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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 309 434
Rank change year-on-year +85 +125 +33
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 172 91 135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 0.70% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 1.52% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 119 74 98
10th Percentile £50,400 £52,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +13.46% -18.37%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% -14.61%

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 6,702 5,997 13,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.52% 45.92% 43.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 4,693 12,046
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 12 April 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 9 (5.23%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.16%) WordPress
3 1 (0.58%) Drupal
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) GitHub
2 106 (61.63%) Azure
3 97 (56.40%) AWS
4 66 (38.37%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (24.42%) Serverless
6 25 (14.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (14.53%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (14.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (14.53%) GCP
7 24 (13.95%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (13.95%) Amazon S3
8 22 (12.79%) Datadog
8 22 (12.79%) SaaS
9 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (12.21%) Entra ID
10 17 (9.88%) PaaS
11 15 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (8.14%) Azure App Service
13 13 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.30%) Firewall
2 10 (5.81%) VPN
3 4 (2.33%) DNS
3 4 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.33%) Network Security
4 3 (1.74%) HTTP
4 3 (1.74%) RTP
4 3 (1.74%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.74%) VoIP
4 3 (1.74%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
6 1 (0.58%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.79%) NoSQL
2 20 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.81%) Flink
5 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.91%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.91%) MySQL
7 4 (2.33%) Metadata
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (18.02%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.86%) Git
3 26 (15.12%) GitLab
4 16 (9.30%) JIRA
5 10 (5.81%) Crashlytics
5 10 (5.81%) XCTest
6 9 (5.23%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.23%) Subversion
7 5 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.91%) Storybook
7 5 (2.91%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.16%) git-flow
9 2 (1.16%) JMeter
10 1 (0.58%) GDB
10 1 (0.58%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.58%) Maven
10 1 (0.58%) Selenium
10 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.58%) WinDbg
General
1 59 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.98%) Finance
3 23 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.05%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.14%) Banking
5 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.98%) Retail
7 10 (5.81%) Front Office
7 10 (5.81%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.91%) Back Office
10 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.74%) Billing
11 3 (1.74%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.74%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Aviation
12 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 2 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (25.00%) Senior
2 34 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (18.02%) Developer
4 29 (16.86%) Lead
5 26 (15.12%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.47%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.47%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (7.56%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Development Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Lead .NET Developer
12 10 (5.81%) Mobile Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.60%) .NET
2 28 (16.28%) RESTful
3 27 (15.70%) React
4 17 (9.88%) Kafka
5 14 (8.14%) OAuth
5 14 (8.14%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.56%) .NET Framework
6 13 (7.56%) JSON
7 12 (6.98%) Razor View Engine
8 11 (6.40%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (6.40%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 11 (6.40%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.81%) ADO
9 10 (5.81%) CSS
9 10 (5.81%) SwiftUI
9 10 (5.81%) UIKit
10 9 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (5.23%) REST
11 8 (4.65%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.07%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 15 (8.72%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (7.56%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.40%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.40%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.49%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.33%) Blog
9 4 (2.33%) CMDB
9 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) NHS
12 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.44%) Linux
2 11 (6.40%) Windows
3 10 (5.81%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.91%) Unix
4 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (97.67%) CI/CD
2 137 (79.65%) DevOps
3 87 (50.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (33.14%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (32.56%) Observability
6 54 (31.40%) Containerisation
7 51 (29.65%) Agile
8 47 (27.33%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (27.33%) Test Automation
9 40 (23.26%) Mentoring
10 37 (21.51%) Code Quality
11 35 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (19.19%) Incident Response
13 31 (18.02%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (18.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (17.44%) AI
15 29 (16.86%) Cloud Security
16 27 (15.70%) Analytics
17 24 (13.95%) Root Cause Analysis
18 22 (12.79%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.42%) Python
2 38 (22.09%) Bash
3 37 (21.51%) SQL
4 25 (14.53%) Bicep
4 25 (14.53%) PowerShell
5 24 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 19 (11.05%) Go
8 15 (8.72%) Java
9 10 (5.81%) Kotlin
9 10 (5.81%) Swift
10 7 (4.07%) C#
11 6 (3.49%) C++
11 6 (3.49%) Dart
12 4 (2.33%) PHP
13 3 (1.74%) C
14 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.16%) Rust
14 2 (1.16%) Scala
14 2 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (13.95%) Degree
2 18 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (9.88%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.91%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.79%) QA
2 14 (8.14%) GDPR
2 14 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.65%) SOC 2
4 7 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.33%) GRC
6 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.16%) ECSS
7 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (33.14%) Docker
2 22 (12.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.74%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (55.81%) Terraform
2 77 (44.77%) Kubernetes
3 33 (19.19%) Grafana
4 30 (17.44%) Prometheus
5 29 (16.86%) Ansible
6 17 (9.88%) Argo
7 10 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.07%) Proxmox
9 5 (2.91%) Packer
10 4 (2.33%) Cilium
10 4 (2.33%) logstash
10 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.74%) Puppet
12 1 (0.58%) Consul
12 1 (0.58%) Icinga
12 1 (0.58%) Kibana
12 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.56%) VMware
3 10 (5.81%) Ab Initio
3 10 (5.81%) Amplitude
3 10 (5.81%) Braze
4 8 (4.65%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.91%) Splunk
6 4 (2.33%) Cisco
6 4 (2.33%) EMC
6 4 (2.33%) F5
6 4 (2.33%) Google
6 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.74%) BT
7 3 (1.74%) Databricks
7 3 (1.74%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.74%) Mitel
8 2 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.16%) SAP