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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 455 582
Rank change year-on-year +104 +127 +63
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 391 226 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.32% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 294 171 177
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,625 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.40%

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 23,589 17,106 30,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.67% 37.32% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,692 10,927 24,500
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £30,984
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 17 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 6 March 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 +53 309 £70,000 - 227
UK excluding London +45 202 £65,000 - 172
Work from Home +92 174 £65,000 -7.14% 148
London +70 139 £80,000 -9.86% 87
North of England +4 68 £60,000 -11.76% 46
South West -7 39 £75,000 +15.38% 27
South East -23 37 £62,500 -3.85% 54
Scotland +23 35 £90,000 +56.52% 6
Yorkshire -23 35 £60,000 +21.21% 14
North West +4 22 £65,000 -23.53% 25
Midlands -23 15 £65,000 - 18
North East -3 11 £47,500 -13.64% 7
East Midlands -22 8 £75,000 +89.87% 8
West Midlands -18 7 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England +5 4 £65,000 -38.10% 15
Wales -19 2 £58,248 -10.39% 5
Northern Ireland -29 2 £62,500 - 2

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 (2.30%) Confluence
2 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Appian
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Shopify
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 391 (100.00%) GitHub
2 244 (62.40%) Azure
3 211 (53.96%) AWS
4 161 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (26.09%) GCP
6 88 (22.51%) Serverless
7 64 (16.37%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (15.86%) Datadog
9 55 (14.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (11.51%) Amazon S3
10 45 (11.51%) Entra ID
11 44 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (8.95%) AWS Step Functions
14 34 (8.70%) Azure AKS
15 29 (7.42%) SaaS
16 21 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (11.51%) Firewall
2 21 (5.37%) VPN
3 19 (4.86%) HTTP
4 18 (4.60%) DNS
5 16 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.32%) Network Security
7 12 (3.07%) DSL
7 12 (3.07%) WAN
8 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.77%) RTP
9 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.77%) VoIP
9 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.26%) Broadband
10 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.74%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.46%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.86%) DynamoDB
5 15 (3.84%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.56%) Flink
8 8 (2.05%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.28%) Metadata
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.02%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 165 (42.20%) Jenkins
2 80 (20.46%) Git
3 64 (16.37%) GitLab
4 15 (3.84%) JIRA
5 11 (2.81%) CircleCI
5 11 (2.81%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.30%) Subversion
7 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.28%) NUnit
9 3 (0.77%) Crashlytics
9 3 (0.77%) JMeter
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.77%) XCTest
10 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.51%) Deequ
10 2 (0.51%) git-flow
10 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 119 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 115 (29.41%) Finance
3 40 (10.23%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.88%) Banking
5 21 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.86%) Law
6 19 (4.86%) Retail
7 14 (3.58%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.07%) Front Office
9 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.53%) Back Office
10 6 (1.53%) Electronics
10 6 (1.53%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Billing
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 90 (23.02%) Senior
2 89 (22.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (19.18%) Developer
4 50 (12.79%) Lead
5 43 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
7 31 (7.93%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.42%) Security Engineer
9 27 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.12%) Applications Engineer
11 20 (5.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.12%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 16 (4.09%) Architect
15 15 (3.84%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.58%) AWS Developer
16 14 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.90%) React
2 66 (16.88%) .NET
3 52 (13.30%) RESTful
4 43 (11.00%) Node.js
5 40 (10.23%) OAuth
6 29 (7.42%) AWS CDK
7 28 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (6.39%) .NET Core
8 25 (6.39%) YAML
9 24 (6.14%) CSS
9 24 (6.14%) HTML
10 23 (5.88%) ADO
11 21 (5.37%) OAuth2
12 20 (5.12%) ASP.NET
12 20 (5.12%) REST
13 19 (4.86%) Kafka
14 18 (4.60%) JSON
14 18 (4.60%) SAML
15 17 (4.35%) .NET Framework
16 16 (4.09%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.25%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.79%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.28%) PKI
9 4 (1.02%) Blog
10 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.55%) Linux
2 17 (4.35%) VMS
3 14 (3.58%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.77%) SUSE
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 291 (74.42%) DevOps
3 215 (54.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (40.66%) Containerisation
5 123 (31.46%) Agile
6 113 (28.90%) Observability
7 107 (27.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 107 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (18.41%) Incident Response
8 72 (18.41%) Test Automation
9 63 (16.11%) Cloud Security
10 59 (15.09%) DevSecOps
11 57 (14.58%) AI
11 57 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (14.32%) Deployment Automation
12 56 (14.32%) RBAC
13 55 (14.07%) Analytics
14 54 (13.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 53 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 51 (13.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (51.15%) Python
2 117 (29.92%) Bash
3 81 (20.72%) SQL
4 73 (18.67%) PowerShell
5 68 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 64 (16.37%) JavaScript
7 52 (13.30%) Go
8 46 (11.76%) Bicep
9 33 (8.44%) Java
10 27 (6.91%) C#
11 14 (3.58%) Rust
12 12 (3.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (2.30%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.53%) C++
15 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 4 (1.02%) Swift
17 3 (0.77%) C
17 3 (0.77%) Ruby
18 2 (0.51%) PHP
18 2 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (13.55%) Degree
2 38 (9.72%) AWS Certification
3 36 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (7.67%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.37%) CISSP
5 21 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.12%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.12%) SANS
7 19 (4.86%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.32%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.32%) OSCP
9 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.26%) CCNA
13 1 (0.26%) CCSP
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.21%) QA
2 35 (8.95%) GDPR
3 30 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.14%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.12%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.05%) GRC
8 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.02%) SLA
11 3 (0.77%) NIST
12 2 (0.51%) ECSS
13 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (42.20%) Docker
2 41 (10.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 232 (59.34%) Terraform
2 182 (46.55%) Kubernetes
3 86 (21.99%) Grafana
4 81 (20.72%) Prometheus
5 75 (19.18%) Ansible
6 25 (6.39%) Argo
7 10 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.05%) Cilium
9 7 (1.79%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.02%) logstash
11 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.37%) Google
3 16 (4.09%) VMware
4 14 (3.58%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.07%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.07%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.53%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.53%) SAP
7 6 (1.53%) Splunk
8 5 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.28%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.02%) Databricks
9 4 (1.02%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.77%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.77%) BT
10 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.77%) Mitel