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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 344 461
Rank change year-on-year +33 +117 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 82 99
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.33% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 94 78 86
10th Percentile £45,725 £51,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £74,447 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +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 8,338 6,144 13,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.06% 37.26% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,920 4,533 10,941
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 15 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 87 (65.41%) AWS
3 64 (48.12%) Azure
4 34 (25.56%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (25.56%) Serverless
5 28 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 18 (13.53%) GCP
8 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.28%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.53%) Firebase
10 14 (10.53%) Stripe
10 14 (10.53%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (9.02%) PaaS
12 11 (8.27%) Datadog
12 11 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) VPN
2 13 (9.77%) Firewall
3 6 (4.51%) DNS
4 4 (3.01%) HTTP
4 4 (3.01%) SSH
5 3 (2.26%) RTP
5 3 (2.26%) SSL
5 3 (2.26%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.26%) VoIP
5 3 (2.26%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.75%) BGP
6 1 (0.75%) LTE
6 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.27%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.77%) MySQL
5 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.01%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.01%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.26%) Metadata
7 3 (2.26%) Power BI
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.50%) Big Data
8 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.50%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.50%) Redis
9 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 32 (24.06%) Git
3 14 (10.53%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.53%) XCTest
4 10 (7.52%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) JIRA
6 6 (4.51%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.76%) Storybook
8 3 (2.26%) Postman
8 3 (2.26%) Selenium
9 2 (1.50%) MLflow
10 1 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.75%) Gatling
10 1 (0.75%) git-flow
10 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.75%) Vite
10 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Retail
4 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.26%) Military
7 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Senior
2 27 (20.30%) Developer
3 26 (19.55%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (14.29%) 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%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.52%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Administrator
12 7 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) React
2 20 (15.04%) CSS
3 19 (14.29%) REST
4 14 (10.53%) .NET
4 14 (10.53%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.53%) UIKit
5 13 (9.77%) Node.js
5 13 (9.77%) Tailwind CSS
6 12 (9.02%) RESTful
7 8 (6.02%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (5.26%) Jest
8 7 (5.26%) Web Services
8 7 (5.26%) YAML
9 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.51%) Flutter
9 6 (4.51%) HTML
9 6 (4.51%) Kafka
10 5 (3.76%) ASP.NET
10 5 (3.76%) Entity Framework
10 5 (3.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.04%) Mobile App
3 18 (13.53%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (9.77%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.51%) CMDB
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%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.56%) Linux
2 15 (11.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.01%) Unix
6 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (90.98%) CI/CD
2 72 (54.14%) DevOps
3 68 (51.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (32.33%) Containerisation
5 38 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 35 (26.32%) AI
6 35 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (25.56%) Mentoring
8 32 (24.06%) Agile
9 31 (23.31%) Observability
10 30 (22.56%) Platform Engineering
11 28 (21.05%) Code Quality
12 25 (18.80%) Analytics
12 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (18.05%) Software Engineering
14 23 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (15.04%) Process Improvement
16 19 (14.29%) Cloud Security
16 19 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.11%) Python
2 28 (21.05%) Bash
2 28 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 25 (18.80%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.53%) SQL
5 17 (12.78%) Kotlin
5 17 (12.78%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.53%) Swift
7 11 (8.27%) Go
8 10 (7.52%) C#
9 7 (5.26%) Bicep
9 7 (5.26%) Groovy
9 7 (5.26%) PHP
10 6 (4.51%) Dart
10 6 (4.51%) Java
11 5 (3.76%) Scala
12 4 (3.01%) C++
13 3 (2.26%) C
14 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.26%) 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 8 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.01%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.75%) NCSC
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (35.34%) Docker
2 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.26%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (48.87%) Terraform
2 52 (39.10%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.05%) Ansible
4 20 (15.04%) Grafana
5 16 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.52%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.26%) Argo
7 7 (5.26%) Packer
7 7 (5.26%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.75%) Consul
9 1 (0.75%) Istio
9 1 (0.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.75%) linkerd
9 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.53%) Braze
2 14 (10.53%) VMware
3 6 (4.51%) Cisco
3 6 (4.51%) EMC
3 6 (4.51%) F5
3 6 (4.51%) New Relic
3 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.01%) Google
5 3 (2.26%) BT
5 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.26%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.26%) Mitel
5 3 (2.26%) OneLogin
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.26%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor