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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 348 436
Rank change year-on-year +22 +88 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 81 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.33% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 90 77 80
10th Percentile £42,750 £51,050 £40,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,875 £88,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,250 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% +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 8,495 6,080 11,149
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.88% 36.83% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,080 4,488 9,006
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,569 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 27 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 (3.82%) Apache
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) nginx
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) WordPress
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 89 (67.94%) AWS
3 64 (48.85%) Azure
4 33 (25.19%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (25.19%) Serverless
5 28 (21.37%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (16.03%) GCP
7 17 (12.98%) Amazon S3
7 17 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.45%) Firebase
10 14 (10.69%) Stripe
10 14 (10.69%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.63%) Datadog
12 10 (7.63%) PaaS
13 9 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) VPN
2 11 (8.40%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) RTP
7 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.76%) VoIP
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.92%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.40%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.34%) MySQL
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.82%) Power BI
6 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.29%) Metadata
7 3 (2.29%) Tableau
8 2 (1.53%) Big Data
8 2 (1.53%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.53%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.53%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) Git
1 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.69%) Crashlytics
2 14 (10.69%) XCTest
3 9 (6.87%) GitLab
4 8 (6.11%) Cypress.io
4 8 (6.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.82%) Storybook
7 4 (3.05%) Postman
7 4 (3.05%) Selenium
8 2 (1.53%) Appium
8 2 (1.53%) MLflow
8 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.76%) Gatling
9 1 (0.76%) git-flow
9 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.11%) Finance
4 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.58%) Retail
5 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.05%) Military
7 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (28.24%) Senior
2 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (17.56%) Developer
4 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Lead
9 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.82%) DevOps Administrator
14 5 (3.82%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.08%) React
2 19 (14.50%) REST
3 18 (13.74%) CSS
4 17 (12.98%) Node.js
5 14 (10.69%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.69%) UIKit
6 13 (9.92%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (9.16%) .NET
8 10 (7.63%) RESTful
9 9 (6.87%) Jest
10 7 (5.34%) Web Services
10 7 (5.34%) YAML
11 6 (4.58%) JSON
11 6 (4.58%) Kafka
11 6 (4.58%) Playwright
11 6 (4.58%) React Native
12 5 (3.82%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.82%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.82%) Flutter
12 5 (3.82%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.03%) Mobile App
3 20 (15.27%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.40%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.11%) Public Cloud
7 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.58%) CMDB
9 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.29%) NHS
11 3 (2.29%) PKI
12 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.53%) Blog
12 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.43%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 2 (1.53%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.84%) CI/CD
2 69 (52.67%) DevOps
3 65 (49.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (30.53%) Test Automation
5 39 (29.77%) Containerisation
6 35 (26.72%) AI
7 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (25.19%) Mentoring
9 32 (24.43%) Agile
10 29 (22.14%) Analytics
10 29 (22.14%) Code Quality
11 28 (21.37%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (20.61%) Observability
13 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
14 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (15.27%) Clean Code
15 20 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.27%) Process Improvement
16 19 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 18 (13.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (44.27%) Python
2 30 (22.90%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.61%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.85%) Bash
5 18 (13.74%) Kotlin
5 18 (13.74%) SQL
6 16 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.45%) Swift
8 11 (8.40%) Go
9 8 (6.11%) C#
9 8 (6.11%) Java
9 8 (6.11%) PHP
10 7 (5.34%) Groovy
11 6 (4.58%) Bicep
11 6 (4.58%) Scala
12 5 (3.82%) Dart
13 2 (1.53%) C++
13 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.76%) C
14 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.92%) Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.76%) OCP
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) 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%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
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%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (47.33%) Terraform
2 50 (38.17%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.79%) Ansible
4 19 (14.50%) Grafana
5 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.34%) Packer
8 5 (3.82%) Argo
8 5 (3.82%) 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 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.69%) Braze
3 12 (9.16%) VMware
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
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 5 (3.82%) Databricks
6 4 (3.05%) Google
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.29%) Splunk
8 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Mitel
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software