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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 474 561
Rank change year-on-year +65 +87 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 446 227 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.42% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 303 178 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,350 £47,575
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,375 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -1.45%

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 27,792 15,944 26,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 31.95% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,451 10,976 18,640
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £43,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +53 382 £65,000 -13.33% 202
UK excluding London +60 259 £65,000 +0.78% 124
London -27 140 £77,500 - 110
Work from Home +16 132 £65,000 -10.34% 115
North of England +56 114 £65,000 -2.62% 45
South East +7 55 £61,250 -5.77% 33
Yorkshire +11 53 £65,000 -5.11% 17
North West +17 40 £65,500 +0.77% 20
Midlands -7 32 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Wales -45 25 £60,000 +2.13% 3
South West -59 22 £61,250 +2.08% 13
North East -42 21 £51,250 -10.87% 8
East Midlands -12 17 £65,000 +20.37% 2
West Midlands -23 15 £63,750 -8.93% 11
Scotland -5 6 £62,500 -21.88% 12
East of England -22 5 £75,000 +11.11% 5

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 14 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.69%) Confluence
3 11 (2.47%) Apache
4 6 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.90%) CICS
6 4 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.67%) IIS
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 446 (100.00%) GitHub
2 286 (64.13%) AWS
3 255 (57.17%) Azure
4 133 (29.82%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (20.40%) Serverless
6 89 (19.96%) GCP
7 83 (18.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (16.14%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (13.00%) Amazon ECS
10 57 (12.78%) Amazon S3
11 53 (11.88%) Datadog
12 46 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (6.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 27 (6.05%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (5.38%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (4.93%) Power Platform
18 20 (4.48%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.61%) Firewall
2 17 (3.81%) VPN
3 14 (3.14%) DNS
4 13 (2.91%) DMARC
5 12 (2.69%) Network Security
6 7 (1.57%) HTTP
7 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.12%) SAN
9 4 (0.90%) DSL
9 4 (0.90%) SSH
9 4 (0.90%) SSL
10 3 (0.67%) BGP
10 3 (0.67%) WAN
11 2 (0.45%) VLAN
12 1 (0.22%) LTE
12 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.74%) DynamoDB
3 36 (8.07%) SQL Server
4 34 (7.62%) Relational Database
5 32 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (6.50%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
8 18 (4.04%) MySQL
9 17 (3.81%) Delta Lake
10 15 (3.36%) Power BI
11 13 (2.91%) Redis
12 10 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (2.24%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.79%) Tableau
14 7 (1.57%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.57%) Data Vault
15 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 170 (38.12%) Jenkins
2 99 (22.20%) Git
3 67 (15.02%) GitLab
4 33 (7.40%) JIRA
5 26 (5.83%) Cypress.io
6 18 (4.04%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.36%) Postman
8 14 (3.14%) Selenium
9 13 (2.91%) XCTest
10 10 (2.24%) JUnit
10 10 (2.24%) TeamCity
11 9 (2.02%) Gradle
12 8 (1.79%) fastlane
12 8 (1.79%) NUnit
12 8 (1.79%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (1.35%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.35%) Gatling
14 6 (1.35%) Storybook
14 6 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.92%) Finance
3 52 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.04%) Banking
6 16 (3.59%) Retail
7 14 (3.14%) Law
8 11 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.02%) Marketing
10 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.90%) Automotive
12 4 (0.90%) Games
13 3 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.67%) Legal
13 3 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Military
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 117 (26.23%) Senior
2 111 (24.89%) Developer
3 68 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 61 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (12.33%) Lead
6 35 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 27 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (5.83%) Java Developer
11 25 (5.61%) Architect
11 25 (5.61%) Data Engineer
12 24 (5.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.48%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (4.04%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (51.35%) Terraform
2 104 (23.32%) Node.js
3 83 (18.61%) React
4 68 (15.25%) .NET
5 63 (14.13%) Spring Boot
6 55 (12.33%) Spring
7 54 (12.11%) CSS
7 54 (12.11%) RESTful
8 48 (10.76%) REST
9 40 (8.97%) AngularJS
10 35 (7.85%) HTML
10 35 (7.85%) OAuth
11 30 (6.73%) Jest
12 28 (6.28%) OAuth2
12 28 (6.28%) Playwright
13 25 (5.61%) YAML
14 22 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (4.93%) Web Services
15 21 (4.71%) Tailwind CSS
16 20 (4.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.25%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.50%) Mobile App
3 27 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (4.71%) Mainframe
5 21 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.69%) Blog
9 12 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.47%) PKI
10 11 (2.47%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.47%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.79%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.35%) CMDB
13 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (16.82%) Linux
2 21 (4.71%) Apple iOS
2 21 (4.71%) Windows
3 14 (3.14%) Android
4 9 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.12%) Unix
6 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.45%) AIX
7 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Debian
8 1 (0.22%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (95.07%) CI/CD
2 282 (63.23%) DevOps
3 230 (51.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (32.96%) Containerisation
5 129 (28.92%) Agile
6 112 (25.11%) Observability
7 106 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (23.54%) Software Engineering
9 100 (22.42%) Platform Engineering
10 99 (22.20%) AI
11 95 (21.30%) Test Automation
12 93 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (17.49%) Analytics
13 78 (17.49%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.59%) Microservices
15 70 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 68 (15.25%) Clean Code
17 59 (13.23%) Cloud Security
18 50 (11.21%) DevSecOps
19 48 (10.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 179 (40.13%) Python
2 103 (23.09%) Java
3 101 (22.65%) TypeScript
4 75 (16.82%) Bash
4 75 (16.82%) JavaScript
5 72 (16.14%) SQL
6 64 (14.35%) PowerShell
7 46 (10.31%) Kotlin
8 35 (7.85%) Go
9 34 (7.62%) C#
10 25 (5.61%) Bicep
11 24 (5.38%) Ruby
12 18 (4.04%) Groovy
13 17 (3.81%) Swift
14 15 (3.36%) COBOL
14 15 (3.36%) Scala
15 13 (2.91%) PHP
16 10 (2.24%) Rust
17 9 (2.02%) JCL
18 6 (1.35%) Dart
Qualifications
1 74 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.66%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.43%) Degree
4 32 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 29 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.35%) OSCP
10 6 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.90%) CISSP
12 4 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.67%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.54%) QA
2 35 (7.85%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.61%) WCAG
4 18 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.91%) SOC 2
6 12 (2.69%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.02%) GRC
8 7 (1.57%) NCSC
9 6 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.12%) GDPR
10 5 (1.12%) NIST
11 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.90%) SLA
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS
12 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 172 (38.57%) Docker
2 15 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 168 (37.67%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.23%) Grafana
3 48 (10.76%) Prometheus
4 47 (10.54%) Ansible
5 23 (5.16%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.36%) Argo
7 12 (2.69%) Packer
8 10 (2.24%) Cilium
9 3 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.67%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.67%) Puppet
10 2 (0.45%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.45%) logstash
11 1 (0.22%) Consul
11 1 (0.22%) Istio
11 1 (0.22%) linkerd
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.38%) Databricks
3 22 (4.93%) VMware
4 20 (4.48%) Google
5 19 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.59%) OneLogin
7 15 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.14%) New Relic
9 13 (2.91%) SendGrid
10 12 (2.69%) Amplitude
10 12 (2.69%) Braze
11 10 (2.24%) Splunk
12 7 (1.57%) Oracle
13 6 (1.35%) Cisco
13 6 (1.35%) EMC
13 6 (1.35%) F5
13 6 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.12%) Broadcom
14 5 (1.12%) OpenAI