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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 473 564
Rank change year-on-year +55 +91 -10
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 435 227 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.42% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 305 180 216
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -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 27,899 15,975 26,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 32.22% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,410 11,083 19,465
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,445 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.03% -5.71% -2.73%

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 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Top 16 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 6 August 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 +55 375 £65,250 -13.00% 393
UK excluding London +56 253 £65,000 +0.78% 193
London -28 141 £77,500 - 232
Work from Home +4 132 £65,000 -10.34% 195
North of England +45 106 £65,000 -5.11% 86
South East +5 56 £62,500 +13.64% 45
Yorkshire +14 48 £65,000 -5.11% 28
North West +28 39 £65,500 -12.67% 48
Midlands -21 33 £65,000 -3.70% 17
South West -51 23 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Wales -39 22 £60,000 +2.13% 8
East Midlands +2 21 £70,000 +29.63% 1
North East -37 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
West Midlands -30 12 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Scotland +22 7 £73,750 +2.08% 9
East of England -26 6 £77,575 +14.93% 9

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 13 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.07%) Apache
2 9 (2.07%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.46%) CICS
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 435 (100.00%) GitHub
2 281 (64.60%) AWS
3 250 (57.47%) Azure
4 134 (30.80%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (21.38%) GCP
6 86 (19.77%) Serverless
7 77 (17.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (15.40%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (12.64%) Amazon S3
10 54 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (11.72%) Datadog
12 48 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (5.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 22 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (5.06%) Firebase
17 21 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (4.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.13%) Firewall
2 16 (3.68%) DNS
2 16 (3.68%) Network Security
2 16 (3.68%) VPN
3 13 (2.99%) DMARC
4 10 (2.30%) HTTP
5 8 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.15%) DSL
6 5 (1.15%) SAN
7 4 (0.92%) SSH
7 4 (0.92%) SSL
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.46%) WAN
9 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 33 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (7.13%) DynamoDB
5 28 (6.44%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.52%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.91%) Delta Lake
8 16 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.22%) MySQL
9 14 (3.22%) Power BI
10 11 (2.53%) Redis
11 8 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.84%) Tableau
12 7 (1.61%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.38%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.92%) Big Data
15 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 165 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 91 (20.92%) Git
3 69 (15.86%) GitLab
4 30 (6.90%) JIRA
5 23 (5.29%) Cypress.io
6 20 (4.60%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.45%) Postman
7 15 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 15 (3.45%) XCTest
8 14 (3.22%) Selenium
9 9 (2.07%) JUnit
10 8 (1.84%) fastlane
10 8 (1.84%) Gradle
10 8 (1.84%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.61%) NUnit
11 7 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.38%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.38%) Gatling
12 6 (1.38%) Storybook
12 6 (1.38%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 61 (14.02%) Finance
3 46 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.83%) Retail
7 19 (4.37%) Banking
8 15 (3.45%) Law
9 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.84%) Marketing
10 8 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.15%) Military
13 4 (0.92%) Automotive
14 3 (0.69%) Advertising
14 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (25.75%) Senior
2 103 (23.68%) Developer
3 67 (15.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (14.48%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (13.56%) Lead
6 42 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Architect
9 26 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (5.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.75%) Security Engineer
11 22 (5.06%) Data Engineer
11 22 (5.06%) Java Developer
11 22 (5.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.06%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.83%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.68%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (21.15%) Node.js
2 75 (17.24%) React
3 61 (14.02%) .NET
4 52 (11.95%) Spring Boot
5 50 (11.49%) CSS
6 47 (10.80%) RESTful
7 44 (10.11%) REST
7 44 (10.11%) Spring
8 35 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 35 (8.05%) OAuth
9 33 (7.59%) HTML
10 26 (5.98%) OAuth2
11 25 (5.75%) YAML
12 24 (5.52%) Playwright
13 23 (5.29%) Jest
14 20 (4.60%) Vue
14 20 (4.60%) Web Services
15 19 (4.37%) .NET Framework
16 18 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (4.14%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.13%) Mobile App
3 26 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.68%) Mainframe
7 16 (3.68%) PKI
8 14 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.76%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.07%) Blog
13 7 (1.61%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.38%) CMDB
14 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.86%) Linux
2 22 (5.06%) Apple iOS
3 20 (4.60%) Windows
4 13 (2.99%) Android
5 9 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.15%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) AIX
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (94.25%) CI/CD
2 277 (63.68%) DevOps
3 225 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (34.02%) Containerisation
5 131 (30.11%) Agile
6 105 (24.14%) Observability
7 101 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
9 93 (21.38%) Test Automation
10 92 (21.15%) AI
10 92 (21.15%) Software Engineering
11 82 (18.85%) Mentoring
12 71 (16.32%) Analytics
13 70 (16.09%) Microservices
14 67 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 65 (14.94%) Cloud Security
16 64 (14.71%) Clean Code
17 52 (11.95%) Incident Response
18 51 (11.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 185 (42.53%) Python
2 90 (20.69%) Java
3 87 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 78 (17.93%) Bash
5 72 (16.55%) JavaScript
6 66 (15.17%) PowerShell
6 66 (15.17%) SQL
7 42 (9.66%) Kotlin
8 37 (8.51%) Go
9 34 (7.82%) C#
10 25 (5.75%) Bicep
11 20 (4.60%) Ruby
12 18 (4.14%) Swift
13 16 (3.68%) Groovy
14 14 (3.22%) Scala
15 12 (2.76%) PHP
16 11 (2.53%) COBOL
17 7 (1.61%) Rust
18 6 (1.38%) Dart
19 5 (1.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 62 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.26%) Degree
3 43 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 24 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.29%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.61%) OSCP
10 6 (1.38%) CISSP
10 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.15%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.69%) OCP
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.20%) QA
2 33 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.06%) WCAG
5 18 (4.14%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.99%) GRC
7 11 (2.53%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.61%) NCSC
9 6 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.15%) GDPR
10 5 (1.15%) NIST
11 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS
12 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 161 (37.01%) Docker
2 14 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) Firmware
4 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 229 (52.64%) Terraform
2 167 (38.39%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.48%) Grafana
4 54 (12.41%) Ansible
5 52 (11.95%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.83%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.68%) Argo
8 13 (2.99%) Cilium
9 10 (2.30%) Packer
10 4 (0.92%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.92%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.69%) Puppet
12 2 (0.46%) logstash
13 1 (0.23%) Consul
13 1 (0.23%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) Kibana
13 1 (0.23%) linkerd
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 49 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.06%) VMware
3 21 (4.83%) Databricks
3 21 (4.83%) Dynatrace
4 18 (4.14%) Google
5 16 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.22%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.22%) Braze
6 14 (3.22%) New Relic
7 13 (2.99%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.99%) SendGrid
8 8 (1.84%) Splunk
9 6 (1.38%) Cisco
9 6 (1.38%) EMC
9 6 (1.38%) F5
9 6 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.15%) Oracle
11 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.69%) Broadcom