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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 308 395
Rank change year-on-year -17 +87 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 109 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.89% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 105 93 73
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%

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 8,758 5,753 9,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.10% 34.20% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,425 4,088 6,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 October 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 10 (7.25%) Apache
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.90%) Confluence
4 2 (1.45%) CMS
4 2 (1.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (68.84%) AWS
3 73 (52.90%) Azure
4 30 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (21.74%) GCP
5 22 (15.94%) Serverless
6 17 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (12.32%) Datadog
7 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
8 14 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (7.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.52%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.80%) SaaS
14 7 (5.07%) Firebase
14 7 (5.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.97%) VPN
2 6 (4.35%) DNS
2 6 (4.35%) Firewall
3 4 (2.90%) SSH
4 2 (1.45%) BGP
4 2 (1.45%) SSL
4 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.45%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.22%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.42%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.07%) MySQL
7 6 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.35%) Power BI
8 5 (3.62%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.62%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.90%) Redis
9 4 (2.90%) Tableau
10 3 (2.17%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (24.64%) Git
2 32 (23.19%) Jenkins
3 24 (17.39%) GitLab
4 8 (5.80%) Cypress.io
5 7 (5.07%) JIRA
6 6 (4.35%) Postman
7 5 (3.62%) Appium
7 5 (3.62%) Crashlytics
7 5 (3.62%) Poetry
7 5 (3.62%) Selenium
7 5 (3.62%) XCTest
8 4 (2.90%) NUnit
9 3 (2.17%) MLflow
9 3 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.45%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.45%) JUnit
10 2 (1.45%) Snyk
10 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Finance
3 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.90%) Banking
6 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.17%) Local Government
7 3 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.45%) Games
8 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Law
8 2 (1.45%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Military
8 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (39.86%) Senior
2 22 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.94%) Software Engineer
3 20 (14.49%) Developer
4 16 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (8.70%) Lead
6 12 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Architect
12 6 (4.35%) Mobile Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (3.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (50.00%) Terraform
2 30 (21.74%) Node.js
3 29 (21.01%) React
4 22 (15.94%) REST
5 17 (12.32%) RESTful
6 16 (11.59%) CSS
7 12 (8.70%) Kafka
7 12 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
8 11 (7.97%) .NET
9 10 (7.25%) AngularJS
9 10 (7.25%) GraphQL
9 10 (7.25%) Jest
10 9 (6.52%) PySpark
11 8 (5.80%) Spring
11 8 (5.80%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.07%) Web Services
12 7 (5.07%) YAML
13 6 (4.35%) Playwright
14 5 (3.62%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.62%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.97%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (7.25%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.07%) Blog
5 7 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.62%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.17%) Clustering
7 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.17%) NHS
7 3 (2.17%) Robotics
8 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.45%) CMDB
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.45%) PKI
8 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.57%) Linux
2 10 (7.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.62%) Android
3 5 (3.62%) Unix
4 3 (2.17%) Debian
4 3 (2.17%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.45%) Windows
5 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.72%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (92.75%) CI/CD
2 76 (55.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (48.55%) DevOps
4 54 (39.13%) AI
5 52 (37.68%) Software Engineering
6 51 (36.96%) Containerisation
7 38 (27.54%) Observability
7 38 (27.54%) Test Automation
8 36 (26.09%) Analytics
9 33 (23.91%) Agile
10 28 (20.29%) Mentoring
10 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (15.94%) Code Quality
13 21 (15.22%) Machine Learning
14 19 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (13.04%) Cloud Security
15 18 (13.04%) SDLC
16 17 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (11.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (50.00%) Python
2 38 (27.54%) TypeScript
3 35 (25.36%) SQL
4 31 (22.46%) Bash
5 26 (18.84%) JavaScript
6 16 (11.59%) Java
6 16 (11.59%) PowerShell
7 15 (10.87%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.42%) Go
9 11 (7.97%) Bicep
9 11 (7.97%) C#
10 8 (5.80%) Scala
10 8 (5.80%) Swift
11 6 (4.35%) Groovy
11 6 (4.35%) PHP
12 3 (2.17%) Rust
13 2 (1.45%) C
13 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.72%) Ruby
14 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.25%) Degree
4 8 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) OCP
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) Data Quality
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.45%) IFRS
4 2 (1.45%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.45%) NIST
4 2 (1.45%) SLA
4 2 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (55.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.72%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 50 (36.23%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.12%) Grafana
3 14 (10.14%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.97%) Ansible
5 10 (7.25%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.62%) Argo
7 3 (2.17%) Packer
7 3 (2.17%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) Cilium
9 1 (0.72%) Istio
9 1 (0.72%) linkerd
9 1 (0.72%) logstash
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.52%) Databricks
3 6 (4.35%) Google
4 5 (3.62%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.62%) Braze
4 5 (3.62%) New Relic
4 5 (3.62%) Splunk
4 5 (3.62%) VMware
5 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.17%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.17%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.45%) Cisco
7 2 (1.45%) EMC
7 2 (1.45%) F5
7 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.45%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.72%) Foundry