Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 11 August 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
11 Aug 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 408 444 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 606 200 0
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.49% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.02% -
Number of salaries quoted 194 108 0
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,101 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 -
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,375 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37,019 19,700 3,846
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 48.81% 48.35% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 20,767 15,271 3,372
10th Percentile £36,429 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £83,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,290 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% +4.55%

GitHub Actions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 11 August 2022.

GitHub Actions salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 11 August 2022, GitHub Actions job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for GitHub Actions.

1 606 (100.00%) GitHub
2 387 (63.86%) CI/CD
3 340 (56.11%) AWS
4 316 (52.15%) Docker
5 255 (42.08%) Kubernetes
6 251 (41.42%) Node.js
7 246 (40.59%) Git (software)
8 243 (40.10%) React
9 238 (39.27%) TypeScript
10 236 (38.94%) Software Engineering
11 228 (37.62%) Jenkins
12 227 (37.46%) JavaScript
13 213 (35.15%) DevOps
14 203 (33.50%) Agile
15 185 (30.53%) Terraform
16 182 (30.03%) GCP
17 165 (27.23%) Python
18 162 (26.73%) PostgreSQL
19 157 (25.91%) Full Stack Development
20 138 (22.77%) Azure
21 129 (21.29%) Test Automation
22 128 (21.12%) Continuous Integration
23 122 (20.13%) Finance
24 115 (18.98%) Linux
25 114 (18.81%) GraphQL
26 113 (18.65%) Elasticsearch
27 111 (18.32%) Amazon S3
28 110 (18.15%) SQL
28 110 (18.15%) Redis
28 110 (18.15%) Serverless

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (6.60%) Confluence
2 39 (6.44%) Jupyter
3 32 (5.28%) Apache
4 28 (4.62%) Apache Solr
5 15 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.65%) Ethereum
7 9 (1.49%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.66%) WordPress
10 2 (0.33%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 21 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.32%) Campfire
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (3.47%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.99%) Magento
2 6 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 606 (100.00%) GitHub
2 340 (56.11%) AWS
3 182 (30.03%) GCP
4 138 (22.77%) Azure
5 111 (18.32%) Amazon S3
6 110 (18.15%) Serverless
7 108 (17.82%) Amazon EC2
8 82 (13.53%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
10 69 (11.39%) Pulumi
11 53 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (7.26%) Slack
14 40 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 39 (6.44%) CloudFront
16 35 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
17 34 (5.61%) Amazon Cognito
17 34 (5.61%) Google Workspace
18 31 (5.12%) DigitalOcean
19 28 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.78%) DNS
2 29 (4.79%) Firewall
3 24 (3.96%) HTTP
4 22 (3.63%) DSL
5 21 (3.47%) LAN
6 15 (2.48%) Skype
7 10 (1.65%) Internet
7 10 (1.65%) Network Security
8 9 (1.49%) VPN
9 3 (0.50%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.50%) SMTP
9 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.33%) Broadband
10 2 (0.33%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
11 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (26.73%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (18.65%) Elasticsearch
3 110 (18.15%) Redis
4 70 (11.55%) MySQL
5 65 (10.73%) Amazon RDS
6 59 (9.74%) DynamoDB
7 40 (6.60%) BigQuery
8 39 (6.44%) Big Data
9 29 (4.79%) MongoDB
10 26 (4.29%) SQL Server
11 22 (3.63%) Electronic Patient Records
11 22 (3.63%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.65%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
18 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 2 (0.33%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 246 (40.59%) Git (software)
2 228 (37.62%) Jenkins
3 67 (11.06%) Cypress.io
3 67 (11.06%) JIRA
4 60 (9.90%) GitLab
5 57 (9.41%) CircleCI
6 42 (6.93%) webpack
7 29 (4.79%) SonarQube
8 28 (4.62%) Selenium
9 26 (4.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 25 (4.13%) Travis CI
11 22 (3.63%) Spinnaker
12 15 (2.48%) Bitbucket
13 13 (2.15%) Maven
14 12 (1.98%) Artifactory
14 12 (1.98%) Babel
14 12 (1.98%) Gradle
15 9 (1.49%) Burp Suite
15 9 (1.49%) GoCD
15 9 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 122 (20.13%) Finance
2 74 (12.21%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.42%) Retail
4 49 (8.09%) Banking
5 46 (7.59%) Games
6 40 (6.60%) Marketing
7 24 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.48%) Advertising
8 15 (2.48%) Retail Finance
9 13 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.83%) Legal
14 4 (0.66%) Publishing
14 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.50%) Electronics
16 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.17%) Agriculture
17 1 (0.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 203 (33.50%) Developer
2 146 (24.09%) Software Engineer
3 91 (15.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (11.06%) Senior Developer
5 58 (9.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 46 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (6.27%) Senior DevOps
8 38 (6.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 37 (6.11%) PHP Developer
10 36 (5.94%) Backend Developer
11 31 (5.12%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.12%) JavaScript Developer
12 23 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.47%) Unix Scripter
15 18 (2.97%) SaaS Developer
16 17 (2.81%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (41.42%) Node.js
2 243 (40.10%) React
3 114 (18.81%) GraphQL
4 104 (17.16%) CSS
5 91 (15.02%) Jest
6 81 (13.37%) Kafka
7 57 (9.41%) HTML
8 55 (9.08%) Apollo GraphQL
9 46 (7.59%) REST
10 43 (7.10%) jQuery
11 40 (6.60%) Lambda Expressions
11 40 (6.60%) Redux
11 40 (6.60%) Symfony
12 37 (6.11%) .NET
13 35 (5.78%) Laravel
13 35 (5.78%) Spring
14 33 (5.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 32 (5.28%) Next.js
16 30 (4.95%) OAuth
16 30 (4.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.07%) NHS
2 52 (8.58%) User Experience
3 46 (7.59%) Blog
3 46 (7.59%) FMCG
4 44 (7.26%) Virtual Team
5 43 (7.10%) Cloud Native
6 35 (5.78%) Hackathon
6 35 (5.78%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (4.62%) Social Media
8 23 (3.80%) Blockchain
9 18 (2.97%) Management Information System
10 15 (2.48%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.15%) BYOD
11 13 (2.15%) Mobile App
11 13 (2.15%) Podcast
11 13 (2.15%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.82%) SWIFT
13 10 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 115 (18.98%) Linux
2 51 (8.42%) Windows
3 40 (6.60%) Android
3 40 (6.60%) Apple iOS
4 29 (4.79%) Unix
5 26 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.47%) AIX
7 14 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (63.86%) CI/CD
2 236 (38.94%) Software Engineering
3 213 (35.15%) DevOps
4 203 (33.50%) Agile
5 157 (25.91%) Full Stack Development
6 129 (21.29%) Test Automation
7 128 (21.12%) Continuous Integration
8 105 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 96 (15.84%) Microservices
10 92 (15.18%) Analytics
11 87 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (12.38%) Fintech
12 75 (12.38%) Scrum
13 68 (11.22%) Containerisation
14 66 (10.89%) User Stories
15 64 (10.56%) Mathematics
16 63 (10.40%) SDLC
17 56 (9.24%) Computer Science
17 56 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (9.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 238 (39.27%) TypeScript
2 227 (37.46%) JavaScript
3 165 (27.23%) Python
4 110 (18.15%) SQL
5 101 (16.67%) PHP
6 100 (16.50%) Java
7 68 (11.22%) Bash
8 62 (10.23%) Go
9 57 (9.41%) C
10 50 (8.25%) Ruby
11 47 (7.76%) ES6
11 47 (7.76%) Kotlin
12 31 (5.12%) C++
13 29 (4.79%) C#
14 27 (4.46%) Scala
15 25 (4.13%) Groovy
16 21 (3.47%) SAPscript
17 19 (3.14%) Rust
18 14 (2.31%) Apple Swift
19 12 (1.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (12.71%) Degree
2 35 (5.78%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 6 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.33%) PMP
6 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.17%) OCP
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.56%) QA
2 20 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.82%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.32%) SEPA
6 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 316 (52.15%) Docker
2 49 (8.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) NFS
4 3 (0.50%) Samba
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 255 (42.08%) Kubernetes
2 185 (30.53%) Terraform
3 80 (13.20%) Ansible
4 56 (9.24%) Grafana
5 52 (8.58%) Prometheus
6 31 (5.12%) Packer
7 23 (3.80%) Graphite
8 22 (3.63%) StatsD
9 19 (3.14%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.82%) Kustomize
10 11 (1.82%) Podman
11 5 (0.83%) Opscode Chef
12 4 (0.66%) Argo
13 3 (0.50%) Istio
13 3 (0.50%) Rancher
14 2 (0.33%) Puppet
14 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.17%) Graylog
15 1 (0.17%) yum
Vendors
1 85 (14.03%) Google
2 59 (9.74%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.45%) Netlify
4 28 (4.62%) Brandwatch
5 27 (4.46%) Oracle
5 27 (4.46%) PagerDuty
6 24 (3.96%) SAP
7 21 (3.47%) SolarWinds
8 20 (3.30%) Red Hat
9 18 (2.97%) Siemens
10 17 (2.81%) Salesforce.com
11 15 (2.48%) WorldPay
12 9 (1.49%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.49%) VMware
12 9 (1.49%) YouTube
13 7 (1.16%) KANA
14 6 (0.99%) IBM
14 6 (0.99%) StarkWare
15 4 (0.66%) Databricks
15 4 (0.66%) Marketo