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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 349 455
Rank change year-on-year +30 +106 +10
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 82 98
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.34% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 93 78 86
10th Percentile £45,100 £51,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,375 £93,125
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -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 8,355 6,124 12,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.01% 37.14% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,935 4,518 10,509
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,786
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 17 July 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 5 (3.79%) Apache
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) nginx
2 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) WordPress
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.76%) Drupal
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (66.67%) AWS
3 63 (47.73%) Azure
4 33 (25.00%) Serverless
5 32 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.97%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.39%) Amazon S3
7 19 (14.39%) GCP
8 17 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (10.61%) Firebase
10 14 (10.61%) Stripe
10 14 (10.61%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.09%) PaaS
11 12 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (7.58%) Datadog
14 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.85%) VPN
2 12 (9.09%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) DNS
4 4 (3.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.27%) HTTP
5 3 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (1.52%) RTP
6 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.52%) VoIP
6 2 (1.52%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.06%) MySQL
4 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.03%) Power BI
7 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.27%) Metadata
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.52%) Big Data
8 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.52%) Tableau
9 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (23.48%) Git
3 14 (10.61%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.61%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) GitLab
5 8 (6.06%) JIRA
6 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.79%) Storybook
9 3 (2.27%) Postman
9 3 (2.27%) Selenium
10 2 (1.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.76%) Appium
11 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.76%) Gatling
11 1 (0.76%) git-flow
11 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.06%) Finance
4 7 (5.30%) Retail
5 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.27%) Military
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (28.79%) Senior
2 26 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (18.18%) Developer
4 20 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead
9 10 (7.58%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.58%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Administrator
13 6 (4.55%) Lead Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) React
2 18 (13.64%) CSS
2 18 (13.64%) REST
3 14 (10.61%) Node.js
3 14 (10.61%) SwiftUI
3 14 (10.61%) UIKit
4 13 (9.85%) Tailwind CSS
5 12 (9.09%) .NET
6 10 (7.58%) RESTful
7 7 (5.30%) Jest
7 7 (5.30%) Web Services
7 7 (5.30%) YAML
8 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.55%) Flutter
8 6 (4.55%) Kafka
8 6 (4.55%) Playwright
8 6 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (3.79%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.79%) OAuth
9 5 (3.79%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.15%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.39%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (9.09%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.30%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) CMDB
7 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.52%) NHS
9 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.52%) PKI
9 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (11.36%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 71 (53.79%) DevOps
3 67 (50.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.06%) Containerisation
5 39 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 37 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (26.52%) AI
8 34 (25.76%) Mentoring
9 31 (23.48%) Agile
10 30 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (21.97%) Observability
12 28 (21.21%) Code Quality
13 26 (19.70%) Analytics
14 25 (18.94%) Software Engineering
15 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
16 22 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
17 20 (15.15%) Process Improvement
18 19 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
19 18 (13.64%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.45%) Python
2 29 (21.97%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.45%) Bash
4 24 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.39%) SQL
6 17 (12.88%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
8 14 (10.61%) Swift
9 11 (8.33%) Go
10 8 (6.06%) C#
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) PHP
12 6 (4.55%) Bicep
12 6 (4.55%) Dart
12 6 (4.55%) Java
12 6 (4.55%) Scala
13 3 (2.27%) C++
14 2 (1.52%) C
14 2 (1.52%) Rust
14 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.82%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.79%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (36.36%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (49.24%) Terraform
2 51 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.18%) Ansible
4 19 (14.39%) Grafana
5 16 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.30%) Packer
8 6 (4.55%) Argo
8 6 (4.55%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.27%) Puppet
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 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.61%) Braze
3 13 (9.85%) 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 4 (3.03%) Google
6 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.27%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) BT
7 2 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.52%) Mitel
8 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software