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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 312 418
Rank change year-on-year +95 +106 +79
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 176 96 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 0.69% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 1.46% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 123 77 106
10th Percentile £46,150 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £91,875
90th Percentile £107,000 £91,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,288
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.41% -9.31%

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 6,263 6,567 13,550
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.40% 47.45% 45.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,257 4,718 11,801
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +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 13 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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) GitHub
2 115 (65.34%) Azure
3 96 (54.55%) AWS
4 75 (42.61%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (23.86%) Serverless
6 29 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (15.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (15.34%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (14.77%) GCP
9 23 (13.07%) Entra ID
9 23 (13.07%) SaaS
10 22 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 22 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (12.50%) Datadog
11 19 (10.80%) PaaS
12 18 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (10.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (9.09%) Azure App Service
14 15 (8.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) Firewall
2 9 (5.11%) VPN
3 4 (2.27%) DNS
3 4 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.27%) Network Security
4 3 (1.70%) HTTP
4 3 (1.70%) RTP
4 3 (1.70%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.70%) VoIP
4 3 (1.70%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.57%) Broadband
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.93%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.68%) Flink
3 10 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.84%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.84%) MySQL
6 4 (2.27%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.57%) Parquet
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (22.16%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.48%) Git
3 28 (15.91%) GitLab
4 13 (7.39%) JIRA
5 9 (5.11%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.11%) Subversion
6 6 (3.41%) Crashlytics
6 6 (3.41%) XCTest
7 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.70%) JMeter
9 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.14%) JUnit
9 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.57%) Selenium
10 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (34.66%) Finance
2 57 (32.39%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.36%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.52%) Banking
5 14 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.25%) Retail
7 10 (5.68%) Front Office
7 10 (5.68%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.84%) Back Office
10 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.70%) Billing
11 3 (1.70%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.70%) Military
12 2 (1.14%) Aviation
12 2 (1.14%) Electronics
12 2 (1.14%) Marketing
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (25.57%) Senior
2 32 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (17.61%) Developer
4 29 (16.48%) Lead
5 24 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (11.36%) .NET Developer
6 20 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.39%) Azure Developer
9 13 (7.39%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (6.82%) Lead .NET Developer
11 11 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Development Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) SaaS Developer
12 10 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.89%) RESTful
2 33 (18.75%) .NET
3 28 (15.91%) React
4 18 (10.23%) Kafka
5 17 (9.66%) OAuth
5 17 (9.66%) OAuth2
6 16 (9.09%) JSON
7 14 (7.95%) .NET Framework
7 14 (7.95%) Razor View Engine
8 13 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web API
8 13 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 12 (6.82%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.68%) ADO
10 10 (5.68%) REST
11 9 (5.11%) CSS
11 9 (5.11%) YAML
12 8 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 8 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.55%) Node.js
13 7 (3.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.39%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.11%) Mobile App
6 8 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.98%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.41%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.27%) Blog
9 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.14%) NHS
12 1 (0.57%) CMDB
12 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.57%) Replication
12 1 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.48%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.84%) Unix
5 4 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (97.16%) CI/CD
2 144 (81.82%) DevOps
3 95 (53.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (33.52%) Observability
5 57 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (31.82%) Agile
7 55 (31.25%) Containerisation
8 51 (28.98%) Test Automation
9 45 (25.57%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (22.73%) Incident Response
11 39 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (21.59%) Mentoring
13 32 (18.18%) Code Quality
14 31 (17.61%) Deployment Automation
15 30 (17.05%) Cloud Security
15 30 (17.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 28 (15.91%) AI
17 26 (14.77%) Analytics
17 26 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 26 (14.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.86%) Python
2 41 (23.30%) SQL
3 40 (22.73%) Bash
4 36 (20.45%) Bicep
5 26 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 25 (14.20%) TypeScript
7 24 (13.64%) JavaScript
8 19 (10.80%) Java
9 18 (10.23%) Go
10 8 (4.55%) C#
11 6 (3.41%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.41%) Swift
12 5 (2.84%) C++
13 3 (1.70%) C
13 3 (1.70%) Dart
13 3 (1.70%) PHP
14 2 (1.14%) Ruby
14 2 (1.14%) Rust
14 2 (1.14%) Scala
14 2 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (13.64%) Degree
2 20 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.80%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.39%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.39%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.41%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.64%) QA
2 18 (10.23%) GDPR
3 14 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.55%) SOC 2
5 7 (3.98%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.27%) GRC
7 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.14%) ECSS
9 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (32.95%) Docker
2 21 (11.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (55.68%) Terraform
2 81 (46.02%) Kubernetes
3 38 (21.59%) Grafana
4 31 (17.61%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.91%) Ansible
6 17 (9.66%) Argo
7 10 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (3.41%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.27%) Cilium
9 4 (2.27%) logstash
10 3 (1.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.57%) Icinga
11 1 (0.57%) Kibana
11 1 (0.57%) Nagios
11 1 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.39%) Ab Initio
3 11 (6.25%) VMware
4 8 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.41%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.84%) Splunk
7 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.70%) BT
8 3 (1.70%) Databricks
8 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.70%) Google
8 3 (1.70%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.70%) Mitel
9 2 (1.14%) SAP
9 2 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco
10 1 (0.57%) EMC
10 1 (0.57%) Foundry
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle