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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 460 640
Rank change year-on-year +86 +180 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 399 200 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.33% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 284 156 192
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £43,875
25th Percentile £55,938 £62,188 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £107,250 £103,750 £99,847
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.62% -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 27,762 15,004 34,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.86% 35.47% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14,436 10,994 26,803
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,257 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,747 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +57 335 £72,500 -3.33% 156
UK excluding London +39 204 £63,750 -6.25% 93
Work from Home +61 156 £65,515 -9.63% 92
London +23 154 £80,000 -3.03% 79
North of England -5 82 £60,000 -11.76% 29
Yorkshire -25 44 £60,000 +2.13% 12
South East -14 33 £62,500 -10.71% 28
South West -45 32 £75,000 +15.38% 13
North West -11 26 £65,000 -13.33% 12
Scotland -7 25 £85,000 +36.00% 10
Midlands -36 20 £65,000 -10.34% 9
East Midlands -30 16 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -29 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -20 5 £75,000 -1.64% 4
Wales -29 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -42 4 £62,500 -15.25% 6
Northern Ireland -38 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 9 (2.26%) Apache
1 9 (2.26%) Confluence
2 8 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.00%) Appian
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 399 (100.00%) GitHub
2 241 (60.40%) Azure
3 227 (56.89%) AWS
4 156 (39.10%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (24.56%) GCP
6 97 (24.31%) Serverless
7 67 (16.79%) Datadog
8 65 (16.29%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (15.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (12.53%) Amazon S3
11 47 (11.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (9.52%) Entra ID
13 32 (8.02%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (7.27%) Azure AKS
15 29 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (4.26%) SaaS
17 17 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.28%) Firewall
2 24 (6.02%) VPN
3 23 (5.76%) DNS
4 21 (5.26%) HTTP
5 18 (4.51%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.01%) Network Security
7 13 (3.26%) DSL
7 13 (3.26%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.27%) NoSQL
1 37 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.51%) DynamoDB
3 20 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.01%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (2.26%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.26%) MySQL
8 8 (2.01%) Flink
9 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.75%) Metadata
9 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.25%) Power BI
10 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.00%) Big Data
11 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 73 (18.30%) Git
3 61 (15.29%) GitLab
4 22 (5.51%) JIRA
5 13 (3.26%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.26%) XCTest
6 11 (2.76%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.75%) Subversion
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
9 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.75%) Appium
10 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.75%) Gatling
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 3 (0.75%) NUnit
10 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 97 (24.31%) Finance
3 34 (8.52%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.01%) Banking
6 20 (5.01%) Retail
7 19 (4.76%) Law
8 12 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.26%) Front Office
10 6 (1.50%) Electronics
10 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.50%) Marketing
10 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Billing
12 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 99 (24.81%) Senior
2 88 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (19.80%) Developer
4 46 (11.53%) Lead
4 46 (11.53%) Platform Engineer
5 40 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.52%) .NET Developer
8 23 (5.76%) Architect
8 23 (5.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 22 (5.51%) Security Engineer
10 21 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.76%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 18 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.26%) AWS Developer
15 15 (3.76%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 13 (3.26%) AWS Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.04%) React
2 53 (13.28%) .NET
3 48 (12.03%) Node.js
4 37 (9.27%) OAuth
5 36 (9.02%) RESTful
6 32 (8.02%) CSS
7 28 (7.02%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.52%) HTML
9 23 (5.76%) .NET Core
9 23 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.26%) SAML
11 20 (5.01%) ADO
12 19 (4.76%) REST
13 17 (4.26%) Kafka
14 16 (4.01%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.01%) ASP.NET
14 16 (4.01%) YAML
15 15 (3.76%) .NET Framework
15 15 (3.76%) Blazor
15 15 (3.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.76%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.26%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.01%) PKI
8 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.25%) CMDB
11 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.04%) Linux
2 17 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.51%) Windows
4 13 (3.26%) VMS
5 8 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (94.24%) CI/CD
2 285 (71.43%) DevOps
3 222 (55.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 141 (35.34%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (29.82%) Observability
7 116 (29.07%) Agile
8 112 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (17.79%) Analytics
10 70 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 69 (17.29%) Cloud Security
12 68 (17.04%) DevSecOps
13 67 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
14 66 (16.54%) Incident Response
15 64 (16.04%) Deployment Automation
16 62 (15.54%) AI
17 58 (14.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 56 (14.04%) Mentoring
19 51 (12.78%) Continuous Integration
20 48 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 199 (49.87%) Python
2 106 (26.57%) Bash
3 81 (20.30%) SQL
4 76 (19.05%) TypeScript
5 70 (17.54%) PowerShell
6 58 (14.54%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.78%) Go
8 30 (7.52%) Java
9 28 (7.02%) Bicep
10 24 (6.02%) Kotlin
11 21 (5.26%) C#
12 15 (3.76%) Rust
13 13 (3.26%) Swift
14 12 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.75%) Scala
16 6 (1.50%) Dart
16 6 (1.50%) Groovy
17 5 (1.25%) C++
17 5 (1.25%) PHP
18 4 (1.00%) C
Qualifications
1 57 (14.29%) Degree
2 33 (8.27%) AWS Certification
2 33 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (7.52%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.01%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.01%) OSCP
5 16 (4.01%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.76%) CISSP
7 12 (3.01%) CREST Certified
7 12 (3.01%) SANS
8 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (7.77%) QA
3 28 (7.02%) GDPR
4 26 (6.52%) SOC 2
5 15 (3.76%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 8 (2.01%) GRC
7 8 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 148 (37.09%) Docker
2 40 (10.03%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 245 (61.40%) Terraform
2 163 (40.85%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.30%) Ansible
4 80 (20.05%) Grafana
5 73 (18.30%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.51%) Argo
7 9 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.01%) Cilium
8 8 (2.01%) Packer
8 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
8 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 71 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.26%) VMware
3 17 (4.26%) Google
3 17 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 13 (3.26%) Databricks
5 12 (3.01%) Amplitude
5 12 (3.01%) Braze
5 12 (3.01%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.76%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.01%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.75%) SAP
10 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.25%) Cisco
11 5 (1.25%) EMC
11 5 (1.25%) F5
11 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.75%) Tenable