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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 484 482
Rank change year-on-year +103 -2 -85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 88 106 140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.73% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 80 93 91
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +32.72%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £87,875 £99,250 £117,236
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -15.58% +14.07%

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 6,723 14,524 17,235
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.81% 42.46% 47.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,483 11,589 13,225
10th Percentile £31,599 £36,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%

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 4 July 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 3 (3.41%) Confluence
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) GitHub
2 58 (65.91%) Azure
3 44 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (43.18%) AWS
5 18 (20.45%) Serverless
6 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (11.36%) GCP
8 10 (11.36%) SaaS
9 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (9.09%) Datadog
9 8 (9.09%) npm
9 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.82%) PaaS
11 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.95%) MySQL
4 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.82%) Power BI
5 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.41%) Redis
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.14%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.14%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.14%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
1 18 (20.45%) SonarQube
2 15 (17.05%) Git
3 5 (5.68%) Artifactory
3 5 (5.68%) JIRA
4 4 (4.55%) GitLab
4 4 (4.55%) Gradle
4 4 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.27%) Maven
5 2 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.27%) Postman
6 1 (1.14%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.14%) fastlane
6 1 (1.14%) Gatling
6 1 (1.14%) JMeter
6 1 (1.14%) Locust
6 1 (1.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.14%) Selenium
6 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.14%) Storybook
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.95%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Games
5 2 (2.27%) Automotive
5 2 (2.27%) Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Military
6 1 (1.14%) Publishing
6 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Senior
3 17 (19.32%) Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Lead
5 9 (10.23%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) React
2 14 (15.91%) .NET
2 14 (15.91%) RESTful
3 10 (11.36%) Node.js
4 8 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 8 (9.09%) REST
5 7 (7.95%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.68%) ARM Templates
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.55%) Flask
7 4 (4.55%) Kafka
7 4 (4.55%) Spring
7 4 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (3.41%) Django
8 3 (3.41%) Middleware
8 3 (3.41%) OAuth
8 3 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (38.64%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.95%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Mobile Games
6 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
8 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.14%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.27%) VMS
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 67 (76.14%) DevOps
3 44 (50.00%) Agile
4 41 (46.59%) Containerisation
5 31 (35.23%) Software Engineering
6 25 (28.41%) Observability
7 24 (27.27%) DevSecOps
7 24 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (27.27%) Migration
8 21 (23.86%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.86%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (23.86%) Release Management
9 20 (22.73%) Software Delivery
10 17 (19.32%) Intelligent Automation
10 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 16 (18.18%) Build Automation
12 15 (17.05%) Release Automation
13 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.95%) Python
2 27 (30.68%) Java
3 21 (23.86%) SQL
4 20 (22.73%) Bash
4 20 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 20 (22.73%) TypeScript
5 16 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 14 (15.91%) C#
7 5 (5.68%) Go
8 3 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.41%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.41%) Swift
9 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.27%) Ruby
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) Dart
10 1 (1.14%) Groovy
10 1 (1.14%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
10 1 (1.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Degree
2 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) QA
2 10 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.68%) NCSC
3 5 (5.68%) SOC 2
4 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (42.05%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.41%) vSphere
5 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 40 (45.45%) Terraform
2 19 (21.59%) Prometheus
3 10 (11.36%) Grafana
4 9 (10.23%) Ansible
5 2 (2.27%) Argo
5 2 (2.27%) Packer
6 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Google
3 4 (4.55%) New Relic
3 4 (4.55%) VMware
4 3 (3.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) Foundry
5 1 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.14%) Palantir
5 1 (1.14%) Pega
5 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk