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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 451 513
Rank change year-on-year +46 +62 -8
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 491 243 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.56% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 328 190 215
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,447 £85,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,875 £81,250
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 27,603 15,559 24,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.55% 31.50% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18,768 10,536 15,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +53 424 £67,500 -6.90% 599
UK excluding London +18 274 £65,000 - 250
London +1 161 £77,500 - 390
Work from Home -13 136 £71,500 -1.38% 298
North of England +36 129 £65,000 - 78
Yorkshire +14 61 £67,500 -1.46% 29
South East -15 60 £63,750 -15.00% 64
North West +8 46 £65,500 +0.77% 39
Midlands -23 31 £65,000 +7.00% 21
Wales -53 24 £60,000 +2.13% 13
North East -51 22 £57,500 -11.54% 10
West Midlands -33 21 £65,000 -3.70% 10
South West -69 21 £65,000 +8.33% 31
East Midlands -24 10 £65,000 +22.07% 11
Scotland -3 5 £90,000 +12.50% 10
East of England -24 4 £87,500 +29.63% 18

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 12 (2.44%) Apache
1 12 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.24%) Confluence
3 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.02%) CICS
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 491 (100.00%) GitHub
2 314 (63.95%) AWS
3 270 (54.99%) Azure
4 130 (26.48%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (19.55%) GCP
6 91 (18.53%) Serverless
7 89 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (14.87%) AWS Lambda
9 68 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (13.65%) Amazon S3
11 52 (10.59%) Datadog
12 50 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (7.74%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (7.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (6.72%) Azure Key Vault
17 31 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
18 30 (6.11%) Azure AKS
19 23 (4.68%) SaaS
20 21 (4.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.09%) Firewall
2 24 (4.89%) VPN
3 14 (2.85%) DMARC
4 12 (2.44%) Network Security
5 11 (2.24%) DNS
6 5 (1.02%) HTTP
6 5 (1.02%) SAN
7 4 (0.81%) SSH
7 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 3 (0.61%) SSL
8 3 (0.61%) WAN
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) Internet
10 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (13.65%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.96%) DynamoDB
3 40 (8.15%) Relational Database
4 33 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (3.87%) Redis
8 17 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 17 (3.46%) MySQL
9 16 (3.26%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.44%) Power BI
13 8 (1.63%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (1.43%) Tableau
15 6 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.22%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 190 (38.70%) Jenkins
2 100 (20.37%) Git
3 80 (16.29%) GitLab
4 37 (7.54%) JIRA
5 33 (6.72%) Cypress.io
6 25 (5.09%) Postman
7 19 (3.87%) Selenium
8 13 (2.65%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.44%) JUnit
10 11 (2.24%) Gatling
10 11 (2.24%) JMeter
11 10 (2.04%) Crashlytics
11 10 (2.04%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.83%) Gradle
12 9 (1.83%) Newman
13 8 (1.63%) NUnit
14 7 (1.43%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.22%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.22%) fastlane
15 6 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 169 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.72%) Finance
3 66 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.09%) Banking
7 21 (4.28%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Law
8 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.83%) Marketing
10 5 (1.02%) Legal
11 4 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Games
12 3 (0.61%) Local Government
12 3 (0.61%) Military
12 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 134 (27.29%) Senior
2 116 (23.63%) Developer
3 74 (15.07%) Platform Engineer
4 65 (13.24%) Lead
5 63 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 32 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (6.11%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.50%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.09%) Architect
13 23 (4.68%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (4.48%) Security Engineer
14 22 (4.48%) Software Developer
15 21 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (52.75%) Terraform
2 112 (22.81%) Node.js
3 82 (16.70%) React
4 73 (14.87%) Spring Boot
5 72 (14.66%) .NET
6 65 (13.24%) Spring
7 60 (12.22%) REST
8 59 (12.02%) RESTful
9 52 (10.59%) CSS
10 43 (8.76%) AngularJS
11 37 (7.54%) Playwright
12 35 (7.13%) HTML
13 30 (6.11%) Jest
13 30 (6.11%) OAuth
13 30 (6.11%) OAuth2
14 26 (5.30%) GraphQL
15 25 (5.09%) Web Services
15 25 (5.09%) YAML
16 24 (4.89%) Kafka
16 24 (4.89%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 134 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.30%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Legacy Applications
6 18 (3.67%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (3.05%) Blog
9 15 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (3.05%) Private Cloud
10 14 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.24%) PKI
12 10 (2.04%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.83%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.63%) Digital Wallet
14 8 (1.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.70%) Linux
2 17 (3.46%) Windows
3 12 (2.44%) Android
3 12 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.63%) Unix
5 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) Debian
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.41%) AIX
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (95.52%) CI/CD
2 309 (62.93%) DevOps
3 254 (51.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (34.01%) Containerisation
5 144 (29.33%) Agile
6 135 (27.49%) AI
6 135 (27.49%) Observability
7 123 (25.05%) Software Engineering
8 116 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (23.22%) Platform Engineering
9 114 (23.22%) Test Automation
10 98 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (17.52%) Mentoring
12 83 (16.90%) Microservices
13 82 (16.70%) Analytics
14 72 (14.66%) Cloud Security
15 70 (14.26%) Clean Code
16 64 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
17 56 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
18 55 (11.20%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 212 (43.18%) Python
2 120 (24.44%) Java
3 109 (22.20%) TypeScript
4 91 (18.53%) SQL
5 89 (18.13%) Bash
6 80 (16.29%) JavaScript
7 68 (13.85%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.16%) Go
9 41 (8.35%) Kotlin
10 36 (7.33%) C#
11 30 (6.11%) Bicep
12 26 (5.30%) Ruby
13 21 (4.28%) Groovy
14 20 (4.07%) COBOL
15 16 (3.26%) Scala
16 14 (2.85%) JCL
17 12 (2.44%) PHP
18 9 (1.83%) Swift
19 8 (1.63%) Rust
20 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.16%) Degree
4 34 (6.92%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.81%) CISSP
11 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.61%) OCP
12 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.22%) QA
2 35 (7.13%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.68%) WCAG
4 19 (3.87%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.44%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.83%) GRC
8 7 (1.43%) GDPR
9 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.22%) NCSC
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.81%) NIST
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.61%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS
12 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.20%) PERC
System Software
1 205 (41.75%) Docker
2 11 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.61%) Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (39.10%) Kubernetes
2 70 (14.26%) Grafana
3 56 (11.41%) Prometheus
4 48 (9.78%) Ansible
5 25 (5.09%) Progress Chef
6 22 (4.48%) Argo
7 10 (2.04%) Cilium
8 8 (1.63%) Packer
8 8 (1.63%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.22%) logstash
10 4 (0.81%) Istio
11 3 (0.61%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.41%) Puppet
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 57 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.50%) Databricks
3 25 (5.09%) Google
3 25 (5.09%) VMware
4 16 (3.26%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.05%) New Relic
6 14 (2.85%) SendGrid
6 14 (2.85%) Splunk
7 13 (2.65%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.83%) Broadcom
9 8 (1.63%) Oracle
9 8 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.02%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.02%) Braze
12 3 (0.61%) Cisco
12 3 (0.61%) F5
12 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.61%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow