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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 472 655
Rank change year-on-year +78 +183 -47
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 398 209 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.39% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 296 155 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -18.37%
75th Percentile £81,966 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -2.59%

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 25,444 15,013 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.03% 33.45% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,496 10,369 27,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,466 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 June 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 20 June 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 +52 352 £70,000 -6.67% 127
UK excluding London +76 218 £65,000 -1.89% 100
London +4 143 £80,000 - 62
Work from Home +33 121 £65,000 -10.34% 66
North of England +46 95 £62,500 -8.76% 28
South East +10 47 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Yorkshire -4 43 £65,000 -5.11% 10
North West +29 35 £65,500 -12.67% 16
South West -50 27 £75,000 +15.38% 10
Midlands -17 25 £65,000 -1.89% 9
East Midlands -12 22 £72,500 +28.89% 6
North East -37 17 £47,000 -18.26% 3
Wales -43 10 £63,250 +5.42% 3
Scotland +10 7 £85,000 +31.78% 7
East of England -11 5 £80,150 +16.58% 3
West Midlands -29 3 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 6

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 (2.76%) Apache
1 11 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.50%) nginx
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.50%) Magento
1 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 398 (100.00%) GitHub
2 237 (59.55%) AWS
3 224 (56.28%) Azure
4 134 (33.67%) Azure DevOps
5 84 (21.11%) GCP
5 84 (21.11%) Serverless
6 66 (16.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (12.31%) Datadog
9 47 (11.81%) Amazon S3
10 41 (10.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (7.54%) AWS Step Functions
12 29 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (6.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 21 (5.28%) Azure AKS
15 21 (5.28%) Entra ID
15 21 (5.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.56%) Firewall
2 22 (5.53%) VPN
3 19 (4.77%) DNS
3 19 (4.77%) HTTP
4 17 (4.27%) Network Security
5 14 (3.52%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.02%) DMARC
6 12 (3.02%) DSL
7 8 (2.01%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) SAN
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.50%) BGP
10 2 (0.50%) VLAN
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.78%) NoSQL
2 23 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.03%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.52%) Delta Lake
7 14 (3.52%) MySQL
8 9 (2.26%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.26%) Power BI
9 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.26%) Big Data
10 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.26%) Tableau
11 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.01%) Redis
12 3 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 148 (37.19%) Jenkins
2 77 (19.35%) Git
3 59 (14.82%) GitLab
4 22 (5.53%) JIRA
5 20 (5.03%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.77%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.77%) XCTest
7 11 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.01%) fastlane
8 8 (2.01%) Gradle
8 8 (2.01%) Postman
9 7 (1.76%) Selenium
9 7 (1.76%) Storybook
9 7 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.51%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.51%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.51%) Gatling
10 6 (1.51%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.01%) Claude Code
General
1 118 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.82%) Finance
3 26 (6.53%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.03%) Retail
5 21 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.27%) Banking
7 15 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.52%) Law
9 8 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Automotive
13 3 (0.75%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Billing
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Games
14 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (25.13%) Senior
2 90 (22.61%) Developer
3 67 (16.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 59 (14.82%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (10.80%) Lead
7 33 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.29%) Security Engineer
9 28 (7.04%) Senior Developer
10 27 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 26 (6.53%) Architect
12 23 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (5.28%) Data Engineer
14 20 (5.03%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 17 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
16 17 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 16 (4.02%) .NET Developer
17 16 (4.02%) Cloud Automation Engineer
18 15 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.58%) Node.js
2 56 (14.07%) React
3 46 (11.56%) CSS
4 40 (10.05%) .NET
5 37 (9.30%) OAuth
6 32 (8.04%) HTML
6 32 (8.04%) RESTful
7 30 (7.54%) REST
8 26 (6.53%) Spring Boot
8 26 (6.53%) YAML
9 23 (5.78%) AngularJS
10 22 (5.53%) Spring
11 21 (5.28%) OAuth2
12 20 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (4.52%) AWS CDK
14 15 (3.77%) Playwright
14 15 (3.77%) UIKit
14 15 (3.77%) Vue
14 15 (3.77%) Web Services
15 14 (3.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.54%) Mobile App
3 24 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.52%) PKI
5 14 (3.52%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.51%) CMDB
11 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.08%) Linux
2 20 (5.03%) Apple iOS
3 18 (4.52%) Windows
4 11 (2.76%) Android
5 10 (2.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.76%) VMS
7 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (92.96%) CI/CD
2 253 (63.57%) DevOps
3 217 (54.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (34.67%) Containerisation
5 110 (27.64%) Agile
6 96 (24.12%) Observability
7 95 (23.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.10%) Test Automation
10 74 (18.59%) Platform Engineering
11 71 (17.84%) Analytics
11 71 (17.84%) Cloud Security
12 68 (17.09%) Mentoring
13 67 (16.83%) AI
13 67 (16.83%) Software Engineering
14 59 (14.82%) DevSecOps
15 57 (14.32%) Incident Response
16 55 (13.82%) Clean Code
17 50 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
17 50 (12.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 181 (45.48%) Python
2 91 (22.86%) Bash
3 72 (18.09%) TypeScript
4 70 (17.59%) PowerShell
4 70 (17.59%) SQL
5 56 (14.07%) Java
6 51 (12.81%) JavaScript
7 45 (11.31%) Go
8 39 (9.80%) Kotlin
9 30 (7.54%) C#
10 22 (5.53%) Bicep
11 16 (4.02%) Swift
12 14 (3.52%) Groovy
12 14 (3.52%) Rust
13 11 (2.76%) Scala
14 7 (1.76%) Dart
14 7 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.76%) Ruby
15 6 (1.51%) PHP
16 5 (1.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (13.32%) Degree
2 45 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.54%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.77%) OSCP
8 13 (3.27%) CISSP
9 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.01%) SANS
10 7 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.75%) CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CISM
14 3 (0.75%) GCIA
14 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (7.79%) QA
3 27 (6.78%) Accessibility
4 25 (6.28%) SOC 2
5 13 (3.27%) GDPR
5 13 (3.27%) GRC
6 12 (3.02%) WCAG
7 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.75%) NCSC
10 3 (0.75%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 137 (34.42%) Docker
2 24 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 220 (55.28%) Terraform
2 151 (37.94%) Kubernetes
3 66 (16.58%) Ansible
4 63 (15.83%) Grafana
5 54 (13.57%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.27%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.27%) Argo
7 13 (3.27%) Cilium
8 9 (2.26%) Packer
9 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.75%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) linkerd
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.53%) VMware
3 18 (4.52%) Google
4 17 (4.27%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.52%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.52%) Braze
5 14 (3.52%) Databricks
6 12 (3.02%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.02%) SendGrid
7 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.51%) Cisco
8 6 (1.51%) EMC
8 6 (1.51%) F5
8 6 (1.51%) New Relic
8 6 (1.51%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.51%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.75%) Tenable