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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 360 345
Rank change year-on-year +154 -15 +178
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 171 92 138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 1.13% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 128 74 112
10th Percentile £48,275 £47,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.52% +0.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,438 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £73,250 £66,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +10.98% -17.12% +9.84%

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 5,581 8,170 9,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.63% 45.82% 47.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,095 5,383 8,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 14 December 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 8 (4.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) GitHub
2 127 (74.27%) Azure
3 85 (49.71%) AWS
4 83 (48.54%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (18.71%) GCP
5 32 (18.71%) Serverless
6 31 (18.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (16.37%) SaaS
8 27 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (13.45%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (13.45%) Datadog
10 22 (12.87%) Entra ID
11 18 (10.53%) Azure AKS
11 18 (10.53%) PaaS
12 17 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (9.94%) Azure App Service
13 15 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (7.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) Firewall
2 5 (2.92%) Network Security
3 4 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.34%) VPN
4 3 (1.75%) DNS
5 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.04%) NoSQL
1 24 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.85%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.85%) Flink
3 8 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.09%) BigQuery
4 7 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.34%) Looker
6 4 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.34%) Power BI
6 4 (2.34%) Tableau
7 3 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.75%) Metadata
7 3 (1.75%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.17%) MySQL
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (23.98%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.47%) Git
3 24 (14.04%) GitLab
4 11 (6.43%) JIRA
5 10 (5.85%) TeamCity
6 9 (5.26%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.68%) Subversion
8 4 (2.34%) JMeter
9 3 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.75%) JUnit
9 3 (1.75%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.75%) Selenium
10 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.17%) git-flow
10 2 (1.17%) Postman
10 2 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (40.35%) Finance
2 68 (39.77%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.77%) Banking
6 12 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.85%) Front Office
7 10 (5.85%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.85%) Retail
8 9 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.51%) Back Office
9 6 (3.51%) Marketing
10 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Electronics
11 2 (1.17%) Law
12 1 (0.58%) Automotive
12 1 (0.58%) Aviation
12 1 (0.58%) Billing
12 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (27.49%) Senior
2 37 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (18.13%) Lead
4 22 (12.87%) Developer
5 21 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (10.53%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.19%) Azure Developer
8 13 (7.60%) Development Engineer
8 13 (7.60%) Lead .NET Developer
8 13 (7.60%) Lead Developer
9 12 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (7.02%) SaaS Developer
10 11 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.64%) .NET
2 36 (21.05%) RESTful
3 28 (16.37%) React
4 16 (9.36%) .NET Framework
5 15 (8.77%) Kafka
6 14 (8.19%) ASP.NET Web API
6 14 (8.19%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 14 (8.19%) JSON
6 14 (8.19%) Node.js
6 14 (8.19%) OAuth
6 14 (8.19%) OAuth2
7 13 (7.60%) ADO
7 13 (7.60%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.60%) Razor View Engine
7 13 (7.60%) YAML
8 8 (4.68%) AWS CDK
8 8 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.51%) REST
10 5 (2.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.70%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.60%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.51%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.34%) Blog
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
2 17 (9.94%) Windows
3 5 (2.92%) Unix
4 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (94.74%) CI/CD
2 150 (87.72%) DevOps
3 87 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (35.67%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (32.16%) Containerisation
6 52 (30.41%) Agile
7 51 (29.82%) Observability
8 47 (27.49%) Test Automation
9 45 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (23.39%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (22.81%) Incident Response
12 34 (19.88%) Mentoring
13 33 (19.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 31 (18.13%) RBAC
15 30 (17.54%) Cloud Security
15 30 (17.54%) Computer Science
16 28 (16.37%) Code Quality
16 28 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 27 (15.79%) Microservices
18 26 (15.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.95%) Python
2 46 (26.90%) Bicep
3 41 (23.98%) SQL
4 40 (23.39%) Bash
5 36 (21.05%) PowerShell
6 26 (15.20%) TypeScript
7 22 (12.87%) JavaScript
8 21 (12.28%) Java
9 12 (7.02%) Go
10 10 (5.85%) C#
11 4 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.75%) Ruby
13 2 (1.17%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Dart
14 1 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.54%) Degree
2 29 (16.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (11.70%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 17 (9.94%) Azure Certification
6 16 (9.36%) SC Cleared
7 14 (8.19%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.17%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.58%) CCNA
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.88%) QA
2 17 (9.94%) GDPR
3 16 (9.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.51%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.34%) GRC
5 4 (2.34%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.17%) ECSS
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (34.50%) Docker
2 22 (12.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (57.89%) Terraform
2 85 (49.71%) Kubernetes
3 38 (22.22%) Grafana
4 29 (16.96%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.28%) Ansible
6 15 (8.77%) Argo
7 9 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.34%) Cilium
8 4 (2.34%) logstash
9 3 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Icinga
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.60%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.26%) Google
3 9 (5.26%) VMware
4 8 (4.68%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.92%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.92%) Splunk
6 4 (2.34%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.34%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.34%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.34%) Talend
6 4 (2.34%) Zoho
7 3 (1.75%) Databricks
7 3 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.17%) SAP
8 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle
9 1 (0.58%) Pega