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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 317 409
Rank change year-on-year -14 +92 -16
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 129 102 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.76% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 95 92 67
10th Percentile £45,800 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -13.60%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% +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 8,695 5,808 9,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 35.66% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,367 4,200 6,728
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,943
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 £86,063
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 13 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 11 (8.53%) Apache
2 5 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.88%) Confluence
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.55%) CMS
4 2 (1.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.78%) Drupal
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) GitHub
2 92 (71.32%) AWS
3 68 (52.71%) Azure
4 30 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (17.83%) GCP
6 22 (17.05%) Serverless
7 18 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (13.18%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (11.63%) Amazon S3
10 13 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (10.08%) Datadog
11 10 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (7.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.98%) Firebase
13 8 (6.20%) SaaS
13 8 (6.20%) Stripe
13 8 (6.20%) TestFlight
13 8 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) VPN
2 5 (3.88%) DNS
3 4 (3.10%) SSH
4 3 (2.33%) Firewall
5 2 (1.55%) BGP
5 2 (1.55%) SSL
5 2 (1.55%) WAN
6 1 (0.78%) HTTP
6 1 (0.78%) LTE
6 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.78%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.83%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.50%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.53%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.43%) MySQL
7 6 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.65%) Power BI
8 5 (3.88%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.88%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.10%) Tableau
10 3 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.33%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.55%) Metadata
11 2 (1.55%) Redis
11 2 (1.55%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (27.13%) Git
2 30 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.40%) GitLab
4 9 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.98%) JIRA
5 8 (6.20%) Crashlytics
5 8 (6.20%) XCTest
6 5 (3.88%) Poetry
6 5 (3.88%) Postman
6 5 (3.88%) Selenium
6 5 (3.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (3.10%) Appium
7 4 (3.10%) NUnit
8 3 (2.33%) MLflow
8 3 (2.33%) Storybook
9 2 (1.55%) JUnit
9 2 (1.55%) Snyk
9 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.78%) Maven
10 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.10%) Banking
7 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.33%) Local Government
7 3 (2.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.55%) Games
8 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Law
8 2 (1.55%) Legal
8 2 (1.55%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (34.88%) Senior
2 20 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.50%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (14.73%) Developer
4 18 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (13.95%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Lead
7 11 (8.53%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Mobile Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (48.84%) Terraform
2 30 (23.26%) Node.js
2 30 (23.26%) React
3 17 (13.18%) CSS
3 17 (13.18%) REST
4 14 (10.85%) Tailwind CSS
5 13 (10.08%) RESTful
6 12 (9.30%) Jest
6 12 (9.30%) Kafka
7 10 (7.75%) .NET
8 9 (6.98%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.98%) PySpark
9 8 (6.20%) Spring
9 8 (6.20%) Spring Boot
9 8 (6.20%) SwiftUI
9 8 (6.20%) UIKit
10 7 (5.43%) Web Services
10 7 (5.43%) YAML
11 6 (4.65%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.65%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.63%) Mobile App
3 13 (10.08%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (6.20%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.43%) Blog
6 7 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.65%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.88%) CMDB
8 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.33%) Clustering
9 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.33%) NHS
9 3 (2.33%) Robotics
10 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.55%) PKI
11 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.26%) Linux
2 12 (9.30%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.43%) Windows
4 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.10%) Android
5 4 (3.10%) Unix
6 3 (2.33%) Debian
6 3 (2.33%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.78%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (93.02%) CI/CD
2 65 (50.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (48.06%) DevOps
4 46 (35.66%) AI
5 45 (34.88%) Software Engineering
6 40 (31.01%) Containerisation
7 37 (28.68%) Analytics
8 33 (25.58%) Test Automation
9 32 (24.81%) Observability
10 31 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (22.48%) Agile
12 25 (19.38%) Mentoring
13 24 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (17.05%) Code Quality
15 18 (13.95%) Machine Learning
16 17 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
17 16 (12.40%) Clean Code
17 16 (12.40%) Cloud Security
17 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Python
2 37 (28.68%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.93%) SQL
4 26 (20.16%) Bash
5 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.95%) Kotlin
6 18 (13.95%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.08%) Java
8 11 (8.53%) Swift
9 10 (7.75%) Go
10 9 (6.98%) Bicep
11 8 (6.20%) Scala
12 7 (5.43%) C#
12 7 (5.43%) Groovy
12 7 (5.43%) PHP
13 3 (2.33%) Dart
13 3 (2.33%) Rust
14 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.78%) C++
15 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.08%) Degree
2 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.53%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.55%) OCP
6 2 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.75%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) IFRS
4 2 (1.55%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
4 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 2 (1.55%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (51.16%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.78%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (35.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.18%) Grafana
3 12 (9.30%) Ansible
3 12 (9.30%) Progress Chef
3 12 (9.30%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.43%) Packer
5 2 (1.55%) Argo
5 2 (1.55%) Puppet
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) Cilium
6 1 (0.78%) Consul
6 1 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.78%) linkerd
6 1 (0.78%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 24 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.20%) Amplitude
2 8 (6.20%) Braze
2 8 (6.20%) Databricks
3 6 (4.65%) VMware
4 5 (3.88%) Cisco
4 5 (3.88%) EMC
4 5 (3.88%) F5
4 5 (3.88%) Google
4 5 (3.88%) New Relic
4 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.88%) Splunk
5 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.33%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.33%) OneLogin
5 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.78%) Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software