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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 465 638
Rank change year-on-year +87 +173 -23
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 395 199 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.30% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 280 157 198
10th Percentile £47,450 £50,300 £44,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £79,688
90th Percentile £101,500 £102,500 £98,931
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -10.00%

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 28,060 15,272 34,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.69% 34.96% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 14,703 10,948 26,824
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,972 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,875 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +5.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,474 £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 7 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 7 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 +62 333 £72,500 -3.33% 183
UK excluding London +45 204 £65,000 -4.41% 114
Work from Home +71 153 £65,000 -10.34% 105
London +37 152 £80,000 -3.03% 84
North of England +7 83 £60,000 -11.76% 48
Yorkshire -20 44 £60,000 +2.13% 20
South East -3 35 £62,500 -10.71% 34
South West -46 30 £75,000 +15.38% 14
North West -1 26 £65,250 -13.00% 21
Scotland +7 25 £85,000 +36.00% 6
Midlands -24 19 £70,000 - 8
East Midlands -17 16 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East -19 13 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East of England -12 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -28 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
West Midlands -37 3 £65,000 -10.34% 4
Northern Ireland -36 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 (2.28%) Apache
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.03%) Confluence
3 4 (1.01%) Appian
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) GitHub
2 237 (60.00%) Azure
3 226 (57.22%) AWS
4 152 (38.48%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (24.05%) GCP
5 95 (24.05%) Serverless
6 66 (16.71%) Datadog
7 65 (16.46%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (12.41%) Amazon S3
10 46 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (9.37%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (8.86%) Entra ID
13 33 (8.35%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (7.34%) Azure AKS
16 28 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.56%) SaaS
19 17 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.42%) Firewall
2 24 (6.08%) VPN
3 23 (5.82%) DNS
4 21 (5.32%) HTTP
5 18 (4.56%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.05%) Network Security
7 13 (3.29%) DSL
7 13 (3.29%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) SSL
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) 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 34 (8.61%) NoSQL
1 34 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.32%) DynamoDB
3 20 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.28%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.28%) MySQL
7 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.77%) Flink
8 6 (1.52%) Metadata
8 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.27%) Power BI
10 4 (1.01%) Big Data
10 4 (1.01%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.01%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 154 (38.99%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.97%) Git
3 61 (15.44%) GitLab
4 21 (5.32%) JIRA
5 13 (3.29%) Crashlytics
5 13 (3.29%) XCTest
6 11 (2.78%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.03%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.52%) Storybook
9 6 (1.52%) Subversion
10 3 (0.76%) Appium
10 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.76%) Gatling
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) NUnit
10 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 91 (23.04%) Finance
3 31 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (7.85%) Telecoms
4 19 (4.81%) Law
4 19 (4.81%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.81%) Retail
5 17 (4.30%) Banking
6 10 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.77%) Front Office
8 6 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Advertising
9 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.01%) Electronics
10 4 (1.01%) Marketing
11 3 (0.76%) Billing
11 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 100 (25.32%) Senior
2 86 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (19.24%) Developer
4 50 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
5 42 (10.63%) Lead
6 40 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (5.82%) .NET Developer
8 23 (5.82%) Architect
8 23 (5.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.57%) Security Engineer
10 19 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.56%) Data Engineer
11 18 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (4.05%) AWS Developer
13 15 (3.80%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (3.29%) AWS Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.95%) React
2 49 (12.41%) .NET
3 48 (12.15%) Node.js
4 37 (9.37%) OAuth
5 33 (8.35%) CSS
5 33 (8.35%) RESTful
6 27 (6.84%) AWS CDK
7 26 (6.58%) HTML
8 23 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (5.57%) .NET Core
10 21 (5.32%) REST
10 21 (5.32%) SAML
11 20 (5.06%) ADO
12 15 (3.80%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.80%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.80%) Kafka
12 15 (3.80%) OAuth2
13 14 (3.54%) .NET Framework
13 14 (3.54%) Blazor
13 14 (3.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.82%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.54%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.03%) PKI
10 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.52%) CMDB
11 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.27%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.68%) Linux
2 17 (4.30%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.80%) Windows
4 14 (3.54%) VMS
5 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.27%) Android
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.76%) SUSE
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (93.92%) CI/CD
2 277 (70.13%) DevOps
3 223 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (35.19%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (29.62%) Observability
7 113 (28.61%) Agile
8 108 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (17.72%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (17.47%) Analytics
10 69 (17.47%) Cloud Security
11 68 (17.22%) Test Automation
12 67 (16.96%) DevSecOps
13 65 (16.46%) Incident Response
14 63 (15.95%) Deployment Automation
15 59 (14.94%) AI
16 57 (14.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 56 (14.18%) Mentoring
18 51 (12.91%) Continuous Integration
19 48 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 198 (50.13%) Python
2 105 (26.58%) Bash
3 78 (19.75%) SQL
4 74 (18.73%) TypeScript
5 70 (17.72%) PowerShell
6 57 (14.43%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.92%) Go
8 30 (7.59%) Java
9 25 (6.33%) Bicep
10 24 (6.08%) Kotlin
11 19 (4.81%) C#
12 15 (3.80%) Rust
13 13 (3.29%) Swift
14 12 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.03%) Groovy
16 7 (1.77%) Scala
17 6 (1.52%) Dart
18 5 (1.27%) C++
18 5 (1.27%) PHP
19 4 (1.01%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (14.18%) Degree
2 33 (8.35%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.10%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.56%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.05%) OSCP
8 15 (3.80%) CISSP
9 12 (3.04%) CREST Certified
9 12 (3.04%) SANS
10 10 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (2.03%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (7.09%) GDPR
2 28 (7.09%) QA
3 26 (6.58%) SOC 2
4 15 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.03%) GRC
6 8 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.52%) SLA
8 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.01%) NIST
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS
10 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.51%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (36.46%) Docker
2 38 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 247 (62.53%) Terraform
2 162 (41.01%) Kubernetes
3 84 (21.27%) Ansible
4 80 (20.25%) Grafana
5 72 (18.23%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.06%) Argo
7 11 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.28%) Packer
9 8 (2.03%) Cilium
9 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.01%) logstash
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
12 3 (0.76%) Rancher
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.57%) VMware
3 18 (4.56%) Palo Alto
4 15 (3.80%) Google
5 12 (3.04%) Amplitude
5 12 (3.04%) Braze
5 12 (3.04%) Databricks
5 12 (3.04%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.03%) Ab Initio
9 6 (1.52%) Cisco
9 6 (1.52%) EMC
9 6 (1.52%) F5
9 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.27%) SAP
11 3 (0.76%) Tenable