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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 334 428
Rank change year-on-year +13 +94 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 85 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.41% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 90 81 82
10th Percentile £44,775 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £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 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 8,503 6,039 10,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.85% 36.69% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,118 4,456 8,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 29 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 5 (3.82%) Apache
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) nginx
3 2 (1.53%) WordPress
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 90 (68.70%) AWS
3 65 (49.62%) Azure
4 32 (24.43%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (23.66%) Serverless
6 27 (20.61%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (16.03%) GCP
8 17 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.21%) Amazon S3
9 16 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (11.45%) Firebase
11 14 (10.69%) Stripe
11 14 (10.69%) TestFlight
12 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.63%) Datadog
14 9 (6.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (6.87%) PaaS
15 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) VPN
2 11 (8.40%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) RTP
7 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.76%) VoIP
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.58%) MySQL
3 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.82%) Power BI
5 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.29%) Metadata
6 3 (2.29%) Tableau
7 2 (1.53%) Big Data
7 2 (1.53%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 32 (24.43%) Git
1 32 (24.43%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.69%) Crashlytics
2 14 (10.69%) XCTest
3 10 (7.63%) GitLab
4 8 (6.11%) Cypress.io
4 8 (6.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.82%) Storybook
7 4 (3.05%) Postman
7 4 (3.05%) Selenium
8 2 (1.53%) Appium
8 2 (1.53%) MLflow
8 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.76%) Snyk
9 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.76%) Vite
9 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.11%) Finance
4 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Retail
6 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Senior
2 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (17.56%) Developer
4 20 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Lead
8 11 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) DevOps Administrator
13 5 (3.82%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.85%) React
2 19 (14.50%) REST
3 18 (13.74%) CSS
3 18 (13.74%) Node.js
4 14 (10.69%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 14 (10.69%) UIKit
5 11 (8.40%) .NET
6 9 (6.87%) Jest
6 9 (6.87%) RESTful
7 7 (5.34%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) Kafka
8 6 (4.58%) Playwright
8 6 (4.58%) React Native
9 5 (3.82%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.82%) Flutter
9 5 (3.82%) JSON
9 5 (3.82%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (3.82%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.03%) Mobile App
3 20 (15.27%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (8.40%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (6.11%) Public Cloud
7 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (4.58%) CMDB
9 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.29%) NHS
11 3 (2.29%) PKI
12 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.53%) Blog
12 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.43%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 2 (1.53%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.84%) CI/CD
2 68 (51.91%) DevOps
3 65 (49.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (29.77%) Test Automation
5 38 (29.01%) Containerisation
6 36 (27.48%) AI
7 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (24.43%) Agile
8 32 (24.43%) Mentoring
9 29 (22.14%) Code Quality
10 28 (21.37%) Analytics
10 28 (21.37%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (19.85%) Observability
12 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
13 24 (18.32%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (15.27%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (15.27%) Process Improvement
15 19 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (13.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.04%) Python
2 31 (23.66%) TypeScript
3 26 (19.85%) Bash
3 26 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.74%) Kotlin
4 18 (13.74%) SQL
5 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.45%) Swift
6 12 (9.16%) Go
7 8 (6.11%) Java
8 7 (5.34%) C#
8 7 (5.34%) Groovy
8 7 (5.34%) PHP
9 6 (4.58%) Bicep
9 6 (4.58%) Scala
10 5 (3.82%) Dart
11 2 (1.53%) C++
11 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.16%) Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.76%) OCP
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (35.88%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (47.33%) Terraform
2 49 (37.40%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.79%) Ansible
4 19 (14.50%) Grafana
5 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.34%) Packer
8 5 (3.82%) Argo
8 5 (3.82%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.29%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) Consul
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.69%) Braze
3 12 (9.16%) VMware
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
4 6 (4.58%) EMC
4 6 (4.58%) F5
4 6 (4.58%) New Relic
4 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.82%) Databricks
6 4 (3.05%) Google
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.29%) Splunk
8 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) BT
9 1 (0.76%) Mitel
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software