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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 458 642
Rank change year-on-year +72 +184 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 412 211 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.40% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 307 159 213
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -1.45%

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 25,812 15,107 35,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.18% 33.26% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,787 10,472 27,089
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +73 360 £70,000 -6.67% 155
UK excluding London +73 228 £65,000 -3.70% 100
London +1 143 £80,000 - 81
Work from Home +40 125 £65,000 -10.34% 101
North of England +39 98 £62,500 -8.76% 27
South East -3 48 £60,000 -14.29% 41
Yorkshire -3 44 £65,000 -5.11% 10
North West +30 37 £65,500 -12.67% 15
South West -49 28 £73,750 +13.46% 11
Midlands -9 26 £67,500 +1.89% 12
East Midlands -1 22 £72,500 +28.89% 7
North East -31 17 £47,000 -18.26% 3
Wales -43 13 £71,500 +19.17% 1
Scotland +6 7 £85,000 +31.78% 7
East of England -14 6 £77,575 +12.84% 4
West Midlands -28 4 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 -

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 11 (2.67%) Apache
1 11 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.46%) Confluence
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.49%) nginx
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 412 (100.00%) GitHub
2 248 (60.19%) AWS
3 234 (56.80%) Azure
4 138 (33.50%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (21.36%) GCP
6 87 (21.12%) Serverless
7 68 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (12.38%) Amazon S3
10 49 (11.89%) Datadog
11 42 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (8.25%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (6.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (6.07%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (5.34%) Azure AKS
17 22 (5.34%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.10%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.65%) Firewall
2 23 (5.58%) VPN
3 20 (4.85%) DNS
4 19 (4.61%) HTTP
5 17 (4.13%) Network Security
6 14 (3.40%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.16%) DMARC
8 11 (2.67%) DSL
9 8 (1.94%) WAN
10 4 (0.97%) SAN
10 4 (0.97%) SSL
11 3 (0.73%) RTP
11 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.73%) VoIP
11 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.49%) BGP
12 2 (0.49%) VLAN
13 1 (0.24%) LTE
13 1 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.10%) DynamoDB
5 16 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.64%) MySQL
7 14 (3.40%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.18%) Power BI
9 8 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.21%) Big Data
11 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.21%) Redis
11 5 (1.21%) Tableau
12 4 (0.97%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 157 (38.11%) Jenkins
2 80 (19.42%) Git
3 61 (14.81%) GitLab
4 26 (6.31%) JIRA
5 20 (4.85%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.64%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.64%) XCTest
7 12 (2.91%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.43%) Postman
9 9 (2.18%) Selenium
10 8 (1.94%) fastlane
10 8 (1.94%) Gradle
11 7 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.70%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.70%) Storybook
11 7 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.46%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.46%) Gatling
13 5 (1.21%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 121 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.59%) Finance
3 31 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.83%) Retail
6 22 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.13%) Banking
8 15 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.40%) Law
10 8 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.21%) Advertising
13 4 (0.97%) Automotive
14 3 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.73%) Military
15 2 (0.49%) Billing
15 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.49%) Games
15 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (24.76%) Senior
2 93 (22.57%) Developer
3 71 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (14.56%) Platform Engineer
5 49 (11.89%) Lead
6 46 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.04%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.80%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.55%) Architect
10 27 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.85%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (4.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.13%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.88%) .NET Developer
16 16 (3.88%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.72%) Node.js
2 60 (14.56%) React
3 48 (11.65%) CSS
4 43 (10.44%) .NET
5 39 (9.47%) OAuth
6 35 (8.50%) RESTful
7 34 (8.25%) HTML
7 34 (8.25%) REST
8 33 (8.01%) Spring Boot
9 28 (6.80%) YAML
10 27 (6.55%) Spring
11 24 (5.83%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.58%) OAuth2
13 20 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.61%) AWS CDK
15 17 (4.13%) Playwright
16 16 (3.88%) Vue
16 16 (3.88%) Web Services
17 15 (3.64%) UIKit
18 14 (3.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 108 (26.21%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.28%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.64%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.40%) PKI
8 12 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.70%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.46%) CMDB
13 5 (1.21%) Blog
14 4 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
15 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 60 (14.56%) Linux
2 20 (4.85%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.37%) Windows
4 11 (2.67%) Android
5 10 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.70%) VMS
7 5 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.49%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (93.20%) CI/CD
2 262 (63.59%) DevOps
3 224 (54.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (35.44%) Containerisation
5 116 (28.16%) Agile
6 98 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (23.54%) Observability
8 85 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (19.90%) Test Automation
10 79 (19.17%) Platform Engineering
11 73 (17.72%) AI
11 73 (17.72%) Cloud Security
12 72 (17.48%) Mentoring
13 71 (17.23%) Analytics
13 71 (17.23%) Software Engineering
14 59 (14.32%) DevSecOps
15 57 (13.83%) Incident Response
15 57 (13.83%) Microservices
16 56 (13.59%) Clean Code
17 54 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 187 (45.39%) Python
2 91 (22.09%) Bash
3 75 (18.20%) TypeScript
4 73 (17.72%) PowerShell
5 69 (16.75%) SQL
6 65 (15.78%) Java
7 57 (13.83%) JavaScript
8 45 (10.92%) Go
9 39 (9.47%) Kotlin
10 31 (7.52%) C#
11 24 (5.83%) Bicep
12 16 (3.88%) Swift
13 14 (3.40%) Groovy
14 13 (3.16%) Rust
15 12 (2.91%) Scala
16 11 (2.67%) Ruby
17 7 (1.70%) Dart
17 7 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.70%) PHP
18 5 (1.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (12.86%) Degree
2 48 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.25%) AWS Certification
4 33 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.85%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.40%) OSCP
8 13 (3.16%) CISSP
9 9 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.18%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.94%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.94%) SANS
11 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.25%) QA
2 30 (7.28%) Accessibility
3 25 (6.07%) SOC 2
4 14 (3.40%) WCAG
5 13 (3.16%) GDPR
5 13 (3.16%) GRC
6 11 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.21%) NCSC
10 4 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.73%) NIST
12 2 (0.49%) IFRS
12 2 (0.49%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.49%) SLA
12 2 (0.49%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 143 (34.71%) Docker
2 25 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 227 (55.10%) Terraform
2 155 (37.62%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.26%) Ansible
4 65 (15.78%) Grafana
5 54 (13.11%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.13%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.16%) Argo
7 13 (3.16%) Cilium
8 9 (2.18%) Packer
9 8 (1.94%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.97%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.73%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.73%) Puppet
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Consul
13 1 (0.24%) Istio
13 1 (0.24%) Kibana
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.83%) VMware
3 18 (4.37%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.13%) Google
5 14 (3.40%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.40%) Braze
5 14 (3.40%) Databricks
6 13 (3.16%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.70%) New Relic
9 7 (1.70%) OneLogin
10 6 (1.46%) Cisco
10 6 (1.46%) EMC
10 6 (1.46%) F5
10 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.46%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.97%) Splunk
12 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.73%) Varonis