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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 326 420
Rank change year-on-year +112 +94 +71
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 169 96 141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.69% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 1.45% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 119 77 107
10th Percentile £44,550 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £90,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.82% -8.93%

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 6,161 6,635 13,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.13% 47.39% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 4,751 11,801
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 10 March 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 8 (4.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) GitHub
2 114 (67.46%) Azure
3 88 (52.07%) AWS
4 75 (44.38%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (21.89%) Serverless
6 27 (15.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (15.38%) GCP
8 23 (13.61%) Entra ID
8 23 (13.61%) SaaS
9 20 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (11.83%) Datadog
10 19 (11.24%) Amazon S3
10 19 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (10.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (10.65%) PaaS
12 16 (9.47%) Azure App Service
13 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.10%) Firewall
2 7 (4.14%) VPN
3 4 (2.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.37%) Network Security
4 3 (1.78%) HTTP
4 3 (1.78%) RTP
4 3 (1.78%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.78%) VoIP
4 3 (1.78%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.18%) DNS
6 1 (0.59%) Broadband
6 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.20%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.92%) Flink
4 9 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.96%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.37%) Metadata
7 4 (2.37%) MySQL
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.59%) Parquet
9 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.16%) Git
3 27 (15.98%) GitLab
4 12 (7.10%) JIRA
5 9 (5.33%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.33%) Subversion
6 5 (2.96%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.37%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.37%) Crashlytics
7 4 (2.37%) XCTest
8 3 (1.78%) JMeter
9 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.18%) JUnit
9 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.59%) Deequ
10 1 (0.59%) Locust
10 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.59%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (36.69%) Finance
2 54 (31.95%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.83%) Telecoms
4 18 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.88%) Banking
6 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.51%) Retail
8 10 (5.92%) Front Office
8 10 (5.92%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.96%) Back Office
11 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.78%) Billing
12 3 (1.78%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.78%) Military
13 2 (1.18%) Aviation
13 2 (1.18%) Electronics
13 2 (1.18%) Marketing
14 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.04%) Senior
2 31 (18.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (17.16%) Developer
4 28 (16.57%) Lead
5 21 (12.43%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (11.83%) .NET Developer
6 20 (11.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Azure Developer
10 12 (7.10%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (7.10%) Lead .NET Developer
10 12 (7.10%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Development Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) SaaS Developer
11 10 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.71%) RESTful
2 32 (18.93%) .NET
3 27 (15.98%) React
4 18 (10.65%) Kafka
4 18 (10.65%) OAuth
4 18 (10.65%) OAuth2
5 16 (9.47%) JSON
6 14 (8.28%) .NET Framework
6 14 (8.28%) Razor View Engine
7 13 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
7 13 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 12 (7.10%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.92%) ADO
9 10 (5.92%) REST
9 10 (5.92%) YAML
10 8 (4.73%) Node.js
11 7 (4.14%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.14%) CSS
11 7 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.55%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.55%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.37%) Blog
8 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.18%) NHS
11 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.59%) Replication
11 1 (0.59%) Video on Demand
11 1 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.98%) Linux
2 9 (5.33%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Unix
4 4 (2.37%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (97.04%) CI/CD
2 141 (83.43%) DevOps
3 92 (54.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (33.73%) Observability
5 56 (33.14%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (32.54%) Agile
7 54 (31.95%) Containerisation
8 47 (27.81%) Test Automation
9 41 (24.26%) Platform Engineering
10 39 (23.08%) Incident Response
11 36 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (20.12%) Mentoring
13 30 (17.75%) Deployment Automation
14 29 (17.16%) Cloud Security
14 29 (17.16%) Code Quality
15 28 (16.57%) AI
15 28 (16.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (15.98%) Root Cause Analysis
17 26 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 25 (14.79%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.93%) Python
2 40 (23.67%) SQL
3 37 (21.89%) Bash
3 37 (21.89%) Bicep
4 24 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.20%) PowerShell
4 24 (14.20%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.65%) Go
5 18 (10.65%) Java
6 7 (4.14%) C#
7 5 (2.96%) C++
8 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.37%) Swift
9 3 (1.78%) C
9 3 (1.78%) Ruby
10 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) Rust
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 2 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (12.43%) Degree
2 19 (11.24%) AWS Certification
3 18 (10.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.10%) Azure Certification
4 12 (7.10%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.20%) QA
2 18 (10.65%) GDPR
3 12 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.14%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.14%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.37%) GRC
6 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) ECSS
8 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (34.32%) Docker
2 20 (11.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.78%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (55.62%) Terraform
2 79 (46.75%) Kubernetes
3 36 (21.30%) Grafana
4 31 (18.34%) Prometheus
5 25 (14.79%) Ansible
6 16 (9.47%) Argo
7 10 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.55%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.37%) Cilium
9 4 (2.37%) logstash
10 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.59%) Icinga
11 1 (0.59%) Kibana
11 1 (0.59%) Nagios
11 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) Ab Initio
3 10 (5.92%) VMware
4 8 (4.73%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.96%) Splunk
6 4 (2.37%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.78%) BT
7 3 (1.78%) Databricks
7 3 (1.78%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.78%) Google
7 3 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.78%) Mitel
7 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
8 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.59%) Apple
9 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.59%) Foundry
9 1 (0.59%) New Relic
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle