Hybrid/Remote GitHub Actions Job Trends

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GitHub Actions skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 346 431
Rank change year-on-year +30 +85 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 81 92
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.34% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 92 77 81
10th Percentile £42,975 £51,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,379 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -15.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £88,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,250 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% +15.38% -13.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

GitHub Actions falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,447 6,060 11,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.92% 36.80% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,035 4,472 9,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,614 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

GitHub Actions
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub Actions and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

GitHub Actions salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GitHub Actions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (66.67%) AWS
3 63 (47.73%) Azure
4 33 (25.00%) Serverless
5 31 (23.48%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (15.15%) GCP
8 17 (12.88%) Amazon S3
8 17 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.36%) Firebase
10 14 (10.61%) Stripe
10 14 (10.61%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (8.33%) PaaS
13 10 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.58%) Datadog
14 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) VPN
2 11 (8.33%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) DNS
4 4 (3.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.27%) HTTP
5 3 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (1.52%) RTP
6 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.52%) VoIP
6 2 (1.52%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.85%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.06%) MySQL
5 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.79%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.03%) Power BI
8 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.27%) Metadata
9 2 (1.52%) Big Data
9 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.52%) Tableau
10 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Git
2 31 (23.48%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.61%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.61%) XCTest
4 9 (6.82%) GitLab
4 9 (6.82%) JIRA
5 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.79%) Storybook
8 3 (2.27%) Postman
8 3 (2.27%) Selenium
9 2 (1.52%) Appium
9 2 (1.52%) MLflow
9 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.76%) git-flow
10 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.76%) Vite
10 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.06%) Finance
4 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.55%) Retail
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.27%) Military
7 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Aviation
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Local Government
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (28.79%) Senior
2 25 (18.94%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (18.18%) Developer
4 20 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead
9 10 (7.58%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.79%) DevOps Administrator
14 5 (3.79%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) React
2 20 (15.15%) REST
3 18 (13.64%) CSS
4 16 (12.12%) Node.js
5 14 (10.61%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.61%) UIKit
6 13 (9.85%) Tailwind CSS
7 11 (8.33%) .NET
8 10 (7.58%) RESTful
9 9 (6.82%) Jest
10 8 (6.06%) Web Services
11 7 (5.30%) YAML
12 6 (4.55%) Flutter
12 6 (4.55%) JSON
12 6 (4.55%) Kafka
12 6 (4.55%) Playwright
12 6 (4.55%) React Native
13 5 (3.79%) OAuth2
13 5 (3.79%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (3.79%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.91%) Mobile App
3 20 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.06%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) CMDB
7 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.27%) NHS
10 3 (2.27%) PKI
11 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.52%) Blog
11 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Linux
2 16 (12.12%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 2 (1.52%) Android
6 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 68 (51.52%) DevOps
3 65 (49.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.06%) Containerisation
5 39 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 36 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (26.52%) AI
8 33 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 32 (24.24%) Agile
10 28 (21.21%) Analytics
10 28 (21.21%) Code Quality
10 28 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (20.45%) Observability
12 25 (18.94%) Software Engineering
13 23 (17.42%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (15.15%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.15%) Process Improvement
15 19 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
15 19 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.18%) Python
2 31 (23.48%) TypeScript
3 26 (19.70%) Bash
3 26 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.64%) Kotlin
4 18 (13.64%) SQL
5 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.36%) Swift
7 10 (7.58%) Go
8 8 (6.06%) C#
8 8 (6.06%) PHP
9 7 (5.30%) Groovy
9 7 (5.30%) Java
10 6 (4.55%) Bicep
10 6 (4.55%) Dart
11 5 (3.79%) Scala
12 3 (2.27%) C++
13 2 (1.52%) C
13 2 (1.52%) Rust
13 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
1 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.30%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.55%) QA
3 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.52%) IFRS
6 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (37.12%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.52%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (46.97%) Terraform
2 51 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.42%) Ansible
4 19 (14.39%) Grafana
5 15 (11.36%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.30%) Packer
8 6 (4.55%) Argo
9 5 (3.79%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.27%) Puppet
11 1 (0.76%) Consul
11 1 (0.76%) Istio
11 1 (0.76%) Kibana
11 1 (0.76%) linkerd
11 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.61%) Braze
3 12 (9.09%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Cisco
4 6 (4.55%) EMC
4 6 (4.55%) F5
4 6 (4.55%) New Relic
4 6 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.03%) Databricks
5 4 (3.03%) Google
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.27%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) BT
7 2 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.52%) Mitel
8 1 (0.76%) Foundry