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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 433 641
Rank change year-on-year +56 +208 -39
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 204 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.36% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 286 158 183
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% -14.61%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -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 27,137 15,051 34,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 36.29% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14,059 11,050 26,810
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +31 329 £70,000 -6.67% 165
UK excluding London +32 206 £62,500 -8.09% 102
Work from Home +68 169 £65,508 -9.64% 111
London +52 152 £80,000 -5.88% 92
North of England -7 77 £60,000 -11.76% 32
Yorkshire -25 38 £60,000 +21.21% 9
South West -48 34 £75,000 +15.38% 13
South East -33 33 £62,500 -10.71% 27
Scotland +2 30 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West -11 27 £63,000 -16.00% 22
Midlands -43 21 £65,000 -5.45% 6
East Midlands -37 16 £75,000 +50.75% 2
North East -26 12 £47,500 -17.39% 1
East of England -26 5 £75,000 -1.64% 10
West Midlands -29 5 £62,500 -15.25% 4
Wales -32 4 £58,248 -10.39% 5
Northern Ireland -39 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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Appian
5 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 245 (61.25%) Azure
3 231 (57.75%) AWS
4 159 (39.75%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (25.75%) GCP
6 97 (24.25%) Serverless
7 69 (17.25%) Datadog
8 65 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (14.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (12.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (12.25%) Amazon S3
11 42 (10.50%) Entra ID
12 38 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (7.00%) Azure AKS
16 27 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (5.75%) SaaS
18 21 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (4.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.50%) Firewall
2 23 (5.75%) VPN
3 22 (5.50%) DNS
4 21 (5.25%) HTTP
5 19 (4.75%) Network Security
6 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.25%) DSL
8 12 (3.00%) WAN
9 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.75%) RTP
10 3 (0.75%) SSL
10 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.75%) VoIP
10 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.25%) Broadband
11 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 40 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 22 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.00%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.50%) Flink
8 9 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.00%) MySQL
10 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.50%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.50%) Metadata
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.25%) Power BI
12 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.00%) Tableau
13 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 147 (36.75%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.00%) Git
3 62 (15.50%) GitLab
4 24 (6.00%) JIRA
5 14 (3.50%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.75%) Crashlytics
6 11 (2.75%) XCTest
7 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.25%) Subversion
8 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.75%) NUnit
11 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.50%) JMeter
12 2 (0.50%) Maven
12 2 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 131 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.25%) Finance
3 39 (9.75%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.00%) Banking
5 24 (6.00%) Retail
6 22 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.75%) Law
8 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.00%) Front Office
10 9 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Back Office
12 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Billing
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.25%) Senior
2 87 (21.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.25%) Developer
4 48 (12.00%) Lead
5 42 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.25%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.75%) Security Engineer
10 23 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.50%) Architect
11 22 (5.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (4.75%) Senior Developer
14 18 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.00%) AWS Developer
15 16 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
16 15 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.00%) React
2 60 (15.00%) .NET
3 45 (11.25%) Node.js
4 42 (10.50%) RESTful
5 39 (9.75%) OAuth
6 31 (7.75%) CSS
7 30 (7.50%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.50%) .NET Core
8 26 (6.50%) HTML
9 25 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
10 22 (5.50%) ADO
11 21 (5.25%) SAML
12 20 (5.00%) ASP.NET
13 19 (4.75%) REST
14 18 (4.50%) Kafka
14 18 (4.50%) YAML
15 17 (4.25%) .NET Framework
15 17 (4.25%) Blazor
15 17 (4.25%) OAuth2
16 16 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 91 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.00%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.00%) PKI
11 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
14 4 (1.00%) Blog
14 4 (1.00%) CMDB
15 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.00%) Linux
2 15 (3.75%) Windows
3 13 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.25%) VMS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.75%) Android
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) SUSE
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (93.25%) CI/CD
2 289 (72.25%) DevOps
3 218 (54.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (36.25%) Containerisation
5 122 (30.50%) Agile
6 121 (30.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (29.50%) Observability
9 73 (18.25%) Incident Response
10 70 (17.50%) Cloud Security
11 69 (17.25%) Test Automation
12 67 (16.75%) Analytics
13 66 (16.50%) DevSecOps
14 63 (15.75%) AI
15 62 (15.50%) Deployment Automation
16 61 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
17 60 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 51 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
18 51 (12.75%) Mentoring
19 49 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (50.00%) Python
2 110 (27.50%) Bash
3 84 (21.00%) SQL
4 74 (18.50%) TypeScript
5 72 (18.00%) PowerShell
6 61 (15.25%) JavaScript
7 58 (14.50%) Go
8 33 (8.25%) Bicep
9 32 (8.00%) Java
10 24 (6.00%) C#
11 20 (5.00%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.75%) Rust
13 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (2.75%) Swift
15 7 (1.75%) C++
16 6 (1.50%) Dart
16 6 (1.50%) Scala
17 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (1.00%) C
18 4 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (15.00%) Degree
2 39 (9.75%) AWS Certification
3 37 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (7.00%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.25%) CISSP
7 16 (4.00%) OSCP
8 15 (3.75%) SC Cleared
9 14 (3.50%) CREST Certified
9 14 (3.50%) SANS
10 12 (3.00%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CCSP
14 3 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (8.50%) QA
3 29 (7.25%) SOC 2
4 28 (7.00%) GDPR
5 16 (4.00%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.75%) GRC
6 11 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.25%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.50%) ECSS
10 2 (0.50%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (37.25%) Docker
2 43 (10.75%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 240 (60.00%) Terraform
2 163 (40.75%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.25%) Grafana
4 80 (20.00%) Ansible
5 75 (18.75%) Prometheus
6 24 (6.00%) Argo
7 11 (2.75%) Cilium
8 10 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.50%) Packer
11 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.00%) logstash
11 4 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.75%) Puppet
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
13 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 72 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.75%) VMware
3 18 (4.50%) Google
4 16 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.00%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.50%) Ab Initio
7 10 (2.50%) Amplitude
7 10 (2.50%) Braze
7 10 (2.50%) Databricks
8 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.00%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 4 (1.00%) Cisco
11 4 (1.00%) EMC
11 4 (1.00%) F5
11 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.00%) Splunk