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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 338 469
Rank change year-on-year +26 +131 -4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 129 88 104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.44% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 90 80 91
10th Percentile £46,850 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,813 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,375 £87,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -14.47%

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 8,182 6,095 13,899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.80% 37.54% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,841 4,492 11,503
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 7 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 (3.88%) Apache
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.55%) nginx
2 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.55%) WordPress
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.78%) Drupal
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) GitHub
2 86 (66.67%) AWS
3 63 (48.84%) Azure
4 34 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (26.36%) Serverless
5 28 (21.71%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (14.73%) Amazon S3
7 16 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (12.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (12.40%) GCP
8 15 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.85%) Firebase
9 14 (10.85%) Stripe
9 14 (10.85%) TestFlight
10 12 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (9.30%) PaaS
11 11 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.75%) Datadog
13 9 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.85%) VPN
2 13 (10.08%) Firewall
3 6 (4.65%) DNS
4 4 (3.10%) HTTP
5 3 (2.33%) RTP
5 3 (2.33%) SSH
5 3 (2.33%) SSL
5 3 (2.33%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.33%) VoIP
5 3 (2.33%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.78%) BGP
6 1 (0.78%) LTE
6 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.98%) MySQL
5 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.10%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.33%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Power BI
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.55%) Big Data
9 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.55%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.55%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.55%) Redis
10 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.48%) Git
3 14 (10.85%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.85%) XCTest
4 11 (8.53%) GitLab
5 8 (6.20%) JIRA
6 6 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.88%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.88%) Storybook
8 3 (2.33%) Postman
8 3 (2.33%) Selenium
9 2 (1.55%) MLflow
10 1 (0.78%) Appium
10 1 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.78%) git-flow
10 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.78%) Vite
10 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 42 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.20%) Finance
3 8 (6.20%) Retail
4 6 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.33%) Military
5 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Aviation
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Senior
2 26 (20.16%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (19.38%) Developer
4 19 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.63%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.30%) Lead
9 10 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.75%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) Administrator
12 7 (5.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (5.43%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.83%) React
2 19 (14.73%) CSS
3 17 (13.18%) REST
4 14 (10.85%) .NET
4 14 (10.85%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.85%) UIKit
5 11 (8.53%) Node.js
5 11 (8.53%) Tailwind CSS
6 9 (6.98%) RESTful
7 8 (6.20%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (5.43%) Web Services
9 6 (4.65%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.65%) Flutter
9 6 (4.65%) HTML
9 6 (4.65%) Jest
9 6 (4.65%) Kafka
9 6 (4.65%) YAML
10 5 (3.88%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.88%) React Native
10 5 (3.88%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.50%) Mobile App
3 18 (13.95%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (10.08%) Private Cloud
5 8 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.43%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.65%) CMDB
7 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.55%) NHS
9 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.58%) Linux
2 15 (11.63%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.20%) Windows
4 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Android
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (91.47%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.04%) DevOps
3 69 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.78%) Containerisation
5 36 (27.91%) Test Automation
6 34 (26.36%) AI
6 34 (26.36%) Mentoring
6 34 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (24.81%) Observability
8 31 (24.03%) Agile
9 30 (23.26%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (20.16%) Code Quality
11 25 (19.38%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (18.60%) Analytics
13 23 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (17.05%) Software Engineering
15 20 (15.50%) Process Improvement
16 19 (14.73%) Cloud Security
16 19 (14.73%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (14.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Python
2 27 (20.93%) Bash
3 24 (18.60%) TypeScript
4 23 (17.83%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.95%) SQL
6 17 (13.18%) Kotlin
6 17 (13.18%) PowerShell
7 14 (10.85%) Swift
8 11 (8.53%) Go
9 10 (7.75%) C#
10 7 (5.43%) Bicep
10 7 (5.43%) Groovy
10 7 (5.43%) PHP
11 6 (4.65%) Dart
12 5 (3.88%) Scala
13 4 (3.10%) C++
13 4 (3.10%) Java
14 3 (2.33%) C
15 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (10.85%) Degree
2 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.53%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.75%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.65%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.33%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.55%) IFRS
5 2 (1.55%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.55%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (7.75%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.33%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (51.16%) Terraform
2 50 (38.76%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.60%) Ansible
4 20 (15.50%) Grafana
5 16 (12.40%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.75%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.43%) Argo
7 7 (5.43%) Packer
7 7 (5.43%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.33%) Puppet
9 1 (0.78%) Consul
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
9 1 (0.78%) Kibana
9 1 (0.78%) linkerd
9 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.85%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.85%) Braze
2 14 (10.85%) VMware
3 6 (4.65%) Cisco
3 6 (4.65%) EMC
3 6 (4.65%) F5
3 6 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.88%) New Relic
5 4 (3.10%) Google
6 3 (2.33%) BT
6 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.33%) Mitel
6 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.33%) Splunk
7 2 (1.55%) Databricks
7 2 (1.55%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI