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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 421 624
Rank change year-on-year +64 +203 +3
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 204 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.35% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 296 161 171
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,625 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.35% +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 25,475 15,159 33,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,442 11,029 26,352
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,065 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.34% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +57 319 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +33 201 £63,000 -7.35% 130
Work from Home +80 173 £66,508 -8.27% 118
London +36 149 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -12 69 £60,000 -11.76% 40
Yorkshire -17 38 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South West -28 36 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Scotland +1 33 £87,500 +48.94% 10
South East -20 33 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Midlands -34 20 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North West -9 19 £63,000 -16.00% 21
East Midlands -34 14 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -12 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
West Midlands -28 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
East of England -24 5 £67,500 -11.48% 6
Wales -30 3 £61,496 -5.39% 7
Northern Ireland -35 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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 238 (59.50%) Azure
3 232 (58.00%) AWS
4 152 (38.00%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.00%) GCP
6 102 (25.50%) Serverless
7 71 (17.75%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (17.25%) Datadog
9 66 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 57 (14.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 55 (13.75%) Amazon S3
12 43 (10.75%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (10.00%) Entra ID
14 38 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 32 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (7.00%) Azure AKS
18 26 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
19 23 (5.75%) SaaS
20 22 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.75%) Firewall
2 22 (5.50%) DNS
2 22 (5.50%) VPN
3 21 (5.25%) HTTP
4 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.50%) Network Security
6 13 (3.25%) DSL
7 12 (3.00%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.50%) SSL
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.75%) NoSQL
2 40 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.25%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.50%) Flink
8 9 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.00%) MySQL
10 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Metadata
12 5 (1.25%) Power BI
13 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.00%) Tableau
13 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 156 (39.00%) Jenkins
2 82 (20.50%) Git
3 70 (17.50%) GitLab
4 22 (5.50%) JIRA
5 11 (2.75%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.50%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.50%) XCTest
7 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.25%) Subversion
8 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.00%) NUnit
12 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.50%) fastlane
13 2 (0.50%) git-flow
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 131 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 107 (26.75%) Finance
3 41 (10.25%) Telecoms
4 31 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.50%) Banking
6 21 (5.25%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.75%) Law
7 19 (4.75%) Retail
8 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.00%) Front Office
10 11 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Back Office
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 89 (22.25%) Senior
3 79 (19.75%) Developer
4 47 (11.75%) Lead
5 40 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.25%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.75%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.25%) Architect
13 20 (5.00%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.50%) Applications Engineer
14 18 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 16 (4.00%) AWS Developer
17 15 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
17 15 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.50%) React
2 61 (15.25%) .NET
3 44 (11.00%) Node.js
3 44 (11.00%) RESTful
4 40 (10.00%) OAuth
5 32 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (7.50%) AWS CDK
7 29 (7.25%) CSS
8 25 (6.25%) .NET Core
9 24 (6.00%) HTML
10 22 (5.50%) ADO
11 21 (5.25%) SAML
12 20 (5.00%) YAML
13 18 (4.50%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.50%) OAuth2
13 18 (4.50%) REST
14 17 (4.25%) Kafka
15 16 (4.00%) .NET Framework
15 16 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
15 16 (4.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.75%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.25%) PKI
12 4 (1.00%) Blog
12 4 (1.00%) CMDB
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.75%) Linux
2 18 (4.50%) Windows
3 13 (3.25%) VMS
4 12 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.75%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (92.00%) CI/CD
2 287 (71.75%) DevOps
3 216 (54.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (38.00%) Containerisation
5 123 (30.75%) Agile
6 117 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 117 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (27.50%) Observability
8 73 (18.25%) Test Automation
9 69 (17.25%) Incident Response
10 66 (16.50%) DevSecOps
11 65 (16.25%) Cloud Security
12 62 (15.50%) Analytics
13 60 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
14 59 (14.75%) AI
15 58 (14.50%) Deployment Automation
15 58 (14.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 52 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 52 (13.00%) RBAC
17 50 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 205 (51.25%) Python
2 115 (28.75%) Bash
3 84 (21.00%) SQL
4 73 (18.25%) TypeScript
5 72 (18.00%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.75%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.50%) Go
8 35 (8.75%) Bicep
9 30 (7.50%) Java
10 23 (5.75%) C#
11 19 (4.75%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.75%) Rust
13 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.50%) Swift
15 7 (1.75%) C++
16 6 (1.50%) Dart
17 5 (1.25%) Scala
17 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (1.00%) PHP
19 3 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (15.50%) Degree
2 40 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (9.50%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.75%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.00%) CISSP
5 20 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.50%) CREST Certified
6 18 (4.50%) SANS
7 15 (3.75%) OSCP
8 13 (3.25%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CCSP
13 2 (0.50%) CISM
13 2 (0.50%) GCIA
13 2 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.50%) QA
2 33 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.50%) GDPR
4 26 (6.50%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.00%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.00%) GRC
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.50%) ECSS
12 2 (0.50%) WCAG
13 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (39.25%) Docker
2 41 (10.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 236 (59.00%) Terraform
2 168 (42.00%) Kubernetes
3 87 (21.75%) Grafana
4 81 (20.25%) Ansible
5 80 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.25%) Argo
7 10 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.00%) Cilium
9 7 (1.75%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.25%) Packer
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.00%) logstash
12 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.50%) Puppet
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Nagios
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 66 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.75%) Google
3 18 (4.50%) VMware
4 16 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.00%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.75%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.25%) Amplitude
8 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.00%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.75%) Databricks
11 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 6 (1.50%) Splunk
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco
12 4 (1.00%) EMC
12 4 (1.00%) F5
12 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow