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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 350 450
Rank change year-on-year +45 +100 +8
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 83 96
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.36% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 94 79 84
10th Percentile £45,150 £51,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £58,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,625 £85,250 £89,625
UK median annual salary £66,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.33% +15.38% -13.33%

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 8,402 6,114 12,662
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.98% 37.06% 41.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,979 4,514 10,375
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -7.20%

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 July 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 (3.76%) Apache
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) nginx
2 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) WordPress
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.75%) Drupal
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (66.17%) AWS
3 63 (47.37%) Azure
4 33 (24.81%) Serverless
5 32 (24.06%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.80%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 19 (14.29%) GCP
8 17 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (10.53%) Firebase
10 14 (10.53%) Stripe
10 14 (10.53%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.02%) PaaS
11 12 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (7.52%) Datadog
14 9 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) VPN
2 12 (9.02%) Firewall
3 6 (4.51%) DNS
4 4 (3.01%) SSH
5 3 (2.26%) HTTP
5 3 (2.26%) SSL
6 2 (1.50%) RTP
6 2 (1.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.50%) VoIP
6 2 (1.50%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) LTE
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.02%) MySQL
3 8 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.01%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.01%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.01%) Power BI
6 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.26%) Metadata
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.50%) Big Data
7 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.50%) Redis
7 2 (1.50%) Tableau
8 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 32 (24.06%) Git
3 14 (10.53%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.53%) XCTest
4 11 (8.27%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) JIRA
6 7 (5.26%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.76%) Storybook
9 3 (2.26%) Postman
9 3 (2.26%) Selenium
10 2 (1.50%) MLflow
11 1 (0.75%) Appium
11 1 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.75%) git-flow
11 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.75%) Vite
11 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
4 7 (5.26%) Retail
5 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.26%) Military
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Senior
2 26 (19.55%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (18.05%) Developer
4 20 (15.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.28%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.02%) Lead
9 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.52%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.51%) Administrator
13 6 (4.51%) Lead Developer
13 6 (4.51%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) React
2 19 (14.29%) REST
3 18 (13.53%) CSS
4 15 (11.28%) Node.js
5 14 (10.53%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.53%) UIKit
6 13 (9.77%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (9.02%) .NET
8 11 (8.27%) RESTful
9 7 (5.26%) Jest
9 7 (5.26%) Web Services
9 7 (5.26%) YAML
10 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.51%) Flutter
10 6 (4.51%) Kafka
10 6 (4.51%) Playwright
10 6 (4.51%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (3.76%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.76%) OAuth
11 5 (3.76%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.04%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (9.02%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.51%) CMDB
7 6 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.50%) NHS
9 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.50%) PKI
9 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.81%) Linux
2 15 (11.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.01%) Unix
6 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (90.98%) CI/CD
2 71 (53.38%) DevOps
3 67 (50.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (30.83%) Containerisation
5 40 (30.08%) Test Automation
6 37 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (26.32%) AI
8 34 (25.56%) Mentoring
9 31 (23.31%) Agile
10 30 (22.56%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (21.80%) Code Quality
11 29 (21.80%) Observability
12 26 (19.55%) Analytics
12 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
13 24 (18.05%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (15.04%) Process Improvement
16 19 (14.29%) Clean Code
16 19 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.11%) Python
2 30 (22.56%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.30%) Bash
4 24 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.29%) SQL
6 17 (12.78%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
8 14 (10.53%) Swift
9 11 (8.27%) Go
10 8 (6.02%) C#
11 7 (5.26%) Groovy
11 7 (5.26%) Java
11 7 (5.26%) PHP
12 6 (4.51%) Bicep
12 6 (4.51%) Dart
12 6 (4.51%) Scala
13 3 (2.26%) C++
14 2 (1.50%) C
14 2 (1.50%) Rust
14 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
3 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.50%) IFRS
4 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (36.84%) Docker
2 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.50%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (48.87%) Terraform
2 52 (39.10%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.05%) Ansible
4 19 (14.29%) Grafana
5 16 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.27%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.26%) Packer
8 6 (4.51%) Argo
8 6 (4.51%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.26%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) Consul
10 1 (0.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
10 1 (0.75%) linkerd
10 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.53%) Braze
3 13 (9.77%) VMware
4 6 (4.51%) Cisco
4 6 (4.51%) EMC
4 6 (4.51%) F5
4 6 (4.51%) New Relic
4 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.01%) Google
6 3 (2.26%) Databricks
6 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.26%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 2 (1.50%) BT
7 2 (1.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.50%) Mitel
8 1 (0.75%) Foundry