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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 447 628
Rank change year-on-year +91 +181 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 400 206 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.36% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 294 161 172
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £62,500 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -10.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,875 £106,250 £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 25,684 15,125 33,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.07% 36.98% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,609 10,999 26,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,200 £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 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 3 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 3 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 +38 324 £70,000 -6.67% 190
UK excluding London +40 204 £62,500 -8.09% 130
Work from Home +69 173 £65,500 -9.66% 118
London +47 149 £80,000 -8.57% 101
North of England -23 70 £60,000 -11.76% 40
Yorkshire -30 38 £60,000 +21.21% 14
South West -27 36 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -27 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +3 31 £85,000 +44.68% 10
Midlands -40 21 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North West -19 20 £63,000 -16.00% 21
East Midlands -30 15 £75,000 +50.75% 3
North East -15 12 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East of England -21 6 £71,250 -6.56% 6
West Midlands -36 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Wales -28 4 £58,248 -10.39% 7
Northern Ireland -36 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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.50%) Apache
3 6 (1.50%) 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 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) GitHub
2 242 (60.50%) Azure
3 234 (58.50%) AWS
4 154 (38.50%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (26.00%) GCP
6 98 (24.50%) Serverless
7 70 (17.50%) Datadog
8 67 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (15.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (13.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (12.75%) Amazon S3
12 40 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (10.00%) Entra ID
13 38 (9.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
15 29 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (6.75%) Azure AKS
17 25 (6.25%) SaaS
18 23 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.25%) Firewall
2 23 (5.75%) VPN
3 22 (5.50%) DNS
4 21 (5.25%) HTTP
5 18 (4.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.00%) Network Security
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 43 (10.75%) NoSQL
2 41 (10.25%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.25%) 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%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Metadata
12 5 (1.25%) Power BI
13 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.00%) Tableau
13 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.75%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 152 (38.00%) Jenkins
2 80 (20.00%) Git
3 66 (16.50%) GitLab
4 22 (5.50%) JIRA
5 12 (3.00%) TeamCity
6 10 (2.50%) Crashlytics
6 10 (2.50%) 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 4 (1.00%) NUnit
12 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) fastlane
13 2 (0.50%) Gatling
13 2 (0.50%) git-flow
13 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 131 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 108 (27.00%) Finance
3 41 (10.25%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.75%) Banking
6 21 (5.25%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.25%) Retail
7 19 (4.75%) Law
8 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.00%) Front Office
10 10 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Back Office
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (23.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 91 (22.75%) Senior
3 81 (20.25%) Developer
4 48 (12.00%) Lead
5 40 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (7.25%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.75%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (5.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.25%) Architect
12 20 (5.00%) Senior Developer
13 19 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
15 16 (4.00%) AWS Developer
16 15 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.50%) React
2 62 (15.50%) .NET
3 44 (11.00%) Node.js
4 43 (10.75%) RESTful
5 39 (9.75%) OAuth
6 30 (7.50%) AWS CDK
7 29 (7.25%) CSS
7 29 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (6.50%) .NET Core
9 24 (6.00%) HTML
10 22 (5.50%) ADO
11 21 (5.25%) SAML
12 20 (5.00%) YAML
13 19 (4.75%) ASP.NET
13 19 (4.75%) REST
14 18 (4.50%) Kafka
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 88 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.75%) Mobile App
4 16 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.00%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.50%) PKI
9 6 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.00%) Blog
11 4 (1.00%) CMDB
12 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.00%) Linux
2 17 (4.25%) Windows
3 13 (3.25%) VMS
4 12 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.75%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (92.75%) CI/CD
2 289 (72.25%) DevOps
3 218 (54.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (37.75%) Containerisation
5 123 (30.75%) Agile
6 119 (29.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 118 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (27.75%) Observability
9 71 (17.75%) Incident Response
9 71 (17.75%) Test Automation
10 67 (16.75%) Cloud Security
10 67 (16.75%) DevSecOps
11 60 (15.00%) AI
11 60 (15.00%) Analytics
11 60 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
12 59 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 58 (14.50%) Deployment Automation
14 52 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
15 50 (12.50%) RBAC
16 49 (12.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 200 (50.00%) Python
2 111 (27.75%) Bash
3 86 (21.50%) SQL
4 74 (18.50%) TypeScript
5 70 (17.50%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.75%) JavaScript
7 56 (14.00%) Go
8 33 (8.25%) Bicep
9 31 (7.75%) Java
10 24 (6.00%) C#
11 19 (4.75%) Kotlin
12 15 (3.75%) Rust
13 12 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (2.50%) 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%) PHP
19 3 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (15.50%) Degree
2 40 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (9.75%) AWS Certification
4 30 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.50%) CISSP
6 18 (4.50%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.00%) CREST Certified
7 16 (4.00%) SANS
8 15 (3.75%) OSCP
9 13 (3.25%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.50%) CCSP
14 2 (0.50%) CISM
14 2 (0.50%) GCIA
14 2 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 34 (8.50%) QA
2 29 (7.25%) GDPR
3 27 (6.75%) SOC 2
4 18 (4.50%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.75%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.25%) GRC
7 6 (1.50%) SLA
8 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.00%) NIST
10 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (39.00%) Docker
2 41 (10.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (59.25%) Terraform
2 168 (42.00%) Kubernetes
3 85 (21.25%) Grafana
4 82 (20.50%) Ansible
5 79 (19.75%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.25%) Argo
7 10 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.25%) Cilium
9 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.25%) 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%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.25%) Icinga
14 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 68 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.75%) VMware
3 18 (4.50%) Google
4 16 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.00%) Zscaler
6 10 (2.50%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.25%) Amplitude
7 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.00%) Databricks
9 6 (1.50%) SAP
9 6 (1.50%) Splunk
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco
10 4 (1.00%) EMC
10 4 (1.00%) F5
10 4 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow