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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 462 546
Rank change year-on-year +121 +84 +98
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 386 242 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.33% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 289 179 188
10th Percentile £47,594 £48,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -8.20% -0.97%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £97,342
90th Percentile £109,000 £100,000 £116,250
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 22,684 18,189 28,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.21% 37.20% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,284 10,975 23,600
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,115 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +70 296 £72,500 +3.57% 198
UK excluding London +51 191 £65,000 - 139
Work from Home +112 179 £66,508 -4.99% 109
London +84 137 £80,000 -11.11% 87
North of England -2 62 £60,000 -11.76% 41
Scotland +22 37 £90,000 +56.52% 6
South West +4 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -9 34 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire -25 32 £60,000 +21.21% 17
North West +8 21 £65,000 -23.53% 20
Midlands -19 14 £62,500 -3.85% 17
North East 0 9 £47,500 -25.49% 4
West Midlands -7 8 £60,000 -7.69% 13
East Midlands -16 6 £72,500 +83.54% 4
East of England +16 4 £65,000 -38.10% 3
Northern Ireland -24 2 £62,500 - 5
Wales -16 1 £61,496 -5.39%

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 8 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.07%) Confluence
2 4 (1.04%) Apache
2 4 (1.04%) Appian
3 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 386 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (63.47%) Azure
3 204 (52.85%) AWS
4 160 (41.45%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (25.91%) GCP
6 83 (21.50%) Serverless
7 64 (16.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (16.06%) Datadog
9 57 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (13.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (12.18%) Entra ID
12 46 (11.92%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (11.14%) Amazon S3
14 42 (10.88%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (9.59%) Azure AKS
16 30 (7.77%) AWS Step Functions
16 30 (7.77%) SaaS
17 21 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (5.44%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (5.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.62%) Firewall
2 20 (5.18%) VPN
3 17 (4.40%) HTTP
4 16 (4.15%) DNS
5 14 (3.63%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.37%) Network Security
7 12 (3.11%) WAN
8 9 (2.33%) DSL
9 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.78%) RTP
10 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.78%) VoIP
10 3 (0.78%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.14%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.66%) BigQuery
4 18 (4.66%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.59%) Flink
7 9 (2.33%) MySQL
8 8 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.30%) Metadata
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.04%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.52%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 158 (40.93%) Jenkins
2 78 (20.21%) Git
3 55 (14.25%) GitLab
4 14 (3.63%) JIRA
4 14 (3.63%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.11%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.33%) Subversion
7 5 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.30%) NUnit
8 3 (0.78%) JMeter
8 3 (0.78%) Selenium
9 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.52%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) MSTest
9 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 122 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 118 (30.57%) Finance
3 38 (9.84%) Telecoms
4 24 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.96%) Banking
6 20 (5.18%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.66%) Law
7 18 (4.66%) Retail
8 14 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.11%) Front Office
10 11 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.55%) Back Office
11 6 (1.55%) Electronics
11 6 (1.55%) Marketing
12 5 (1.30%) Advertising
13 4 (1.04%) Billing
13 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (23.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 88 (22.80%) Senior
3 68 (17.62%) Developer
4 51 (13.21%) Lead
5 45 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (10.36%) Platform Engineer
7 31 (8.03%) .NET Developer
8 29 (7.51%) Security Engineer
9 27 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (5.18%) Applications Engineer
11 20 (5.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (3.89%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.63%) AWS Developer
14 14 (3.63%) GCP Engineer
14 14 (3.63%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.88%) .NET
2 68 (17.62%) React
3 56 (14.51%) RESTful
4 44 (11.40%) Node.js
5 36 (9.33%) OAuth
6 26 (6.74%) AWS CDK
6 26 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (6.48%) ADO
7 25 (6.48%) YAML
8 24 (6.22%) .NET Core
9 23 (5.96%) CSS
9 23 (5.96%) HTML
10 21 (5.44%) ASP.NET
10 21 (5.44%) OAuth2
11 20 (5.18%) JSON
12 19 (4.92%) REST
13 17 (4.40%) .NET Framework
13 17 (4.40%) Kafka
14 16 (4.15%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (4.15%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.70%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.04%) Blog
10 4 (1.04%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.04%) PKI
11 3 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.99%) Linux
2 18 (4.66%) VMS
3 17 (4.40%) Windows
4 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.78%) SUSE
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (91.19%) CI/CD
2 292 (75.65%) DevOps
3 209 (54.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (40.16%) Containerisation
5 118 (30.57%) Agile
6 114 (29.53%) Observability
7 107 (27.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 107 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (19.95%) Test Automation
9 71 (18.39%) Incident Response
10 64 (16.58%) Cloud Security
11 60 (15.54%) AI
12 59 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (15.03%) RBAC
14 56 (14.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 55 (14.25%) Deployment Automation
15 55 (14.25%) DevSecOps
16 54 (13.99%) Analytics
16 54 (13.99%) Microservices
17 51 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 200 (51.81%) Python
2 117 (30.31%) Bash
3 79 (20.47%) SQL
4 76 (19.69%) PowerShell
5 65 (16.84%) TypeScript
6 64 (16.58%) JavaScript
7 49 (12.69%) Bicep
8 48 (12.44%) Go
9 32 (8.29%) Java
10 28 (7.25%) C#
11 12 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (2.85%) Rust
13 6 (1.55%) C++
13 6 (1.55%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.78%) C
15 3 (0.78%) PHP
15 3 (0.78%) Ruby
16 2 (0.52%) Swift
16 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (14.51%) Degree
2 41 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.10%) AWS Certification
4 36 (9.33%) Security Cleared
5 27 (6.99%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.44%) CISSP
7 20 (5.18%) Azure Certification
7 20 (5.18%) CREST Certified
7 20 (5.18%) SANS
8 16 (4.15%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.59%) OSCP
11 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA CySA+
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.36%) QA
2 38 (9.84%) GDPR
3 36 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.22%) SOC 2
5 20 (5.18%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.85%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.07%) GRC
8 7 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.30%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.04%) SLA
12 3 (0.78%) NIST
13 2 (0.52%) ECSS
14 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 166 (43.01%) Docker
2 44 (11.40%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 233 (60.36%) Terraform
2 186 (48.19%) Kubernetes
3 85 (22.02%) Grafana
4 79 (20.47%) Prometheus
5 74 (19.17%) Ansible
6 27 (6.99%) Argo
7 9 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.07%) Cilium
9 6 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.04%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.04%) logstash
11 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.78%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Icinga
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.96%) Google
3 18 (4.66%) VMware
4 14 (3.63%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.11%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.11%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.81%) Splunk
8 6 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 5 (1.30%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.04%) Databricks
10 4 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.78%) BT
11 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.78%) Mitel
12 2 (0.52%) Pega
12 2 (0.52%) Red Hat