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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 438 621
Rank change year-on-year +79 +183 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 402 207 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.37% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 295 162 176
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £63,000 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +8.70% -13.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +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 26,131 15,127 33,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.99% 36.91% 36.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,767 11,085 26,441
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £102,650 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +53 327 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +44 206 £62,500 -8.09% 130
Work from Home +75 174 £65,508 -12.66% 118
London +58 150 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -17 72 £60,000 -11.76% 40
Yorkshire -25 38 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South West -34 36 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -25 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +2 31 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West -16 22 £64,000 -14.67% 21
Midlands -37 21 £65,000 -10.34% 11
East Midlands -33 15 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -20 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -26 6 £71,250 -6.56% 6
West Midlands -29 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Wales -32 4 £58,248 -10.39% 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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 8 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.49%) Apache
3 6 (1.49%) 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
1 402 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (60.95%) Azure
3 234 (58.21%) AWS
4 157 (39.05%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (25.87%) GCP
6 97 (24.13%) Serverless
7 71 (17.66%) Datadog
8 66 (16.42%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (13.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (12.44%) Amazon S3
12 40 (9.95%) Entra ID
13 39 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
16 28 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (6.72%) Azure AKS
18 25 (6.22%) SaaS
19 22 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
20 20 (4.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.18%) Firewall
2 23 (5.72%) VPN
3 22 (5.47%) DNS
4 21 (5.22%) HTTP
5 18 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.98%) Network Security
7 13 (3.23%) DSL
8 12 (2.99%) WAN
9 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.75%) RTP
10 3 (0.75%) SSL
10 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.75%) VoIP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.70%) NoSQL
2 41 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.47%) DynamoDB
4 20 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.49%) Flink
8 9 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.99%) MySQL
10 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 5 (1.24%) 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%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 152 (37.81%) Jenkins
2 79 (19.65%) Git
3 65 (16.17%) GitLab
4 22 (5.47%) JIRA
5 12 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.49%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.49%) XCTest
7 9 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.24%) Subversion
8 8 (1.99%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.49%) Storybook
10 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.00%) NUnit
12 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) fastlane
13 2 (0.50%) Gatling
13 2 (0.50%) git-flow
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 131 (32.59%) Social Skills
2 108 (26.87%) Finance
3 41 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 32 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.72%) Banking
6 22 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.22%) Retail
8 19 (4.73%) Law
9 14 (3.48%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.99%) Front Office
11 10 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.49%) Back Office
12 6 (1.49%) Electronics
12 6 (1.49%) Marketing
13 5 (1.24%) Advertising
13 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
1 92 (22.89%) Senior
2 81 (20.15%) Developer
3 48 (11.94%) Lead
4 41 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
5 40 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.21%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 22 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 21 (5.22%) Architect
11 20 (4.98%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
13 16 (3.98%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (3.73%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.41%) React
2 62 (15.42%) .NET
3 44 (10.95%) Node.js
4 43 (10.70%) RESTful
5 39 (9.70%) OAuth
6 30 (7.46%) AWS CDK
7 29 (7.21%) CSS
8 28 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
9 26 (6.47%) .NET Core
10 24 (5.97%) HTML
11 22 (5.47%) ADO
12 21 (5.22%) SAML
13 20 (4.98%) YAML
14 19 (4.73%) ASP.NET
14 19 (4.73%) REST
15 18 (4.48%) Kafka
16 17 (4.23%) .NET Framework
16 17 (4.23%) Blazor
16 17 (4.23%) OAuth2
17 16 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.72%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.73%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.99%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.49%) PKI
10 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
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 55 (13.68%) Linux
2 17 (4.23%) Windows
3 13 (3.23%) VMS
4 12 (2.99%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.24%) 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
1 373 (92.79%) CI/CD
2 291 (72.39%) DevOps
3 219 (54.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (37.56%) Containerisation
5 123 (30.60%) Agile
6 120 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (28.11%) Observability
9 72 (17.91%) Incident Response
10 71 (17.66%) Test Automation
11 69 (17.16%) Cloud Security
12 67 (16.67%) DevSecOps
13 61 (15.17%) AI
13 61 (15.17%) Platform Engineering
13 61 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 60 (14.93%) Analytics
15 59 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
16 52 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 50 (12.44%) RBAC
18 49 (12.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (50.00%) Python
2 112 (27.86%) Bash
3 86 (21.39%) SQL
4 74 (18.41%) TypeScript
5 72 (17.91%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.68%) JavaScript
7 56 (13.93%) Go
8 33 (8.21%) Bicep
9 31 (7.71%) Java
10 24 (5.97%) C#
11 19 (4.73%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.73%) Rust
13 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.49%) Swift
15 7 (1.74%) C++
16 6 (1.49%) Dart
16 6 (1.49%) Scala
17 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
18 4 (1.00%) PHP
19 3 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (15.42%) Degree
2 40 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (9.70%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.21%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.48%) CISSP
7 17 (4.23%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.98%) CREST Certified
8 16 (3.98%) SANS
9 15 (3.73%) OSCP
10 13 (3.23%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (1.74%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.50%) CCSP
15 2 (0.50%) CISM
15 2 (0.50%) GCIA
15 2 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.46%) QA
2 29 (7.21%) GDPR
3 27 (6.72%) SOC 2
4 18 (4.48%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.24%) GRC
7 6 (1.49%) SLA
8 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.00%) NIST
10 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (39.05%) Docker
2 41 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (59.20%) Terraform
2 170 (42.29%) Kubernetes
3 85 (21.14%) Grafana
4 82 (20.40%) Ansible
5 79 (19.65%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.22%) Argo
7 10 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.24%) Cilium
9 8 (1.99%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.24%) Packer
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.00%) logstash
11 4 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 68 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.73%) VMware
3 18 (4.48%) Google
4 16 (3.98%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
6 10 (2.49%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.24%) Amplitude
7 9 (2.24%) Braze
7 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.99%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.99%) Databricks
9 6 (1.49%) SAP
9 6 (1.49%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco
10 4 (1.00%) EMC
10 4 (1.00%) F5
10 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow