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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 347 429
Rank change year-on-year +26 +82 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 87 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.43% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 89 82 77
10th Percentile £44,950 £50,050 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 8,630 6,082 10,313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.69% 36.62% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 4,489 8,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 3 August 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 (3.82%) Apache
2 4 (3.05%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
4 2 (1.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 92 (70.23%) AWS
3 67 (51.15%) Azure
4 34 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (22.90%) Serverless
6 26 (19.85%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (16.03%) GCP
8 17 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (11.45%) Firebase
10 14 (10.69%) Stripe
10 14 (10.69%) TestFlight
11 11 (8.40%) Datadog
11 11 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (6.11%) PaaS
15 7 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) VPN
2 10 (7.63%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.76%) BGP
6 1 (0.76%) HTTP
6 1 (0.76%) LTE
6 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.58%) Power BI
6 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
6 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.82%) MySQL
7 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.05%) Tableau
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.29%) Metadata
8 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.53%) Big Data
9 2 (1.53%) Redis
9 2 (1.53%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) Git
1 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.69%) Crashlytics
2 14 (10.69%) XCTest
3 11 (8.40%) Cypress.io
4 10 (7.63%) GitLab
5 9 (6.87%) JIRA
6 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.82%) Postman
7 5 (3.82%) Selenium
7 5 (3.82%) Storybook
8 4 (3.05%) NUnit
9 3 (2.29%) Appium
10 2 (1.53%) JUnit
10 2 (1.53%) MLflow
10 2 (1.53%) Snyk
10 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.76%) WinDbg
General
1 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Finance
4 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Retail
7 4 (3.05%) Military
8 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Senior
2 24 (18.32%) Platform Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Developer
4 18 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Lead
8 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Architect
12 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.14%) React
2 19 (14.50%) Node.js
3 18 (13.74%) CSS
3 18 (13.74%) REST
4 14 (10.69%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 14 (10.69%) UIKit
5 13 (9.92%) .NET
6 12 (9.16%) Jest
6 12 (9.16%) RESTful
7 7 (5.34%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.34%) React Native
7 7 (5.34%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.58%) Kafka
8 6 (4.58%) Playwright
9 5 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.82%) Flutter
9 5 (3.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Mobile App
2 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
3 20 (15.27%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.63%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (7.63%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.11%) Public Cloud
7 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.58%) CMDB
9 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.29%) Blog
10 3 (2.29%) NHS
10 3 (2.29%) PKI
11 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.53%) Clustering
11 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.90%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 3 (2.29%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.84%) CI/CD
2 68 (51.91%) DevOps
3 63 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (32.06%) Test Automation
5 37 (28.24%) Containerisation
6 36 (27.48%) AI
7 32 (24.43%) Agile
8 31 (23.66%) Mentoring
8 31 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (22.90%) Analytics
10 29 (22.14%) Code Quality
11 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
12 27 (20.61%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (19.85%) Observability
14 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (15.27%) Clean Code
15 20 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.27%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (15.27%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.51%) Python
2 33 (25.19%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.61%) JavaScript
4 25 (19.08%) Bash
5 20 (15.27%) SQL
6 19 (14.50%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.21%) Swift
8 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
9 11 (8.40%) Go
10 9 (6.87%) C#
10 9 (6.87%) Java
11 8 (6.11%) PHP
12 7 (5.34%) Groovy
12 7 (5.34%) Scala
13 6 (4.58%) Bicep
14 5 (3.82%) Dart
15 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.76%) C++
16 1 (0.76%) Perl
16 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.92%) Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.53%) OCP
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.53%) IFRS
5 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.53%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (35.88%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (45.80%) Terraform
2 47 (35.88%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.03%) Ansible
4 19 (14.50%) Grafana
5 14 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.34%) Packer
8 4 (3.05%) Argo
8 4 (3.05%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.29%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) Consul
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.69%) Braze
3 11 (8.40%) VMware
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
4 6 (4.58%) Databricks
4 6 (4.58%) EMC
4 6 (4.58%) F5
4 6 (4.58%) New Relic
4 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.05%) Google
6 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.29%) Splunk
7 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) Foundry
8 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software