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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 441 631
Rank change year-on-year +72 +190 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 401 206 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.36% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 288 161 185
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,375 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 27,632 15,168 34,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 36.17% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,281 11,124 26,785
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +64 332 £70,000 -6.67% 129
UK excluding London +39 211 £62,500 -8.09% 83
Work from Home +87 163 £65,000 -10.34% 84
London +34 148 £80,000 -3.03% 67
North of England -7 83 £60,000 -11.76% 20
Yorkshire -20 44 £60,000 +21.21% 5
South East -23 34 £62,500 -10.71% 26
South West -38 34 £75,000 +15.38% 12
Scotland +2 28 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West -10 27 £63,000 -16.00% 15
Midlands -36 20 £67,500 -1.82% 7
East Midlands -34 16 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -37 12 £47,500 -17.39%
Wales -24 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
East of England -34 5 £75,000 -1.64% 6
West Midlands -39 4 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Northern Ireland -38 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 10 (2.49%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 401 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (61.10%) Azure
3 230 (57.36%) AWS
4 159 (39.65%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (24.69%) Serverless
6 97 (24.19%) GCP
7 68 (16.96%) Datadog
8 66 (16.46%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.72%) Amazon S3
11 49 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (10.22%) Entra ID
13 39 (9.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (7.23%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (4.99%) SaaS
19 19 (4.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.97%) Firewall
2 24 (5.99%) VPN
3 23 (5.74%) DNS
4 21 (5.24%) HTTP
5 18 (4.49%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.99%) Network Security
7 13 (3.24%) DSL
7 13 (3.24%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.98%) NoSQL
1 40 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.74%) DynamoDB
3 21 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 10 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (2.24%) Flink
7 9 (2.24%) MySQL
8 7 (1.75%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.50%) Metadata
10 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.25%) Power BI
10 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 149 (37.16%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.45%) Git
3 61 (15.21%) GitLab
4 23 (5.74%) JIRA
5 12 (2.99%) Crashlytics
5 12 (2.99%) XCTest
6 11 (2.74%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.00%) Subversion
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.50%) Storybook
9 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.75%) NUnit
10 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.50%) Maven
11 2 (0.50%) Selenium
11 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 132 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 102 (25.44%) Finance
3 37 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.24%) Retail
7 20 (4.99%) Banking
8 19 (4.74%) Law
9 13 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.74%) Front Office
11 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.50%) Electronics
12 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.50%) Marketing
13 5 (1.25%) Advertising
14 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Billing
15 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (23.94%) Senior
2 90 (22.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.20%) Developer
4 49 (12.22%) Lead
5 43 (10.72%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.23%) .NET Developer
9 24 (5.99%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.24%) Architect
13 19 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.74%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.24%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.99%) Data Engineer
15 16 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (3.74%) Python Developer
17 14 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.71%) React
2 59 (14.71%) .NET
3 47 (11.72%) Node.js
4 40 (9.98%) RESTful
5 38 (9.48%) OAuth
6 32 (7.98%) CSS
7 30 (7.48%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.48%) .NET Core
8 26 (6.48%) HTML
9 24 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.24%) ADO
10 21 (5.24%) SAML
11 19 (4.74%) ASP.NET
11 19 (4.74%) REST
12 18 (4.49%) YAML
13 17 (4.24%) .NET Framework
13 17 (4.24%) Blazor
13 17 (4.24%) Kafka
14 16 (3.99%) AngularJS
14 16 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.24%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.99%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.00%) PKI
12 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.00%) CMDB
15 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
16 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.97%) Linux
2 14 (3.49%) Apple iOS
2 14 (3.49%) Windows
3 13 (3.24%) VMS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.75%) Android
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) SUSE
7 2 (0.50%) Debian
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (93.27%) CI/CD
2 289 (72.07%) DevOps
3 220 (54.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (35.66%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.17%) Agile
5 121 (30.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (29.18%) Observability
7 116 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (17.21%) Analytics
8 69 (17.21%) Cloud Security
8 69 (17.21%) Incident Response
8 69 (17.21%) Test Automation
9 66 (16.46%) DevSecOps
10 64 (15.96%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (15.71%) Deployment Automation
12 61 (15.21%) AI
13 59 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 55 (13.72%) Mentoring
15 52 (12.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 50 (12.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (49.88%) Python
2 108 (26.93%) Bash
3 86 (21.45%) SQL
4 75 (18.70%) TypeScript
5 74 (18.45%) PowerShell
6 60 (14.96%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.72%) Go
8 32 (7.98%) Java
9 31 (7.73%) Bicep
10 23 (5.74%) C#
11 22 (5.49%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.74%) Rust
13 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (2.99%) Swift
14 7 (1.75%) C++
15 6 (1.50%) Dart
15 6 (1.50%) Scala
16 5 (1.25%) Groovy
16 5 (1.25%) PHP
16 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (14.96%) Degree
2 37 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (8.73%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.24%) CISSP
7 16 (3.99%) OSCP
7 16 (3.99%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.49%) CREST Certified
8 14 (3.49%) SANS
9 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 32 (7.98%) QA
2 27 (6.73%) GDPR
3 26 (6.48%) SOC 2
4 16 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.00%) GRC
5 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.50%) SLA
7 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.00%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.50%) ECSS
9 2 (0.50%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 153 (38.15%) Docker
2 42 (10.47%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 240 (59.85%) Terraform
2 162 (40.40%) Kubernetes
3 80 (19.95%) Ansible
3 80 (19.95%) Grafana
4 74 (18.45%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.74%) Argo
6 9 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.00%) Cilium
7 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.75%) Packer
9 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.25%) Consul
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 72 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.74%) VMware
3 17 (4.24%) Google
4 16 (3.99%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.74%) Amplitude
6 11 (2.74%) Braze
6 11 (2.74%) Databricks
6 11 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.24%) Ab Initio
7 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco
11 4 (1.00%) EMC
11 4 (1.00%) F5
11 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow