadog
12 48 (9.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (8.92%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
16 33 (6.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (6.29%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.87%) SaaS
19 19 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.27%) Firewall
1 26 (5.27%) VPN
2 15 (3.04%) DMARC
3 11 (2.23%) DNS
3 11 (2.23%) Network Security
4 5 (1.01%) HTTP
4 5 (1.01%) SAN
5 4 (0.81%) SSH
5 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) BGP
6 3 (0.61%) SSL
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.41%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (8.32%) DynamoDB
2 41 (8.32%) Relational Database
3 29 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 26 (5.27%) NoSQL
5 20 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (4.06%) Redis
6 18 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.45%) MySQL
8 14 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.84%) Delta Lake
9 13 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.03%) Power BI
11 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.62%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.42%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (1.22%) Db2
14 5 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 196 (39.76%) Jenkins
2 95 (19.27%) Git
3 84 (17.04%) GitLab
4 35 (7.10%) JIRA
5 32 (6.49%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.87%) Postman
7 19 (3.85%) Selenium
8 13 (2.64%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.43%) JUnit
9 12 (2.43%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.23%) Gatling
10 11 (2.23%) JMeter
11 10 (2.03%) Crashlytics
12 9 (1.83%) Gradle
12 9 (1.83%) Newman
13 8 (1.62%) NUnit
14 7 (1.42%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.42%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.22%) Appium
15 6 (1.22%) fastlane
General
1 170 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.85%) Finance
3 70 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.07%) Banking
7 21 (4.26%) Retail
8 11 (2.23%) Law
8 11 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.83%) Marketing
10 5 (1.01%) Legal
11 4 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 137 (27.79%) Senior
2 114 (23.12%) Developer
3 72 (14.60%) Platform Engineer
4 65 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (13.18%) Lead
5 39 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.10%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (5.68%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (5.07%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Architect
14 22 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Software Developer
15 21 (4.26%) Security Engineer
16 20 (4.06%) Automation Engineer
17 19 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (52.33%) Terraform
2 111 (22.52%) Node.js
3 81 (16.43%) React
4 77 (15.62%) Spring Boot
5 74 (15.01%) .NET
6 69 (14.00%) Spring
7 63 (12.78%) REST
7 63 (12.78%) RESTful
8 51 (10.34%) CSS
9 40 (8.11%) AngularJS
10 37 (7.51%) Playwright
11 36 (7.30%) HTML
12 31 (6.29%) OAuth
12 31 (6.29%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.88%) GraphQL
13 29 (5.88%) Jest
14 26 (5.27%) Ruby on Rails
14 26 (5.27%) YAML
15 25 (5.07%) Web Services
16 24 (4.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 137 (27.79%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 29 (5.88%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.06%) Legacy Applications
7 19 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.25%) Mobile App
9 16 (3.25%) Private Cloud
10 15 (3.04%) Blog
10 15 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (2.43%) AI Agents
13 11 (2.23%) PKI
13 11 (2.23%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.23%) Linux
2 16 (3.25%) Windows
3 12 (2.43%) Android
3 12 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.62%) Unix
5 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (95.54%) CI/CD
2 309 (62.68%) DevOps
3 256 (51.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (34.89%) Containerisation
5 144 (29.21%) Agile
6 140 (28.40%) AI
7 139 (28.19%) Observability
8 128 (25.96%) Software Engineering
9 120 (24.34%) Test Automation
10 117 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (22.72%) Platform Engineering
12 100 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (18.26%) Mentoring
14 86 (17.44%) Microservices
15 81 (16.43%) Analytics
16 73 (14.81%) Clean Code
17 71 (14.40%) Cloud Security
18 65 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
19 61 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
20 57 (11.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 216 (43.81%) Python
2 125 (25.35%) Java
3 109 (22.11%) TypeScript
4 89 (18.05%) Bash
4 89 (18.05%) SQL
5 83 (16.84%) JavaScript
6 66 (13.39%) PowerShell
7 48 (9.74%) Go
8 38 (7.71%) Kotlin
9 37 (7.51%) C#
10 29 (5.88%) Bicep
11 28 (5.68%) Ruby
12 22 (4.46%) COBOL
13 20 (4.06%) Groovy
14 16 (3.25%) JCL
15 14 (2.84%) Scala
16 12 (2.43%) PHP
17 9 (1.83%) Swift
18 8 (1.62%) Rust
19 7 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.13%) Degree
4 35 (7.10%) AWS Certification
5 32 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 5 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.58%) QA
2 37 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.87%) WCAG
4 18 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.43%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.83%) GRC
7 8 (1.62%) GDPR
8 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.22%) NCSC
9 5 (1.01%) NIST
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.41%) PERC
12 2 (0.41%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 205 (41.58%) Docker
2 11 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Firmware
6 3 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 196 (39.76%) Kubernetes
2 75 (15.21%) Grafana
3 59 (11.97%) Prometheus
4 50 (10.14%) Ansible
5 25 (5.07%) Argo
6 24 (4.87%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.03%) Cilium
8 9 (1.83%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.42%) Packer
10 6 (1.22%) logstash
11 4 (0.81%) Istio
12 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
13 2 (0.41%) Puppet
13 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 55 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.27%) Google
3 25 (5.07%) Databricks
3 25 (5.07%) VMware
4 17 (3.45%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.04%) New Relic
5 15 (3.04%) SendGrid
6 14 (2.84%) Splunk
7 13 (2.64%) Dynatrace
8 10 (2.03%) Broadcom
9 9 (1.83%) Oracle
10 7 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.01%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.01%) Braze
12 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.41%) Foundry
13 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.41%) Veeam