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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 428 532
Rank change year-on-year +28 +104 -36
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 493 246 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.58% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 328 193 205
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,100 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.31%

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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
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 8 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 8 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 +64 430 £70,000 - 632
UK excluding London +28 267 £65,000 - 241
London +4 173 £80,000 +3.23% 400
Work from Home -16 138 £72,500 +3.57% 318
North of England +33 125 £65,000 -4.41% 70
Yorkshire +14 60 £70,000 +2.19% 26
South East -12 60 £65,000 -13.33% 61
North West +9 41 £65,500 +0.77% 32
Midlands -20 33 £65,000 +20.37% 26
West Midlands -26 24 £67,500 - 13
North East -38 24 £57,500 -16.36% 12
Wales -60 23 £60,000 +2.13% 9
South West -69 18 £65,000 +15.56% 26
East Midlands -24 9 £65,000 +22.07% 13
Scotland -14 4 £65,000 -18.75% 15
East of England -34 4 £69,500 +2.96% 18

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 (2.43%) Apache
2 10 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.03%) Confluence
3 8 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.22%) CICS
5 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) CMS
7 3 (0.61%) IIS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 493 (100.00%) GitHub
2 307 (62.27%) AWS
3 267 (54.16%) Azure
4 127 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (21.10%) GCP
6 91 (18.46%) Serverless
7 88 (17.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (14.60%) AWS Lambda
9 68 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (13.18%) Amazon S3
11 52 (10.55%) Datadog
12 50 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (8.92%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
15 35 (7.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 35 (7.10%) Azure Key Vault
16 31 (6.29%) Azure AKS
17 30 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (4.67%) SaaS
19 20 (4.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.27%) VPN
2 25 (5.07%) Firewall
3 15 (3.04%) DMARC
4 12 (2.43%) DNS
5 11 (2.23%) Network Security
6 5 (1.01%) HTTP
6 5 (1.01%) SAN
7 4 (0.81%) SSH
7 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 3 (0.61%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) SSL
9 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (8.72%) DynamoDB
3 42 (8.52%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 28 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.85%) Redis
8 17 (3.45%) MySQL
9 14 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.84%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.03%) Power BI
12 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.62%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.42%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.22%) Db2
Development Applications
1 194 (39.35%) Jenkins
2 97 (19.68%) Git
3 88 (17.85%) GitLab
4 34 (6.90%) JIRA
5 32 (6.49%) Cypress.io
6 24 (4.87%) Postman
7 19 (3.85%) Selenium
8 13 (2.64%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.43%) JUnit
9 12 (2.43%) REST Assured
10 11 (2.23%) Gatling
10 11 (2.23%) JMeter
11 10 (2.03%) Crashlytics
12 9 (1.83%) Gradle
12 9 (1.83%) Newman
13 8 (1.62%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.62%) NUnit
14 7 (1.42%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.42%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.22%) Appium
General
1 175 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.85%) Finance
3 71 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.87%) Banking
7 20 (4.06%) Retail
8 11 (2.23%) Law
8 11 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.83%) Marketing
10 5 (1.01%) Legal
11 4 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
13 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 136 (27.59%) Senior
2 115 (23.33%) Developer
3 72 (14.60%) Platform Engineer
4 67 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.18%) Lead
6 36 (7.30%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.10%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (6.09%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Architect
12 23 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (4.26%) Software Developer
15 20 (4.06%) Consultant
15 20 (4.06%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (51.52%) Terraform
2 114 (23.12%) Node.js
3 80 (16.23%) React
4 78 (15.82%) Spring Boot
5 73 (14.81%) .NET
6 70 (14.20%) Spring
7 65 (13.18%) REST
8 63 (12.78%) RESTful
9 50 (10.14%) CSS
10 42 (8.52%) AngularJS
11 36 (7.30%) Playwright
12 35 (7.10%) HTML
13 32 (6.49%) GraphQL
14 31 (6.29%) OAuth
14 31 (6.29%) OAuth2
15 29 (5.88%) Jest
16 26 (5.27%) Ruby on Rails
16 26 (5.27%) YAML
17 24 (4.87%) Kafka
17 24 (4.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 28 (5.68%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 21 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
7 18 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.25%) Mobile App
10 15 (3.04%) Blog
10 15 (3.04%) Private Cloud
10 15 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.64%) AI Agents
13 12 (2.43%) Security Posture
14 10 (2.03%) PKI
15 9 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
15 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 79 (16.02%) Linux
2 16 (3.25%) Windows
3 12 (2.43%) Android
3 12 (2.43%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.62%) Unix
5 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) AIX
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (95.54%) CI/CD
2 308 (62.47%) DevOps
3 250 (50.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 145 (29.41%) Agile
6 142 (28.80%) AI
7 138 (27.99%) Observability
8 128 (25.96%) Software Engineering
9 124 (25.15%) Test Automation
10 114 (23.12%) Platform Engineering
10 114 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (18.66%) Mentoring
13 87 (17.65%) Microservices
14 82 (16.63%) Analytics
15 73 (14.81%) Clean Code
16 68 (13.79%) Cloud Security
17 66 (13.39%) Full-Stack Development
17 66 (13.39%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (12.17%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 213 (43.20%) Python
2 128 (25.96%) Java
3 112 (22.72%) TypeScript
4 95 (19.27%) SQL
5 86 (17.44%) Bash
6 83 (16.84%) JavaScript
7 63 (12.78%) PowerShell
8 47 (9.53%) Go
9 40 (8.11%) Kotlin
10 37 (7.51%) C#
11 30 (6.09%) Bicep
12 28 (5.68%) Ruby
13 22 (4.46%) COBOL
14 20 (4.06%) Groovy
15 16 (3.25%) JCL
16 13 (2.64%) Scala
17 12 (2.43%) PHP
18 9 (1.83%) Swift
19 8 (1.62%) Rust
20 7 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.53%) Degree
4 34 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 33 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 5 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.61%) OCP
13 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (12.58%) QA
2 37 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.87%) WCAG
4 18 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.62%) GDPR
7 8 (1.62%) GRC
8 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.22%) NCSC
9 5 (1.01%) NIST
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.61%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.41%) PERC
12 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 208 (42.19%) Docker
2 11 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Firmware
6 3 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 193 (39.15%) Kubernetes
2 76 (15.42%) Grafana
3 57 (11.56%) Prometheus
4 49 (9.94%) Ansible
5 27 (5.48%) Argo
6 23 (4.67%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.83%) Cilium
8 8 (1.62%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.22%) logstash
9 6 (1.22%) Packer
10 5 (1.01%) Istio
11 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.41%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.07%) Databricks
2 25 (5.07%) Google
3 24 (4.87%) VMware
4 17 (3.45%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.04%) New Relic
5 15 (3.04%) SendGrid
5 15 (3.04%) Splunk
6 13 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.03%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.83%) Oracle
9 7 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.01%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.01%) Braze
12 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.41%) EMC
13 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.41%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.41%) Veeam