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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

github actions

302 live US technical postings name github actions in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 302 postings naming github actions that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer43.4%
  2. 2Software Engineer39.1%
  3. 3Data Engineer5.3%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5%
  5. 5Security Engineer4.3%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer1.7%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where github actions is named
n = 48
10th
$125k
25th
$136k
Median
$180k
75th
$208k
90th
$240k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18.9%
  2. 2New York, NY11.9%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA9.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.6%
  5. 5Boston, MA3.6%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.3%
  7. 7Washington, DC3%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.