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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 372 350
Rank change year-on-year +150 -22 +169
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 151 88 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% 1.00% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 117 72 111
10th Percentile £47,300 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,672 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,563 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%

All Cloud 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 5,599 8,768 10,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 44.40% 47.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,190 5,693 8,755
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 21 November 2025.

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 (3.31%) Confluence
2 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.99%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) GitHub
2 107 (70.86%) Azure
3 74 (49.01%) AWS
3 74 (49.01%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (19.21%) GCP
5 27 (17.88%) Serverless
6 26 (17.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (16.56%) SaaS
8 20 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (11.26%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (11.26%) Datadog
9 17 (11.26%) PaaS
10 16 (10.60%) Entra ID
11 13 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (8.61%) Azure AKS
11 13 (8.61%) Azure App Service
12 10 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (5.96%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Firewall
2 5 (3.31%) Network Security
3 4 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.65%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) DNS
4 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.91%) SQL Server
2 20 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.30%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.64%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.31%) Power BI
7 4 (2.65%) Flink
7 4 (2.65%) Looker
7 4 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.65%) Tableau
8 3 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.99%) MySQL
8 3 (1.99%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.32%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.32%) Metadata
10 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (27.15%) Jenkins
2 32 (21.19%) Git
3 23 (15.23%) GitLab
4 12 (7.95%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.30%) JIRA
6 5 (3.31%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.31%) Subversion
7 4 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.99%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.99%) JMeter
8 3 (1.99%) JUnit
8 3 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.32%) git-flow
9 2 (1.32%) Postman
9 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.32%) Selenium
10 1 (0.66%) Crashlytics
General
1 60 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 49 (32.45%) Finance
3 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.60%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.96%) Banking
5 9 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.96%) Retail
6 7 (4.64%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.97%) Marketing
7 6 (3.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.31%) Back Office
9 4 (2.65%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.65%) Front Office
9 4 (2.65%) Law
10 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Electronics
12 1 (0.66%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Aviation
12 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (28.48%) Senior
2 34 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (15.23%) Lead
4 20 (13.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (12.58%) Developer
5 19 (12.58%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.92%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.95%) Azure Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Lead .NET Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Lead Developer
11 10 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) SaaS Developer
11 10 (6.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (5.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Development Engineer
14 7 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (3.97%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.21%) RESTful
2 28 (18.54%) .NET
3 24 (15.89%) React
4 17 (11.26%) Node.js
5 13 (8.61%) .NET Framework
5 13 (8.61%) YAML
6 11 (7.28%) ASP.NET Web API
6 11 (7.28%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 11 (7.28%) Entity Framework
6 11 (7.28%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (6.62%) JSON
8 9 (5.96%) Kafka
9 8 (5.30%) ADO
9 8 (5.30%) OAuth
9 8 (5.30%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (4.64%) REST
11 6 (3.97%) AWS CDK
12 5 (3.31%) ARM Templates
12 5 (3.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.60%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.64%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.65%) Blog
6 4 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) IoT
8 1 (0.66%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.57%) Linux
2 17 (11.26%) Windows
3 5 (3.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.32%) Android
6 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (94.04%) CI/CD
2 128 (84.77%) DevOps
3 78 (51.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (35.10%) Containerisation
5 52 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (29.80%) Agile
7 43 (28.48%) Observability
8 38 (25.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (25.17%) Test Automation
9 33 (21.85%) Mentoring
10 32 (21.19%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (20.53%) Computer Science
12 29 (19.21%) Incident Response
13 28 (18.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (16.56%) RBAC
15 24 (15.89%) Cloud Security
15 24 (15.89%) Microservices
16 23 (15.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (13.91%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (13.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (46.36%) Python
2 36 (23.84%) Bash
2 36 (23.84%) Bicep
3 35 (23.18%) SQL
4 32 (21.19%) PowerShell
5 23 (15.23%) TypeScript
6 19 (12.58%) Java
6 19 (12.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.28%) C#
8 8 (5.30%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.99%) Ruby
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.66%) Dart
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.66%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (20.53%) Degree
2 30 (19.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (13.91%) Security Cleared
4 19 (12.58%) AWS Certification
4 19 (12.58%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.61%) Azure Certification
5 13 (8.61%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.66%) CCNA
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.22%) QA
2 18 (11.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.95%) GDPR
4 6 (3.97%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.65%) GRC
5 4 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.32%) ECSS
7 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (31.13%) Docker
2 17 (11.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (51.66%) Terraform
2 71 (47.02%) Kubernetes
3 33 (21.85%) Grafana
4 24 (15.89%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.57%) Ansible
6 8 (5.30%) Argo
7 6 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.65%) Cilium
9 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.66%) Icinga
10 1 (0.66%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) VMware
3 10 (6.62%) Google
4 8 (5.30%) Ab Initio
5 6 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.31%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.31%) Splunk
7 4 (2.65%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.65%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.65%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.65%) Talend
7 4 (2.65%) Zoho
8 3 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.32%) SAP
9 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle
10 1 (0.66%) UiPath