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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 465 623
Rank change year-on-year +66 +158 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 395 203 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.38% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 287 158 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -13.60%

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 25,747 14,721 35,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.90% 33.51% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,739 10,108 27,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,875 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 6 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 6 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 +73 347 £70,200 -6.40% 212
UK excluding London +60 213 £65,000 -4.41% 126
London +26 146 £80,000 -3.03% 108
Work from Home +45 131 £65,000 -10.34% 141
North of England +39 96 £60,000 -12.41% 48
Yorkshire +1 47 £62,500 -8.76% 13
South East +4 40 £62,500 -10.71% 32
North West +23 31 £65,500 -12.67% 27
South West -47 27 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Midlands -15 24 £65,000 -7.14% 10
East Midlands -10 20 £75,000 +33.33% 6
North East -28 18 £47,250 -17.83% 9
Scotland +11 11 £85,000 +33.86% 8
Wales -41 8 £63,250 +5.42% 4
East of England -16 5 £80,150 +16.58% 5
West Midlands -42 4 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 5

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 (2.78%) Apache
2 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.52%) Confluence
4 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) WordPress
8 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) GitHub
2 237 (60.00%) AWS
3 222 (56.20%) Azure
4 142 (35.95%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (23.54%) Serverless
6 83 (21.01%) GCP
7 69 (17.47%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (13.42%) Datadog
10 51 (12.91%) Amazon S3
11 42 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (9.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (6.08%) Entra ID
18 23 (5.82%) Azure AKS
19 21 (5.32%) Firebase
20 19 (4.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.15%) Firewall
2 22 (5.57%) VPN
3 20 (5.06%) HTTP
4 19 (4.81%) DNS
5 16 (4.05%) Network Security
6 15 (3.80%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.29%) DSL
8 10 (2.53%) WAN
9 7 (1.77%) DMARC
10 4 (1.01%) SSL
11 3 (0.76%) RTP
11 3 (0.76%) SAN
11 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.76%) VoIP
11 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.51%) BGP
13 1 (0.25%) LTE
13 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.09%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.08%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.54%) MySQL
7 11 (2.78%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.53%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.03%) Power BI
10 6 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.27%) Tableau
12 4 (1.01%) Big Data
12 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.01%) Metadata
12 4 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 147 (37.22%) Jenkins
2 79 (20.00%) Git
3 56 (14.18%) GitLab
4 22 (5.57%) JIRA
5 20 (5.06%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.80%) XCTest
7 14 (3.54%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.03%) fastlane
10 7 (1.77%) Postman
10 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (1.52%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.52%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.52%) Gradle
11 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.52%) Storybook
12 5 (1.27%) Selenium
13 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.01%) Gatling
14 3 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 121 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.70%) Finance
3 26 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.08%) Retail
5 22 (5.57%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.56%) Banking
6 18 (4.56%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.80%) Law
9 9 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Automotive
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (24.81%) Senior
2 92 (23.29%) Developer
3 73 (18.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.16%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (10.38%) Lead
7 34 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.58%) Security Engineer
9 25 (6.33%) Architect
9 25 (6.33%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.57%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.56%) Data Engineer
13 17 (4.30%) AWS Developer
13 17 (4.30%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.80%) Mobile Engineer
15 15 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.44%) Node.js
2 56 (14.18%) React
3 44 (11.14%) .NET
4 43 (10.89%) CSS
5 37 (9.37%) OAuth
6 31 (7.85%) REST
6 31 (7.85%) RESTful
7 29 (7.34%) HTML
8 24 (6.08%) AWS CDK
9 21 (5.32%) YAML
10 19 (4.81%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.81%) OAuth2
11 18 (4.56%) .NET Core
11 18 (4.56%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (4.05%) SAML
13 15 (3.80%) UIKit
14 14 (3.54%) Spring Boot
14 14 (3.54%) SwiftUI
14 14 (3.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (23.04%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.59%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.54%) Private Cloud
7 13 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.29%) PKI
8 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.53%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.52%) CMDB
12 6 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.92%) Linux
2 20 (5.06%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.80%) Windows
4 11 (2.78%) Android
5 9 (2.28%) VMS
5 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (92.66%) CI/CD
2 255 (64.56%) DevOps
3 218 (55.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (33.92%) Containerisation
5 105 (26.58%) Agile
6 96 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (23.54%) Observability
8 86 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (19.49%) Test Automation
10 69 (17.47%) Analytics
11 67 (16.96%) AI
11 67 (16.96%) Cloud Security
11 67 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
12 62 (15.70%) DevSecOps
12 62 (15.70%) Mentoring
13 60 (15.19%) Software Engineering
14 54 (13.67%) Incident Response
15 53 (13.42%) Deployment Automation
16 50 (12.66%) Clean Code
17 48 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 178 (45.06%) Python
2 90 (22.78%) Bash
3 78 (19.75%) SQL
4 73 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 66 (16.71%) PowerShell
6 56 (14.18%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.41%) Go
8 43 (10.89%) Java
9 37 (9.37%) Kotlin
10 29 (7.34%) C#
11 19 (4.81%) Bicep
12 16 (4.05%) Swift
13 15 (3.80%) Rust
14 13 (3.29%) Groovy
15 9 (2.28%) Scala
16 8 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.77%) Dart
18 6 (1.52%) PHP
18 6 (1.52%) Ruby
19 5 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 52 (13.16%) Degree
2 41 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.35%) AWS Certification
4 28 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.06%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.05%) OSCP
8 12 (3.04%) CISSP
9 8 (2.03%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.03%) SANS
10 7 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.76%) CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.09%) QA
3 26 (6.58%) SOC 2
4 21 (5.32%) Accessibility
5 17 (4.30%) GDPR
6 12 (3.04%) Data Quality
6 12 (3.04%) GRC
7 9 (2.28%) WCAG
8 7 (1.77%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.01%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.51%) NCSC
11 2 (0.51%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 134 (33.92%) Docker
2 27 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 224 (56.71%) Terraform
2 144 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 68 (17.22%) Ansible
4 63 (15.95%) Grafana
5 53 (13.42%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.05%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.04%) Cilium
8 11 (2.78%) Argo
9 9 (2.28%) Packer
10 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) logstash
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.32%) VMware
3 18 (4.56%) Google
4 16 (4.05%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.54%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.54%) Braze
5 14 (3.54%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.78%) Databricks
6 11 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.03%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.77%) SendGrid
9 6 (1.52%) Cisco
9 6 (1.52%) EMC
9 6 (1.52%) F5
9 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.01%) New Relic
11 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.76%) Mitel
11 3 (0.76%) Varonis