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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 332 420
Rank change year-on-year +8 +88 +2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 90 81
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.51% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 91 84 72
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,575 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,250 £60,000 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -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 8,677 5,964 10,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 35.99% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,286 4,380 7,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 15 August 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 6 (4.55%) Apache
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
4 2 (1.52%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 93 (70.45%) AWS
3 68 (51.52%) Azure
4 32 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (21.97%) Serverless
6 23 (17.42%) GCP
7 22 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.61%) Firebase
10 13 (9.85%) Amazon S3
10 13 (9.85%) Datadog
10 13 (9.85%) Stripe
10 13 (9.85%) TestFlight
11 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.82%) PaaS
12 9 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
15 5 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) VPN
2 7 (5.30%) Firewall
3 5 (3.79%) DNS
4 4 (3.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (1.52%) BGP
6 2 (1.52%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.06%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.30%) MySQL
5 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.55%) Power BI
7 5 (3.79%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.03%) Tableau
9 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.27%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.52%) Big Data
10 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.52%) Metadata
10 2 (1.52%) Redis
10 2 (1.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (26.52%) Git
2 32 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.85%) Crashlytics
3 13 (9.85%) GitLab
3 13 (9.85%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.58%) JIRA
6 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.79%) Postman
7 5 (3.79%) Selenium
7 5 (3.79%) Storybook
8 4 (3.03%) Appium
8 4 (3.03%) NUnit
9 3 (2.27%) MLflow
10 2 (1.52%) JUnit
10 2 (1.52%) Snyk
10 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.76%) JMeter
11 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.61%) Finance
4 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Retail
8 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.52%) Banking
9 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Legal
9 2 (1.52%) Local Government
9 2 (1.52%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (31.82%) Senior
2 24 (18.18%) Developer
3 23 (17.42%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.61%) Mobile Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead
9 9 (6.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.79%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.79%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.00%) React
2 24 (18.18%) Node.js
3 20 (15.15%) CSS
4 19 (14.39%) REST
5 15 (11.36%) Tailwind CSS
6 13 (9.85%) .NET
6 13 (9.85%) Jest
6 13 (9.85%) RESTful
6 13 (9.85%) SwiftUI
6 13 (9.85%) UIKit
7 8 (6.06%) Kafka
7 8 (6.06%) React Native
8 7 (5.30%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.30%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.30%) Web Services
8 7 (5.30%) YAML
9 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.55%) Spring
9 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.39%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Public Cloud
6 8 (6.06%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) Blog
7 6 (4.55%) CMDB
7 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.03%) NHS
9 3 (2.27%) Clustering
9 3 (2.27%) PKI
10 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.73%) Linux
2 17 (12.88%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Android
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Debian
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (92.42%) CI/CD
2 67 (50.76%) DevOps
3 61 (46.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (30.30%) Test Automation
5 37 (28.03%) Containerisation
6 36 (27.27%) AI
6 36 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 33 (25.00%) Analytics
8 32 (24.24%) Agile
9 30 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (21.97%) Code Quality
11 28 (21.21%) Observability
12 26 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (15.15%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
15 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (14.39%) Process Improvement
16 18 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.67%) Python
2 37 (28.03%) TypeScript
3 26 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 24 (18.18%) Bash
5 23 (17.42%) SQL
6 21 (15.91%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 16 (12.12%) Swift
8 12 (9.09%) Java
9 9 (6.82%) C#
9 9 (6.82%) Go
9 9 (6.82%) PHP
10 8 (6.06%) Scala
11 7 (5.30%) Bicep
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
12 5 (3.79%) Dart
13 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) Ruby
13 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) Degree
3 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.52%) OCP
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (40.15%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (43.18%) Terraform
2 46 (34.85%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.39%) Grafana
4 16 (12.12%) Ansible
5 13 (9.85%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.09%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.06%) Packer
8 3 (2.27%) Argo
8 3 (2.27%) Puppet
9 2 (1.52%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.76%) Cilium
10 1 (0.76%) Consul
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.85%) Amplitude
2 13 (9.85%) Braze
3 8 (6.06%) Databricks
3 8 (6.06%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Cisco
4 6 (4.55%) EMC
4 6 (4.55%) F5
4 6 (4.55%) New Relic
4 6 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.79%) Google
6 4 (3.03%) Splunk
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software