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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 445 636
Rank change year-on-year +67 +191 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 204 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.35% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 287 160 188
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,450 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £52,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.70% -15.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,500 £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 27,626 15,121 34,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.32% 36.12% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 14,284 11,096 26,786
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,438 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,373 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +8.47% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,250 £83,750 £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 24 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 24 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 +41 332 £70,000 -6.67% 127
UK excluding London +36 211 £62,500 -8.09% 81
Work from Home +56 163 £65,000 -10.34% 90
London +39 148 £80,000 -3.03% 65
North of England -3 83 £60,000 -11.76% 20
Yorkshire -30 44 £60,000 +21.21% 6
South East -27 34 £62,500 -10.71% 27
South West -47 34 £75,000 +15.38% 11
Scotland 0 28 £85,000 +36.00% 8
North West -10 27 £63,000 -16.00% 13
Midlands -37 20 £67,500 -6.90% 7
East Midlands -43 16 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -28 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Wales -28 5 £61,496 -5.39% 2
East of England -36 5 £75,000 -1.64% 7
West Midlands -31 4 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Northern Ireland -35 2 £62,500 - 2

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 (2.50%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) 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 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 244 (61.00%) Azure
3 229 (57.25%) AWS
4 158 (39.50%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (24.50%) Serverless
6 97 (24.25%) GCP
7 68 (17.00%) Datadog
8 66 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.75%) Amazon S3
11 49 (12.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (10.00%) Entra ID
13 39 (9.75%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (7.25%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.75%) SaaS
19 18 (4.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.00%) Firewall
2 24 (6.00%) VPN
3 23 (5.75%) DNS
4 21 (5.25%) HTTP
5 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.00%) Network Security
7 13 (3.25%) DSL
7 13 (3.25%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.75%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.50%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.75%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.00%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.25%) Flink
8 9 (2.25%) MySQL
9 7 (1.75%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.50%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.25%) Power BI
11 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
12 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 149 (37.25%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.25%) Git
3 61 (15.25%) GitLab
4 23 (5.75%) JIRA
5 12 (3.00%) Crashlytics
5 12 (3.00%) XCTest
6 11 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.00%) Subversion
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.50%) Storybook
8 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.75%) NUnit
9 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.50%) Gatling
10 2 (0.50%) git-flow
10 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 131 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.25%) Finance
3 37 (9.25%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.25%) Retail
7 19 (4.75%) Banking
7 19 (4.75%) Law
8 13 (3.25%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.50%) Front Office
10 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Billing
13 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (24.00%) Senior
2 90 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (19.75%) Developer
4 48 (12.00%) Lead
5 44 (11.00%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (6.75%) .NET Developer
9 24 (6.00%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.25%) Architect
13 20 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 19 (4.75%) Senior Developer
14 19 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (4.25%) AWS Developer
16 16 (4.00%) Data Engineer
16 16 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
18 14 (3.50%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.50%) React
2 57 (14.25%) .NET
3 47 (11.75%) Node.js
4 39 (9.75%) RESTful
5 38 (9.50%) OAuth
6 32 (8.00%) CSS
7 30 (7.50%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.50%) .NET Core
8 26 (6.50%) HTML
9 24 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.25%) ADO
10 21 (5.25%) SAML
11 19 (4.75%) ASP.NET
11 19 (4.75%) REST
12 18 (4.50%) YAML
13 17 (4.25%) Blazor
13 17 (4.25%) Kafka
14 16 (4.00%) .NET Framework
14 16 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (4.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.25%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.25%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.00%) PKI
10 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.25%) CMDB
12 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.00%) Linux
2 15 (3.75%) Windows
3 14 (3.50%) Apple iOS
4 13 (3.25%) VMS
5 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.75%) Android
7 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.75%) SUSE
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (93.50%) CI/CD
2 288 (72.00%) DevOps
3 220 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (35.75%) Containerisation
5 121 (30.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 120 (30.00%) Agile
7 117 (29.25%) Observability
8 116 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (17.25%) Analytics
9 69 (17.25%) Cloud Security
9 69 (17.25%) Incident Response
10 68 (17.00%) Test Automation
11 66 (16.50%) DevSecOps
12 65 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
13 63 (15.75%) Deployment Automation
14 61 (15.25%) AI
15 59 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 55 (13.75%) Mentoring
17 51 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
18 50 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 201 (50.25%) Python
2 108 (27.00%) Bash
3 84 (21.00%) SQL
4 74 (18.50%) PowerShell
4 74 (18.50%) TypeScript
5 59 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 55 (13.75%) Go
7 32 (8.00%) Java
8 31 (7.75%) Bicep
9 22 (5.50%) C#
9 22 (5.50%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.75%) Rust
11 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (3.00%) Swift
12 7 (1.75%) C++
13 6 (1.50%) Dart
13 6 (1.50%) Scala
14 5 (1.25%) Groovy
14 5 (1.25%) PHP
15 4 (1.00%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (15.00%) Degree
2 36 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.25%) CISSP
7 16 (4.00%) OSCP
7 16 (4.00%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.50%) CREST Certified
8 14 (3.50%) SANS
9 11 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (2.75%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.75%) CCSP
12 3 (0.75%) CISM
12 3 (0.75%) GCIA
12 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.50%) QA
3 27 (6.75%) GDPR
4 26 (6.50%) SOC 2
5 16 (4.00%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.00%) GRC
6 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.50%) SLA
8 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.00%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.50%) ECSS
10 2 (0.50%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 152 (38.00%) Docker
2 42 (10.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 241 (60.25%) Terraform
2 163 (40.75%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.25%) Ansible
4 80 (20.00%) Grafana
5 74 (18.50%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.75%) Argo
7 9 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.00%) Cilium
8 8 (2.00%) Packer
8 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.25%) Consul
12 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.25%) Icinga
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 71 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.00%) VMware
3 17 (4.25%) Google
3 17 (4.25%) Palo Alto
4 12 (3.00%) Zscaler
5 11 (2.75%) Amplitude
5 11 (2.75%) Braze
5 11 (2.75%) Databricks
5 11 (2.75%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.25%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.50%) SAP
9 5 (1.25%) Cisco
9 5 (1.25%) EMC
9 5 (1.25%) F5
9 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor