GitHub Actions Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 478 483
Rank change year-on-year +170 +5 -80
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 90 114 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 0.78% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 73 95 131
10th Percentile £52,750 £41,250 £56,219
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £100,114
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +23.08%

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 5,878 14,660 20,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.31% 43.32% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 12,011 14,950
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £37,790
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

GitHub Actions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GitHub Actions salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.67%) Confluence
1 6 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) GitHub
2 62 (68.89%) Azure
3 41 (45.56%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (44.44%) AWS
5 16 (17.78%) GCP
6 11 (12.22%) Power Platform
6 11 (12.22%) SaaS
6 11 (12.22%) Serverless
7 10 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.89%) Datadog
8 8 (8.89%) IaaS
8 8 (8.89%) npm
8 8 (8.89%) PaaS
8 8 (8.89%) PowerApps
9 7 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (12.22%) MySQL
4 10 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.11%) Power BI
5 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 6 (6.67%) Redis
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.11%) Big Data
10 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.11%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 27 (30.00%) Git
2 24 (26.67%) SonarQube
3 19 (21.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (15.56%) Gradle
5 7 (7.78%) JIRA
6 6 (6.67%) Maven
7 4 (4.44%) GitLab
8 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (2.22%) Postman
9 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.11%) Gatling
9 1 (1.11%) JMeter
9 1 (1.11%) Locust
9 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.11%) Selenium
9 1 (1.11%) Storybook
9 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.78%) Games
4 6 (6.67%) Automotive
4 6 (6.67%) Finance
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.22%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Senior
2 28 (31.11%) Developer
3 24 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (17.78%) Senior Developer
5 14 (15.56%) Lead
6 11 (12.22%) Lead Developer
6 11 (12.22%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) Backend Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Android Developer
9 7 (7.78%) iOS Android Developer
9 7 (7.78%) iOS Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Lead Android Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Lead iOS Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) React
2 18 (20.00%) RESTful
3 13 (14.44%) .NET
4 12 (13.33%) GraphQL
5 9 (10.00%) Kafka
6 8 (8.89%) ARM Templates
6 8 (8.89%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 7 (7.78%) FastAPI
7 7 (7.78%) Flask
7 7 (7.78%) Node.js
7 7 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (7.78%) SQLAlchemy
8 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.67%) Django
8 6 (6.67%) OAuth
8 6 (6.67%) pytest
8 6 (6.67%) Spring
8 6 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (15.56%) Mobile Games
2 14 (15.56%) Onboarding
3 11 (12.22%) Mobile App
4 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.22%) NHS
9 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.11%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Android
1 8 (8.89%) Apple iOS
2 7 (7.78%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) VMS
3 2 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (76.67%) DevOps
2 68 (75.56%) CI/CD
3 52 (57.78%) Agile
4 45 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 32 (35.56%) Containerisation
6 31 (34.44%) Migration
7 28 (31.11%) Mentoring
8 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (24.44%) Test Automation
10 20 (22.22%) DevSecOps
10 20 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
10 20 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
11 17 (18.89%) Computer Science
11 17 (18.89%) Release Management
12 16 (17.78%) Design Patterns
13 15 (16.67%) B2B
13 15 (16.67%) Microservices
14 14 (15.56%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 14 (15.56%) Observability
14 14 (15.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.78%) Python
2 35 (38.89%) SQL
3 28 (31.11%) Java
4 19 (21.11%) PowerShell
4 19 (21.11%) TypeScript
5 17 (18.89%) C#
6 13 (14.44%) JavaScript
7 12 (13.33%) Bash
8 8 (8.89%) Kotlin
8 8 (8.89%) Objective-C
8 8 (8.89%) Swift
9 6 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (6.67%) Go
10 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.22%) Ruby
10 2 (2.22%) Rust
10 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.11%) Scala
11 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
11 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (33.33%) Degree
2 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (18.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (7.78%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) QA
2 8 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.89%) NCSC
3 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.56%) SOC 2
5 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 31 (34.44%) Terraform
3 22 (24.44%) Prometheus
4 12 (13.33%) Ansible
5 9 (10.00%) Grafana
6 6 (6.67%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) New Relic
3 8 (8.89%) Databricks
3 8 (8.89%) Google
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (1.11%) Foundry
5 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.11%) Palantir
5 1 (1.11%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) VMware