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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 466 463
Rank change year-on-year +119 -3 +210
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 332 257 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.23% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 248 201 195
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £66,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -17.12% +9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £104,750 £98,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -

All Cloud 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 20,486 20,852 21,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 35.75% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,280 12,649 17,598
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +85 244 £72,500 +9.85% 518
Work from Home +154 171 £72,500 +11.54% 160
UK excluding London +50 160 £67,500 +3.85% 486
London +107 116 £77,500 -8.82% 90
North of England +12 42 £65,000 +31.31% 114
Scotland +47 36 £90,000 +56.52% 18
South West +17 28 £65,000 - 65
South East +9 28 £75,000 +15.38% 132
Yorkshire -29 22 £60,000 +21.21% 57
North West +47 17 £65,000 -16.13% 48
Midlands +11 15 £60,000 -7.69% 81
West Midlands +11 12 £60,000 -7.69% 48
East of England +29 7 £65,000 -18.75% 64
Wales -4 4 £60,748 -6.54% 16
North East +4 3 £65,000 -10.34% 10
East Midlands +1 3 £60,000 +23.71% 28

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 9 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.71%) Confluence
2 5 (1.51%) IIS
3 4 (1.20%) Appian
4 3 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) GitHub
2 217 (65.36%) Azure
3 160 (48.19%) AWS
4 153 (46.08%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (21.69%) GCP
6 66 (19.88%) Serverless
7 52 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (14.76%) Datadog
9 42 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (12.65%) Azure Monitor
10 41 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (11.14%) Entra ID
12 35 (10.54%) Amazon S3
13 34 (10.24%) Azure AKS
13 34 (10.24%) SaaS
14 22 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (5.72%) PaaS
17 18 (5.42%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.71%) Network Security
2 9 (2.71%) VPN
3 7 (2.11%) DNS
4 5 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.51%) WAN
5 4 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.90%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 38 (11.45%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.33%) BigQuery
4 19 (5.72%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.01%) Flink
9 9 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.11%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.81%) Power BI
11 6 (1.81%) Tableau
12 5 (1.51%) Looker
12 5 (1.51%) Metadata
12 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.20%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.90%) Redis
15 2 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 117 (35.24%) Jenkins
2 74 (22.29%) Git
3 37 (11.14%) GitLab
4 15 (4.52%) JIRA
5 12 (3.61%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.71%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.41%) Subversion
8 7 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.51%) Selenium
10 4 (1.20%) JMeter
10 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.90%) JUnit
11 3 (0.90%) Postman
11 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.60%) NUnit
12 2 (0.60%) TestNG
General
1 107 (32.23%) Finance
2 105 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.83%) Telecoms
4 22 (6.63%) Banking
5 21 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.61%) Front Office
7 12 (3.61%) Retail
8 11 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.01%) Law
9 10 (3.01%) Marketing
10 8 (2.41%) Back Office
11 6 (1.81%) Electronics
12 5 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Advertising
13 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 74 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (21.08%) Senior
3 52 (15.66%) Lead
4 48 (14.46%) Developer
5 37 (11.14%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (8.43%) .NET Developer
8 21 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.72%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (5.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.82%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.22%) Azure Developer
13 14 (4.22%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Development Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (23.19%) .NET
2 65 (19.58%) React
3 57 (17.17%) RESTful
4 29 (8.73%) Node.js
5 21 (6.33%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.33%) ARM Templates
5 21 (6.33%) JSON
5 21 (6.33%) YAML
6 20 (6.02%) ASP.NET
7 19 (5.72%) OAuth
8 18 (5.42%) ADO
8 18 (5.42%) Kafka
9 17 (5.12%) .NET Framework
9 17 (5.12%) REST
10 16 (4.82%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.82%) Blazor
10 16 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (4.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 15 (4.52%) GraphQL
12 14 (4.22%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 74 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.83%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.72%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.81%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.20%) Blog
8 4 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.20%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.95%) Linux
2 20 (6.02%) Windows
3 14 (4.22%) VMS
4 5 (1.51%) Unix
4 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.90%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (91.27%) CI/CD
2 266 (80.12%) DevOps
3 163 (49.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (38.25%) Containerisation
5 107 (32.23%) Agile
6 91 (27.41%) Observability
6 91 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (23.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (21.99%) Test Automation
9 59 (17.77%) Software Engineering
10 55 (16.57%) AI
10 55 (16.57%) Microservices
10 55 (16.57%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (15.06%) Deployment Automation
11 50 (15.06%) Incident Response
11 50 (15.06%) RBAC
12 48 (14.46%) Cloud Security
12 48 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 46 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 45 (13.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 168 (50.60%) Python
2 95 (28.61%) Bash
3 78 (23.49%) SQL
4 74 (22.29%) PowerShell
5 59 (17.77%) Bicep
6 51 (15.36%) JavaScript
7 47 (14.16%) TypeScript
8 37 (11.14%) C#
9 35 (10.54%) Java
10 26 (7.83%) Go
11 5 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.51%) Ruby
12 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.20%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.20%) Scala
12 4 (1.20%) Swift
12 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.90%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (14.46%) Degree
2 41 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.34%) AWS Certification
5 28 (8.43%) SC Cleared
6 27 (8.13%) Azure Certification
7 19 (5.72%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.61%) CISSP
8 12 (3.61%) CREST Certified
8 12 (3.61%) SANS
9 10 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.90%) CCNA
11 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.30%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.25%) QA
2 33 (9.94%) GDPR
3 24 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (4.82%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.31%) SOC 2
6 8 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.20%) GRC
8 4 (1.20%) SLA
9 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.60%) ECSS
10 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 158 (47.59%) Docker
2 38 (11.45%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 200 (60.24%) Terraform
2 172 (51.81%) Kubernetes
3 64 (19.28%) Prometheus
4 62 (18.67%) Grafana
5 45 (13.55%) Ansible
6 23 (6.93%) Argo
7 9 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.20%) Cilium
8 4 (1.20%) logstash
8 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.90%) Rancher
10 2 (0.60%) Control-M
11 1 (0.30%) Icinga
11 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.53%) Google
3 15 (4.52%) VMware
4 14 (4.22%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.92%) Ab Initio
6 10 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.71%) Databricks
8 8 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (1.81%) SAP
9 6 (1.81%) Splunk
10 5 (1.51%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.51%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.20%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.20%) Talend
11 4 (1.20%) Zoho
12 3 (0.90%) Informatica
12 3 (0.90%) Pega