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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 448 561
Rank change year-on-year +108 +113 +85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 392 235 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.33% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 295 177 179
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £116,250
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 23,018 17,663 28,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.26% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,410 10,876 23,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +88 306 £71,250 +1.79% 179
UK excluding London +58 199 £65,000 - 123
Work from Home +107 177 £65,508 -6.42% 109
London +72 139 £80,000 -11.11% 75
North of England +6 65 £60,000 -11.76% 40
South West -6 38 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -18 37 £75,000 +15.38% 44
Scotland +13 36 £90,000 +56.52% 2
Yorkshire -18 33 £60,000 +21.21% 14
North West +11 21 £65,000 -23.53% 22
Midlands -20 16 £65,000 - 15
North East -1 11 £47,500 -25.49% 4
West Midlands -8 8 £60,000 -7.69% 9
East Midlands -24 8 £75,000 +89.87% 6
East of England +11 4 £65,000 -38.10% 4
Northern Ireland -27 2 £62,500 -
Wales -19 1 £61,496 -5.39% 1

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 8 (2.04%) Confluence
2 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.02%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) Appian
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 392 (100.00%) GitHub
2 248 (63.27%) Azure
3 209 (53.32%) AWS
4 164 (41.84%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (26.02%) GCP
6 85 (21.68%) Serverless
7 64 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (16.07%) Datadog
9 60 (15.31%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (13.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (11.99%) Entra ID
12 44 (11.22%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (10.97%) Amazon S3
14 41 (10.46%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (9.44%) Azure AKS
16 32 (8.16%) AWS Step Functions
17 29 (7.40%) SaaS
18 21 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
19 20 (5.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.97%) Firewall
2 20 (5.10%) VPN
3 19 (4.85%) HTTP
4 18 (4.59%) DNS
5 16 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.32%) Network Security
7 12 (3.06%) WAN
8 11 (2.81%) DSL
9 4 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.77%) RTP
10 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.97%) NoSQL
2 36 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.59%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.34%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.55%) Flink
8 8 (2.04%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.28%) Metadata
11 5 (1.28%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 164 (41.84%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.90%) Git
3 61 (15.56%) GitLab
4 14 (3.57%) JIRA
5 13 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 12 (3.06%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.30%) Subversion
8 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.28%) NUnit
10 3 (0.77%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.77%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.77%) XCTest
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 121 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.85%) Finance
3 40 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 24 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.87%) Banking
6 21 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.10%) Law
8 18 (4.59%) Retail
9 14 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.06%) Front Office
11 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.53%) Back Office
12 6 (1.53%) Electronics
12 6 (1.53%) Marketing
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
14 4 (1.02%) Billing
14 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (23.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 88 (22.45%) Senior
3 71 (18.11%) Developer
4 53 (13.52%) Lead
5 45 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.16%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.40%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
12 19 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (4.34%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.83%) Architect
15 15 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.57%) AWS Developer
16 14 (3.57%) Azure Developer
16 14 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.86%) React
2 68 (17.35%) .NET
3 54 (13.78%) RESTful
4 43 (10.97%) Node.js
5 38 (9.69%) OAuth
6 28 (7.14%) AWS CDK
6 28 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (6.12%) .NET Core
7 24 (6.12%) ADO
7 24 (6.12%) YAML
8 23 (5.87%) CSS
8 23 (5.87%) HTML
9 21 (5.36%) ASP.NET
9 21 (5.36%) OAuth2
10 19 (4.85%) JSON
10 19 (4.85%) REST
11 17 (4.34%) .NET Framework
11 17 (4.34%) Kafka
11 17 (4.34%) SAML
12 16 (4.08%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
7 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.28%) PKI
8 4 (1.02%) Blog
9 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.52%) Linux
2 18 (4.59%) VMS
3 15 (3.83%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) SUSE
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (91.33%) CI/CD
2 294 (75.00%) DevOps
3 214 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (40.56%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.87%) Agile
6 114 (29.08%) Observability
7 108 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 72 (18.37%) Incident Response
11 65 (16.58%) Cloud Security
12 59 (15.05%) AI
13 58 (14.80%) DevSecOps
13 58 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (14.54%) Deployment Automation
14 57 (14.54%) RBAC
15 56 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 54 (13.78%) Analytics
17 53 (13.52%) Microservices
18 52 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 201 (51.28%) Python
2 119 (30.36%) Bash
3 79 (20.15%) SQL
4 75 (19.13%) PowerShell
5 67 (17.09%) TypeScript
6 64 (16.33%) JavaScript
7 51 (13.01%) Go
8 49 (12.50%) Bicep
9 32 (8.16%) Java
10 27 (6.89%) C#
11 13 (3.32%) Rust
12 12 (3.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.53%) C++
15 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.77%) C
16 3 (0.77%) Ruby
16 3 (0.77%) Swift
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (14.03%) Degree
2 38 (9.69%) AWS Certification
2 38 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (8.67%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.36%) CISSP
6 20 (5.10%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.10%) SANS
7 19 (4.85%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.57%) Master's Degree
9 12 (3.06%) OSCP
10 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.69%) QA
2 37 (9.44%) GDPR
3 33 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.12%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.10%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.04%) GRC
8 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.02%) SLA
12 3 (0.77%) NIST
13 2 (0.51%) ECSS
14 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (42.86%) Docker
2 43 (10.97%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (60.46%) Terraform
2 185 (47.19%) Kubernetes
3 87 (22.19%) Grafana
4 82 (20.92%) Prometheus
5 75 (19.13%) Ansible
6 26 (6.63%) Argo
7 10 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.04%) Cilium
9 6 (1.53%) 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%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.61%) Google
3 17 (4.34%) VMware
4 14 (3.57%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.06%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.06%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.53%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.53%) SAP
9 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.02%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.77%) Amplitude
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel