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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 327 409
Rank change year-on-year +15 +82 +3
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 136 98 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.60% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.66% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 96 91 75
10th Percentile £46,625 £50,750 £42,750
25th Percentile £54,875 £61,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,250 £85,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -14.75%

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 8,673 5,915 9,935
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.18% 35.97% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,344 4,319 7,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 1 September 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 9 (6.62%) Apache
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 2 (1.47%) nginx
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.74%) Drupal
6 1 (0.74%) IIS
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) GitHub
2 98 (72.06%) AWS
3 69 (50.74%) Azure
4 31 (22.79%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (19.85%) Serverless
6 23 (16.91%) GCP
7 22 (16.18%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.03%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.29%) Datadog
11 12 (8.82%) Firebase
12 11 (8.09%) Stripe
12 11 (8.09%) TestFlight
12 11 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.88%) PaaS
15 7 (5.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) VPN
2 7 (5.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.15%) Firewall
3 4 (2.94%) SSH
4 3 (2.21%) SSL
5 2 (1.47%) BGP
5 2 (1.47%) WAN
6 1 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.74%) LTE
6 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.97%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.62%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.88%) MySQL
6 6 (4.41%) Power BI
7 5 (3.68%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.94%) Tableau
9 3 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.21%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.47%) Metadata
10 2 (1.47%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 36 (26.47%) Git
2 32 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.03%) GitLab
4 11 (8.09%) Crashlytics
4 11 (8.09%) Cypress.io
4 11 (8.09%) XCTest
5 10 (7.35%) JIRA
6 6 (4.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.68%) Postman
7 5 (3.68%) Selenium
7 5 (3.68%) Storybook
8 4 (2.94%) Appium
8 4 (2.94%) NUnit
9 3 (2.21%) MLflow
9 3 (2.21%) Poetry
10 2 (1.47%) JUnit
10 2 (1.47%) Snyk
10 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.74%) JMeter
11 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.03%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Retail
8 3 (2.21%) Banking
8 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.21%) Local Government
9 2 (1.47%) Games
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Law
9 2 (1.47%) Legal
9 2 (1.47%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (32.35%) Senior
2 23 (16.91%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.71%) Developer
5 19 (13.97%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (13.24%) Software Engineer
7 16 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.82%) Lead
8 12 (8.82%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (48.53%) Terraform
2 31 (22.79%) React
3 29 (21.32%) Node.js
4 20 (14.71%) CSS
5 18 (13.24%) REST
6 16 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
7 14 (10.29%) Jest
7 14 (10.29%) RESTful
8 11 (8.09%) .NET
8 11 (8.09%) Kafka
8 11 (8.09%) SwiftUI
8 11 (8.09%) UIKit
9 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.88%) React Native
10 7 (5.15%) PySpark
10 7 (5.15%) Spring
10 7 (5.15%) Spring Boot
10 7 (5.15%) Web Services
10 7 (5.15%) YAML
11 6 (4.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.71%) Mobile App
3 17 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.09%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.62%) Public Cloud
6 8 (5.88%) Private Cloud
7 7 (5.15%) Blog
7 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.41%) CMDB
9 3 (2.21%) Clustering
9 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.21%) NHS
10 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) PKI
10 2 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.53%) Linux
2 15 (11.03%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.88%) Windows
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.94%) Android
5 4 (2.94%) Unix
6 2 (1.47%) Debian
6 2 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.74%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (93.38%) CI/CD
2 69 (50.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (49.26%) DevOps
4 44 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 43 (31.62%) AI
6 40 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 38 (27.94%) Test Automation
8 37 (27.21%) Analytics
9 33 (24.26%) Observability
10 32 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (22.79%) Agile
12 28 (20.59%) Mentoring
12 28 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (18.38%) Code Quality
14 20 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (13.97%) Clean Code
16 18 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
16 18 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 17 (12.50%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.12%) Python
2 38 (27.94%) TypeScript
3 28 (20.59%) Bash
4 24 (17.65%) SQL
5 23 (16.91%) JavaScript
6 20 (14.71%) Kotlin
7 19 (13.97%) PowerShell
8 14 (10.29%) Swift
9 13 (9.56%) Java
10 11 (8.09%) Go
11 9 (6.62%) Bicep
12 8 (5.88%) C#
12 8 (5.88%) PHP
12 8 (5.88%) Scala
13 7 (5.15%) Groovy
14 5 (3.68%) Dart
15 3 (2.21%) Rust
16 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.74%) Ruby
17 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) Degree
3 13 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.47%) OCP
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.21%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.47%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (45.59%) Docker
2 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.74%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 50 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.71%) Grafana
3 17 (12.50%) Ansible
4 13 (9.56%) Progress Chef
4 13 (9.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.88%) Packer
6 3 (2.21%) Argo
6 3 (2.21%) Puppet
7 2 (1.47%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Cilium
8 1 (0.74%) Consul
8 1 (0.74%) Istio
8 1 (0.74%) linkerd
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) Amplitude
2 11 (8.09%) Braze
3 8 (5.88%) Databricks
3 8 (5.88%) VMware
4 6 (4.41%) Cisco
4 6 (4.41%) EMC
4 6 (4.41%) F5
4 6 (4.41%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.68%) Google
5 5 (3.68%) New Relic
5 5 (3.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.21%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.47%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.74%) TOWER Software