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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 306 391
Rank change year-on-year -16 +85 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 144 117 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.71% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 2.04% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 108 100 69
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £59,375 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +18.75% -13.95%
75th Percentile £91,563 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 8,739 5,737 9,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.71% 34.93% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 4,063 5,897
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%

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 16 October 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 9 (6.25%) Apache
2 5 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.78%) Confluence
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.39%) CMS
5 2 (1.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) GitHub
2 96 (66.67%) AWS
3 73 (50.69%) Azure
4 32 (22.22%) GCP
5 29 (20.14%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (15.97%) Serverless
7 20 (13.89%) Datadog
8 18 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (11.11%) Amazon S3
10 14 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (7.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (7.64%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (5.56%) PaaS
16 7 (4.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (4.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) VPN
2 7 (4.86%) DNS
3 5 (3.47%) Firewall
3 5 (3.47%) SSH
4 2 (1.39%) BGP
4 2 (1.39%) Network Security
4 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.39%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) SSL
5 1 (0.69%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.58%) Relational Database
3 14 (9.72%) DynamoDB
4 10 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.94%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.86%) MySQL
6 6 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.17%) Power BI
7 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.47%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.47%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.78%) Tableau
9 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.08%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.08%) Redis
9 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 33 (22.92%) Git
2 32 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 27 (18.75%) GitLab
4 8 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.86%) JIRA
6 6 (4.17%) Postman
7 5 (3.47%) Appium
7 5 (3.47%) Poetry
7 5 (3.47%) Selenium
8 4 (2.78%) Crashlytics
8 4 (2.78%) NUnit
8 4 (2.78%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.78%) XCTest
9 2 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.39%) JUnit
9 2 (1.39%) MLflow
9 2 (1.39%) Snyk
9 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.89%) Finance
3 18 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.78%) Banking
8 3 (2.08%) Local Government
9 2 (1.39%) Games
9 2 (1.39%) Law
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Military
9 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Police
9 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (38.19%) Senior
2 24 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 23 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (15.28%) Developer
5 16 (11.11%) Lead
6 15 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Architect
11 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Mobile Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (51.39%) Terraform
2 30 (20.83%) Node.js
3 29 (20.14%) React
4 23 (15.97%) REST
5 17 (11.81%) RESTful
6 16 (11.11%) CSS
7 12 (8.33%) GraphQL
7 12 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
8 11 (7.64%) .NET
8 11 (7.64%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.64%) Kafka
9 10 (6.94%) Jest
10 9 (6.25%) PySpark
10 9 (6.25%) Spring
10 9 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 7 (4.86%) Playwright
11 7 (4.86%) Web Services
11 7 (4.86%) YAML
12 6 (4.17%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.56%) Blog
5 8 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.08%) Clustering
9 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.08%) NHS
9 3 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.08%) PKI
9 3 (2.08%) Robotics
10 2 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.44%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.47%) Android
3 5 (3.47%) Unix
4 3 (2.08%) Debian
4 3 (2.08%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.39%) Windows
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.69%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (93.06%) CI/CD
2 79 (54.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (47.22%) DevOps
4 56 (38.89%) AI
4 56 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 55 (38.19%) Containerisation
6 43 (29.86%) Observability
7 41 (28.47%) Test Automation
8 34 (23.61%) Agile
8 34 (23.61%) Analytics
9 31 (21.53%) Mentoring
10 27 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (15.28%) Code Quality
14 21 (14.58%) DevSecOps
14 21 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (13.89%) Machine Learning
16 18 (12.50%) Secrets Management
17 17 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (49.31%) Python
2 38 (26.39%) TypeScript
3 37 (25.69%) SQL
4 31 (21.53%) Bash
5 27 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 18 (12.50%) Java
7 16 (11.11%) PowerShell
8 14 (9.72%) Kotlin
9 13 (9.03%) Go
10 12 (8.33%) Bicep
11 11 (7.64%) C#
12 8 (5.56%) Scala
13 7 (4.86%) Swift
14 6 (4.17%) Groovy
14 6 (4.17%) PHP
15 3 (2.08%) Rust
16 2 (1.39%) C
16 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.69%) Ruby
17 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
3 10 (6.94%) Degree
4 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.08%) OCP
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) QA
2 10 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
5 2 (1.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS
6 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (57.64%) Docker
2 5 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.69%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 51 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.83%) Grafana
3 15 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.94%) Ansible
5 9 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 8 (5.56%) Argo
7 3 (2.08%) Packer
8 2 (1.39%) logstash
8 2 (1.39%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.69%) Cilium
9 1 (0.69%) Istio
9 1 (0.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.56%) Databricks
3 6 (4.17%) Google
3 6 (4.17%) Splunk
4 5 (3.47%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.47%) New Relic
5 4 (2.78%) Amplitude
5 4 (2.78%) Braze
5 4 (2.78%) VMware
6 3 (2.08%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.08%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.39%) Cisco
7 2 (1.39%) EMC
7 2 (1.39%) F5
7 2 (1.39%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) Axway
8 1 (0.69%) Foundry