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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 471 647
Rank change year-on-year +80 +176 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 396 209 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.41% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 288 158 205
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -13.60%

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 24,878 14,844 35,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 33.55% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,820 10,207 27,118
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,220
25th Percentile £43,094 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.20%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +62 347 £70,200 -6.40% 152
UK excluding London +45 214 £65,000 -4.41% 100
London -6 146 £80,000 -3.03% 72
Work from Home +44 132 £65,000 -10.34% 165
North of England +31 96 £60,000 -12.41% 35
Yorkshire -3 47 £62,500 -8.76% 9
South East +11 41 £62,500 -10.71% 29
North West +25 31 £65,500 -12.67% 22
South West -37 26 £75,000 +25.00% 13
Midlands -14 24 £65,000 -7.14% 9
East Midlands -6 20 £75,000 +33.33% 5
North East -30 18 £47,250 -17.83% 5
Scotland +13 11 £85,000 +33.86% 6
Wales -38 9 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East of England -6 5 £80,150 +16.58% 3
West Midlands -31 4 £62,500 -15.25% 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 11 (2.78%) Apache
2 10 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.52%) Confluence
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) WordPress
7 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) GitHub
2 236 (59.60%) AWS
3 225 (56.82%) Azure
4 143 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (22.98%) Serverless
6 84 (21.21%) GCP
7 67 (16.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (16.92%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (13.38%) Datadog
9 51 (12.88%) Amazon S3
10 42 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (6.06%) Entra ID
17 23 (5.81%) Azure AKS
18 21 (5.30%) Firebase
19 20 (5.05%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.12%) Firewall
2 22 (5.56%) VPN
3 20 (5.05%) HTTP
4 19 (4.80%) DNS
5 16 (4.04%) Network Security
6 15 (3.79%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.28%) DSL
8 10 (2.53%) WAN
9 9 (2.27%) DMARC
10 4 (1.01%) SSL
11 3 (0.76%) RTP
11 3 (0.76%) SAN
11 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.76%) VoIP
11 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.51%) BGP
13 1 (0.25%) LTE
13 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 24 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.79%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.54%) MySQL
7 11 (2.78%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.53%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.27%) Power BI
10 6 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.26%) Tableau
12 4 (1.01%) Big Data
12 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.01%) Redis
13 3 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 145 (36.62%) Jenkins
2 78 (19.70%) Git
3 57 (14.39%) GitLab
4 23 (5.81%) JIRA
5 20 (5.05%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.79%) XCTest
7 14 (3.54%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.02%) fastlane
10 7 (1.77%) Postman
10 7 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (1.52%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.52%) Gradle
11 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.52%) Storybook
12 5 (1.26%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.26%) Selenium
13 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.01%) Gatling
14 3 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 120 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.66%) Finance
3 26 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.06%) Retail
5 23 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.55%) Banking
6 18 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.79%) Law
9 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Advertising
12 4 (1.01%) Automotive
13 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (24.49%) Senior
2 89 (22.47%) Developer
3 73 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (11.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (10.86%) Lead
7 35 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.57%) Security Engineer
9 25 (6.31%) Architect
9 25 (6.31%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.56%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.80%) Data Engineer
13 17 (4.29%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.79%) AWS Developer
15 15 (3.79%) Mobile Engineer
15 15 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.40%) Node.js
2 56 (14.14%) React
3 44 (11.11%) .NET
4 43 (10.86%) CSS
5 39 (9.85%) OAuth
6 33 (8.33%) RESTful
7 31 (7.83%) REST
8 29 (7.32%) HTML
9 24 (6.06%) AWS CDK
9 24 (6.06%) YAML
10 21 (5.30%) OAuth2
11 19 (4.80%) AngularJS
11 19 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 18 (4.55%) ASP.NET
13 16 (4.04%) SAML
13 16 (4.04%) Spring Boot
14 15 (3.79%) UIKit
15 14 (3.54%) Spring
15 14 (3.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 25 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.54%) Private Cloud
7 13 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.28%) PKI
8 11 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.53%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.52%) CMDB
13 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.76%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.14%) Linux
2 20 (5.05%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.79%) Windows
4 11 (2.78%) Android
5 9 (2.27%) VMS
5 9 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (92.68%) CI/CD
2 257 (64.90%) DevOps
3 219 (55.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 105 (26.52%) Agile
6 95 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 94 (23.74%) Observability
8 86 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (19.44%) Test Automation
10 70 (17.68%) Platform Engineering
11 69 (17.42%) Analytics
12 67 (16.92%) Cloud Security
13 66 (16.67%) AI
14 64 (16.16%) Mentoring
15 61 (15.40%) DevSecOps
15 61 (15.40%) Software Engineering
16 54 (13.64%) Incident Response
17 51 (12.88%) Deployment Automation
18 50 (12.63%) Clean Code
19 48 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 177 (44.70%) Python
2 90 (22.73%) Bash
3 78 (19.70%) SQL
4 71 (17.93%) TypeScript
5 66 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 54 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.37%) Go
8 45 (11.36%) Java
9 37 (9.34%) Kotlin
10 29 (7.32%) C#
11 20 (5.05%) Bicep
12 16 (4.04%) Swift
13 15 (3.79%) Rust
14 13 (3.28%) Groovy
15 9 (2.27%) Scala
16 8 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (1.77%) Dart
18 6 (1.52%) PHP
18 6 (1.52%) Ruby
19 5 (1.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (13.38%) Degree
2 39 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.30%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.04%) OSCP
8 12 (3.03%) CISSP
9 8 (2.02%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.02%) SANS
10 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.76%) CISM
13 3 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.58%) QA
3 26 (6.57%) SOC 2
4 21 (5.30%) Accessibility
5 17 (4.29%) GDPR
6 12 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 12 (3.03%) GRC
7 9 (2.27%) WCAG
8 7 (1.77%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.01%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS
11 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.51%) NCSC
11 2 (0.51%) SLA
11 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 134 (33.84%) Docker
2 27 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 225 (56.82%) Terraform
2 145 (36.62%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.92%) Ansible
4 63 (15.91%) Grafana
5 54 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.04%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.03%) Argo
7 12 (3.03%) Cilium
8 9 (2.27%) Packer
9 8 (2.02%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.01%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.76%) Puppet
12 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) logstash
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.30%) VMware
3 19 (4.80%) Google
4 16 (4.04%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.54%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.54%) Braze
5 14 (3.54%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.78%) Databricks
6 11 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.27%) SendGrid
8 8 (2.02%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.52%) Cisco
9 6 (1.52%) EMC
9 6 (1.52%) F5
9 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.01%) New Relic
11 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.76%) Mitel
11 3 (0.76%) Varonis