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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 429 494
Rank change year-on-year +35 +65 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 502 248 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.60% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 334 196 207
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £86,250
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 26,771 15,512 23,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.38% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,306 10,433 14,199
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,010 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 10 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 10 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 +61 438 £70,000 - 761
UK excluding London +15 272 £65,000 - 305
London +23 177 £80,000 +3.23% 477
Work from Home -24 141 £72,500 +3.57% 380
North of England +43 126 £65,000 -4.41% 92
Yorkshire +18 60 £70,000 +2.19% 33
South East -18 60 £65,000 -13.33% 75
North West +9 41 £65,500 +0.77% 44
Midlands -18 35 £67,500 +25.00% 33
West Midlands -29 27 £70,000 +3.70% 15
North East -48 25 £58,750 -14.55% 15
Wales -61 24 £60,000 +2.13% 11
South West -72 19 £65,000 +15.56% 29
East Midlands -29 8 £65,000 +22.07% 18
Scotland -3 4 £65,000 -18.75% 24
East of England -39 4 £69,500 +2.96% 24

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 (2.39%) Apache
2 10 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.99%) Confluence
3 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.39%) CICS
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 502 (100.00%) GitHub
2 309 (61.55%) AWS
3 273 (54.38%) Azure
4 132 (26.29%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (20.72%) GCP
6 92 (18.33%) Serverless
7 88 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.34%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (13.15%) Amazon S3
11 52 (10.36%) Datadog
12 50 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (8.76%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (7.17%) Azure Key Vault
16 35 (6.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 33 (6.57%) Azure AKS
18 31 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
19 23 (4.58%) SaaS
20 20 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.18%) VPN
2 25 (4.98%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) DMARC
4 12 (2.39%) DNS
5 11 (2.19%) Network Security
6 5 (1.00%) HTTP
6 5 (1.00%) SAN
7 4 (0.80%) SSH
7 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) SSL
9 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.40%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.76%) DynamoDB
3 43 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 30 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (5.78%) SQL Server
6 28 (5.58%) NoSQL
7 22 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 19 (3.78%) Redis
10 17 (3.39%) MySQL
11 14 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (2.79%) Delta Lake
12 13 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.99%) Power BI
14 8 (1.59%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.59%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (1.39%) Db2
16 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 198 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 98 (19.52%) Git
3 90 (17.93%) GitLab
4 34 (6.77%) JIRA
5 32 (6.37%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.78%) Postman
7 19 (3.78%) Selenium
8 13 (2.59%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.39%) Gatling
9 12 (2.39%) JUnit
9 12 (2.39%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.19%) JMeter
11 9 (1.79%) Crashlytics
11 9 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.79%) Gradle
11 9 (1.79%) Newman
12 8 (1.59%) NUnit
12 8 (1.59%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.39%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.20%) Appium
General
1 178 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.33%) Finance
3 74 (14.74%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.78%) Banking
7 20 (3.98%) Retail
8 11 (2.19%) Law
8 11 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.79%) Marketing
10 5 (1.00%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Games
12 3 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Local Government
12 3 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 138 (27.49%) Senior
2 117 (23.31%) Developer
3 73 (14.54%) Platform Engineer
4 69 (13.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (12.95%) Lead
6 37 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 36 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (6.97%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (6.18%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 24 (4.78%) Architect
12 23 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.38%) Consultant
13 22 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (4.38%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.98%) Security Engineer
15 19 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (51.59%) Terraform
2 114 (22.71%) Node.js
3 82 (16.33%) Spring Boot
4 81 (16.14%) React
5 75 (14.94%) .NET
6 74 (14.74%) Spring
7 65 (12.95%) REST
8 63 (12.55%) RESTful
9 50 (9.96%) CSS
10 42 (8.37%) AngularJS
11 36 (7.17%) Playwright
12 35 (6.97%) HTML
13 32 (6.37%) GraphQL
14 31 (6.18%) OAuth
14 31 (6.18%) OAuth2
15 30 (5.98%) Jest
16 26 (5.18%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (5.18%) YAML
17 25 (4.98%) Kafka
18 24 (4.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 141 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 44 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.98%) Mainframe
3 30 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.58%) Legacy Applications
5 22 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.19%) Blog
9 15 (2.99%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.99%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.79%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.59%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.99%) PKI
13 9 (1.79%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 81 (16.14%) Linux
2 16 (3.19%) Windows
3 12 (2.39%) Android
4 11 (2.19%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.59%) Unix
6 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) AIX
8 3 (0.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (95.62%) CI/CD
2 315 (62.75%) DevOps
3 254 (50.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (35.06%) Containerisation
5 148 (29.48%) Agile
6 146 (29.08%) AI
7 141 (28.09%) Observability
8 130 (25.90%) Software Engineering
9 126 (25.10%) Test Automation
10 117 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (22.91%) Platform Engineering
12 104 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (18.53%) Mentoring
14 88 (17.53%) Microservices
15 81 (16.14%) Analytics
16 73 (14.54%) Clean Code
17 69 (13.75%) Cloud Security
17 69 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
18 66 (13.15%) Full-Stack Development
19 62 (12.35%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (43.03%) Python
2 133 (26.49%) Java
3 112 (22.31%) TypeScript
4 95 (18.92%) SQL
5 87 (17.33%) Bash
6 84 (16.73%) JavaScript
7 64 (12.75%) PowerShell
8 47 (9.36%) Go
9 39 (7.77%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.17%) C#
11 31 (6.18%) Bicep
12 28 (5.58%) Ruby
13 24 (4.78%) COBOL
14 20 (3.98%) Groovy
15 18 (3.59%) JCL
16 13 (2.59%) Scala
17 12 (2.39%) PHP
18 8 (1.59%) Rust
18 8 (1.59%) Swift
19 7 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.56%) Degree
4 34 (6.77%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.18%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CISSP
11 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.60%) OCP
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.55%) QA
2 38 (7.57%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.78%) WCAG
4 18 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.19%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.59%) GDPR
7 8 (1.59%) GRC
8 6 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.20%) NCSC
9 5 (1.00%) NIST
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.60%) SLA
12 2 (0.40%) IFRS
12 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.40%) PERC
12 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 211 (42.03%) Docker
2 11 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.00%) Firmware
6 4 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 196 (39.04%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.34%) Grafana
3 57 (11.35%) Prometheus
4 49 (9.76%) Ansible
5 27 (5.38%) Argo
6 23 (4.58%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.79%) Cilium
8 8 (1.59%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.39%) logstash
10 6 (1.20%) Packer
11 5 (1.00%) Istio
12 2 (0.40%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.40%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
13 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.98%) Databricks
2 25 (4.98%) Google
3 24 (4.78%) VMware
4 17 (3.39%) OneLogin
5 16 (3.19%) Splunk
6 15 (2.99%) New Relic
6 15 (2.99%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.19%) Broadcom
9 9 (1.79%) Oracle
10 8 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.80%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.80%) Braze
13 3 (0.60%) NVIDIA
14 2 (0.40%) EMC
14 2 (0.40%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.40%) Veeam