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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 444 638
Rank change year-on-year +74 +194 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 404 205 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.35% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 292 160 185
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £52,500
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,125 £102,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +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 27,603 15,173 34,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.44% 36.18% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14,250 11,138 26,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,188 £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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +43 334 £70,000 -6.67% 175
UK excluding London +26 210 £62,500 -8.09% 112
Work from Home +78 168 £65,500 -9.66% 124
London +50 151 £80,000 -3.03% 89
North of England 0 81 £60,000 -11.76% 36
Yorkshire -30 42 £60,000 +21.21% 10
South East -31 34 £62,500 -10.71% 30
South West -44 34 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Scotland +7 28 £85,000 +36.00% 12
North West -10 27 £63,000 -16.00% 24
Midlands -47 21 £65,000 -5.45% 9
East Midlands -32 17 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -35 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
Wales -22 5 £61,496 -5.39% 3
East of England -25 5 £75,000 -1.64% 7
West Midlands -40 4 £62,500 -15.25% 6
Northern Ireland -38 2 £62,500 - 3

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 11 (2.72%) Confluence
2 8 (1.98%) Apache
2 8 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.99%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
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 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 404 (100.00%) GitHub
2 248 (61.39%) Azure
3 234 (57.92%) AWS
4 160 (39.60%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (24.75%) GCP
6 99 (24.50%) Serverless
7 69 (17.08%) Datadog
8 66 (16.34%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (14.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.62%) Amazon S3
11 50 (12.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (10.40%) Entra ID
13 39 (9.65%) AWS Step Functions
14 35 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (7.18%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (5.20%) SaaS
19 19 (4.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.12%) Firewall
2 24 (5.94%) VPN
3 23 (5.69%) DNS
4 21 (5.20%) HTTP
5 18 (4.46%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.21%) Network Security
7 13 (3.22%) DSL
7 13 (3.22%) WAN
8 4 (0.99%) SSL
9 3 (0.74%) RTP
9 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) VoIP
9 3 (0.74%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.25%) BGP
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.15%) NoSQL
1 41 (10.15%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.69%) DynamoDB
3 21 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.97%) BigQuery
6 10 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (2.48%) Flink
7 9 (2.23%) MySQL
8 7 (1.73%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.49%) Metadata
10 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.24%) Power BI
10 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.99%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.99%) Tableau
11 4 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 149 (36.88%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.31%) Git
3 63 (15.59%) GitLab
4 24 (5.94%) JIRA
5 12 (2.97%) Crashlytics
5 12 (2.97%) TeamCity
5 12 (2.97%) XCTest
6 9 (2.23%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.23%) Subversion
7 8 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.49%) Storybook
9 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.74%) NUnit
10 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.50%) JMeter
11 2 (0.50%) Maven
11 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 134 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 104 (25.74%) Finance
3 39 (9.65%) Telecoms
4 32 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.45%) Banking
6 22 (5.45%) Retail
7 19 (4.70%) Law
8 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.97%) Front Office
10 8 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.49%) Electronics
11 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
12 5 (1.24%) Advertising
13 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Billing
14 3 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.74%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (23.76%) Senior
2 91 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (20.30%) Developer
4 49 (12.13%) Lead
5 44 (10.89%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.18%) .NET Developer
9 25 (6.19%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.20%) Architect
12 20 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.70%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.21%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.71%) Data Engineer
16 15 (3.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.58%) React
2 60 (14.85%) .NET
3 47 (11.63%) Node.js
4 41 (10.15%) RESTful
5 38 (9.41%) OAuth
6 31 (7.67%) CSS
7 30 (7.43%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.44%) .NET Core
8 26 (6.44%) HTML
9 25 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.20%) ADO
10 21 (5.20%) SAML
11 20 (4.95%) ASP.NET
12 19 (4.70%) REST
12 19 (4.70%) YAML
13 18 (4.46%) Kafka
14 17 (4.21%) .NET Framework
14 17 (4.21%) Blazor
15 16 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
15 16 (3.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.20%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.22%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.97%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.98%) PKI
12 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.73%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.49%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
15 4 (0.99%) CMDB
15 4 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
16 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
16 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.61%) Linux
2 15 (3.71%) Windows
3 14 (3.47%) Apple iOS
4 13 (3.22%) VMS
5 7 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.74%) SUSE
7 3 (0.74%) Unix
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (93.32%) CI/CD
2 292 (72.28%) DevOps
3 222 (54.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (35.89%) Containerisation
5 121 (29.95%) Agile
5 121 (29.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (29.21%) Observability
8 71 (17.57%) Incident Response
9 70 (17.33%) Cloud Security
10 69 (17.08%) Analytics
10 69 (17.08%) Test Automation
11 67 (16.58%) DevSecOps
12 66 (16.34%) Platform Engineering
13 63 (15.59%) Deployment Automation
14 62 (15.35%) AI
15 61 (15.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 54 (13.37%) Mentoring
17 51 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
18 50 (12.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 201 (49.75%) Python
2 111 (27.48%) Bash
3 86 (21.29%) SQL
4 75 (18.56%) PowerShell
4 75 (18.56%) TypeScript
5 60 (14.85%) JavaScript
6 56 (13.86%) Go
7 33 (8.17%) Java
8 32 (7.92%) Bicep
9 24 (5.94%) C#
10 22 (5.45%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.71%) Rust
12 12 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (2.97%) Swift
13 7 (1.73%) C++
14 6 (1.49%) Dart
14 6 (1.49%) Scala
15 5 (1.24%) PHP
15 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.99%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (15.10%) Degree
2 38 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (8.91%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.18%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.70%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.21%) CISSP
7 16 (3.96%) OSCP
7 16 (3.96%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.47%) CREST Certified
8 14 (3.47%) SANS
9 12 (2.97%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.74%) CCSP
13 3 (0.74%) CISM
13 3 (0.74%) GCIA
13 3 (0.74%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (7.92%) QA
3 27 (6.68%) GDPR
3 27 (6.68%) SOC 2
4 16 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.23%) GRC
5 9 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.49%) SLA
8 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.24%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.50%) ECSS
9 2 (0.50%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 152 (37.62%) Docker
2 43 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.74%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 241 (59.65%) Terraform
2 164 (40.59%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.05%) Ansible
3 81 (20.05%) Grafana
4 75 (18.56%) Prometheus
5 24 (5.94%) Argo
6 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.23%) Cilium
8 8 (1.98%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.73%) Packer
10 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.99%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.99%) logstash
12 3 (0.74%) Puppet
12 3 (0.74%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.70%) VMware
3 17 (4.21%) Google
4 16 (3.96%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.97%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.72%) Amplitude
6 11 (2.72%) Braze
6 11 (2.72%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.48%) Databricks
8 9 (2.23%) Ab Initio
8 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.98%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.49%) SAP
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco
11 4 (0.99%) EMC
11 4 (0.99%) F5
11 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.99%) Splunk