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 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 23 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 407 | 422 | 507 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +15 | +85 | -21 |
| Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions | 518 | 262 | 253 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.43% | 0.53% | 0.37% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.95% | 1.68% | 1.13% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 339 | 203 | 198 |
| 10th Percentile | £46,250 | £50,100 | £48,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £57,500 | £60,000 | £51,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £70,000 | £72,500 | £65,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -3.45% | +11.54% | -18.37% |
| 75th Percentile | £82,500 | £85,000 | £75,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £97,500 | £96,000 | £87,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £65,000 | £65,000 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | -3.31% |
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.
| 6 months to 23 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 26,552 | 15,585 | 22,368 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 21.99% | 31.64% | 32.36% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 18,392 | 10,486 | 13,621 |
| 10th Percentile | £32,000 | £29,000 | £35,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £43,965 | £37,500 | £47,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £62,500 | £57,500 | £65,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +8.70% | -11.54% | +4.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £83,750 | £80,000 | £82,500 |
| 90th 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 23 October 2026.
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 23 October 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 | +45 | 453 | £70,000 | - | 636 |
| UK excluding London | -9 | 278 | £65,000 | - | 260 |
| London | -8 | 187 | £80,000 | +3.23% | 394 |
| Work from Home | -36 | 144 | £72,500 | - | 343 |
| North of England | +28 | 124 | £65,000 | -4.41% | 77 |
| South East | -25 | 64 | £65,000 | -13.33% | 65 |
| Yorkshire | +10 | 56 | £70,000 | +2.56% | 25 |
| North West | +1 | 42 | £65,500 | +0.77% | 37 |
| Midlands | -39 | 40 | £68,750 | +20.61% | 26 |
| West Midlands | -25 | 32 | £68,750 | +1.85% | 18 |
| North East | -39 | 26 | £58,750 | -14.55% | 15 |
| Wales | -51 | 24 | £60,000 | +2.13% | 9 |
| South West | -77 | 17 | £57,500 | +9.52% | 33 |
| East Midlands | -35 | 8 | £67,500 | +25.00% | 8 |
| East of England | -41 | 5 | £69,500 | +4.91% | 17 |
| Scotland | -13 | 4 | £65,000 | -18.75% | 20 |
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% | 518 |
| 2 | AWS | 60.0% | 311 |
| 3 | Azure | 54.6% | 283 |
| 4 | Azure DevOps | 26.1% | 135 |
| 5 | GCP | 20.7% | 107 |
| 6 | Serverless | 17.8% | 92 |
| 7 | AWS CloudFormation | 16.6% | 86 |
| 8 | AWS Lambda | 13.9% | 72 |
| 9 | Amazon ECS | 13.3% | 69 |
| 10 | Amazon S3 | 12.7% | 66 |
| 11 | Datadog | 10.2% | 53 |
| 12 | Amazon CloudWatch | 10.0% | 52 |
| 13 | Azure Monitor | 7.9% | 41 |
| 14 | Amazon EC2 | 7.7% | 40 |
| 15 | Azure Key Vault | 6.9% | 36 |
| 16 | Amazon OpenSearch | 6.8% | 35 |
| 16 | Azure AKS | 6.8% | 35 |
| 18 | Amazon EKS | 6.4% | 33 |
| 19 | SaaS | 4.8% | 25 |
| 20 | Azure Service Bus | 4.1% | 21 |