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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 334 428
Rank change year-on-year +12 +94 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 85 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.41% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 92 81 82
10th Percentile £45,050 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,438 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £94,875 £91,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 8,567 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.89% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 30 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 5 (3.73%) Apache
2 4 (2.99%) Confluence
3 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.49%) nginx
4 2 (1.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.75%) Drupal
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) GitHub
2 93 (69.40%) AWS
3 67 (50.00%) Azure
4 34 (25.37%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (23.13%) Serverless
6 27 (20.15%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (15.67%) GCP
8 17 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 16 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (11.19%) Firebase
11 14 (10.45%) Stripe
11 14 (10.45%) TestFlight
12 12 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.21%) Datadog
14 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (6.72%) PaaS
16 6 (4.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) VPN
2 11 (8.21%) Firewall
3 6 (4.48%) DNS
4 4 (2.99%) SSH
5 3 (2.24%) SSL
6 2 (1.49%) HTTP
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) LTE
7 1 (0.75%) RTP
7 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.75%) VoIP
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.48%) MySQL
6 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.73%) Power BI
7 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.99%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.24%) Metadata
8 3 (2.24%) Tableau
9 2 (1.49%) Big Data
9 2 (1.49%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 32 (23.88%) Git
1 32 (23.88%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.45%) Crashlytics
2 14 (10.45%) XCTest
3 10 (7.46%) Cypress.io
3 10 (7.46%) GitLab
4 9 (6.72%) JIRA
5 6 (4.48%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.73%) Storybook
7 4 (2.99%) Postman
7 4 (2.99%) Selenium
8 3 (2.24%) Appium
8 3 (2.24%) NUnit
9 2 (1.49%) MLflow
9 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.75%) GDB
10 1 (0.75%) Maven
10 1 (0.75%) Subversion
10 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.75%) WinDbg
General
1 44 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Finance
4 7 (5.22%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Retail
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.24%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Military
8 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.10%) Senior
2 25 (18.66%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (17.16%) Developer
4 20 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Lead
8 12 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (6.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.48%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.48%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.73%) DevOps Administrator
14 5 (3.73%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.64%) React
2 19 (14.18%) REST
3 18 (13.43%) CSS
3 18 (13.43%) Node.js
4 14 (10.45%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.45%) Tailwind CSS
4 14 (10.45%) UIKit
5 13 (9.70%) .NET
6 12 (8.96%) Jest
7 11 (8.21%) RESTful
8 7 (5.22%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.22%) React Native
8 7 (5.22%) Web Services
8 7 (5.22%) YAML
9 6 (4.48%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.48%) Entity Framework
9 6 (4.48%) Kafka
9 6 (4.48%) Playwright
10 5 (3.73%) JSON
10 5 (3.73%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Cloud Native
1 22 (16.42%) Mobile App
2 20 (14.93%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (8.21%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.97%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.48%) CMDB
7 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.24%) Blog
9 3 (2.24%) NHS
9 3 (2.24%) PKI
10 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.49%) Clustering
10 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.88%) Linux
2 17 (12.69%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.97%) Windows
4 7 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.99%) Unix
6 3 (2.24%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (91.04%) CI/CD
2 70 (52.24%) DevOps
3 65 (48.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (31.34%) Test Automation
5 38 (28.36%) Containerisation
6 37 (27.61%) AI
7 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (23.88%) Agile
8 32 (23.88%) Mentoring
9 29 (21.64%) Analytics
9 29 (21.64%) Code Quality
10 28 (20.90%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (20.90%) Software Engineering
11 27 (20.15%) Observability
12 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (14.93%) Clean Code
13 20 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (14.93%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.03%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.15%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.40%) Bash
5 20 (14.93%) SQL
6 19 (14.18%) Kotlin
7 16 (11.94%) Swift
8 15 (11.19%) PowerShell
9 12 (8.96%) Go
10 9 (6.72%) C#
11 8 (5.97%) Java
11 8 (5.97%) PHP
12 7 (5.22%) Groovy
13 6 (4.48%) Bicep
13 6 (4.48%) Scala
14 5 (3.73%) Dart
15 2 (1.49%) C++
15 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.75%) C
16 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.96%) Degree
3 11 (8.21%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.75%) OCP
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
3 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (35.82%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (46.27%) Terraform
2 50 (37.31%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.42%) Ansible
4 20 (14.93%) Grafana
5 15 (11.19%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.96%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.22%) Packer
8 5 (3.73%) Argo
8 5 (3.73%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.24%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) Consul
10 1 (0.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
10 1 (0.75%) linkerd
10 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.45%) Braze
3 12 (8.96%) VMware
4 6 (4.48%) Cisco
4 6 (4.48%) EMC
4 6 (4.48%) F5
4 6 (4.48%) New Relic
4 6 (4.48%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.73%) Databricks
6 4 (2.99%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.24%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.24%) Splunk
8 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) Apple
9 1 (0.75%) Mitel
9 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software