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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 310 416
Rank change year-on-year +91 +106 +65
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 173 96 137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.72% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 1.52% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 118 78 101
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,331 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +9.62% -18.37%
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £92,883 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -9.68%

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 6,331 6,335 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.43% 47.41% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,700 11,867
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,173 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +7.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 20 March 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 8 (4.62%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) GitHub
2 111 (64.16%) Azure
3 94 (54.34%) AWS
4 72 (41.62%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (24.86%) Serverless
6 27 (15.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (15.03%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (14.45%) GCP
9 22 (12.72%) Amazon S3
9 22 (12.72%) Datadog
9 22 (12.72%) Entra ID
9 22 (12.72%) SaaS
10 21 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (10.40%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (10.40%) PaaS
12 17 (9.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (9.25%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (8.67%) Azure App Service
15 14 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) Firewall
2 9 (5.20%) VPN
3 4 (2.31%) DNS
3 4 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.31%) Network Security
4 3 (1.73%) HTTP
4 3 (1.73%) RTP
4 3 (1.73%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.73%) VoIP
4 3 (1.73%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.58%) Broadband
5 1 (0.58%) LTE
5 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.29%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.78%) Flink
4 8 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.89%) MySQL
6 4 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.31%) Metadata
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (21.39%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.18%) Git
3 27 (15.61%) GitLab
4 13 (7.51%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.20%) Crashlytics
5 9 (5.20%) Subversion
5 9 (5.20%) XCTest
6 5 (2.89%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.16%) JMeter
8 2 (1.16%) Storybook
8 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) GDB
9 1 (0.58%) JUnit
9 1 (0.58%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.58%) WinDbg
General
1 59 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 58 (33.53%) Finance
3 21 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.98%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.36%) Retail
8 10 (5.78%) Front Office
8 10 (5.78%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.89%) Back Office
11 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.73%) Billing
12 3 (1.73%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.73%) Military
13 2 (1.16%) Aviation
13 2 (1.16%) Electronics
13 2 (1.16%) Marketing
13 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (25.43%) Senior
2 31 (17.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.76%) Developer
4 28 (16.18%) Lead
5 25 (14.45%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (10.98%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (9.25%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.36%) Azure Developer
10 11 (6.36%) Lead .NET Developer
11 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Development Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.50%) .NET
1 32 (18.50%) RESTful
2 27 (15.61%) React
3 17 (9.83%) Kafka
4 16 (9.25%) OAuth
4 16 (9.25%) OAuth2
5 15 (8.67%) JSON
6 13 (7.51%) .NET Framework
6 13 (7.51%) Razor View Engine
7 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 11 (6.36%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.78%) ADO
9 10 (5.78%) REST
10 9 (5.20%) CSS
10 9 (5.20%) SwiftUI
10 9 (5.20%) UIKit
10 9 (5.20%) YAML
11 8 (4.62%) .NET Core
11 8 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.51%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (6.94%) Mobile App
4 11 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.62%) Private Cloud
7 7 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.47%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.31%) Blog
9 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.16%) CMDB
11 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.16%) NHS
11 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.58%) Replication
12 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.76%) Linux
2 11 (6.36%) Windows
3 9 (5.20%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.89%) Unix
5 4 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (97.69%) CI/CD
2 139 (80.35%) DevOps
3 91 (52.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.79%) Agile
5 55 (31.79%) Containerisation
5 55 (31.79%) Observability
6 51 (29.48%) Test Automation
7 46 (26.59%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.39%) Incident Response
8 37 (21.39%) Mentoring
9 34 (19.65%) Code Quality
10 32 (18.50%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (16.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 28 (16.18%) AI
12 28 (16.18%) Analytics
13 27 (15.61%) Cloud Security
14 25 (14.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (14.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 84 (48.55%) Python
2 39 (22.54%) Bash
3 38 (21.97%) SQL
4 34 (19.65%) Bicep
5 26 (15.03%) PowerShell
6 24 (13.87%) JavaScript
6 24 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 18 (10.40%) Go
8 16 (9.25%) Java
9 9 (5.20%) Kotlin
9 9 (5.20%) Swift
10 7 (4.05%) C#
11 6 (3.47%) C++
12 3 (1.73%) C
12 3 (1.73%) Dart
12 3 (1.73%) PHP
13 2 (1.16%) Ruby
13 2 (1.16%) Rust
13 2 (1.16%) Scala
13 2 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (13.29%) Degree
2 19 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (10.40%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 12 (6.94%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.89%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.29%) QA
2 16 (9.25%) GDPR
3 13 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.05%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.05%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.31%) GRC
6 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 57 (32.95%) Docker
2 21 (12.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.73%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (54.34%) Terraform
2 78 (45.09%) Kubernetes
3 35 (20.23%) Grafana
4 29 (16.76%) Prometheus
5 27 (15.61%) Ansible
6 16 (9.25%) Argo
7 10 (5.78%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.47%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.31%) Cilium
9 4 (2.31%) logstash
10 2 (1.16%) Packer
10 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.58%) Icinga
11 1 (0.58%) Kibana
11 1 (0.58%) Nagios
11 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.94%) Ab Initio
3 11 (6.36%) VMware
4 9 (5.20%) Amplitude
5 8 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.73%) BT
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
8 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.73%) Google
8 3 (1.73%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.73%) Mitel
9 2 (1.16%) Cisco
9 2 (1.16%) EMC
9 2 (1.16%) F5
9 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.16%) SAP
9 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds