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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 439 637
Rank change year-on-year +59 +198 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 401 203 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.35% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 287 159 189
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,400 £43,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £103,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,750 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.72% +8.80% -10.00%

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 27,729 15,047 34,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.96% 35.56% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14,373 11,044 26,682
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,373 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +8.47% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 28 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 28 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 +46 333 £72,500 -3.33% 159
UK excluding London +32 209 £62,750 -7.72% 118
Work from Home +62 163 £65,000 -10.34% 99
London +46 151 £80,000 -3.03% 73
North of England -3 81 £60,000 -11.76% 33
Yorkshire -31 42 £60,000 +21.21% 10
South West -39 35 £75,000 +15.38% 12
South East -30 34 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Scotland +3 28 £85,000 +36.00% 9
North West -11 27 £63,000 -16.00% 21
Midlands -36 19 £65,000 -11.86% 11
East Midlands -30 15 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -34 12 £47,500 -17.39% 2
East of England -21 5 £75,000 -1.64% 7
Wales -30 5 £61,496 -5.39% 7
West Midlands -34 4 £62,500 -16.67% 6
Northern Ireland -37 2 £62,500 - 3

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 10 (2.49%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) Apache
3 8 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.00%) 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%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
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
1 401 (100.00%) GitHub
2 244 (60.85%) Azure
3 226 (56.36%) AWS
4 158 (39.40%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (24.19%) GCP
6 96 (23.94%) Serverless
7 68 (16.96%) Datadog
8 64 (15.96%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (14.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (12.22%) Amazon S3
11 47 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (9.98%) Entra ID
13 37 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
14 33 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
16 29 (7.23%) Azure AKS
17 22 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (4.49%) SaaS
19 17 (4.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.97%) Firewall
2 24 (5.99%) VPN
3 23 (5.74%) DNS
4 21 (5.24%) HTTP
5 18 (4.49%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.99%) Network Security
7 13 (3.24%) DSL
7 13 (3.24%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) SSL
9 3 (0.75%) RTP
9 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.75%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
10 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.23%) NoSQL
2 36 (8.98%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.24%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.24%) Flink
8 9 (2.24%) MySQL
9 8 (2.00%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.75%) Metadata
10 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.25%) Power BI
11 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.00%) Tableau
12 4 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 150 (37.41%) Jenkins
2 75 (18.70%) Git
3 63 (15.71%) GitLab
4 23 (5.74%) JIRA
5 12 (2.99%) Crashlytics
5 12 (2.99%) XCTest
6 11 (2.74%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.00%) Subversion
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.50%) Storybook
8 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.75%) Appium
9 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.75%) NUnit
9 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.50%) MLflow
10 2 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 130 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.19%) Finance
3 37 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 32 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.24%) Retail
7 19 (4.74%) Banking
7 19 (4.74%) Law
8 13 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.49%) Front Office
10 7 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.50%) Electronics
11 6 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Billing
13 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 98 (24.44%) Senior
2 90 (22.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (19.20%) Developer
4 47 (11.72%) Lead
5 45 (11.22%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (6.48%) .NET Developer
9 24 (5.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 24 (5.99%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.49%) Architect
10 22 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.74%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.24%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.99%) AWS Developer
14 16 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.74%) Python Developer
16 14 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.96%) React
2 55 (13.72%) .NET
3 47 (11.72%) Node.js
4 38 (9.48%) OAuth
5 37 (9.23%) RESTful
6 32 (7.98%) CSS
7 28 (6.98%) AWS CDK
8 26 (6.48%) HTML
9 24 (5.99%) .NET Core
9 24 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (5.24%) ADO
10 21 (5.24%) SAML
11 19 (4.74%) REST
12 18 (4.49%) Kafka
12 18 (4.49%) YAML
13 17 (4.24%) ASP.NET
14 16 (3.99%) .NET Framework
14 16 (3.99%) OAuth2
15 15 (3.74%) AngularJS
15 15 (3.74%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.49%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.49%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.00%) PKI
11 8 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.25%) CMDB
13 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.25%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.97%) Linux
2 16 (3.99%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.74%) Windows
4 13 (3.24%) VMS
5 8 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.25%) Android
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Debian
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (93.52%) CI/CD
2 288 (71.82%) DevOps
3 219 (54.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (35.41%) Containerisation
5 120 (29.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (29.68%) Observability
7 118 (29.43%) Agile
8 115 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (17.71%) Analytics
10 69 (17.21%) Test Automation
11 68 (16.96%) Cloud Security
11 68 (16.96%) Incident Response
12 66 (16.46%) DevSecOps
12 66 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (15.46%) AI
13 62 (15.46%) Deployment Automation
14 59 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 54 (13.47%) Mentoring
16 51 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
17 50 (12.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 202 (50.37%) Python
2 108 (26.93%) Bash
3 83 (20.70%) SQL
4 76 (18.95%) TypeScript
5 73 (18.20%) PowerShell
6 60 (14.96%) JavaScript
7 55 (13.72%) Go
8 32 (7.98%) Java
9 31 (7.73%) Bicep
10 22 (5.49%) C#
10 22 (5.49%) Kotlin
11 15 (3.74%) Rust
12 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (2.99%) Swift
13 7 (1.75%) C++
14 6 (1.50%) Dart
14 6 (1.50%) Scala
15 5 (1.25%) Groovy
15 5 (1.25%) PHP
16 4 (1.00%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (14.96%) Degree
2 36 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (8.23%) AWS Certification
4 29 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.99%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.24%) CISSP
7 16 (3.99%) OSCP
7 16 (3.99%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.49%) CREST Certified
8 14 (3.49%) SANS
9 11 (2.74%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.75%) CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
13 3 (0.75%) GCIA
13 3 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (7.73%) QA
3 28 (6.98%) GDPR
4 26 (6.48%) SOC 2
5 17 (4.24%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
7 8 (2.00%) GRC
7 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.50%) SLA
9 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.00%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS
11 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.50%) WCAG
12 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 150 (37.41%) Docker
2 42 (10.47%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 241 (60.10%) Terraform
2 164 (40.90%) Kubernetes
3 81 (20.20%) Ansible
3 81 (20.20%) Grafana
4 74 (18.45%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.74%) Argo
6 9 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.00%) Cilium
7 8 (2.00%) Packer
7 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.00%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.00%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.00%) logstash
9 3 (0.75%) Puppet
9 3 (0.75%) Rancher
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.25%) Icinga
11 1 (0.25%) Kibana
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 71 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.99%) VMware
3 17 (4.24%) Google
3 17 (4.24%) Palo Alto
4 12 (2.99%) Databricks
4 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
5 11 (2.74%) Amplitude
5 11 (2.74%) Braze
5 11 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.24%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.50%) SAP
9 5 (1.25%) Cisco
9 5 (1.25%) EMC
9 5 (1.25%) F5
9 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.75%) Tenable