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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 477 587
Rank change year-on-year +66 +110 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 421 219 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.37% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 312 172 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,525 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -3.85%

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 27,240 15,928 30,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.15% 32.44% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,815 11,073 22,718
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,063 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +52 363 £65,500 -12.67% 198
UK excluding London +67 238 £62,500 -3.10% 108
London -12 139 £80,000 - 111
Work from Home +32 134 £65,000 -10.34% 101
North of England +45 101 £62,500 -8.76% 53
South East +22 56 £62,500 -16.67% 30
Yorkshire +6 46 £65,000 -5.11% 16
North West +27 37 £65,500 -12.67% 32
Midlands -18 28 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Wales -37 22 £60,000 +2.13% 2
East Midlands -9 21 £70,000 +29.63% 2
South West -51 20 £65,000 +6.12% 2
North East -40 18 £47,500 -17.39% 5
West Midlands -36 7 £63,750 -5.56% 10
East of England -5 6 £77,575 +19.35% 2
Scotland +14 5 £85,000 +31.78% 7

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 (2.14%) Apache
1 9 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.90%) Confluence
3 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 421 (100.00%) GitHub
2 263 (62.47%) AWS
3 237 (56.29%) Azure
4 133 (31.59%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (21.14%) GCP
6 87 (20.67%) Serverless
7 72 (17.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (12.83%) Amazon S3
10 48 (11.40%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.69%) Datadog
12 44 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (5.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.23%) Firebase
17 19 (4.51%) Power Platform
17 19 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.98%) Firewall
2 20 (4.75%) DNS
2 20 (4.75%) VPN
3 17 (4.04%) Network Security
4 16 (3.80%) HTTP
5 13 (3.09%) DMARC
6 12 (2.85%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.90%) DSL
8 5 (1.19%) SAN
9 4 (0.95%) SSH
9 4 (0.95%) SSL
9 4 (0.95%) WAN
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) RTP
10 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
10 2 (0.48%) VoIP
10 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 29 (6.89%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (6.18%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 22 (5.23%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.80%) MySQL
8 15 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.56%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.61%) Power BI
10 8 (1.90%) Redis
11 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.43%) Tableau
13 5 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.19%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.95%) Big Data
14 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 161 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 86 (20.43%) Git
3 70 (16.63%) GitLab
4 30 (7.13%) JIRA
5 20 (4.75%) Crashlytics
6 18 (4.28%) Cypress.io
7 15 (3.56%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.56%) XCTest
8 12 (2.85%) Postman
9 11 (2.61%) Selenium
10 8 (1.90%) fastlane
10 8 (1.90%) Gradle
10 8 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.43%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.43%) Gatling
12 6 (1.43%) Storybook
12 6 (1.43%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 126 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.88%) Finance
3 42 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.23%) Retail
7 17 (4.04%) Banking
8 12 (2.85%) Law
8 12 (2.85%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.48%) Games
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (25.42%) Senior
2 98 (23.28%) Developer
3 76 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.49%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.83%) Lead
6 43 (10.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.60%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (6.18%) Architect
9 26 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.18%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.99%) Automation Engineer
11 21 (4.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.75%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.51%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.28%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.80%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (19.24%) Node.js
2 64 (15.20%) React
3 48 (11.40%) CSS
4 44 (10.45%) .NET
5 42 (9.98%) RESTful
5 42 (9.98%) Spring Boot
6 40 (9.50%) REST
7 38 (9.03%) OAuth
8 34 (8.08%) Spring
9 32 (7.60%) HTML
10 27 (6.41%) OAuth2
10 27 (6.41%) YAML
11 24 (5.70%) AngularJS
11 24 (5.70%) Playwright
12 20 (4.75%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (4.75%) Web Services
13 19 (4.51%) Jest
14 18 (4.28%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.28%) Vue
15 17 (4.04%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.84%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.36%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.80%) PKI
7 14 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.85%) Mainframe
10 11 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.66%) Blog
12 7 (1.66%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.43%) CMDB
13 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.39%) Linux
2 21 (4.99%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.75%) Windows
4 12 (2.85%) Android
5 9 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.71%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) AIX
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (93.59%) CI/CD
2 267 (63.42%) DevOps
3 222 (52.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (36.34%) Containerisation
5 122 (28.98%) Agile
6 96 (22.80%) Observability
6 96 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (21.14%) Platform Engineering
9 87 (20.67%) Test Automation
10 86 (20.43%) AI
11 82 (19.48%) Software Engineering
12 78 (18.53%) Mentoring
13 69 (16.39%) Cloud Security
14 66 (15.68%) Microservices
15 65 (15.44%) Analytics
16 61 (14.49%) Clean Code
17 59 (14.01%) DevSecOps
17 59 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
18 52 (12.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 185 (43.94%) Python
2 86 (20.43%) Bash
3 80 (19.00%) TypeScript
4 76 (18.05%) Java
5 69 (16.39%) PowerShell
6 67 (15.91%) JavaScript
7 61 (14.49%) SQL
8 42 (9.98%) Go
9 39 (9.26%) Kotlin
10 29 (6.89%) C#
11 25 (5.94%) Bicep
12 19 (4.51%) Ruby
13 17 (4.04%) Swift
14 15 (3.56%) Groovy
15 12 (2.85%) Scala
16 11 (2.61%) PHP
17 10 (2.38%) Rust
18 7 (1.66%) COBOL
18 7 (1.66%) Dart
19 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.16%) Degree
3 38 (9.03%) AWS Certification
4 36 (8.55%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.23%) Azure Certification
6 21 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.61%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.61%) OSCP
9 9 (2.14%) CISSP
10 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.95%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.79%) QA
2 32 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 29 (6.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.99%) SOC 2
5 20 (4.75%) WCAG
6 13 (3.09%) GRC
7 10 (2.38%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.90%) GDPR
9 7 (1.66%) NCSC
10 6 (1.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.71%) NIST
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS
13 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.48%) SLA
13 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 147 (34.92%) Docker
2 17 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (53.68%) Terraform
2 162 (38.48%) Kubernetes
3 64 (15.20%) Grafana
4 62 (14.73%) Ansible
5 55 (13.06%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.51%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.56%) Argo
8 13 (3.09%) Cilium
9 9 (2.14%) Packer
10 6 (1.43%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Puppet
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Istio
14 1 (0.24%) Kibana
14 1 (0.24%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) logstash
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.46%) VMware
3 18 (4.28%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.04%) Google
5 16 (3.80%) Databricks
6 14 (3.33%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.33%) Braze
7 13 (3.09%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.85%) New Relic
8 12 (2.85%) OneLogin
8 12 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.90%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.43%) Cisco
10 6 (1.43%) EMC
10 6 (1.43%) F5
10 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.71%) Splunk
12 3 (0.71%) Tenable