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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 344 472
Rank change year-on-year +80 +128 -9
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 145 91 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 1.49% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 99 76 95
10th Percentile £46,700 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -21.21%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,750 £96,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +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 7,103 6,103 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.90% 40.43% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,863 4,464 11,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,719 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,292 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 19 May 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 5 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.38%) nginx
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) WordPress
3 1 (0.69%) Drupal
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) GitHub
2 86 (59.31%) AWS
3 83 (57.24%) Azure
4 52 (35.86%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (27.59%) Serverless
6 27 (18.62%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (17.24%) Amazon S3
8 22 (15.17%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (10.34%) Datadog
12 14 (9.66%) Entra ID
12 14 (9.66%) Firebase
12 14 (9.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (8.97%) Stripe
13 13 (8.97%) TestFlight
14 12 (8.28%) PaaS
15 11 (7.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (7.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Firewall
2 10 (6.90%) VPN
3 5 (3.45%) DNS
4 4 (2.76%) HTTP
5 3 (2.07%) RTP
5 3 (2.07%) SSL
5 3 (2.07%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.07%) VoIP
5 3 (2.07%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.69%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.66%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.83%) MySQL
6 6 (4.14%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.14%) Flink
6 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.76%) Metadata
7 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.38%) Big Data
9 2 (1.38%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.38%) Redis
10 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 27 (18.62%) Git
1 27 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.66%) GitLab
3 13 (8.97%) Crashlytics
3 13 (8.97%) XCTest
4 10 (6.90%) JIRA
5 6 (4.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.45%) Storybook
6 5 (3.45%) Subversion
7 2 (1.38%) JMeter
7 2 (1.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.69%) Appium
8 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.69%) Gatling
8 1 (0.69%) Locust
8 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.38%) Finance
3 17 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.21%) Retail
5 8 (5.52%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Banking
7 6 (4.14%) Front Office
7 6 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.07%) Billing
9 3 (2.07%) Health Technology
9 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.07%) Military
10 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (26.21%) Senior
2 29 (20.00%) Developer
3 28 (19.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (16.55%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (13.79%) Lead
6 15 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (9.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.66%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (9.66%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.83%) Administrator
12 7 (4.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (4.83%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 7 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.31%) React
2 25 (17.24%) .NET
3 18 (12.41%) RESTful
4 15 (10.34%) CSS
4 15 (10.34%) REST
5 13 (8.97%) SwiftUI
5 13 (8.97%) UIKit
6 11 (7.59%) OAuth
6 11 (7.59%) OAuth2
7 10 (6.90%) .NET Framework
7 10 (6.90%) JSON
7 10 (6.90%) Kafka
7 10 (6.90%) Razor View Engine
8 9 (6.21%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 8 (5.52%) Entity Framework
9 8 (5.52%) Node.js
10 7 (4.83%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 19 (13.10%) Cloud Native
3 17 (11.72%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (8.97%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.21%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.14%) CMDB
7 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.38%) NHS
11 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.69%) Linux
2 14 (9.66%) Apple iOS
3 9 (6.21%) Windows
4 7 (4.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (95.86%) CI/CD
2 103 (71.03%) DevOps
3 73 (50.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (32.41%) Observability
5 46 (31.72%) Test Automation
6 42 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (28.28%) Containerisation
8 40 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
9 36 (24.83%) Agile
9 36 (24.83%) Mentoring
10 33 (22.76%) Code Quality
11 30 (20.69%) Deployment Automation
12 29 (20.00%) AI
12 29 (20.00%) Analytics
12 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (17.93%) Cloud Security
14 21 (14.48%) Incident Response
14 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure Automation
14 21 (14.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.97%) Python
2 29 (20.00%) Bash
3 26 (17.93%) SQL
4 25 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 22 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.17%) PowerShell
6 16 (11.03%) Bicep
7 14 (9.66%) Go
8 13 (8.97%) Kotlin
8 13 (8.97%) Swift
9 8 (5.52%) C#
9 8 (5.52%) Java
10 6 (4.14%) Dart
10 6 (4.14%) PHP
11 4 (2.76%) C++
12 3 (2.07%) C
12 3 (2.07%) Groovy
13 2 (1.38%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.38%) Scala
13 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.72%) Degree
2 13 (8.97%) Azure Certification
3 11 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) QA
2 11 (7.59%) GDPR
3 9 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.38%) IFRS
6 2 (1.38%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.38%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (31.03%) Docker
2 17 (11.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.07%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (56.55%) Terraform
2 58 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.24%) Ansible
4 24 (16.55%) Grafana
5 20 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 13 (8.97%) Argo
7 7 (4.83%) Packer
7 7 (4.83%) Proxmox
8 6 (4.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.76%) logstash
11 3 (2.07%) Puppet
12 1 (0.69%) Consul
12 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.66%) VMware
3 13 (8.97%) Amplitude
3 13 (8.97%) Braze
4 6 (4.14%) Ab Initio
4 6 (4.14%) Cisco
4 6 (4.14%) EMC
4 6 (4.14%) F5
4 6 (4.14%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.76%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.07%) BT
6 3 (2.07%) Databricks
6 3 (2.07%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.07%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Mitel
7 2 (1.38%) Foundry
7 2 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds