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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 333 344
Rank change year-on-year +123 +11 +153
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 173 101 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 1.31% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 127 76 106
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,813 £60,295
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.52% +0.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £74,063 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £76,250 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.85% -17.12% +9.84%

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 5,529 7,681 9,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 46.15% 46.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,960 4,920 8,401
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,938 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%

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 7 January 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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.73%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) GitHub
2 132 (76.30%) Azure
3 87 (50.29%) AWS
4 86 (49.71%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (19.65%) Serverless
6 33 (19.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (18.50%) GCP
8 29 (16.76%) SaaS
9 27 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (13.87%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (13.87%) Datadog
12 22 (12.72%) Entra ID
13 19 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (10.40%) Azure AKS
14 18 (10.40%) PaaS
15 17 (9.83%) Azure App Service
16 16 (9.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (8.67%) Amazon S3
17 15 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) Firewall
2 5 (2.89%) Network Security
3 4 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (1.73%) DNS
5 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
1 25 (14.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.36%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.78%) Flink
4 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.05%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.31%) Looker
8 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.31%) Power BI
8 4 (2.31%) Tableau
9 3 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.73%) Metadata
9 3 (1.73%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.16%) MySQL
11 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 44 (25.43%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.23%) Git
3 25 (14.45%) GitLab
4 10 (5.78%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.20%) TeamCity
6 8 (4.62%) Subversion
7 4 (2.31%) JMeter
8 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.73%) JUnit
8 3 (1.73%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.73%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.16%) git-flow
9 2 (1.16%) Postman
9 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (41.04%) Finance
2 68 (39.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.56%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.78%) Front Office
7 10 (5.78%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.78%) Retail
8 9 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.47%) Back Office
9 6 (3.47%) Marketing
10 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.73%) Billing
12 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.16%) Law
13 1 (0.58%) Automotive
13 1 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (26.59%) Senior
2 37 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (16.18%) Lead
4 23 (13.29%) Developer
5 20 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (10.98%) .NET Developer
7 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) Azure Developer
9 14 (8.09%) Development Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Lead .NET Developer
10 13 (7.51%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (6.94%) SaaS Developer
12 11 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.97%) .NET
2 37 (21.39%) RESTful
3 28 (16.18%) React
4 16 (9.25%) .NET Framework
4 16 (9.25%) Kafka
5 15 (8.67%) JSON
5 15 (8.67%) OAuth
5 15 (8.67%) OAuth2
6 14 (8.09%) ADO
6 14 (8.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 14 (8.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 13 (7.51%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.51%) Node.js
7 13 (7.51%) Razor View Engine
7 13 (7.51%) YAML
8 9 (5.20%) AWS CDK
9 8 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.47%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.47%) ARM Templates
10 6 (3.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.98%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.47%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.31%) Blog
6 4 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.61%) Linux
2 17 (9.83%) Windows
3 5 (2.89%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (94.22%) CI/CD
2 153 (88.44%) DevOps
3 89 (51.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (36.99%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.79%) Containerisation
6 52 (30.06%) Observability
7 50 (28.90%) Agile
8 47 (27.17%) Test Automation
9 45 (26.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (24.86%) Incident Response
11 41 (23.70%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (19.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 33 (19.08%) Mentoring
14 32 (18.50%) RBAC
15 31 (17.92%) Cloud Security
16 29 (16.76%) Code Quality
16 29 (16.76%) Computer Science
16 29 (16.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 28 (16.18%) Asset Management
17 28 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (49.71%) Python
2 47 (27.17%) Bicep
3 44 (25.43%) SQL
4 39 (22.54%) Bash
5 35 (20.23%) PowerShell
6 25 (14.45%) TypeScript
7 22 (12.72%) JavaScript
8 21 (12.14%) Java
9 12 (6.94%) Go
10 9 (5.20%) C#
11 4 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.73%) Ruby
13 2 (1.16%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (16.76%) Degree
2 28 (16.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.40%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.83%) Security Cleared
6 15 (8.67%) SC Cleared
7 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.58%) CCNA
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.65%) QA
2 18 (10.40%) GDPR
3 15 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.47%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.31%) GRC
5 4 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.16%) ECSS
8 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (34.10%) Docker
2 22 (12.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (58.38%) Terraform
2 83 (47.98%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.12%) Grafana
4 31 (17.92%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.14%) Ansible
6 15 (8.67%) Argo
7 9 (5.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.31%) Cilium
8 4 (2.31%) logstash
9 3 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Icinga
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.20%) Google
4 8 (4.62%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.62%) VMware
5 6 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.89%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.31%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.31%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.31%) Talend
7 4 (2.31%) Zoho
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
8 3 (1.73%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.16%) SAP
9 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle
10 1 (0.58%) Pega