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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 440 605
Rank change year-on-year +86 +165 +26
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 390 206 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.35% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 290 164 167
10th Percentile £47,450 £50,375 £44,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,000
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 24,817 15,260 32,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.26% 37.08% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 10,961 26,103
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 March 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 25 March 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 +41 312 £70,000 -6.67% 191
UK excluding London +31 197 £62,500 -8.09% 132
Work from Home +83 171 £65,250 -11.53% 117
London +44 144 £80,000 -8.57% 98
North of England -11 66 £60,000 -11.76% 42
South West -32 36 £75,000 +15.38% 18
Yorkshire -16 35 £60,000 +21.21% 15
South East -24 33 £62,500 -10.71% 38
Scotland +10 32 £85,000 +44.68% 9
Midlands -42 21 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North West -17 19 £63,000 -16.00% 23
East Midlands -30 14 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -17 12 £47,500 -15.56% 4
West Midlands -21 7 £60,000 -20.00% 8
East of England -13 5 £67,500 -11.48% 7
Wales -27 2 £58,248 -10.39% 8
Northern Ireland -33 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 10 (2.56%) Confluence
2 8 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.79%) Apache
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.03%) Appian
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 390 (100.00%) GitHub
2 235 (60.26%) Azure
3 223 (57.18%) AWS
4 152 (38.97%) Azure DevOps
5 102 (26.15%) GCP
6 99 (25.38%) Serverless
7 68 (17.44%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (16.92%) Datadog
9 65 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (13.08%) Amazon S3
12 44 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (10.26%) Entra ID
14 35 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
15 33 (8.46%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (7.95%) Azure AKS
17 28 (7.18%) Amazon EC2
18 26 (6.67%) SaaS
19 22 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
20 21 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.82%) Firewall
2 22 (5.64%) DNS
2 22 (5.64%) VPN
3 21 (5.38%) HTTP
4 18 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.59%) Network Security
6 13 (3.33%) DSL
7 12 (3.08%) WAN
8 4 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.77%) RTP
9 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.77%) VoIP
9 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.51%) SSL
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
11 1 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 39 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.56%) Flink
8 8 (2.05%) MySQL
9 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.28%) Metadata
12 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.03%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.77%) Power BI
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 156 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.74%) Git
3 69 (17.69%) GitLab
4 19 (4.87%) JIRA
5 11 (2.82%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.56%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.56%) XCTest
7 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.31%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.31%) Subversion
8 6 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.03%) NUnit
10 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.77%) Storybook
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) fastlane
11 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 127 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 106 (27.18%) Finance
3 41 (10.51%) Telecoms
4 30 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.64%) Banking
5 22 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.87%) Law
6 19 (4.87%) Retail
7 14 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.08%) Front Office
9 11 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.54%) Back Office
10 6 (1.54%) Electronics
10 6 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.54%) Marketing
11 4 (1.03%) Advertising
11 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.77%) Billing
12 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (23.08%) Senior
3 74 (18.97%) Developer
4 46 (11.79%) Lead
5 39 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.44%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.92%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.13%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
12 18 (4.62%) Architect
12 18 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (3.85%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.59%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.44%) React
2 61 (15.64%) .NET
3 45 (11.54%) RESTful
4 42 (10.77%) Node.js
5 40 (10.26%) OAuth
6 31 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (7.44%) AWS CDK
8 27 (6.92%) CSS
9 25 (6.41%) .NET Core
9 25 (6.41%) HTML
10 22 (5.64%) ADO
11 21 (5.38%) SAML
11 21 (5.38%) YAML
12 19 (4.87%) REST
13 18 (4.62%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.62%) OAuth2
14 17 (4.36%) Kafka
15 16 (4.10%) .NET Framework
15 16 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
15 16 (4.10%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.10%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.56%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.54%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.28%) PKI
13 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.03%) Blog
15 3 (0.77%) CMDB
15 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
16 2 (0.51%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.62%) Linux
2 18 (4.62%) Windows
3 13 (3.33%) VMS
4 11 (2.82%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.28%) Unix
7 3 (0.77%) SUSE
8 2 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (92.05%) CI/CD
2 282 (72.31%) DevOps
3 215 (55.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (39.23%) Containerisation
5 123 (31.54%) Agile
6 114 (29.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 113 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (27.69%) Observability
9 73 (18.72%) Test Automation
10 70 (17.95%) Incident Response
11 63 (16.15%) Cloud Security
12 62 (15.90%) DevSecOps
13 60 (15.38%) Analytics
14 58 (14.87%) Deployment Automation
15 57 (14.62%) AI
15 57 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
15 57 (14.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 51 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (12.31%) Mentoring
17 48 (12.31%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 202 (51.79%) Python
2 115 (29.49%) Bash
3 80 (20.51%) SQL
4 72 (18.46%) PowerShell
5 67 (17.18%) TypeScript
6 60 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.85%) Go
8 37 (9.49%) Bicep
9 27 (6.92%) Java
10 23 (5.90%) C#
11 16 (4.10%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.85%) Rust
13 12 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.56%) Swift
15 7 (1.79%) C++
16 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.03%) PHP
18 3 (0.77%) C
18 3 (0.77%) Dart
18 3 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (15.38%) Degree
2 40 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.13%) CISSP
6 19 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.87%) SC Cleared
7 18 (4.62%) CREST Certified
7 18 (4.62%) SANS
8 15 (3.85%) OSCP
9 14 (3.59%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.51%) CISM
14 2 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
14 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.51%) GCIA
14 2 (0.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.46%) QA
2 32 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.69%) GDPR
4 25 (6.41%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.13%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.82%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.05%) GRC
8 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.28%) SLA
9 4 (1.03%) NIST
10 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.51%) ECSS
11 2 (0.51%) WCAG
12 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 153 (39.23%) Docker
2 41 (10.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 232 (59.49%) Terraform
2 169 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 89 (22.82%) Grafana
4 81 (20.77%) Prometheus
5 79 (20.26%) Ansible
6 24 (6.15%) Argo
7 10 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.05%) Cilium
9 7 (1.79%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.03%) logstash
10 4 (1.03%) Packer
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.51%) Puppet
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 67 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.87%) Google
3 17 (4.36%) VMware
4 15 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.08%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.82%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.31%) Amplitude
8 9 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.54%) SAP
10 6 (1.54%) Splunk
11 5 (1.28%) Databricks
11 5 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.77%) Cisco
13 3 (0.77%) F5
13 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow