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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 457 659
Rank change year-on-year +65 +202 -45
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 399 207 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.39% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 292 155 206
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -10.00%

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 24,947 14,861 35,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.94% 33.57% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 10,210 27,316
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 12 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 12 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 +71 350 £70,000 -6.67% 116
UK excluding London +66 216 £65,000 -4.41% 85
London +12 148 £80,000 -1.54% 55
Work from Home +31 128 £65,000 -10.34% 73
North of England +37 95 £62,500 -8.76% 25
Yorkshire -2 45 £63,750 -6.25% 9
South East +2 42 £62,500 -10.71% 31
North West +35 32 £65,500 -12.67% 13
South West -51 27 £75,000 +15.38% 10
Midlands -13 24 £67,500 -3.57% 8
East Midlands -13 21 £75,000 +33.33% 5
North East -26 18 £47,250 -17.83% 4
Scotland +15 11 £85,000 +33.86% 7
Wales -38 10 £63,250 +5.42% 1
East of England -16 5 £80,150 +16.58% 4
West Midlands -35 3 £65,000 -11.86% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 1

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 (1.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) 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
1 399 (100.00%) GitHub
2 234 (58.65%) AWS
3 226 (56.64%) Azure
4 142 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (22.06%) Serverless
6 85 (21.30%) GCP
7 65 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (16.29%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (13.28%) Datadog
9 50 (12.53%) Amazon S3
10 40 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (8.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 32 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (5.76%) Azure AKS
14 23 (5.76%) Entra ID
15 22 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (5.26%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.03%) Firewall
2 22 (5.51%) VPN
3 20 (5.01%) HTTP
4 19 (4.76%) DNS
5 17 (4.26%) Network Security
6 15 (3.76%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.26%) DSL
8 10 (2.51%) WAN
9 9 (2.26%) DMARC
10 4 (1.00%) SSL
11 3 (0.75%) RTP
11 3 (0.75%) SAN
11 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.75%) VoIP
11 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.50%) BGP
13 1 (0.25%) LTE
13 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 22 (5.51%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 14 (3.51%) MySQL
9 13 (3.26%) Delta Lake
10 10 (2.51%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.26%) Power BI
12 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.25%) Big Data
13 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.25%) Tableau
14 4 (1.00%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.00%) Redis
15 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 145 (36.34%) Jenkins
2 75 (18.80%) Git
3 57 (14.29%) GitLab
4 22 (5.51%) JIRA
5 20 (5.01%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.76%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.76%) XCTest
7 10 (2.51%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.01%) fastlane
8 8 (2.01%) Gradle
9 7 (1.75%) Postman
9 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.50%) Android Studio
10 6 (1.50%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.50%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.25%) Selenium
12 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.00%) Gatling
12 4 (1.00%) Xcode
General
1 119 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.29%) Finance
3 25 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.27%) Retail
4 24 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.76%) Banking
5 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.76%) Law
8 8 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 4 (1.00%) Automotive
12 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.75%) Marketing
12 3 (0.75%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Billing
13 2 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (25.06%) Senior
2 89 (22.31%) Developer
3 72 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (14.54%) Platform Engineer
5 47 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 42 (10.53%) Lead
7 35 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (6.77%) Security Engineer
8 27 (6.77%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.52%) Architect
9 26 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) .NET Developer
12 18 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (4.01%) Cloud Automation Engineer
14 16 (4.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.79%) Node.js
2 56 (14.04%) React
3 43 (10.78%) .NET
3 43 (10.78%) CSS
4 39 (9.77%) OAuth
5 32 (8.02%) REST
6 30 (7.52%) RESTful
7 29 (7.27%) HTML
8 25 (6.27%) YAML
9 22 (5.51%) AWS CDK
10 21 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 21 (5.26%) OAuth2
11 19 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (4.76%) Spring Boot
12 16 (4.01%) SAML
12 16 (4.01%) Spring
13 15 (3.76%) .NET Core
13 15 (3.76%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.76%) UIKit
14 14 (3.51%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 98 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.52%) Mobile App
3 25 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.51%) PKI
6 14 (3.51%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.50%) CMDB
12 4 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.29%) Linux
2 20 (5.01%) Apple iOS
3 16 (4.01%) Windows
4 11 (2.76%) Android
5 9 (2.26%) VMS
5 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (92.73%) CI/CD
2 256 (64.16%) DevOps
3 221 (55.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 106 (26.57%) Agile
6 99 (24.81%) Observability
7 96 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 75 (18.80%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (18.55%) Analytics
12 69 (17.29%) Cloud Security
13 67 (16.79%) AI
13 67 (16.79%) Mentoring
14 63 (15.79%) Software Engineering
15 60 (15.04%) DevSecOps
16 57 (14.29%) Incident Response
17 53 (13.28%) Clean Code
18 48 (12.03%) Continuous Integration
18 48 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 179 (44.86%) Python
2 90 (22.56%) Bash
3 75 (18.80%) SQL
4 72 (18.05%) TypeScript
5 67 (16.79%) PowerShell
6 53 (13.28%) JavaScript
7 50 (12.53%) Go
8 48 (12.03%) Java
9 38 (9.52%) Kotlin
10 31 (7.77%) C#
11 23 (5.76%) Bicep
12 16 (4.01%) Swift
13 15 (3.76%) Rust
14 13 (3.26%) Groovy
15 9 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (2.26%) Scala
16 7 (1.75%) Dart
16 7 (1.75%) Ruby
17 6 (1.50%) PHP
18 5 (1.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (13.53%) Degree
2 39 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.52%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.51%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.01%) OSCP
8 12 (3.01%) CISSP
9 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.01%) SANS
10 7 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (7.77%) QA
3 27 (6.77%) SOC 2
4 24 (6.02%) Accessibility
5 17 (4.26%) GDPR
6 13 (3.26%) GRC
7 12 (3.01%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.51%) WCAG
9 7 (1.75%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.00%) NIST
12 3 (0.75%) NCSC
13 2 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.50%) IFRS
13 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.50%) SLA
13 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 135 (33.83%) Docker
2 26 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 225 (56.39%) Terraform
2 149 (37.34%) Kubernetes
3 68 (17.04%) Ansible
4 63 (15.79%) Grafana
5 54 (13.53%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.01%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.26%) Argo
7 13 (3.26%) Cilium
8 9 (2.26%) Packer
9 8 (2.01%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) logstash
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.26%) VMware
3 19 (4.76%) Google
4 16 (4.01%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.51%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.51%) Braze
5 14 (3.51%) Palo Alto
6 13 (3.26%) Databricks
7 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.26%) SendGrid
9 8 (2.01%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco
10 6 (1.50%) EMC
10 6 (1.50%) F5
10 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.00%) New Relic
12 4 (1.00%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.75%) Tenable