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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 313 416
Rank change year-on-year -20 +103 -44
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 107 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.87% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 101 92 71
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,525 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £53,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +18.75% -13.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.93% +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 8,767 5,717 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.15% 34.09% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 4,060 6,164
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 30 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 10 (7.46%) Apache
2 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.99%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (1.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (70.90%) AWS
3 70 (52.24%) Azure
4 28 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (20.90%) GCP
5 22 (16.42%) Serverless
6 17 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
8 15 (11.19%) Datadog
9 14 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (8.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.97%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.97%) SaaS
14 7 (5.22%) Firebase
14 7 (5.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) VPN
2 6 (4.48%) DNS
3 5 (3.73%) Firewall
4 4 (2.99%) SSH
5 2 (1.49%) BGP
5 2 (1.49%) SSL
5 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.49%) WAN
6 1 (0.75%) HTTP
6 1 (0.75%) Internet
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.75%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.39%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.70%) DynamoDB
4 11 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.72%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.22%) MySQL
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.48%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.48%) Power BI
8 5 (3.73%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.73%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.99%) Redis
9 4 (2.99%) Tableau
10 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.24%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.49%) Metadata
11 2 (1.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 34 (25.37%) Git
2 31 (23.13%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.67%) GitLab
4 7 (5.22%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.22%) JIRA
5 6 (4.48%) Postman
6 5 (3.73%) Crashlytics
6 5 (3.73%) Poetry
6 5 (3.73%) Selenium
6 5 (3.73%) XCTest
7 4 (2.99%) Appium
7 4 (2.99%) NUnit
8 3 (2.24%) MLflow
8 3 (2.24%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.49%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.49%) JUnit
9 2 (1.49%) Snyk
9 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.75%) JMeter
General
1 50 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.69%) Finance
3 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.72%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.99%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Local Government
7 3 (2.24%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Games
8 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Law
8 2 (1.49%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Military
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (38.81%) Senior
2 22 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Software Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Developer
5 17 (12.69%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Lead
7 11 (8.21%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Mobile Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.49%) Terraform
2 30 (22.39%) Node.js
3 28 (20.90%) React
4 20 (14.93%) REST
5 16 (11.94%) RESTful
6 15 (11.19%) CSS
7 12 (8.96%) Kafka
8 11 (8.21%) Tailwind CSS
9 10 (7.46%) .NET
9 10 (7.46%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.72%) Jest
10 9 (6.72%) PySpark
11 8 (5.97%) GraphQL
11 8 (5.97%) Spring
11 8 (5.97%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.22%) Web Services
12 7 (5.22%) YAML
13 6 (4.48%) Playwright
14 5 (3.73%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.73%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.21%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (6.72%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.22%) Blog
4 7 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Clustering
7 3 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.24%) NHS
7 3 (2.24%) Robotics
8 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.49%) CMDB
8 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.49%) PKI
8 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.40%) Linux
2 9 (6.72%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 4 (2.99%) Android
5 3 (2.24%) Debian
5 3 (2.24%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.49%) Windows
6 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.75%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (93.28%) CI/CD
2 76 (56.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (48.51%) DevOps
4 51 (38.06%) AI
5 50 (37.31%) Software Engineering
6 48 (35.82%) Containerisation
7 37 (27.61%) Observability
8 35 (26.12%) Analytics
8 35 (26.12%) Test Automation
9 32 (23.88%) Agile
10 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (18.66%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (14.93%) Machine Learning
14 19 (14.18%) Code Quality
14 19 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (13.43%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.69%) SDLC
17 16 (11.94%) Deployment Automation
17 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (49.25%) Python
2 36 (26.87%) TypeScript
3 32 (23.88%) SQL
4 30 (22.39%) Bash
5 24 (17.91%) JavaScript
6 16 (11.94%) Java
6 16 (11.94%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.19%) Kotlin
8 12 (8.96%) Go
9 11 (8.21%) Bicep
10 10 (7.46%) C#
11 8 (5.97%) Scala
11 8 (5.97%) Swift
12 6 (4.48%) Groovy
12 6 (4.48%) PHP
13 3 (2.24%) Rust
14 2 (1.49%) C
14 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.75%) Ruby
15 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) Degree
4 8 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.49%) OCP
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.46%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.49%) NIST
4 2 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (55.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (36.57%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.42%) Grafana
3 13 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.46%) Ansible
4 10 (7.46%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.48%) Argo
6 3 (2.24%) Packer
7 2 (1.49%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Cilium
8 1 (0.75%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) linkerd
8 1 (0.75%) logstash
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.72%) Databricks
3 5 (3.73%) Amplitude
3 5 (3.73%) Braze
3 5 (3.73%) Google
3 5 (3.73%) New Relic
3 5 (3.73%) Splunk
4 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.99%) VMware
5 3 (2.24%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.24%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.49%) Cisco
6 2 (1.49%) EMC
6 2 (1.49%) F5
6 2 (1.49%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI