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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

github actions

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 747 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 Engineer40%
  2. 2Software Engineer39.1%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer6%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.4%
  5. 5Security Engineer3.3%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  8. 8AI Engineer1.5%

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 = 435
10th
$130k
25th
$157k
Median
$184k
75th
$209k
90th
$232k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA11%
  3. 3New York, NY9.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.7%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.3%
  8. 8Dallas, TX2.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.