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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 507 485
Rank change year-on-year +132 -22 +179
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 313 252 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.38% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.14% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 234 197 203
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%
75th Percentile £85,938 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £92,200 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 17,892 22,093 22,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 32.88% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,341 13,299 18,529
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +106 235 £70,000 +7.69% 501
Work from Home +137 153 £72,500 +11.54% 300
UK excluding London +50 150 £65,000 - 237
London +81 109 £77,500 -8.82% 305
North of England +17 37 £65,000 -4.41% 92
Scotland +30 29 £80,000 +39.13% 12
South East +21 28 £75,000 +15.38% 57
South West +35 27 £55,000 -15.38% 23
North West +51 17 £65,000 -16.13% 65
Yorkshire -35 16 £64,000 +29.29% 19
Midlands +44 15 £60,000 -7.69% 29
West Midlands +25 11 £60,000 -7.69% 16
East of England +26 8 £66,250 -17.19% 11
Wales +4 6 £60,000 -7.69% 6
East Midlands +25 4 £57,000 +17.53% 13
North East +11 4 £65,000 -10.34% 8

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 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.60%) Confluence
2 5 (1.60%) IIS
3 4 (1.28%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.64%) Appian
4 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (100.00%) GitHub
2 191 (61.02%) Azure
3 148 (47.28%) AWS
4 137 (43.77%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (22.04%) GCP
6 53 (16.93%) Serverless
7 43 (13.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (11.82%) Datadog
9 35 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (10.54%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (9.90%) SaaS
12 30 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (9.27%) Amazon S3
14 27 (8.63%) Entra ID
15 26 (8.31%) Azure AKS
16 24 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (5.75%) PaaS
18 17 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
19 16 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.15%) Firewall
2 7 (2.24%) DNS
2 7 (2.24%) Network Security
2 7 (2.24%) VPN
3 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.28%) HTTP
4 4 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.32%) Broadband
6 1 (0.32%) HbbTV
6 1 (0.32%) MQTT
6 1 (0.32%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.27%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (5.43%) BigQuery
4 14 (4.47%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.56%) Power BI
8 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.60%) Looker
10 5 (1.60%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.60%) Tableau
11 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.28%) Flink
11 4 (1.28%) MySQL
12 3 (0.96%) Metadata
12 3 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 103 (32.91%) Jenkins
2 69 (22.04%) Git
3 34 (10.86%) GitLab
4 15 (4.79%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.51%) JIRA
6 8 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.24%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.60%) Selenium
10 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (1.28%) Subversion
11 3 (0.96%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.96%) JMeter
11 3 (0.96%) JUnit
11 3 (0.96%) Postman
11 3 (0.96%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.96%) webpack
General
1 98 (31.31%) Finance
2 85 (27.16%) Social Skills
3 25 (7.99%) Law
4 22 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.39%) Telecoms
6 19 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.43%) Marketing
8 16 (5.11%) Banking
9 14 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.51%) Retail
11 8 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.24%) Back Office
12 7 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.92%) Front Office
14 5 (1.60%) Advertising
14 5 (1.60%) Legal
15 4 (1.28%) Electronics
15 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (22.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (20.13%) Senior
3 60 (19.17%) Lead
4 39 (12.46%) Developer
5 37 (11.82%) Platform Engineer
5 37 (11.82%) Software Engineer
6 31 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.39%) Senior DevOps
8 19 (6.07%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (5.75%) .NET Developer
10 17 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (5.11%) Security Engineer
11 16 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Applications Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Lead Developer
13 12 (3.83%) Azure Developer
14 11 (3.51%) Lead .NET Developer
15 10 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.73%) .NET
2 61 (19.49%) React
2 61 (19.49%) RESTful
3 24 (7.67%) Node.js
4 20 (6.39%) .NET Core
4 20 (6.39%) AngularJS
4 20 (6.39%) ARM Templates
5 19 (6.07%) JSON
5 19 (6.07%) Kafka
6 18 (5.75%) GraphQL
6 18 (5.75%) REST
6 18 (5.75%) YAML
7 16 (5.11%) Spring
8 15 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (4.47%) .NET Framework
9 14 (4.47%) Spring Boot
10 13 (4.15%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.83%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 12 (3.83%) Entity Framework
11 12 (3.83%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 81 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.03%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.28%) Blog
8 4 (1.28%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.28%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.64%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.64%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.50%) Linux
2 20 (6.39%) Windows
3 10 (3.19%) VMS
4 5 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.60%) Unix
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) SUSE
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (89.46%) CI/CD
2 233 (74.44%) DevOps
3 143 (45.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (37.70%) Containerisation
5 89 (28.43%) Agile
6 83 (26.52%) Software Engineering
7 77 (24.60%) Observability
8 76 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (22.04%) Test Automation
10 62 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (18.85%) Microservices
12 49 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (15.34%) Mentoring
14 47 (15.02%) AI
15 45 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 41 (13.10%) RBAC
17 39 (12.46%) Cloud Security
17 39 (12.46%) Computer Science
17 39 (12.46%) Deployment Automation
18 36 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 156 (49.84%) Python
2 85 (27.16%) Bash
3 68 (21.73%) PowerShell
4 64 (20.45%) SQL
5 50 (15.97%) Bicep
6 45 (14.38%) JavaScript
7 44 (14.06%) TypeScript
8 42 (13.42%) C#
8 42 (13.42%) Java
9 29 (9.27%) Go
10 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.60%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.60%) Ruby
10 5 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.60%) Swift
11 4 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.28%) Scala
12 3 (0.96%) C++
12 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (14.70%) Degree
2 38 (12.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (9.90%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.67%) AWS Certification
6 23 (7.35%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.75%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.83%) CISSP
8 12 (3.83%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.83%) SANS
9 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.96%) CCNA
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.64%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.82%) QA
2 25 (7.99%) GDPR
3 24 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (5.43%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.56%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.64%) ECSS
9 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.64%) SLA
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 140 (44.73%) Docker
2 28 (8.95%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.24%) vSphere
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 170 (54.31%) Kubernetes
2 167 (53.35%) Terraform
3 55 (17.57%) Prometheus
4 53 (16.93%) Grafana
5 37 (11.82%) Ansible
6 22 (7.03%) Argo
7 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.28%) Cilium
8 4 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.64%) Control-M
10 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.32%) Icinga
10 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.32%) Nagios
10 1 (0.32%) Puppet
10 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.95%) Google
3 15 (4.79%) VMware
4 12 (3.83%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.56%) Ab Initio
5 8 (2.56%) Databricks
5 8 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.92%) Splunk
7 5 (1.60%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.60%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.28%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.28%) SAP
8 4 (1.28%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.28%) Talend
8 4 (1.28%) Zoho
9 3 (0.96%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.96%) Informatica
9 3 (0.96%) Pega
10 2 (0.64%) Zscaler