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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 307 460
Rank change year-on-year +63 +153 +25
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 160 90 118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 0.67% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 1.53% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 113 73 95
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £86,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £98,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 6,805 5,879 13,972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.54% 43.65% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,614 4,629 11,984
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,140 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,859 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -11.54%

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 29 April 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.25%) nginx
3 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.25%) WordPress
4 1 (0.63%) Drupal
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) GitHub
2 97 (60.63%) Azure
3 88 (55.00%) AWS
4 62 (38.75%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (26.25%) Serverless
6 25 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (15.00%) Amazon S3
8 21 (13.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (11.88%) Entra ID
11 18 (11.25%) GCP
12 17 (10.63%) Datadog
13 16 (10.00%) SaaS
14 15 (9.38%) PaaS
15 14 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (8.13%) Azure App Service
16 13 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (8.13%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.75%) Firewall
2 10 (6.25%) VPN
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) HTTP
4 3 (1.88%) RTP
4 3 (1.88%) SSL
4 3 (1.88%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.88%) VoIP
4 3 (1.88%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.63%) Broadband
5 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.63%) LTE
5 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.63%) Flink
5 7 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.75%) Metadata
6 6 (3.75%) MySQL
7 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.25%) Big Data
10 2 (1.25%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.25%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.25%) Redis
10 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.63%) Apache Arrow
11 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (18.13%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.63%) Git
3 21 (13.13%) GitLab
4 15 (9.38%) JIRA
5 12 (7.50%) Crashlytics
5 12 (7.50%) XCTest
6 8 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.00%) Subversion
7 5 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.13%) Storybook
7 5 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.25%) git-flow
8 2 (1.25%) JMeter
8 2 (1.25%) MLflow
8 2 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.63%) GDB
9 1 (0.63%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.63%) WinDbg
General
1 56 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (28.75%) Finance
3 20 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.75%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.25%) Banking
7 9 (5.63%) Front Office
7 9 (5.63%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.63%) Retail
8 7 (4.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Billing
10 3 (1.88%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.88%) Military
11 2 (1.25%) Back Office
11 2 (1.25%) Electronics
11 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.63%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 42 (26.25%) Senior
2 34 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.13%) Developer
4 27 (16.88%) Lead
5 23 (14.38%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (10.63%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 16 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (8.13%) Mobile Engineer
10 11 (6.88%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.88%) Lead Developer
11 10 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Lead .NET Developer
12 9 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (5.00%) Development Engineer
13 8 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (5.00%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.50%) .NET
2 25 (15.63%) React
3 24 (15.00%) RESTful
4 16 (10.00%) Kafka
5 12 (7.50%) .NET Framework
5 12 (7.50%) OAuth
5 12 (7.50%) OAuth2
5 12 (7.50%) SwiftUI
5 12 (7.50%) UIKit
6 11 (6.88%) JSON
6 11 (6.88%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 10 (6.25%) CSS
7 10 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 9 (5.63%) REST
9 8 (5.00%) ADO
10 7 (4.38%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.75%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.88%) Mobile App
3 17 (10.63%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (7.50%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.88%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.63%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.13%) CMDB
8 5 (3.13%) Fixed Income
8 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.13%) Linux
2 13 (8.13%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.63%) Windows
4 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (97.50%) CI/CD
2 127 (79.38%) DevOps
3 78 (48.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (33.13%) Observability
5 52 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (29.38%) Test Automation
7 46 (28.75%) Agile
8 44 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (26.25%) Containerisation
10 41 (25.63%) Mentoring
11 36 (22.50%) Code Quality
12 32 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
13 30 (18.75%) AI
13 30 (18.75%) Analytics
14 26 (16.25%) Cloud Security
14 26 (16.25%) Incident Response
14 26 (16.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (12.50%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (48.13%) Python
2 33 (20.63%) Bash
3 31 (19.38%) SQL
4 24 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 23 (14.38%) Bicep
5 23 (14.38%) PowerShell
6 21 (13.13%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.00%) Go
8 12 (7.50%) Java
8 12 (7.50%) Kotlin
8 12 (7.50%) Swift
9 7 (4.38%) C#
10 6 (3.75%) Dart
11 5 (3.13%) PHP
12 4 (2.50%) C++
13 3 (1.88%) C
14 2 (1.25%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.25%) Scala
14 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (11.88%) Degree
2 12 (7.50%) AWS Certification
2 12 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 12 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.88%) QA
2 13 (8.13%) GDPR
3 10 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.25%) IFRS
5 2 (1.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (29.38%) Docker
2 21 (13.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.88%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (55.00%) Terraform
2 65 (40.63%) Kubernetes
3 28 (17.50%) Grafana
4 27 (16.88%) Ansible
5 25 (15.63%) Prometheus
6 16 (10.00%) Argo
7 9 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.38%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.75%) Packer
10 4 (2.50%) logstash
10 4 (2.50%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.88%) Puppet
12 1 (0.63%) Cilium
12 1 (0.63%) Consul
12 1 (0.63%) Icinga
12 1 (0.63%) Kibana
12 1 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.75%) VMware
3 12 (7.50%) Amplitude
3 12 (7.50%) Braze
4 8 (5.00%) Ab Initio
5 7 (4.38%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.13%) Cisco
6 5 (3.13%) Databricks
6 5 (3.13%) EMC
6 5 (3.13%) F5
6 5 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.50%) Google
7 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.88%) BT
8 3 (1.88%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.88%) Mitel
9 2 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.25%) SAP
9 2 (1.25%) Splunk