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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 463 627
Rank change year-on-year +68 +164 -36
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 427 224 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.41% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 318 170 219
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.37%

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 27,007 15,871 33,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.37% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17,602 11,053 25,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 11 July 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 July 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 +72 370 £66,500 -11.33% 170
UK excluding London +80 242 £65,000 - 100
London -1 140 £80,000 - 90
Work from Home +24 131 £65,000 -10.34% 89
North of England +43 101 £63,750 -6.93% 38
South East +13 57 £62,500 -16.67% 37
Yorkshire +12 47 £65,000 -5.11% 11
North West +21 37 £65,500 -12.67% 21
Midlands -21 28 £65,000 -3.70% 12
South West -52 26 £73,750 +13.46% 4
East Midlands -9 22 £72,500 +28.89% 5
North East -37 17 £47,000 -18.26% 6
Wales -40 16 £72,750 +21.25% 4
Scotland +4 7 £85,000 +31.78% 4
East of England -13 6 £77,575 +14.93% 2
West Midlands -27 6 £63,750 -5.56% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 -

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 (2.58%) Apache
1 11 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.41%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 427 (100.00%) GitHub
2 263 (61.59%) AWS
3 238 (55.74%) Azure
4 137 (32.08%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (21.08%) GCP
5 90 (21.08%) Serverless
6 70 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (12.88%) Amazon S3
9 48 (11.24%) Datadog
10 45 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (9.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (6.32%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (4.92%) Firebase
18 20 (4.68%) Entra ID
19 19 (4.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.01%) Firewall
2 23 (5.39%) VPN
3 22 (5.15%) DNS
4 19 (4.45%) HTTP
5 17 (3.98%) Network Security
6 14 (3.28%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.04%) DMARC
8 10 (2.34%) DSL
9 5 (1.17%) SAN
9 5 (1.17%) WAN
10 4 (0.94%) SSL
11 3 (0.70%) RTP
11 3 (0.70%) SSH
11 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.70%) VoIP
11 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.47%) BGP
12 2 (0.47%) VLAN
13 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 31 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (5.62%) DynamoDB
3 24 (5.62%) NoSQL
4 19 (4.45%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.51%) MySQL
6 14 (3.28%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.11%) Power BI
8 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.17%) Big Data
10 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.17%) Redis
10 5 (1.17%) Tableau
11 4 (0.94%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 165 (38.64%) Jenkins
2 82 (19.20%) Git
3 67 (15.69%) GitLab
4 27 (6.32%) JIRA
5 20 (4.68%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.51%) XCTest
7 14 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 13 (3.04%) Cypress.io
9 11 (2.58%) Postman
10 10 (2.34%) Selenium
11 8 (1.87%) fastlane
11 8 (1.87%) Gradle
11 8 (1.87%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.64%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.64%) Storybook
12 7 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (1.41%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.41%) Gatling
13 6 (1.41%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.17%) JUnit
General
1 125 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 55 (12.88%) Finance
3 37 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.62%) Retail
6 23 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.98%) Banking
8 14 (3.28%) Law
8 14 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Advertising
11 4 (0.94%) Automotive
12 3 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Games
13 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 107 (25.06%) Senior
2 99 (23.19%) Developer
3 73 (17.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 54 (12.65%) Lead
6 45 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (7.26%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (6.79%) Security Engineer
10 27 (6.32%) Architect
11 26 (6.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.92%) Data Engineer
13 21 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (4.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.68%) Automation Engineer
14 20 (4.68%) Java Developer
15 17 (3.98%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.75%) .NET Developer
16 16 (3.75%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (18.50%) Node.js
2 61 (14.29%) React
3 48 (11.24%) CSS
4 47 (11.01%) .NET
5 39 (9.13%) RESTful
5 39 (9.13%) Spring Boot
6 38 (8.90%) OAuth
6 38 (8.90%) REST
7 34 (7.96%) HTML
8 31 (7.26%) Spring
9 27 (6.32%) YAML
10 26 (6.09%) OAuth2
11 25 (5.85%) AngularJS
12 22 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (4.68%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.22%) Playwright
14 18 (4.22%) Web Services
15 16 (3.75%) ASP.NET
15 16 (3.75%) Vue
16 15 (3.51%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 116 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.03%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.75%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.28%) PKI
8 12 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (2.34%) Mainframe
10 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.41%) Blog
11 6 (1.41%) CMDB
11 6 (1.41%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 68 (15.93%) Linux
2 20 (4.68%) Apple iOS
2 20 (4.68%) Windows
3 11 (2.58%) Android
4 9 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.94%) VMS
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.70%) Unix
8 2 (0.47%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (92.97%) CI/CD
2 270 (63.23%) DevOps
3 229 (53.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (36.53%) Containerisation
5 123 (28.81%) Agile
6 100 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (22.72%) Observability
8 93 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (20.37%) Platform Engineering
10 85 (19.91%) Test Automation
11 81 (18.97%) AI
12 77 (18.03%) Software Engineering
13 74 (17.33%) Cloud Security
13 74 (17.33%) Mentoring
14 68 (15.93%) Analytics
15 62 (14.52%) DevSecOps
15 62 (14.52%) Microservices
16 59 (13.82%) Full-Stack Development
17 58 (13.58%) Clean Code
18 55 (12.88%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 195 (45.67%) Python
2 95 (22.25%) Bash
3 77 (18.03%) TypeScript
4 76 (17.80%) PowerShell
5 73 (17.10%) Java
6 64 (14.99%) SQL
7 62 (14.52%) JavaScript
8 47 (11.01%) Go
9 39 (9.13%) Kotlin
10 34 (7.96%) C#
11 26 (6.09%) Bicep
12 16 (3.75%) Swift
13 15 (3.51%) Groovy
13 15 (3.51%) Ruby
14 12 (2.81%) Rust
14 12 (2.81%) Scala
15 10 (2.34%) PHP
16 7 (1.64%) Dart
17 6 (1.41%) COBOL
18 5 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.94%) Degree
3 39 (9.13%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.92%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.04%) CISSP
8 13 (3.04%) OSCP
9 10 (2.34%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.87%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.87%) SANS
11 6 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.17%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.20%) QA
2 32 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 31 (7.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.15%) SOC 2
5 16 (3.75%) WCAG
6 13 (3.04%) GRC
7 11 (2.58%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.34%) GDPR
9 7 (1.64%) NCSC
9 7 (1.64%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.70%) NIST
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS
12 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.47%) SLA
12 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 147 (34.43%) Docker
2 21 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 234 (54.80%) Terraform
2 164 (38.41%) Kubernetes
3 69 (16.16%) Grafana
4 67 (15.69%) Ansible
5 57 (13.35%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.22%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.51%) Argo
8 13 (3.04%) Cilium
9 9 (2.11%) Packer
10 8 (1.87%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.94%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.70%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.70%) Puppet
13 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Istio
14 1 (0.23%) Kibana
14 1 (0.23%) linkerd
14 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.85%) VMware
3 18 (4.22%) Dynatrace
4 15 (3.51%) Google
5 14 (3.28%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.28%) Braze
5 14 (3.28%) Databricks
6 13 (3.04%) SendGrid
7 11 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.34%) New Relic
9 9 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.87%) OneLogin
11 6 (1.41%) Cisco
11 6 (1.41%) EMC
11 6 (1.41%) F5
11 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.94%) Splunk
13 3 (0.70%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.70%) Intel
13 3 (0.70%) Varonis