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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 347 476
Rank change year-on-year +67 +129 -22
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 93 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.58% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 95 78 96
10th Percentile £47,200 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £89,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -18.37%

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 7,341 5,871 14,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.24% 39.21% 42.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,048 4,248 12,033
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 1 June 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 (3.73%) Apache
2 4 (2.99%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) nginx
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.49%) WordPress
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) GitHub
2 83 (61.94%) AWS
3 71 (52.99%) Azure
4 44 (32.84%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (26.87%) Serverless
6 27 (20.15%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (16.42%) Amazon S3
8 20 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (12.69%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (9.70%) Firebase
12 13 (9.70%) Stripe
12 13 (9.70%) TestFlight
12 13 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (8.96%) PaaS
14 11 (8.21%) Datadog
15 10 (7.46%) GCP
16 9 (6.72%) Entra ID
17 8 (5.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) Firewall
2 10 (7.46%) VPN
3 4 (2.99%) DNS
3 4 (2.99%) HTTP
4 3 (2.24%) RTP
4 3 (2.24%) SSL
4 3 (2.24%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.24%) VoIP
4 3 (2.24%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.75%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.72%) MySQL
4 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.99%) Flink
7 4 (2.99%) Metadata
8 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.49%) Big Data
9 2 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.49%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.49%) Power BI
9 2 (1.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Git
1 27 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.70%) Crashlytics
2 13 (9.70%) XCTest
3 12 (8.96%) GitLab
4 9 (6.72%) JIRA
5 6 (4.48%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.73%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.73%) Storybook
7 3 (2.24%) Subversion
8 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.75%) Gatling
9 1 (0.75%) GDB
9 1 (0.75%) Postman
9 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.75%) webpack
9 1 (0.75%) WinDbg
General
1 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Finance
3 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Manufacturing
4 8 (5.97%) Retail
5 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.99%) Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Front Office
8 3 (2.24%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.24%) Military
8 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.49%) Billing
9 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Aviation
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (25.37%) Senior
2 27 (20.15%) Developer
3 24 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (17.91%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (12.69%) Lead
5 15 (11.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) .NET Developer
7 12 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Administrator
11 7 (5.22%) DevOps Administrator
11 7 (5.22%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 7 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.40%) React
2 19 (14.18%) .NET
3 18 (13.43%) CSS
3 18 (13.43%) REST
4 13 (9.70%) RESTful
4 13 (9.70%) SwiftUI
4 13 (9.70%) UIKit
5 11 (8.21%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (7.46%) Node.js
7 9 (6.72%) Kafka
7 9 (6.72%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (5.97%) OAuth
8 8 (5.97%) OAuth2
9 7 (5.22%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.22%) ASP.NET
9 7 (5.22%) JSON
10 6 (4.48%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.48%) Entity Framework
10 6 (4.48%) Flutter
10 6 (4.48%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.18%) Mobile App
3 17 (12.69%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (9.70%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.48%) CMDB
6 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.73%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.49%) NHS
10 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.15%) Linux
2 14 (10.45%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.97%) Windows
4 7 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (93.28%) CI/CD
2 85 (63.43%) DevOps
3 69 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (29.85%) Test Automation
5 38 (28.36%) Containerisation
5 38 (28.36%) Observability
6 34 (25.37%) Mentoring
6 34 (25.37%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (23.88%) Agile
9 30 (22.39%) AI
10 27 (20.15%) Code Quality
11 26 (19.40%) Analytics
12 24 (17.91%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (17.16%) Cloud Security
13 23 (17.16%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (14.93%) Software Engineering
16 19 (14.18%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.27%) Python
2 27 (20.15%) Bash
3 24 (17.91%) TypeScript
4 22 (16.42%) SQL
5 20 (14.93%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.93%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.45%) Go
6 14 (10.45%) Kotlin
7 13 (9.70%) Swift
8 11 (8.21%) Bicep
9 8 (5.97%) C#
10 6 (4.48%) Dart
10 6 (4.48%) Java
10 6 (4.48%) PHP
11 4 (2.99%) C++
11 4 (2.99%) Groovy
12 3 (2.24%) C
12 3 (2.24%) Scala
13 2 (1.49%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.45%) Degree
2 11 (8.21%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.46%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) QA
2 8 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.22%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.49%) IFRS
6 2 (1.49%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (31.34%) Docker
2 13 (9.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.24%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (53.73%) Terraform
2 50 (37.31%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.91%) Ansible
4 19 (14.18%) Grafana
5 15 (11.19%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.46%) Argo
7 7 (5.22%) Packer
7 7 (5.22%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.22%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.24%) Puppet
8 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.49%) logstash
10 1 (0.75%) Consul
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) VMware
3 13 (9.70%) Amplitude
3 13 (9.70%) Braze
4 6 (4.48%) Cisco
4 6 (4.48%) EMC
4 6 (4.48%) F5
4 6 (4.48%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.99%) Google
5 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.24%) Ab Initio
6 3 (2.24%) BT
6 3 (2.24%) Databricks
6 3 (2.24%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.24%) Mitel
7 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.49%) New Relic
7 2 (1.49%) OneLogin