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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 457 603
Rank change year-on-year +121 +146 +49
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 390 209 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.28% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 291 162 179
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,938 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 23,614 16,386 31,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.37% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,625 11,035 25,668
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £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 £80,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +56 311 £70,000 -1.75% 363
UK excluding London +61 200 £65,000 - 303
Work from Home +99 171 £65,000 -7.14% 235
London +67 141 £80,000 -11.11% 74
North of England +11 69 £60,000 -11.76% 67
South West -10 37 £75,000 +15.38% 49
South East -9 36 £62,500 -3.85% 80
Yorkshire -17 35 £60,000 +21.21% 26
Scotland +16 33 £90,000 +53.19% 16
North West +3 21 £65,000 -18.75% 32
Midlands -27 17 £65,000 - 34
North East -7 13 £47,500 -13.64% 9
East Midlands -25 10 £75,000 +50.75% 18
West Midlands -25 7 £60,000 -17.24% 15
East of England 0 4 £65,000 -14.75% 45
Wales -17 2 £58,248 -10.39% 12
Northern Ireland -25 2 £62,500 - 3

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 (2.31%) Confluence
2 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.03%) Appian
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Shopify
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 390 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (61.28%) Azure
3 217 (55.64%) AWS
4 156 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.67%) GCP
6 92 (23.59%) Serverless
7 66 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (16.15%) Datadog
9 54 (13.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (11.79%) Amazon S3
11 43 (11.03%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (11.03%) Entra ID
12 38 (9.74%) Azure Monitor
13 36 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (8.46%) Azure AKS
15 28 (7.18%) SaaS
16 22 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.05%) Firewall
2 21 (5.38%) DNS
2 21 (5.38%) HTTP
2 21 (5.38%) VPN
3 18 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.33%) DSL
4 13 (3.33%) Network Security
5 12 (3.08%) WAN
6 4 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.77%) RTP
7 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.77%) VoIP
7 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.26%) Broadband
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.51%) NoSQL
2 37 (9.49%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.87%) DynamoDB
5 14 (3.59%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.56%) Flink
8 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.79%) MySQL
9 6 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.28%) Metadata
11 4 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.03%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 165 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 80 (20.51%) Git
3 66 (16.92%) GitLab
4 15 (3.85%) JIRA
5 11 (2.82%) CircleCI
5 11 (2.82%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.31%) Subversion
7 6 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.28%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.28%) NUnit
8 5 (1.28%) XCTest
9 3 (0.77%) JMeter
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) JUnit
10 2 (0.51%) MSTest
10 2 (0.51%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 121 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 114 (29.23%) Finance
3 42 (10.77%) Telecoms
4 26 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.90%) Banking
6 21 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.87%) Law
7 19 (4.87%) Retail
8 14 (3.59%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.08%) Front Office
10 11 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.54%) Back Office
11 6 (1.54%) Electronics
11 6 (1.54%) Marketing
12 4 (1.03%) Advertising
12 4 (1.03%) Billing
12 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 88 (22.56%) Senior
3 75 (19.23%) Developer
4 47 (12.05%) Lead
5 41 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (7.69%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.44%) Security Engineer
9 21 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
10 20 (5.13%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (4.10%) Architect
13 15 (3.85%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.59%) AWS Architect
14 14 (3.59%) AWS Developer
14 14 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.69%) React
2 61 (15.64%) .NET
3 50 (12.82%) RESTful
4 44 (11.28%) Node.js
5 41 (10.51%) OAuth
6 30 (7.69%) AWS CDK
6 30 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.41%) CSS
7 25 (6.41%) HTML
8 24 (6.15%) .NET Core
8 24 (6.15%) YAML
9 22 (5.64%) ADO
10 20 (5.13%) OAuth2
10 20 (5.13%) SAML
11 19 (4.87%) Kafka
11 19 (4.87%) REST
12 18 (4.62%) ASP.NET
13 16 (4.10%) .NET Framework
13 16 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (4.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.05%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
9 5 (1.28%) PKI
10 4 (1.03%) Blog
10 4 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.59%) Linux
2 15 (3.85%) VMS
3 14 (3.59%) Windows
4 6 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.28%) Unix
6 3 (0.77%) SUSE
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (91.54%) CI/CD
2 285 (73.08%) DevOps
3 216 (55.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (40.26%) Containerisation
5 124 (31.79%) Agile
6 111 (28.46%) Observability
7 110 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (18.97%) Test Automation
9 72 (18.46%) Incident Response
10 62 (15.90%) Cloud Security
10 62 (15.90%) DevSecOps
11 56 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
12 55 (14.10%) AI
12 55 (14.10%) Analytics
12 55 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
12 55 (14.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 53 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 52 (13.33%) RBAC
15 48 (12.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (51.28%) Python
2 117 (30.00%) Bash
3 80 (20.51%) SQL
4 72 (18.46%) PowerShell
5 69 (17.69%) TypeScript
6 62 (15.90%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.85%) Go
8 42 (10.77%) Bicep
9 33 (8.46%) Java
10 24 (6.15%) C#
11 15 (3.85%) Rust
12 12 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (2.82%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.54%) C++
14 6 (1.54%) Swift
15 5 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.77%) C
16 3 (0.77%) Ruby
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (14.10%) Degree
2 37 (9.49%) AWS Certification
2 37 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.18%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.38%) CISSP
5 20 (5.13%) CREST Certified
5 20 (5.13%) SANS
6 19 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.87%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.59%) OSCP
8 13 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.97%) QA
2 33 (8.46%) GDPR
3 30 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.15%) 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
9 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.03%) SLA
10 3 (0.77%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) ECSS
12 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 158 (40.51%) Docker
2 40 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 230 (58.97%) Terraform
2 177 (45.38%) Kubernetes
3 89 (22.82%) Grafana
4 83 (21.28%) Prometheus
5 77 (19.74%) 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
11 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.77%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Packer
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.13%) Google
3 17 (4.36%) VMware
4 13 (3.33%) Ab Initio
4 13 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.08%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.54%) SAP
8 6 (1.54%) Splunk
9 5 (1.28%) Amplitude
9 5 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.03%) Databricks
10 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.77%) BT
11 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.77%) Mitel