GitHub Actions
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 653 621 526
Rank change year-on-year -32 -95 +269
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 255 393 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 0.89% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 198 235 234
10th Percentile £44,625 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £79,688 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,931 £117,236 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.75% -17.24%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub Actions.

Salary trend for GitHub Actions in the UK

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 -21 226 £65,000 -18.75% 90
UK excluding London -40 141 £62,500 -10.00% 40
Work from Home +14 115 £65,000 -18.75% 43
London +60 84 £75,000 -13.04% 47
North of England -16 55 £65,000 -18.37% 15
Midlands +39 30 £60,000 - 3
North West -11 29 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Yorkshire +29 25 £68,000 -2.08% 10
West Midlands +36 24 £60,000 - 1
South West -14 23 £67,500 -2.80% 8
South East +1 20 £68,750 +5.77% 8
East of England +14 10 £65,000 +30.00% 2
East Midlands - 5 £46,250 - 2
Scotland -83 2 £94,637 +57.73% 1
North East -4 1 £55,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £47,500 -

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 25 (9.80%) Apache
2 14 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.71%) nginx
4 9 (3.53%) Confluence
5 6 (2.35%) IIS
6 4 (1.57%) CMS
6 4 (1.57%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 255 (100.00%) GitHub
2 149 (58.43%) AWS
3 132 (51.76%) Azure
4 90 (35.29%) GCP
5 40 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (11.76%) Serverless
7 27 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (8.24%) PaaS
9 19 (7.45%) SaaS
10 15 (5.88%) IaaS
11 13 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (5.10%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.92%) Datadog
13 10 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.53%) npm
14 9 (3.53%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.75%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.75%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) DNS
2 13 (5.10%) Firewall
3 6 (2.35%) VPN
4 5 (1.96%) MQTT
4 5 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) Network Security
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (12.55%) MySQL
3 23 (9.02%) NoSQL
4 21 (8.24%) Redis
5 15 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 15 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.49%) Big Data
7 13 (5.10%) Data Lake
8 11 (4.31%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.92%) Looker
9 10 (3.92%) Tableau
10 9 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (3.14%) Apache Hive
11 8 (3.14%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.14%) Flink
11 8 (3.14%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.14%) Parquet
12 7 (2.75%) GIS
12 7 (2.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (22.75%) Jenkins
2 56 (21.96%) Git
3 53 (20.78%) CircleCI
4 47 (18.43%) GitLab
5 27 (10.59%) JIRA
6 20 (7.84%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.31%) Selenium
8 9 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (3.14%) CMake
9 8 (3.14%) git-flow
10 7 (2.75%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.75%) PHPUnit
11 6 (2.35%) Maven
11 6 (2.35%) Postman
12 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.57%) JMeter
12 4 (1.57%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (21.18%) Finance
2 53 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.82%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.80%) Retail
6 22 (8.63%) Banking
7 19 (7.45%) Marketing
7 19 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (5.88%) Legal
10 8 (3.14%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.35%) Electronics
11 6 (2.35%) Games
11 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.78%) Law
15 1 (0.39%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 83 (32.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (28.24%) Developer
3 61 (23.92%) Senior
4 27 (10.59%) Lead
4 27 (10.59%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
5 21 (8.24%) Software Developer
6 20 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
6 20 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 20 (7.84%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.88%) C# Developer
10 12 (4.71%) C# Software Developer
11 11 (4.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.31%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.31%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.65%) React
2 35 (13.73%) .NET
3 34 (13.33%) Node.js
4 28 (10.98%) Kafka
5 22 (8.63%) .NET Core
5 22 (8.63%) HTML
6 19 (7.45%) CSS
7 18 (7.06%) RESTful
8 17 (6.67%) Vue
9 15 (5.88%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.49%) JSON
10 14 (5.49%) REST
11 13 (5.10%) HTML5
11 13 (5.10%) Laravel
12 12 (4.71%) PySpark
13 11 (4.31%) Ruby on Rails
14 10 (3.92%) Django
14 10 (3.92%) Next.js
15 9 (3.53%) Flask
15 9 (3.53%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.51%) Public Cloud
2 34 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.63%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.71%) IoT
6 9 (3.53%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.14%) Distributed Applications
7 8 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.14%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.96%) Replication
9 3 (1.18%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.18%) Tandem
10 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (24.31%) Linux
2 19 (7.45%) Windows
3 9 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.75%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.57%) VMS
6 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 150 (58.82%) DevOps
3 111 (43.53%) Agile
4 98 (38.43%) Software Engineering
5 94 (36.86%) Containerisation
6 87 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (22.35%) Test Automation
8 55 (21.57%) Deployment Automation
9 50 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 39 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.73%) Full Stack Development
12 34 (13.33%) TDD
13 30 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (11.76%) SDLC
14 29 (11.37%) Continuous Delivery
15 28 (10.98%) Analytics
15 28 (10.98%) Collaborative Working
15 28 (10.98%) Microservices
16 27 (10.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (34.12%) Python
2 54 (21.18%) Go
3 43 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 38 (14.90%) Java
5 37 (14.51%) C#
6 31 (12.16%) TypeScript
7 29 (11.37%) SQL
8 28 (10.98%) Bash
9 24 (9.41%) PowerShell
10 22 (8.63%) Ruby
11 14 (5.49%) PHP
12 11 (4.31%) Shell Script
13 10 (3.92%) Scala
14 8 (3.14%) Bicep
15 6 (2.35%) R
16 5 (1.96%) Ada
16 5 (1.96%) C
16 5 (1.96%) JSX
16 5 (1.96%) Rust
17 3 (1.18%) Dart
Qualifications
1 33 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.98%) Degree
3 25 (9.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.57%) ISEB
8 4 (1.57%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.10%) NCSC
2 12 (4.71%) GDPR
2 12 (4.71%) QA
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (42.75%) Docker
2 8 (3.14%) HDFS
3 7 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 135 (52.94%) Terraform
2 115 (45.10%) Kubernetes
3 52 (20.39%) Ansible
4 17 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 10 (3.92%) Grafana
5 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.53%) Puppet
7 8 (3.14%) Argo
8 6 (2.35%) Kibana
9 4 (1.57%) Istio
10 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.39%) Consul
11 1 (0.39%) Packer
11 1 (0.39%) Podman
11 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (9.02%) Google
2 21 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.49%) Databricks
4 9 (3.53%) Splunk
5 8 (3.14%) Cloudera
6 7 (2.75%) McAfee
7 6 (2.35%) SAP
8 5 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.96%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.18%) New Relic
10 2 (0.78%) Twitter
11 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.39%) Thales
11 1 (0.39%) UiPath