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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 435 627
Rank change year-on-year +84 +192 +16
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 396 212 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.35% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 294 167 167
10th Percentile £47,150 £50,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,750 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.38% +4.23% -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 24,419 15,736 32,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 37.24% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,100 10,983 25,826
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £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 21 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 21 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 +58 317 £70,000 -6.67% 203
UK excluding London +45 204 £62,750 -7.38% 142
Work from Home +83 174 £65,000 -10.34% 123
London +46 143 £80,000 -7.25% 97
North of England -12 67 £60,000 -11.76% 43
South West -22 37 £75,000 +15.38% 21
South East -12 36 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Yorkshire -18 35 £60,000 +21.21% 16
Scotland +15 33 £85,000 +44.68% 9
Midlands -28 21 £65,000 - 12
North West -8 20 £64,000 -14.67% 22
East Midlands -34 14 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -16 12 £47,500 -15.56% 5
West Midlands -23 7 £60,000 -17.24% 9
East of England -5 6 £66,250 -13.11% 11
Northern Ireland -32 2 £62,500 -
Wales -33 2 £58,248 -10.39% 8

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 10 (2.53%) Confluence
2 8 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.01%) Appian
5 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.51%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.76%) Shopify
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) GitHub
2 239 (60.35%) Azure
3 224 (56.57%) AWS
4 156 (39.39%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.26%) GCP
6 98 (24.75%) Serverless
7 67 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (16.67%) Datadog
9 65 (16.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (12.63%) Amazon S3
12 44 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (10.35%) Entra ID
14 35 (8.84%) AWS Step Functions
15 34 (8.59%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (7.83%) Azure AKS
17 27 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (6.82%) SaaS
18 21 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.63%) Firewall
2 22 (5.56%) DNS
2 22 (5.56%) VPN
3 21 (5.30%) HTTP
4 18 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.54%) Network Security
6 13 (3.28%) DSL
7 12 (3.03%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.76%) RTP
9 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.10%) NoSQL
2 39 (9.85%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.53%) Flink
8 8 (2.02%) MySQL
9 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.26%) Metadata
12 4 (1.01%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.01%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 162 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.70%) Git
3 69 (17.42%) GitLab
4 19 (4.80%) JIRA
5 11 (2.78%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.53%) CircleCI
6 10 (2.53%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.53%) XCTest
7 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.27%) Subversion
8 6 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.26%) NUnit
10 3 (0.76%) JMeter
10 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.76%) Selenium
10 3 (0.76%) Storybook
11 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Deequ
11 2 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 124 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.53%) Finance
3 41 (10.35%) Telecoms
4 29 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.81%) Banking
6 22 (5.56%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.52%) Marketing
12 4 (1.01%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.76%) Billing
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (22.98%) Senior
3 75 (18.94%) Developer
4 47 (11.87%) Lead
5 40 (10.10%) Platform Engineer
6 39 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.32%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.82%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.30%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
12 18 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.29%) Architect
14 16 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (3.79%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.54%) AWS Architect
16 14 (3.54%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.42%) React
2 62 (15.66%) .NET
3 47 (11.87%) RESTful
4 43 (10.86%) Node.js
5 41 (10.35%) OAuth
6 31 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (7.32%) AWS CDK
8 28 (7.07%) CSS
9 26 (6.57%) HTML
10 25 (6.31%) .NET Core
11 22 (5.56%) ADO
11 22 (5.56%) YAML
12 21 (5.30%) SAML
13 20 (5.05%) REST
14 19 (4.80%) OAuth2
15 18 (4.55%) ASP.NET
15 18 (4.55%) Kafka
16 16 (4.04%) .NET Framework
16 16 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
16 16 (4.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.27%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.52%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.26%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.26%) PKI
13 4 (1.01%) Blog
13 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
15 2 (0.51%) Derivative
15 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.14%) Linux
2 17 (4.29%) Windows
3 14 (3.54%) VMS
4 11 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.26%) Unix
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.76%) SUSE
8 2 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (92.17%) CI/CD
2 286 (72.22%) DevOps
3 217 (54.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (39.65%) Containerisation
5 126 (31.82%) Agile
6 113 (28.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 111 (28.03%) Observability
7 111 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (19.70%) Test Automation
9 71 (17.93%) Incident Response
10 64 (16.16%) Cloud Security
11 62 (15.66%) DevSecOps
12 60 (15.15%) Analytics
13 59 (14.90%) Deployment Automation
14 58 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
15 56 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 55 (13.89%) AI
17 52 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
18 49 (12.37%) RBAC
19 47 (11.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (50.76%) Python
2 116 (29.29%) Bash
3 79 (19.95%) SQL
4 71 (17.93%) PowerShell
5 69 (17.42%) TypeScript
6 62 (15.66%) JavaScript
7 54 (13.64%) Go
8 39 (9.85%) Bicep
9 30 (7.58%) Java
10 24 (6.06%) C#
11 16 (4.04%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.79%) Rust
13 12 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.53%) Swift
15 7 (1.77%) C++
16 5 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.01%) PHP
18 3 (0.76%) C
18 3 (0.76%) Dart
19 2 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (14.90%) Degree
2 40 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (9.60%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.32%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.05%) CISSP
6 18 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.55%) CREST Certified
6 18 (4.55%) SANS
6 18 (4.55%) 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 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.51%) CISM
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) GCIA
13 2 (0.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.59%) QA
2 32 (8.08%) GDPR
2 32 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (6.31%) SOC 2
4 20 (5.05%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.02%) GRC
7 6 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.26%) SLA
9 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.01%) NIST
10 2 (0.51%) ECSS
10 2 (0.51%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (39.65%) Docker
2 41 (10.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 233 (58.84%) Terraform
2 173 (43.69%) Kubernetes
3 89 (22.47%) Grafana
4 82 (20.71%) 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%) Packer
11 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.76%) Rancher
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.51%) Puppet
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Icinga
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.05%) Google
3 17 (4.29%) VMware
4 14 (3.54%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.03%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.03%) Zscaler
6 10 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.27%) Amplitude
7 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.02%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.52%) SAP
9 6 (1.52%) Splunk
10 5 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.01%) Databricks
11 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.76%) BT
12 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.76%) Mitel