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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 424 383
Rank change year-on-year +95 -41 +84
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 101 83 129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.36% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 0.87% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 90 68 97
10th Percentile £50,725 £47,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,313 £53,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -13.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,500 £77,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%

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 5,778 9,504 11,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 40.72% 48.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 6,575 10,321
10th Percentile £31,614 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GitHub Actions.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GitHub Actions

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 17 September 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 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.97%) IIS
3 2 (1.98%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) GitHub
2 65 (64.36%) Azure
3 53 (52.48%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (50.50%) AWS
5 28 (27.72%) Serverless
6 18 (17.82%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (15.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (14.85%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (14.85%) Amazon S3
9 14 (13.86%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (12.87%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (12.87%) GCP
11 12 (11.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (11.88%) SaaS
12 10 (9.90%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (9.90%) Datadog
12 10 (9.90%) Power Platform
13 8 (7.92%) Azure AKS
14 7 (6.93%) PaaS
15 6 (5.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) VPN
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.88%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.91%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.93%) BigQuery
4 7 (6.93%) Power BI
5 6 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.96%) Looker
7 4 (3.96%) MySQL
7 4 (3.96%) Tableau
8 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.97%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (29.70%) Jenkins
2 20 (19.80%) Git
3 9 (8.91%) TeamCity
4 8 (7.92%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.94%) GitLab
6 5 (4.95%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.97%) JMeter
7 3 (2.97%) Postman
8 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.98%) JIRA
8 2 (1.98%) JUnit
8 2 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.98%) Selenium
8 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.99%) Appium
9 1 (0.99%) Gatling
9 1 (0.99%) git-flow
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.95%) Retail
5 4 (3.96%) Marketing
5 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.97%) Law
7 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Back Office
8 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Publishing
8 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (38.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (30.69%) Senior
3 16 (15.84%) Senior DevOps
3 16 (15.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.86%) Lead
5 13 (12.87%) Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (6.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Lead Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Lead .NET Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Development Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.73%) React
2 20 (19.80%) .NET
3 14 (13.86%) Node.js
4 13 (12.87%) RESTful
5 8 (7.92%) REST
6 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.95%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (4.95%) AWS CDK
7 5 (4.95%) Entity Framework
7 5 (4.95%) Next.js
7 5 (4.95%) Pandas
7 5 (4.95%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (4.95%) scikit-learn
7 5 (4.95%) Spring
8 4 (3.96%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.96%) Hugging Face
8 4 (3.96%) NumPy
8 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (35.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.89%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) NHS
8 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Windows
3 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) Android
4 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (89.11%) CI/CD
2 89 (88.12%) DevOps
3 43 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (39.60%) Containerisation
5 38 (37.62%) Agile
6 31 (30.69%) Observability
7 26 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (23.76%) Test Automation
9 23 (22.77%) Software Engineering
10 22 (21.78%) Mentoring
10 22 (21.78%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (17.82%) Computer Science
11 18 (17.82%) Software Delivery
12 17 (16.83%) DevSecOps
12 17 (16.83%) Microservices
13 14 (13.86%) Cloud Security
14 13 (12.87%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (12.87%) Migration
14 13 (12.87%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (57.43%) Python
2 25 (24.75%) Bash
3 23 (22.77%) PowerShell
4 21 (20.79%) Java
5 20 (19.80%) SQL
5 20 (19.80%) TypeScript
6 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
7 14 (13.86%) Bicep
8 12 (11.88%) C#
9 5 (4.95%) Go
10 4 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.99%) Dart
12 1 (0.99%) Groovy
12 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.99%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.99%) Ruby
12 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Degree
2 18 (17.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
3 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.98%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.80%) QA
2 14 (13.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.97%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Docker
2 9 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.92%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.93%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (52.48%) Terraform
2 43 (42.57%) Kubernetes
3 19 (18.81%) Grafana
4 16 (15.84%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.89%) Ansible
6 3 (2.97%) Argo
7 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) VMware
3 9 (8.91%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.96%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.96%) HubSpot
5 4 (3.96%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.96%) Talend
5 4 (3.96%) Zoho
6 3 (2.97%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.98%) Pega
7 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.99%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.99%) Foundry
8 1 (0.99%) Palantir
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) UiPath