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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 369 338
Rank change year-on-year +154 -31 +202
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 166 90 141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.47% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 1.05% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 123 74 110
10th Percentile £44,100 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.90% +0.82%
75th Percentile £88,750 £73,438 £84,056
90th Percentile £108,500 £76,750 £97,311
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.85% -17.12% +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 5,575 8,602 9,764
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.34% 45.35% 47.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 5,626 8,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £99,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.56%

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 6 December 2025.

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 7 (4.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) GitHub
2 123 (74.10%) Azure
3 81 (48.80%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (48.19%) AWS
5 31 (18.67%) GCP
6 30 (18.07%) Serverless
7 29 (17.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (16.27%) SaaS
9 24 (14.46%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (13.25%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (12.65%) Datadog
12 20 (12.05%) Entra ID
13 17 (10.24%) PaaS
14 16 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (9.64%) Azure AKS
14 16 (9.64%) Azure App Service
15 14 (8.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (7.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) Firewall
2 5 (3.01%) Network Security
3 4 (2.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.41%) VPN
4 3 (1.81%) DNS
5 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.86%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.42%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.82%) Flink
5 7 (4.22%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.01%) Power BI
8 4 (2.41%) Looker
8 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.41%) Tableau
9 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.81%) Metadata
9 3 (1.81%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.20%) MySQL
11 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (24.70%) Jenkins
2 33 (19.88%) Git
3 24 (14.46%) GitLab
4 10 (6.02%) JIRA
4 10 (6.02%) TeamCity
5 8 (4.82%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.22%) Subversion
7 4 (2.41%) JMeter
8 3 (1.81%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.81%) JUnit
8 3 (1.81%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.81%) Selenium
8 3 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.20%) git-flow
9 2 (1.20%) Postman
9 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
General
1 66 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (38.55%) Finance
3 20 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.84%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.83%) Banking
6 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.02%) Retail
8 9 (5.42%) Manufacturing
9 8 (4.82%) Front Office
9 8 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (3.61%) Back Office
10 6 (3.61%) Marketing
11 4 (2.41%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.81%) Law
13 2 (1.20%) Electronics
14 1 (0.60%) Automotive
14 1 (0.60%) Aviation
14 1 (0.60%) Billing
14 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (27.71%) Senior
2 35 (21.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (17.47%) Lead
4 21 (12.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (12.05%) Developer
6 19 (11.45%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (10.84%) Senior DevOps
8 16 (9.64%) .NET Developer
9 13 (7.83%) Azure Developer
10 12 (7.23%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (7.23%) Development Engineer
10 12 (7.23%) Lead .NET Developer
10 12 (7.23%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.63%) SaaS Developer
11 11 (6.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.48%) .NET
2 33 (19.88%) RESTful
3 26 (15.66%) React
4 15 (9.04%) .NET Framework
5 14 (8.43%) Node.js
6 13 (7.83%) ASP.NET Web API
6 13 (7.83%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 13 (7.83%) JSON
6 13 (7.83%) Kafka
6 13 (7.83%) OAuth
6 13 (7.83%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.83%) YAML
7 12 (7.23%) ADO
7 12 (7.23%) Entity Framework
7 12 (7.23%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (4.22%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.61%) REST
11 5 (3.01%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.05%) Onboarding
3 12 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.41%) Blog
8 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) IoT
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.60%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.66%) Linux
2 17 (10.24%) Windows
3 5 (3.01%) Unix
4 3 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (94.58%) CI/CD
2 145 (87.35%) DevOps
3 86 (51.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (34.94%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (33.13%) Containerisation
6 50 (30.12%) Observability
7 49 (29.52%) Agile
8 45 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (26.51%) Test Automation
10 39 (23.49%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (22.29%) Incident Response
12 34 (20.48%) Mentoring
13 31 (18.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (17.47%) Cloud Security
14 29 (17.47%) Computer Science
14 29 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (17.47%) RBAC
15 26 (15.66%) Code Quality
16 25 (15.06%) Microservices
17 24 (14.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.59%) Python
2 43 (25.90%) Bicep
3 40 (24.10%) Bash
4 39 (23.49%) SQL
5 35 (21.08%) PowerShell
6 25 (15.06%) TypeScript
7 22 (13.25%) JavaScript
8 20 (12.05%) Java
9 11 (6.63%) C#
10 10 (6.02%) Go
11 4 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.81%) Ruby
13 2 (1.20%) C++
14 1 (0.60%) Dart
14 1 (0.60%) PHP
14 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.47%) Degree
2 28 (16.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (12.05%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
5 16 (9.64%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 13 (7.83%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.20%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.60%) CCNA
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.28%) QA
2 16 (9.64%) GDPR
2 16 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.61%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.41%) GRC
4 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.20%) ECSS
6 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
System Software
1 56 (33.73%) Docker
2 20 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (56.63%) Terraform
2 83 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 37 (22.29%) Grafana
4 28 (16.87%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.25%) Ansible
6 13 (7.83%) Argo
7 8 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.41%) Cilium
9 3 (1.81%) logstash
9 3 (1.81%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.60%) Icinga
10 1 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.23%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.42%) Google
3 9 (5.42%) VMware
4 7 (4.22%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.01%) Splunk
6 4 (2.41%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.41%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.41%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.41%) Talend
6 4 (2.41%) Zoho
7 3 (1.81%) Databricks
7 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.81%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.20%) SAP
8 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle
9 1 (0.60%) UiPath