GitHub Actions Job Trends

GitHub Actions
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	392	388	514
Rank change year-on-year	-4	+126	-43
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions	524	281	239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	0.56%	0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.98%	1.75%	1.09%
Number of salaries quoted	343	216	187
10^th Percentile	£46,250	£50,625	£48,250
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£60,000	£50,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£72,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-6.90%	+11.54%	-18.37%
75^th Percentile	£82,144	£85,000	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£95,625	£87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£65,000	£65,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-	-	-7.14%

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 citing cloud computing skills.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	26,526	16,018	21,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	21.70%	31.86%	32.38%
Number of salaries quoted	18,153	10,934	13,185
10^th Percentile	£32,250	£28,697	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£44,250	£37,500	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£82,500	£80,000	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£100,000	£102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£50,000	£55,000
% 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 Salary Trend

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 4 November 2026.

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 4 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+17	453	£67,500	-3.57%	203
UK excluding London	-31	278	£65,000	-	127
London	+10	191	£78,750	+1.61%	116
Work from Home	-61	140	£72,500	-	84
North of England	+9	119	£65,000	-0.38%	30
South East	-39	64	£65,000	-13.33%	51
Yorkshire	+2	53	£70,000	+2.56%	7
Midlands	-41	44	£70,000	+16.67%	6
North West	-16	40	£65,000	-	20
West Midlands	-35	36	£68,750	+1.85%	2
North East	-43	26	£58,750	-14.55%	3
Wales	-55	26	£60,000	+2.13%
South West	-79	16	£57,500	+4.55%	16
East Midlands	-49	8	£70,000	+22.81%	4
East of England	-76	5	£69,500	+4.91%	10
Scotland	-21	4	£65,000	-18.75%	12

GitHub Actions Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub Actions also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing GitHub Actions.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	524
2	CI/CD	95.4%	500
3	DevOps	64.3%	337
4	AWS	59.5%	312
5	Azure	55.9%	293
6	Terraform	49.4%	259
7	Infrastructure as Code	47.5%	249
8	Docker	42.0%	220
9	Jenkins	40.8%	214
9	Python	40.8%	214
11	Kubernetes	38.2%	200
12	Containerisation	32.6%	171
13	Agile	32.3%	169
14	Observability	29.4%	154
15	Java	29.2%	153
16	AI	28.1%	147
17	Azure DevOps	27.7%	145
18	Software Engineering	26.3%	138
19	Test Automation	26.0%	136
20	Problem-Solving	23.9%	125
21	TypeScript	23.7%	124
22	Node.js	23.3%	122
23	Continuous Improvement	21.6%	113
23	Platform Engineering	21.6%	113
25	Git	20.4%	107
26	GCP	20.0%	105
27	SQL	19.5%	102
28	Mentoring	19.3%	101
28	Spring Boot	19.3%	101
30	GitLab	19.1%	100

GitHub Actions Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	100.0%	524
2	AWS	59.5%	312
3	Azure	55.9%	293
4	Azure DevOps	27.7%	145
5	GCP	20.0%	105
6	Serverless	17.2%	90
7	AWS CloudFormation	15.3%	80
8	AWS Lambda	13.5%	71
9	Amazon ECS	13.0%	68
10	Amazon S3	12.6%	66
11	Datadog	10.3%	54
12	Amazon CloudWatch	9.7%	51
13	Azure Monitor	8.2%	43
14	Amazon EC2	7.1%	37
15	Azure AKS	6.9%	36
16	Amazon EKS	6.7%	35
16	Azure Key Vault	6.7%	35
18	Amazon OpenSearch	6.5%	34
19	SaaS	5.2%	27
20	Entra ID	4.8%	25