GitHub Actions Jobs with Work from Home Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 479 396
Rank change year-on-year 0 -83 +78
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 110 189 579
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.46% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.95% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 95 129 178
10th Percentile £41,250 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £100,114 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,236 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,601 19,859 36,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.24% 47.88% 52.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,951 14,546 21,658
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,478
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 9 May 2024.

GitHub Actions salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (10.00%) nginx
2 7 (6.36%) Confluence
3 6 (5.45%) Apache
4 4 (3.64%) CMS
4 4 (3.64%) IIS
4 4 (3.64%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) GitHub
2 67 (60.91%) AWS
3 61 (55.45%) Azure
4 33 (30.00%) GCP
5 21 (19.09%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (14.55%) Serverless
7 15 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.82%) PaaS
9 12 (10.91%) SaaS
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 10 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (8.18%) IaaS
12 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.36%) npm
12 7 (6.36%) Yarn
13 5 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
13 5 (4.55%) Datadog
13 5 (4.55%) Vercel
14 4 (3.64%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) DNS
1 5 (4.55%) MQTT
1 5 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (4.55%) VPN
2 4 (3.64%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (18.18%) Redis
3 10 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.36%) GIS
5 6 (5.45%) MySQL
6 5 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.82%) Big Data
9 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (23.64%) GitLab
2 24 (21.82%) Git
3 20 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 17 (15.45%) CircleCI
5 13 (11.82%) SonarQube
6 10 (9.09%) JIRA
7 7 (6.36%) CMake
8 6 (5.45%) git-flow
9 5 (4.55%) Maven
9 5 (4.55%) Selenium
10 4 (3.64%) Postman
10 4 (3.64%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.82%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.91%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.91%) Gradle
12 1 (0.91%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.91%) Phabricator
12 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
General
1 32 (29.09%) Finance
2 21 (19.09%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (16.36%) Social Skills
4 17 (15.45%) Marketing
5 7 (6.36%) Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Electronics
6 6 (5.45%) Games
6 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Developer
2 29 (26.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (17.27%) Senior
4 16 (14.55%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (10.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Junior
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (5.45%) C# Developer
10 6 (5.45%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Geospatial Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior C# Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Junior Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Lead
11 5 (4.55%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.55%) Node.js
2 15 (13.64%) React
3 10 (9.09%) Django
4 9 (8.18%) Flask
4 9 (8.18%) JSON
4 9 (8.18%) Kafka
4 9 (8.18%) Vue
5 8 (7.27%) ARM Templates
5 8 (7.27%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (6.36%) Celery
6 7 (6.36%) Dask
6 7 (6.36%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.36%) HTML
6 7 (6.36%) NumPy
6 7 (6.36%) OpenAPI
6 7 (6.36%) Swagger
6 7 (6.36%) VuePress
7 6 (5.45%) .NET
7 6 (5.45%) CSS
7 6 (5.45%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Onboarding
2 14 (12.73%) Management Information System
3 12 (10.91%) Virtual Team
4 8 (7.27%) Private Cloud
4 8 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.55%) IoT
5 5 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.73%) Tandem
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) Online Games
9 1 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.09%) Linux
2 18 (16.36%) Windows
3 7 (6.36%) Apple iOS
3 7 (6.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (62.73%) CI/CD
2 64 (58.18%) DevOps
3 46 (41.82%) Software Engineering
4 45 (40.91%) Agile
5 34 (30.91%) Containerisation
6 32 (29.09%) Test Automation
7 30 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (20.91%) Deployment Automation
9 20 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (16.36%) DevSecOps
11 17 (15.45%) Mentoring
12 14 (12.73%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.82%) Computer Science
13 13 (11.82%) Release Management
13 13 (11.82%) SDLC
14 12 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (10.91%) Functional Testing
14 12 (10.91%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.18%) Go
1 31 (28.18%) Python
2 27 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 16 (14.55%) TypeScript
4 14 (12.73%) Java
5 13 (11.82%) Bash
6 10 (9.09%) C#
6 10 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.55%) Ada
7 5 (4.55%) C
7 5 (4.55%) JSX
7 5 (4.55%) R
8 2 (1.82%) SQL
9 1 (0.91%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (11.82%) Degree
4 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) NCSC
2 7 (6.36%) QA
3 1 (0.91%) NIST
3 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (45.45%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (50.00%) Terraform
2 36 (32.73%) Kubernetes
3 28 (25.45%) Ansible
4 10 (9.09%) Puppet
5 9 (8.18%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.27%) Grafana
7 5 (4.55%) Argo
7 5 (4.55%) Kibana
8 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.82%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.91%) Consul
10 1 (0.91%) Packer
10 1 (0.91%) Podman
10 1 (0.91%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.18%) Google
3 6 (5.45%) McAfee
3 6 (5.45%) SAP
3 6 (5.45%) Splunk
4 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.73%) Databricks
6 2 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.82%) New Relic
6 2 (1.82%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.91%) Thales
7 1 (0.91%) VMware