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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 330 430
Rank change year-on-year +4 +100 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 93 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.56% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.56% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 92 86 73
10th Percentile £46,325 £50,625 £42,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -15.79%
75th Percentile £80,313 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -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 8,647 5,965 10,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 35.99% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,306 4,353 7,745
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 21 August 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 7 (5.34%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) Confluence
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 91 (69.47%) AWS
3 68 (51.91%) Azure
4 31 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (20.61%) Serverless
6 23 (17.56%) GCP
7 21 (16.03%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (14.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.69%) Datadog
10 13 (9.92%) Amazon S3
11 12 (9.16%) Firebase
12 11 (8.40%) Stripe
12 11 (8.40%) TestFlight
13 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (6.87%) PaaS
15 8 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
17 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) VPN
2 7 (5.34%) DNS
2 7 (5.34%) Firewall
3 4 (3.05%) SSH
4 3 (2.29%) SSL
5 2 (1.53%) BGP
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) HTTP
6 1 (0.76%) LTE
6 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.32%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.50%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.63%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.11%) MySQL
5 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.58%) Power BI
7 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.05%) Tableau
9 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.53%) Big Data
10 2 (1.53%) Metadata
10 2 (1.53%) Redis
10 2 (1.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (26.72%) Git
2 32 (24.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.16%) GitLab
4 11 (8.40%) Crashlytics
4 11 (8.40%) Cypress.io
4 11 (8.40%) XCTest
5 10 (7.63%) JIRA
6 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.82%) Postman
7 5 (3.82%) Selenium
7 5 (3.82%) Storybook
8 4 (3.05%) Appium
8 4 (3.05%) NUnit
9 3 (2.29%) MLflow
10 2 (1.53%) JUnit
10 2 (1.53%) Snyk
10 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.76%) JMeter
11 1 (0.76%) Maven
11 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Finance
4 9 (6.87%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.05%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Local Government
8 2 (1.53%) Games
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Law
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (32.06%) Senior
2 23 (17.56%) Developer
2 23 (17.56%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) Software Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Lead
8 9 (6.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (45.04%) Terraform
2 32 (24.43%) React
3 27 (20.61%) Node.js
4 20 (15.27%) CSS
5 19 (14.50%) REST
6 16 (12.21%) Tailwind CSS
7 14 (10.69%) Jest
7 14 (10.69%) RESTful
8 12 (9.16%) .NET
9 11 (8.40%) SwiftUI
9 11 (8.40%) UIKit
10 10 (7.63%) Kafka
11 8 (6.11%) AngularJS
11 8 (6.11%) React Native
12 7 (5.34%) Spring
12 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.34%) Web Services
12 7 (5.34%) YAML
13 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
13 6 (4.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.27%) Mobile App
3 17 (12.98%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.87%) Public Cloud
6 8 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (6.11%) Private Cloud
7 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.58%) Blog
8 6 (4.58%) CMDB
9 4 (3.05%) NHS
10 3 (2.29%) Clustering
11 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.66%) Linux
2 15 (11.45%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Android
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Debian
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.76%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (93.13%) CI/CD
2 66 (50.38%) DevOps
3 64 (48.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (30.53%) Software Engineering
5 39 (29.77%) AI
6 38 (29.01%) Containerisation
6 38 (29.01%) Test Automation
7 33 (25.19%) Analytics
8 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (23.66%) Agile
10 28 (21.37%) Mentoring
10 28 (21.37%) Observability
11 27 (20.61%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (19.85%) Code Quality
13 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (13.74%) Clean Code
15 18 (13.74%) Deployment Automation
16 17 (12.98%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.98%) Python
2 39 (29.77%) TypeScript
3 24 (18.32%) Bash
3 24 (18.32%) JavaScript
3 24 (18.32%) SQL
4 20 (15.27%) Kotlin
5 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.69%) Swift
7 13 (9.92%) Java
8 10 (7.63%) Go
9 8 (6.11%) C#
9 8 (6.11%) PHP
10 7 (5.34%) Bicep
10 7 (5.34%) Groovy
10 7 (5.34%) Scala
11 5 (3.82%) Dart
12 2 (1.53%) Rust
12 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.69%) Degree
3 13 (9.92%) Azure Certification
3 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.53%) OCP
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (43.51%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.50%) Grafana
3 16 (12.21%) Ansible
4 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.16%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.11%) Packer
7 3 (2.29%) Argo
7 3 (2.29%) Puppet
8 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.76%) Cilium
9 1 (0.76%) Consul
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) linkerd
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.40%) Amplitude
2 11 (8.40%) Braze
3 8 (6.11%) Databricks
3 8 (6.11%) VMware
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
4 6 (4.58%) EMC
4 6 (4.58%) F5
4 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.82%) Google
5 5 (3.82%) New Relic
6 4 (3.05%) Splunk
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software