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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 451 588
Rank change year-on-year +114 +137 +61
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 396 209 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.28% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 296 162 178
10th Percentile £47,125 £48,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,188 £95,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 23,841 16,317 31,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.42% 37.34% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,803 11,017 25,658
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 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 12 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 +75 317 £70,000 -3.45% 196
UK excluding London +59 204 £65,000 - 139
Work from Home +88 172 £65,250 -6.79% 124
London +78 143 £80,000 -11.11% 89
North of England +8 69 £60,000 -11.76% 41
South East -13 37 £62,500 -3.85% 45
South West -16 37 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Yorkshire -24 35 £60,000 +21.21% 15
Scotland +18 33 £90,000 +53.19% 7
North West +1 21 £65,000 -18.75% 21
Midlands -29 18 £65,000 - 13
North East -8 13 £47,500 -13.64% 5
East Midlands -26 11 £75,000 +50.75% 5
West Midlands -16 7 £60,000 -17.24% 8
East of England +4 6 £66,250 -13.11% 7
Wales -21 2 £58,248 -10.39% 4
Northern Ireland -25 2 £62,500 -

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 (2.27%) Confluence
2 8 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.52%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.01%) Appian
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.76%) Shopify
2 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) GitHub
2 242 (61.11%) Azure
3 222 (56.06%) AWS
4 157 (39.65%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (26.52%) GCP
6 95 (23.99%) Serverless
7 67 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (16.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (16.16%) Datadog
10 55 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (11.87%) Amazon S3
12 44 (11.11%) Entra ID
13 43 (10.86%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
16 33 (8.33%) Azure AKS
17 28 (7.07%) SaaS
18 22 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
20 19 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.37%) Firewall
2 21 (5.30%) DNS
2 21 (5.30%) HTTP
2 21 (5.30%) VPN
3 18 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.54%) Network Security
5 13 (3.28%) DSL
6 12 (3.03%) WAN
7 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.76%) RTP
8 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.76%) VoIP
8 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) Broadband
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.35%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.80%) DynamoDB
5 14 (3.54%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.53%) Flink
8 7 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.77%) MySQL
9 6 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.26%) Metadata
11 4 (1.01%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.01%) Weaviate
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.76%) Power BI
13 2 (0.51%) Big Data
13 2 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 167 (42.17%) Jenkins
2 79 (19.95%) Git
3 68 (17.17%) GitLab
4 16 (4.04%) JIRA
5 11 (2.78%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.53%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.27%) Subversion
8 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.52%) Crashlytics
8 6 (1.52%) XCTest
9 5 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.26%) NUnit
10 3 (0.76%) JMeter
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) JUnit
11 2 (0.51%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 122 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.29%) Finance
3 42 (10.61%) Telecoms
4 26 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.81%) Banking
6 21 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.80%) Law
7 19 (4.80%) Retail
8 14 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.03%) Front Office
10 11 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.52%) Back Office
11 6 (1.52%) Electronics
11 6 (1.52%) Marketing
12 4 (1.01%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Billing
12 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (22.73%) Senior
3 75 (18.94%) Developer
4 48 (12.12%) Lead
5 41 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.10%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (7.58%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.32%) Security Engineer
9 21 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.05%) Applications Engineer
10 20 (5.05%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.04%) Architect
14 15 (3.79%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.54%) AWS Architect
15 14 (3.54%) AWS Developer
15 14 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.17%) React
2 61 (15.40%) .NET
3 50 (12.63%) RESTful
4 43 (10.86%) Node.js
5 41 (10.35%) OAuth
6 30 (7.58%) AWS CDK
6 30 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (6.06%) .NET Core
7 24 (6.06%) CSS
7 24 (6.06%) HTML
7 24 (6.06%) YAML
8 22 (5.56%) ADO
9 20 (5.05%) OAuth2
9 20 (5.05%) SAML
10 19 (4.80%) Kafka
11 18 (4.55%) ASP.NET
11 18 (4.55%) REST
12 16 (4.04%) .NET Framework
12 16 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (4.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.02%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.52%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.26%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.26%) PKI
12 4 (1.01%) Blog
12 4 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.89%) Linux
2 15 (3.79%) VMS
2 15 (3.79%) Windows
3 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.26%) Unix
6 3 (0.76%) SUSE
6 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (91.41%) CI/CD
2 288 (72.73%) DevOps
3 219 (55.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 159 (40.15%) Containerisation
5 125 (31.57%) Agile
6 114 (28.79%) Observability
7 112 (28.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (18.94%) Test Automation
10 73 (18.43%) Incident Response
11 65 (16.41%) Cloud Security
12 62 (15.66%) DevSecOps
13 58 (14.65%) Analytics
13 58 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
15 56 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 55 (13.89%) AI
17 53 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 53 (13.38%) RBAC
18 48 (12.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 203 (51.26%) Python
2 118 (29.80%) Bash
3 82 (20.71%) SQL
4 73 (18.43%) PowerShell
5 68 (17.17%) TypeScript
6 61 (15.40%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.64%) Go
8 43 (10.86%) Bicep
9 34 (8.59%) Java
10 24 (6.06%) C#
11 15 (3.79%) Rust
12 12 (3.03%) Kotlin
12 12 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.77%) Swift
14 6 (1.52%) C++
15 5 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.76%) C
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) Scala
17 2 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (14.39%) Degree
2 38 (9.60%) AWS Certification
2 38 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.56%) CISSP
5 20 (5.05%) CREST Certified
5 20 (5.05%) SANS
6 19 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.80%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.79%) OSCP
8 14 (3.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.51%) CCSP
13 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.51%) CISM
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (0.51%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.84%) QA
2 33 (8.33%) GDPR
3 31 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (6.31%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.05%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.78%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.02%) GRC
8 6 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.26%) SLA
10 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.01%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) ECSS
12 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 159 (40.15%) Docker
2 41 (10.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (59.34%) Terraform
2 179 (45.20%) Kubernetes
3 90 (22.73%) Grafana
4 83 (20.96%) Prometheus
5 78 (19.70%) Ansible
6 24 (6.06%) Argo
7 10 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.02%) Cilium
9 7 (1.77%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.01%) logstash
11 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.76%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.05%) Google
3 17 (4.29%) VMware
4 13 (3.28%) Ab Initio
4 13 (3.28%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.03%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.02%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.52%) Amplitude
8 6 (1.52%) SAP
8 6 (1.52%) Splunk
9 5 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.01%) Databricks
10 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.76%) BT
11 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.76%) Mitel