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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 319 397
Rank change year-on-year -20 +78 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 103 84
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 102 90 70
10th Percentile £46,375 £50,725 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £60,000 £52,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,375 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £90,500 £77,500
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 8,761 5,740 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.52% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,440 4,121 6,329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £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 £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 23 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 96 (71.64%) AWS
3 71 (52.99%) Azure
4 29 (21.64%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (17.91%) GCP
6 23 (17.16%) Serverless
7 18 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (12.69%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
10 15 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (10.45%) Datadog
12 11 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (8.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.97%) Azure AKS
14 8 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (5.97%) PaaS
14 8 (5.97%) SaaS
15 7 (5.22%) Firebase
15 7 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 28 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.70%) DynamoDB
4 11 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.72%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.22%) MySQL
8 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.48%) Power BI
9 5 (3.73%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.73%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.99%) Tableau
11 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.24%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.24%) Redis
11 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.49%) Metadata
12 2 (1.49%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 36 (26.87%) Git
2 30 (22.39%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.43%) GitLab
4 10 (7.46%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.72%) JIRA
6 6 (4.48%) Postman
7 5 (3.73%) Crashlytics
7 5 (3.73%) Poetry
7 5 (3.73%) Selenium
7 5 (3.73%) XCTest
8 4 (2.99%) Appium
8 4 (2.99%) NUnit
8 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.24%) MLflow
9 3 (2.24%) Storybook
10 2 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.49%) JUnit
10 2 (1.49%) Snyk
10 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.75%) git-flow
General
1 49 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Finance
3 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.72%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.99%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
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
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (37.31%) Senior
2 21 (15.67%) Developer
2 21 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) Software Engineer
4 17 (12.69%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Lead
6 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) 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%) Azure Platform 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
12 5 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (50.75%) Terraform
2 32 (23.88%) React
3 30 (22.39%) Node.js
4 18 (13.43%) CSS
4 18 (13.43%) REST
5 15 (11.19%) RESTful
6 14 (10.45%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (8.96%) Jest
7 12 (8.96%) Kafka
8 10 (7.46%) .NET
8 10 (7.46%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.72%) PySpark
10 8 (5.97%) Spring
10 8 (5.97%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.22%) React Native
11 7 (5.22%) Web Services
11 7 (5.22%) YAML
12 6 (4.48%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.48%) Playwright
13 5 (3.73%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.96%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (8.96%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.72%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.22%) Blog
5 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.22%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) CMDB
8 3 (2.24%) Clustering
8 3 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.24%) NHS
8 3 (2.24%) Robotics
9 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.64%) Linux
2 9 (6.72%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 4 (2.99%) Android
4 4 (2.99%) Windows
4 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.24%) Debian
5 3 (2.24%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.75%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (93.28%) CI/CD
2 72 (53.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (48.51%) DevOps
4 48 (35.82%) AI
4 48 (35.82%) Software Engineering
5 46 (34.33%) Containerisation
6 35 (26.12%) Analytics
7 34 (25.37%) Observability
8 33 (24.63%) Test Automation
9 32 (23.88%) Agile
10 31 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.40%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (14.93%) Code Quality
14 19 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.18%) Machine Learning
15 18 (13.43%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (12.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (12.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) Python
2 38 (28.36%) TypeScript
3 31 (23.13%) SQL
4 29 (21.64%) Bash
5 24 (17.91%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.43%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.19%) Kotlin
8 14 (10.45%) Java
9 12 (8.96%) Go
10 11 (8.21%) Bicep
11 9 (6.72%) C#
12 8 (5.97%) Scala
12 8 (5.97%) Swift
13 7 (5.22%) Groovy
14 6 (4.48%) PHP
15 3 (2.24%) Dart
15 3 (2.24%) Rust
16 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.75%) C
17 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.96%) Degree
4 10 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.48%) 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
1 11 (8.21%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) IFRS
3 2 (1.49%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.49%) NIST
3 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (52.24%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (36.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.18%) Grafana
3 13 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.21%) Ansible
4 11 (8.21%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.73%) Packer
6 3 (2.24%) Argo
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 24 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.72%) Databricks
3 6 (4.48%) VMware
4 5 (3.73%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.73%) Braze
4 5 (3.73%) Google
4 5 (3.73%) New Relic
4 5 (3.73%) Splunk
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco
5 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.99%) EMC
5 4 (2.99%) F5
5 4 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.24%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.24%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.24%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI