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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 451 526
Rank change year-on-year +39 +75 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 466 226 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.46% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 310 178 213
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £82,250
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 27,488 15,514 24,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.57% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,567 10,441 15,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £39,750 £45,750
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 15 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 15 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 +46 401 £65,500 -9.66% 694
UK excluding London +53 263 £65,000 - 311
London -3 149 £77,500 - 446
Work from Home -10 128 £70,000 -3.45% 357
North of England +42 123 £65,000 -2.26% 102
Yorkshire +5 60 £70,000 +2.19% 32
South East -3 57 £61,250 -18.33% 77
North West +18 45 £65,500 +0.77% 52
Midlands -29 31 £65,000 +7.00% 28
Wales -56 24 £60,000 +2.13% 11
South West -71 21 £57,500 -4.17% 27
West Midlands -29 19 £65,000 -3.70% 13
North East -45 18 £57,500 -11.54% 18
East Midlands -18 12 £65,000 +22.07% 15
Scotland -6 4 £115,000 +43.75% 28
East of England -31 3 £87,500 +27.27% 22

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 13 (2.79%) Apache
1 13 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.36%) Confluence
3 8 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.86%) CICS
5 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 3 (0.64%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 466 (100.00%) GitHub
2 304 (65.24%) AWS
3 255 (54.72%) Azure
4 126 (27.04%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (19.74%) GCP
6 90 (19.31%) Serverless
7 87 (18.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (15.67%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (13.95%) Amazon S3
10 64 (13.73%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
12 50 (10.73%) Datadog
13 48 (10.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (7.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 34 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
15 30 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (6.44%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (5.15%) Azure AKS
17 21 (4.51%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (4.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.51%) Firewall
2 20 (4.29%) VPN
3 13 (2.79%) DMARC
4 11 (2.36%) Network Security
5 9 (1.93%) DNS
6 5 (1.07%) SAN
7 4 (0.86%) HTTP
7 4 (0.86%) SSH
7 4 (0.86%) SSL
8 3 (0.64%) BGP
8 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.64%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.21%) LTE
10 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.01%) DynamoDB
3 38 (8.15%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (6.65%) SQL Server
6 30 (6.44%) NoSQL
7 23 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (3.65%) Delta Lake
8 17 (3.65%) MySQL
9 16 (3.43%) Redis
10 14 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 13 (2.79%) Power BI
12 8 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.72%) Tableau
13 7 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.50%) Data Vault
14 6 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (39.48%) Jenkins
2 98 (21.03%) Git
3 74 (15.88%) GitLab
4 36 (7.73%) JIRA
5 33 (7.08%) Cypress.io
6 24 (5.15%) Postman
7 18 (3.86%) Selenium
8 12 (2.58%) Crashlytics
8 12 (2.58%) JMeter
8 12 (2.58%) REST Assured
9 11 (2.36%) JUnit
10 10 (2.15%) Gatling
10 10 (2.15%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.93%) Gradle
11 9 (1.93%) Newman
12 8 (1.72%) NUnit
13 7 (1.50%) XCTest
14 6 (1.29%) fastlane
14 6 (1.29%) Maven
14 6 (1.29%) Zephyr
General
1 160 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.17%) Finance
3 58 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (5.36%) Banking
7 20 (4.29%) Retail
8 11 (2.36%) Law
8 11 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.93%) Marketing
10 4 (0.86%) Automotive
10 4 (0.86%) Legal
10 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.64%) Games
11 3 (0.64%) Local Government
11 3 (0.64%) Military
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 127 (27.25%) Senior
2 109 (23.39%) Developer
3 70 (15.02%) Platform Engineer
4 60 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (12.88%) Lead
5 38 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.44%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.01%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.79%) Data Engineer
11 26 (5.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.36%) Architect
13 24 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (4.51%) Security Engineer
17 19 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
17 19 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (52.36%) Terraform
2 109 (23.39%) Node.js
3 80 (17.17%) React
4 68 (14.59%) .NET
4 68 (14.59%) Spring Boot
5 60 (12.88%) Spring
6 57 (12.23%) RESTful
7 54 (11.59%) REST
8 51 (10.94%) CSS
9 42 (9.01%) AngularJS
10 36 (7.73%) Playwright
11 34 (7.30%) HTML
12 30 (6.44%) OAuth
13 29 (6.22%) Jest
13 29 (6.22%) OAuth2
14 25 (5.36%) Web Services
15 24 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
15 24 (5.15%) YAML
16 23 (4.94%) GraphQL
17 22 (4.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 129 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.15%) Mainframe
5 22 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.29%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.22%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
9 14 (3.00%) Blog
9 14 (3.00%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.36%) PKI
12 9 (1.93%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.72%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.38%) Linux
2 18 (3.86%) Windows
3 14 (3.00%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.58%) Android
5 7 (1.50%) Unix
5 7 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.64%) Debian
6 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) AIX
7 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.21%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (95.71%) CI/CD
2 292 (62.66%) DevOps
3 241 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (32.40%) Containerisation
5 134 (28.76%) Agile
6 126 (27.04%) AI
6 126 (27.04%) Observability
7 117 (25.11%) Software Engineering
8 109 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (22.75%) Platform Engineering
10 105 (22.53%) Test Automation
11 89 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (17.60%) Analytics
13 80 (17.17%) Mentoring
14 76 (16.31%) Microservices
15 67 (14.38%) Clean Code
16 65 (13.95%) Cloud Security
17 64 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
18 52 (11.16%) Infrastructure Automation
19 51 (10.94%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (42.06%) Python
2 113 (24.25%) Java
3 106 (22.75%) TypeScript
4 81 (17.38%) SQL
5 80 (17.17%) Bash
6 78 (16.74%) JavaScript
7 63 (13.52%) PowerShell
8 42 (9.01%) Go
8 42 (9.01%) Kotlin
9 32 (6.87%) C#
10 26 (5.58%) Bicep
10 26 (5.58%) Ruby
11 21 (4.51%) Groovy
12 18 (3.86%) COBOL
13 17 (3.65%) Scala
14 12 (2.58%) JCL
14 12 (2.58%) PHP
15 11 (2.36%) Swift
16 8 (1.72%) Rust
17 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.87%) Degree
4 35 (7.51%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.86%) CISSP
12 4 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.64%) OCP
13 3 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (12.45%) QA
2 35 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.94%) WCAG
4 17 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.58%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.93%) GRC
7 7 (1.50%) NCSC
8 6 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.07%) GDPR
10 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.86%) NIST
11 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.64%) SLA
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS
12 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.21%) PERC
System Software
1 190 (40.77%) Docker
2 12 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 179 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 60 (12.88%) Grafana
3 50 (10.73%) Prometheus
4 44 (9.44%) Ansible
5 26 (5.58%) Progress Chef
6 19 (4.08%) Argo
7 10 (2.15%) Cilium
7 10 (2.15%) Packer
8 7 (1.50%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.86%) Istio
9 4 (0.86%) logstash
10 3 (0.64%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.43%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.43%) Puppet
11 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.21%) Consul
12 1 (0.21%) linkerd
12 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.36%) VMware
3 24 (5.15%) Databricks
3 24 (5.15%) Google
4 16 (3.43%) OneLogin
5 15 (3.22%) New Relic
6 13 (2.79%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.79%) SendGrid
6 13 (2.79%) Splunk
7 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.72%) Broadcom
8 8 (1.72%) Oracle
9 7 (1.50%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.50%) Braze
10 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.86%) Cisco
11 4 (0.86%) EMC
11 4 (0.86%) F5
11 4 (0.86%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow