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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 464 643
Rank change year-on-year +88 +179 -29
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 394 194 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.26% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 283 155 197
10th Percentile £46,800 £51,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -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 26,587 15,373 34,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 35.15% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,876 10,843 26,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 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 May 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 May 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 +69 336 £70,400 -6.13% 151
UK excluding London +72 206 £65,000 -4.41% 97
London +38 150 £80,000 -3.03% 66
Work from Home +70 147 £65,000 -10.34% 80
North of England +28 87 £60,000 -11.76% 37
Yorkshire -15 46 £61,250 -9.93% 17
South East +10 37 £62,500 -10.71% 33
South West -39 29 £75,000 +15.38% 11
North West +8 25 £65,000 -13.33% 14
Scotland +17 22 £85,000 +36.00% 4
Midlands -31 19 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East Midlands -16 16 £75,000 +25.00% 3
North East -25 16 £47,500 -17.39% 6
East of England -12 5 £75,000 -1.64% 3
Wales -27 5 £61,496 -5.39%
West Midlands -40 3 £65,000 -11.86% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £62,500 - 2

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 (2.28%) Apache
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.03%) Confluence
3 4 (1.02%) Appian
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.51%) IIS
4 2 (0.51%) nginx
4 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 394 (100.00%) GitHub
2 236 (59.90%) Azure
3 230 (58.38%) AWS
4 149 (37.82%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (24.11%) Serverless
6 92 (23.35%) GCP
7 68 (17.26%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (16.75%) Datadog
9 61 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (12.94%) Amazon S3
11 48 (12.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (9.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 33 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (8.38%) Entra ID
14 31 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (6.85%) Azure AKS
16 26 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 16 (4.06%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 52 (13.20%) Firewall
2 23 (5.84%) DNS
2 23 (5.84%) VPN
3 21 (5.33%) HTTP
4 18 (4.57%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.55%) Network Security
6 13 (3.30%) DSL
7 12 (3.05%) WAN
8 4 (1.02%) SSL
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.51%) SAN
11 1 (0.25%) BGP
11 1 (0.25%) DMARC
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.12%) NoSQL
3 23 (5.84%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.79%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.28%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.28%) MySQL
9 8 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.78%) Flink
11 6 (1.52%) Metadata
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.27%) Power BI
13 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.02%) Big Data
13 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (38.58%) Jenkins
2 73 (18.53%) Git
3 60 (15.23%) GitLab
4 20 (5.08%) JIRA
5 15 (3.81%) Crashlytics
6 13 (3.30%) XCTest
7 10 (2.54%) TeamCity
8 8 (2.03%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.52%) Storybook
10 6 (1.52%) Subversion
11 4 (1.02%) fastlane
12 3 (0.76%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.76%) Appium
12 3 (0.76%) Gatling
12 3 (0.76%) Maven
12 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 129 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.32%) Finance
3 31 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.61%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.57%) Law
6 18 (4.57%) Retail
7 16 (4.06%) Banking
8 11 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.78%) Front Office
11 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Advertising
12 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.76%) Billing
13 3 (0.76%) Electronics
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Marketing
13 3 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 100 (25.38%) Senior
2 87 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.56%) Developer
4 49 (12.44%) Platform Engineer
5 40 (10.15%) Lead
6 39 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (6.09%) .NET Developer
9 23 (5.84%) Architect
9 23 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (5.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.08%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.82%) Security Engineer
11 19 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.57%) AWS Developer
12 18 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.81%) Python Developer
14 14 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (3.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.99%) React
2 52 (13.20%) Node.js
3 49 (12.44%) .NET
4 36 (9.14%) CSS
4 36 (9.14%) OAuth
5 32 (8.12%) RESTful
6 27 (6.85%) AWS CDK
6 27 (6.85%) HTML
7 23 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (5.84%) REST
8 22 (5.58%) .NET Core
9 20 (5.08%) SAML
10 18 (4.57%) ADO
11 17 (4.31%) AngularJS
11 17 (4.31%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.81%) OAuth2
13 14 (3.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (3.55%) Blazor
13 14 (3.55%) YAML
14 13 (3.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 23 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.55%) Private Cloud
8 13 (3.30%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.03%) PKI
12 7 (1.78%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.52%) CMDB
13 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.27%) Hackathon
14 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
16 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.47%) Linux
2 17 (4.31%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.81%) Windows
4 13 (3.30%) VMS
5 9 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.78%) Android
7 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.76%) SUSE
9 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (94.16%) CI/CD
2 278 (70.56%) DevOps
3 221 (56.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (35.03%) Containerisation
5 119 (30.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 113 (28.68%) Agile
6 113 (28.68%) Observability
7 104 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (17.51%) Analytics
8 69 (17.51%) DevSecOps
8 69 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
8 69 (17.51%) Test Automation
9 68 (17.26%) Cloud Security
10 64 (16.24%) Deployment Automation
11 62 (15.74%) AI
11 62 (15.74%) Incident Response
12 55 (13.96%) Mentoring
12 55 (13.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 52 (13.20%) Continuous Integration
14 50 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (48.98%) Python
2 100 (25.38%) Bash
3 78 (19.80%) SQL
4 75 (19.04%) TypeScript
5 68 (17.26%) PowerShell
6 57 (14.47%) JavaScript
7 53 (13.45%) Go
8 34 (8.63%) Java
9 28 (7.11%) Kotlin
10 24 (6.09%) Bicep
11 21 (5.33%) C#
12 15 (3.81%) Rust
13 13 (3.30%) Swift
14 11 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (2.03%) Groovy
16 7 (1.78%) Scala
17 6 (1.52%) Dart
18 5 (1.27%) C++
18 5 (1.27%) PHP
19 4 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (13.96%) Degree
2 32 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.87%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.33%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.31%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.06%) OSCP
8 13 (3.30%) CISSP
9 10 (2.54%) CREST Certified
9 10 (2.54%) SANS
10 9 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (2.03%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
14 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.76%) GCIA
14 3 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (6.85%) QA
3 26 (6.60%) GDPR
4 24 (6.09%) SOC 2
5 15 (3.81%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.78%) GRC
7 7 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.52%) SLA
9 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.02%) NIST
10 4 (1.02%) WCAG
11 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (37.31%) Docker
2 36 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 241 (61.17%) Terraform
2 158 (40.10%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.56%) Ansible
4 78 (19.80%) Grafana
5 69 (17.51%) Prometheus
6 20 (5.08%) Argo
7 11 (2.79%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.28%) Packer
9 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.78%) Cilium
10 7 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.02%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.02%) logstash
12 3 (0.76%) Puppet
12 3 (0.76%) Rancher
13 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 63 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.58%) VMware
3 17 (4.31%) Palo Alto
4 16 (4.06%) Google
5 13 (3.30%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.05%) Amplitude
6 12 (3.05%) Braze
7 11 (2.79%) Databricks
7 11 (2.79%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.79%) Zscaler
8 9 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.78%) Ab Initio
10 6 (1.52%) Cisco
10 6 (1.52%) EMC
10 6 (1.52%) F5
10 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.02%) SAP
13 3 (0.76%) Intel