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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 313 410
Rank change year-on-year -15 +97 -24
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 135 105 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.81% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 104 91 72
10th Percentile £46,625 £50,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £58,750 £53,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,125 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £88,611 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £106,875 £90,000 £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 8,763 5,791 9,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 35.41% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,442 4,168 6,379
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £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 24 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 (7.41%) Apache
2 5 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.48%) CMS
4 2 (1.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) GitHub
2 96 (71.11%) AWS
3 71 (52.59%) Azure
4 29 (21.48%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.52%) GCP
6 23 (17.04%) Serverless
7 18 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (11.85%) Amazon S3
9 16 (11.85%) Datadog
10 15 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (8.15%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (8.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.93%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.93%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.93%) PaaS
13 8 (5.93%) SaaS
14 7 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.41%) VPN
2 6 (4.44%) DNS
3 5 (3.70%) Firewall
4 4 (2.96%) SSH
5 2 (1.48%) BGP
5 2 (1.48%) SSL
5 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.74%) Internet
6 1 (0.74%) Network Security
6 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.56%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.63%) DynamoDB
4 11 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.19%) MySQL
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.44%) Power BI
9 5 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.70%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.96%) Tableau
11 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.22%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.22%) Redis
11 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (25.93%) Git
2 30 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 20 (14.81%) GitLab
4 10 (7.41%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.67%) JIRA
6 6 (4.44%) Postman
7 5 (3.70%) Crashlytics
7 5 (3.70%) Poetry
7 5 (3.70%) Selenium
7 5 (3.70%) XCTest
8 4 (2.96%) Appium
8 4 (2.96%) NUnit
9 3 (2.22%) MLflow
9 3 (2.22%) Storybook
9 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.48%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.48%) JUnit
10 2 (1.48%) Snyk
10 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.74%) JMeter
General
1 50 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Finance
3 12 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.96%) Banking
5 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.22%) Local Government
6 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Retail
7 2 (1.48%) Games
7 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Law
7 2 (1.48%) Legal
7 2 (1.48%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Advertising
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Police
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (37.78%) Senior
2 22 (16.30%) Developer
3 21 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 18 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Lead
8 12 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Data Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.44%) Architect
13 6 (4.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) Mobile Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (49.63%) Terraform
2 32 (23.70%) React
3 30 (22.22%) Node.js
4 20 (14.81%) REST
5 18 (13.33%) CSS
6 15 (11.11%) RESTful
7 14 (10.37%) Tailwind CSS
8 12 (8.89%) Jest
8 12 (8.89%) Kafka
9 11 (8.15%) .NET
10 10 (7.41%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.67%) PySpark
12 8 (5.93%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.93%) Spring
12 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
13 7 (5.19%) React Native
13 7 (5.19%) Web Services
13 7 (5.19%) YAML
14 6 (4.44%) Playwright
15 5 (3.70%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (8.89%) Mobile App
3 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.19%) Blog
5 7 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.70%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.22%) Clustering
8 3 (2.22%) CMDB
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.22%) NHS
8 3 (2.22%) Robotics
9 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) PKI
9 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.74%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.70%) Unix
4 4 (2.96%) Android
5 3 (2.22%) Debian
5 3 (2.22%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.22%) Windows
5 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.74%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 72 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (48.15%) DevOps
4 50 (37.04%) AI
5 49 (36.30%) Software Engineering
6 48 (35.56%) Containerisation
7 36 (26.67%) Observability
8 35 (25.93%) Analytics
8 35 (25.93%) Test Automation
9 32 (23.70%) Agile
10 30 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 23 (17.04%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (16.30%) Code Quality
14 19 (14.07%) Machine Learning
15 18 (13.33%) Cloud Security
15 18 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (12.59%) SDLC
17 16 (11.85%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.15%) Python
2 38 (28.15%) TypeScript
3 33 (24.44%) SQL
4 29 (21.48%) Bash
5 24 (17.78%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.59%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.11%) Kotlin
8 14 (10.37%) Java
9 12 (8.89%) Go
10 11 (8.15%) Bicep
11 10 (7.41%) C#
12 8 (5.93%) Scala
12 8 (5.93%) Swift
13 7 (5.19%) Groovy
14 6 (4.44%) PHP
15 3 (2.22%) Dart
15 3 (2.22%) Rust
16 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.74%) Ruby
17 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.15%) Degree
4 9 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.48%) OCP
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.15%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) IFRS
3 2 (1.48%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.48%) NIST
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
3 2 (1.48%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (53.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 48 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.56%) Grafana
3 13 (9.63%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.15%) Progress Chef
5 10 (7.41%) Ansible
6 4 (2.96%) Packer
7 3 (2.22%) Argo
8 2 (1.48%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.74%) Cilium
9 1 (0.74%) Istio
9 1 (0.74%) linkerd
9 1 (0.74%) logstash
9 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) Databricks
3 5 (3.70%) Amplitude
3 5 (3.70%) Braze
3 5 (3.70%) Google
3 5 (3.70%) New Relic
3 5 (3.70%) Splunk
3 5 (3.70%) VMware
4 4 (2.96%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco
5 3 (2.22%) EMC
5 3 (2.22%) F5
5 3 (2.22%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.22%) OneLogin
5 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.74%) Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) OpenAI