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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 339 439
Rank change year-on-year +27 +100 +7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 81 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.33% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 92 77 79
10th Percentile £42,975 £51,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,875 £88,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -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 8,499 6,068 11,299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.93% 36.81% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,079 4,478 9,142
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,762 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 26 July 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 6 (4.51%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) nginx
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) 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
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 89 (66.92%) AWS
3 64 (48.12%) Azure
4 33 (24.81%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (24.81%) Serverless
5 28 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (15.79%) GCP
7 17 (12.78%) Amazon S3
7 17 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.28%) Firebase
10 14 (10.53%) Stripe
10 14 (10.53%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.52%) Datadog
12 10 (7.52%) PaaS
13 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.02%) VPN
2 11 (8.27%) Firewall
3 6 (4.51%) DNS
4 4 (3.01%) SSH
5 3 (2.26%) HTTP
5 3 (2.26%) SSL
6 2 (1.50%) RTP
6 2 (1.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.50%) VoIP
6 2 (1.50%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) LTE
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.02%) MySQL
5 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.76%) Power BI
7 4 (3.01%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.01%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.26%) Metadata
8 3 (2.26%) Tableau
9 2 (1.50%) Big Data
9 2 (1.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.50%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (24.06%) Git
2 31 (23.31%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.53%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.53%) XCTest
4 9 (6.77%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) Cypress.io
5 8 (6.02%) JIRA
6 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.76%) Storybook
8 4 (3.01%) Postman
8 4 (3.01%) Selenium
9 2 (1.50%) Appium
9 2 (1.50%) MLflow
9 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.75%) Gatling
10 1 (0.75%) git-flow
10 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
4 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.51%) Retail
5 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.01%) Military
7 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Senior
2 25 (18.80%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (12.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Mobile Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead
8 10 (7.52%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.51%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) DevOps Administrator
13 5 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.55%) React
2 20 (15.04%) REST
3 18 (13.53%) CSS
4 17 (12.78%) Node.js
5 14 (10.53%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.53%) UIKit
6 13 (9.77%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (9.02%) .NET
8 10 (7.52%) RESTful
9 9 (6.77%) Jest
10 7 (5.26%) Web Services
10 7 (5.26%) YAML
11 6 (4.51%) Flutter
11 6 (4.51%) JSON
11 6 (4.51%) Kafka
11 6 (4.51%) Playwright
11 6 (4.51%) React Native
12 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.76%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 20 (15.04%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.27%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
7 7 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.51%) CMDB
9 5 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.26%) NHS
11 3 (2.26%) PKI
12 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.50%) Blog
12 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.81%) Linux
2 16 (12.03%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.01%) Unix
6 2 (1.50%) Android
6 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (90.98%) CI/CD
2 69 (51.88%) DevOps
3 65 (48.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (30.83%) Containerisation
5 40 (30.08%) Test Automation
6 36 (27.07%) AI
7 35 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (24.81%) Mentoring
9 32 (24.06%) Agile
10 29 (21.80%) Analytics
10 29 (21.80%) Code Quality
11 28 (21.05%) Observability
11 28 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
13 23 (17.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (15.04%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (15.04%) Process Improvement
15 18 (13.53%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.36%) Python
2 31 (23.31%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.30%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.55%) Bash
5 19 (14.29%) SQL
6 18 (13.53%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.03%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.28%) Swift
9 11 (8.27%) Go
10 8 (6.02%) C#
10 8 (6.02%) Java
10 8 (6.02%) PHP
11 7 (5.26%) Groovy
12 6 (4.51%) Bicep
12 6 (4.51%) Dart
12 6 (4.51%) Scala
13 3 (2.26%) C++
14 2 (1.50%) C
14 2 (1.50%) Rust
14 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.77%) Degree
3 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.75%) OCP
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.01%) GDPR
5 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.50%) IFRS
6 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (36.84%) Docker
2 7 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.50%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (46.62%) Terraform
2 51 (38.35%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.54%) Ansible
4 20 (15.04%) Grafana
5 16 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.27%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.26%) Packer
8 6 (4.51%) Argo
9 5 (3.76%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.75%) Consul
11 1 (0.75%) Istio
11 1 (0.75%) Kibana
11 1 (0.75%) linkerd
11 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.53%) Braze
3 12 (9.02%) VMware
4 6 (4.51%) Cisco
4 6 (4.51%) EMC
4 6 (4.51%) F5
4 6 (4.51%) New Relic
4 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.76%) Databricks
6 4 (3.01%) Google
7 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
8 2 (1.50%) BT
8 2 (1.50%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.50%) Mitel
8 2 (1.50%) Red Hat