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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

github actions

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 728 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 Engineer42%
  2. 2Software Engineer39.8%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer5.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer4%
  5. 5Security Engineer3%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Backend Engineer1.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.4%

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 = 427
10th
$130k
25th
$155k
Median
$182k
75th
$209k
90th
$233k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.4%
  3. 3New York, NY10.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.6%
  5. 5Boston, MA3.6%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.7%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.5%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.