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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 469 643
Rank change year-on-year +77 +174 -53
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 418 214 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.40% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 313 164 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.06% +4.23% -1.45%

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 26,225 15,326 35,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.19% 32.90% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17,133 10,658 26,895
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +80 363 £70,000 -6.67% 248
UK excluding London +61 232 £65,000 -4.06% 137
London -1 142 £80,000 - 134
Work from Home +40 128 £65,000 -10.34% 136
North of England +33 101 £65,000 -5.11% 44
South East +6 49 £61,250 -12.50% 43
Yorkshire +2 46 £65,000 -5.11% 14
North West +22 38 £65,500 -12.67% 25
Midlands -27 27 £65,000 -1.89% 16
South West -48 27 £75,000 +15.38% 15
East Midlands -5 22 £72,500 +28.89% 8
North East -40 17 £47,000 -18.26% 5
Wales -44 13 £71,500 +19.17% 7
Scotland +15 7 £85,000 +31.78% 6
East of England -12 6 £77,575 +12.84% 6
West Midlands -39 5 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Northern Ireland - 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 (2.63%) Apache
1 11 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.44%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 418 (100.00%) GitHub
2 255 (61.00%) AWS
3 237 (56.70%) Azure
4 138 (33.01%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (21.77%) GCP
6 85 (20.33%) Serverless
7 69 (16.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (14.83%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (11.96%) Amazon S3
10 48 (11.48%) Datadog
11 43 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (6.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
18 21 (5.02%) Entra ID
18 21 (5.02%) Firebase
19 20 (4.78%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.48%) Firewall
2 23 (5.50%) VPN
3 21 (5.02%) DNS
4 19 (4.55%) HTTP
5 17 (4.07%) Network Security
6 14 (3.35%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.11%) DMARC
8 11 (2.63%) DSL
9 7 (1.67%) WAN
10 5 (1.20%) SAN
11 4 (0.96%) SSL
12 3 (0.72%) RTP
12 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.72%) VoIP
12 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
13 2 (0.48%) BGP
13 2 (0.48%) SSH
13 2 (0.48%) VLAN
14 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.66%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.02%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (4.78%) DynamoDB
5 16 (3.83%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.59%) MySQL
7 14 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (3.35%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.15%) Power BI
9 8 (1.91%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.20%) Big Data
11 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.20%) Redis
11 5 (1.20%) Tableau
12 4 (0.96%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 163 (39.00%) Jenkins
2 79 (18.90%) Git
3 63 (15.07%) GitLab
4 27 (6.46%) JIRA
5 20 (4.78%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 15 (3.59%) XCTest
7 12 (2.87%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.39%) Postman
9 9 (2.15%) Selenium
10 8 (1.91%) fastlane
10 8 (1.91%) Gradle
11 7 (1.67%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.67%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.67%) Storybook
11 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.44%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.44%) Gatling
13 5 (1.20%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 122 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.40%) Finance
3 33 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.74%) Retail
6 22 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.07%) Banking
8 15 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.35%) Law
10 8 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.20%) Advertising
13 4 (0.96%) Automotive
14 3 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.72%) Military
15 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (24.88%) Senior
2 92 (22.01%) Developer
3 75 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.59%) Platform Engineer
5 53 (12.68%) Lead
6 47 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (6.94%) Security Engineer
9 27 (6.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 27 (6.46%) Senior Developer
10 26 (6.22%) Architect
11 24 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (5.02%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) Java Developer
15 18 (4.31%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.83%) .NET Developer
16 16 (3.83%) Cloud Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.70%) Node.js
2 61 (14.59%) React
3 49 (11.72%) CSS
4 45 (10.77%) .NET
5 38 (9.09%) OAuth
6 35 (8.37%) HTML
6 35 (8.37%) RESTful
7 34 (8.13%) REST
8 33 (7.89%) Spring Boot
9 28 (6.70%) YAML
10 27 (6.46%) Spring
11 24 (5.74%) AngularJS
12 23 (5.50%) OAuth2
13 20 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.55%) AWS CDK
15 18 (4.31%) Web Services
16 17 (4.07%) Playwright
17 16 (3.83%) Vue
18 15 (3.59%) UIKit
19 14 (3.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 113 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.18%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.59%) Private Cloud
8 14 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.35%) PKI
9 12 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.67%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.44%) Blog
13 6 (1.44%) CMDB
13 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.96%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.07%) Linux
2 20 (4.78%) Apple iOS
3 19 (4.55%) Windows
4 11 (2.63%) Android
5 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.48%) Debian
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (93.06%) CI/CD
2 267 (63.88%) DevOps
3 228 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 118 (28.23%) Agile
6 100 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (23.21%) Observability
8 89 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (19.62%) Platform Engineering
9 82 (19.62%) Test Automation
10 76 (18.18%) AI
11 75 (17.94%) Mentoring
12 72 (17.22%) Cloud Security
12 72 (17.22%) Software Engineering
13 70 (16.75%) Analytics
14 59 (14.11%) DevSecOps
15 57 (13.64%) Clean Code
15 57 (13.64%) Incident Response
15 57 (13.64%) Microservices
16 56 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (46.17%) Python
2 92 (22.01%) Bash
3 76 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 74 (17.70%) PowerShell
5 67 (16.03%) SQL
6 65 (15.55%) Java
7 63 (15.07%) JavaScript
8 48 (11.48%) Go
9 38 (9.09%) Kotlin
10 32 (7.66%) C#
11 25 (5.98%) Bicep
12 16 (3.83%) Swift
13 15 (3.59%) Groovy
14 13 (3.11%) Rust
15 12 (2.87%) Ruby
15 12 (2.87%) Scala
16 8 (1.91%) PHP
17 7 (1.67%) Dart
18 6 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 54 (12.92%) Degree
2 52 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.13%) AWS Certification
4 33 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.78%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.35%) OSCP
8 13 (3.11%) CISSP
9 9 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.91%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.91%) SANS
11 5 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.72%) GCIA
13 3 (0.72%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.13%) QA
2 33 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.18%) Accessibility
4 24 (5.74%) SOC 2
5 14 (3.35%) WCAG
6 13 (3.11%) GRC
7 12 (2.87%) GDPR
8 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.67%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.20%) NCSC
12 4 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.72%) NIST
14 2 (0.48%) IFRS
14 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.48%) SLA
14 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 145 (34.69%) Docker
2 24 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 232 (55.50%) Terraform
2 161 (38.52%) Kubernetes
3 67 (16.03%) Ansible
3 67 (16.03%) Grafana
4 56 (13.40%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.31%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.35%) Argo
7 13 (3.11%) Cilium
8 9 (2.15%) Packer
9 8 (1.91%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.96%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.72%) Puppet
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.24%) Consul
13 1 (0.24%) Istio
13 1 (0.24%) Kibana
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
13 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.98%) VMware
3 18 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.07%) Google
5 14 (3.35%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.35%) Braze
5 14 (3.35%) Databricks
6 13 (3.11%) SendGrid
7 11 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.91%) New Relic
9 7 (1.67%) OneLogin
10 6 (1.44%) Cisco
10 6 (1.44%) EMC
10 6 (1.44%) F5
10 6 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.20%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.96%) Splunk
13 3 (0.72%) Intel
13 3 (0.72%) Varonis