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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 379 345
Rank change year-on-year +163 -34 +171
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 155 89 144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.44% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 1.00% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 118 73 109
10th Percentile £48,100 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.90% +0.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%

All Cloud 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 5,521 8,931 10,151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.50% 44.55% 47.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 5,849 8,692
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,241 £84,964 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.53%

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 November 2025.

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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.94%) IIS
3 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) GitHub
2 111 (71.61%) Azure
3 77 (49.68%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (49.03%) AWS
5 29 (18.71%) GCP
5 29 (18.71%) Serverless
6 28 (18.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (16.77%) SaaS
8 22 (14.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (13.55%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (11.61%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (11.61%) Datadog
11 17 (10.97%) PaaS
12 16 (10.32%) Entra ID
13 15 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (9.03%) Azure AKS
15 13 (8.39%) Azure App Service
16 11 (7.10%) Amazon S3
16 11 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) Firewall
2 5 (3.23%) Network Security
3 4 (2.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.58%) VPN
4 2 (1.29%) DNS
4 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.19%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.55%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.81%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.52%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.23%) Flink
7 5 (3.23%) Power BI
8 4 (2.58%) Looker
8 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.58%) Tableau
9 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.94%) MySQL
9 3 (1.94%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.29%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.29%) Metadata
11 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 42 (27.10%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.29%) Git
3 23 (14.84%) GitLab
4 11 (7.10%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.16%) JIRA
6 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.23%) Subversion
7 3 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.94%) JMeter
7 3 (1.94%) JUnit
7 3 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.29%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.29%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.29%) git-flow
8 2 (1.29%) Postman
8 2 (1.29%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.65%) Deequ
General
1 61 (39.35%) Social Skills
2 52 (33.55%) Finance
3 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.32%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.45%) Banking
6 9 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.81%) Retail
7 7 (4.52%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.87%) Marketing
8 6 (3.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.23%) Back Office
9 5 (3.23%) Front Office
10 4 (2.58%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.58%) Law
11 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.29%) Electronics
13 1 (0.65%) Automotive
13 1 (0.65%) Aviation
13 1 (0.65%) Billing
13 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (27.74%) Senior
2 34 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.84%) Lead
4 20 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (12.90%) Developer
5 19 (12.26%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (11.61%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (9.03%) .NET Developer
8 13 (8.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Azure Developer
10 11 (7.10%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Lead .NET Developer
10 11 (7.10%) Lead Developer
11 10 (6.45%) SaaS Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Development Engineer
13 8 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (4.52%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.00%) RESTful
2 30 (19.35%) .NET
3 24 (15.48%) React
4 16 (10.32%) Node.js
5 13 (8.39%) .NET Framework
5 13 (8.39%) YAML
6 11 (7.10%) ASP.NET Web API
6 11 (7.10%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 11 (7.10%) Entity Framework
6 11 (7.10%) JSON
6 11 (7.10%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (6.45%) Kafka
8 9 (5.81%) ADO
8 9 (5.81%) OAuth
8 9 (5.81%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.52%) AWS CDK
9 7 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (4.52%) REST
10 5 (3.23%) CSS
10 5 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.97%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.23%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.58%) Blog
7 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.84%) Linux
2 17 (10.97%) Windows
3 5 (3.23%) Unix
4 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.29%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (94.19%) CI/CD
2 132 (85.16%) DevOps
3 82 (52.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (34.84%) Containerisation
5 53 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (30.32%) Agile
7 45 (29.03%) Observability
8 39 (25.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (25.16%) Test Automation
9 34 (21.94%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (21.29%) Mentoring
11 32 (20.65%) Incident Response
12 30 (19.35%) Computer Science
13 28 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (16.77%) Cloud Security
14 26 (16.77%) RBAC
15 25 (16.13%) Microservices
15 25 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (13.55%) Analytics
16 21 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (47.10%) Python
2 38 (24.52%) Bash
2 38 (24.52%) Bicep
3 36 (23.23%) SQL
4 34 (21.94%) PowerShell
5 23 (14.84%) TypeScript
6 20 (12.90%) JavaScript
7 19 (12.26%) Java
8 11 (7.10%) C#
9 8 (5.16%) Go
10 4 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.94%) Ruby
12 2 (1.29%) C++
12 2 (1.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.65%) Dart
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (19.35%) Degree
2 29 (18.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 20 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 18 (11.61%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.03%) Azure Certification
6 13 (8.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.29%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.65%) CCNA
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.42%) QA
2 17 (10.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.39%) GDPR
4 6 (3.87%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.58%) GRC
5 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.29%) ECSS
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (31.61%) Docker
2 17 (10.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (53.55%) Terraform
2 74 (47.74%) Kubernetes
3 34 (21.94%) Grafana
4 25 (16.13%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.19%) Ansible
6 9 (5.81%) Argo
7 6 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.58%) Cilium
9 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) Icinga
10 1 (0.65%) logstash
10 1 (0.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.45%) Google
2 10 (6.45%) VMware
3 9 (5.81%) Ab Initio
4 6 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.23%) Splunk
6 4 (2.58%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.58%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.58%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.58%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.58%) Talend
6 4 (2.58%) Zoho
7 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.29%) Databricks
8 2 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.29%) SAP
8 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle
9 1 (0.65%) UiPath