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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 320 390
Rank change year-on-year +106 +70 +102
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 179 108 143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 0.70% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 1.50% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 128 82 110
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,625 £87,375 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%

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 6,168 7,179 12,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 46.71% 45.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,226 4,733 11,154
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,219
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 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 8 (4.47%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) GitHub
2 126 (70.39%) Azure
3 90 (50.28%) AWS
4 83 (46.37%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (21.23%) Serverless
6 30 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (16.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (16.20%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (15.08%) GCP
9 25 (13.97%) SaaS
10 24 (13.41%) Entra ID
11 23 (12.85%) Datadog
12 22 (12.29%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (11.17%) PaaS
14 19 (10.61%) Amazon S3
14 19 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (9.50%) Azure App Service
16 16 (8.94%) Azure AKS
16 16 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 7 (3.91%) VPN
3 4 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.68%) RTP
4 3 (1.68%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.68%) VoIP
4 3 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.73%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.59%) Flink
3 10 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.35%) MySQL
5 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.79%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.23%) Metadata
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.12%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Parquet
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (22.91%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.32%) Git
3 27 (15.08%) GitLab
4 12 (6.70%) JIRA
5 9 (5.03%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.03%) Subversion
6 7 (3.91%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.68%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) XCTest
9 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.12%) git-flow
9 2 (1.12%) JUnit
9 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.56%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 64 (35.75%) Finance
2 59 (32.96%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.17%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.38%) Banking
6 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.59%) Front Office
7 10 (5.59%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.59%) Retail
8 9 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.79%) Back Office
10 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.68%) Billing
11 3 (1.68%) Military
12 2 (1.12%) Aviation
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Electronics
12 2 (1.12%) Law
12 2 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (27.37%) Senior
2 34 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.20%) Developer
3 29 (16.20%) Lead
4 23 (12.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) .NET Developer
5 22 (12.29%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.50%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (8.38%) Azure Developer
8 13 (7.26%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.26%) Lead .NET Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Lead Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Development Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) SaaS Developer
10 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.23%) .NET
1 38 (21.23%) RESTful
2 29 (16.20%) React
3 18 (10.06%) OAuth
3 18 (10.06%) OAuth2
4 17 (9.50%) JSON
5 16 (8.94%) .NET Framework
5 16 (8.94%) Kafka
6 15 (8.38%) Razor View Engine
7 14 (7.82%) ASP.NET Web API
7 14 (7.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 13 (7.26%) Entity Framework
9 12 (6.70%) ADO
9 12 (6.70%) Node.js
10 11 (6.15%) YAML
11 10 (5.59%) REST
12 8 (4.47%) .NET Core
12 8 (4.47%) CSS
12 8 (4.47%) HTML
13 7 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.38%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.35%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.79%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) Blog
7 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) IoT
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.76%) Linux
2 12 (6.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.79%) Unix
4 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (96.09%) CI/CD
2 151 (84.36%) DevOps
3 96 (53.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (32.96%) Observability
6 58 (32.40%) Containerisation
7 54 (30.17%) Agile
8 50 (27.93%) Test Automation
9 44 (24.58%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (23.46%) Incident Response
12 36 (20.11%) Mentoring
13 32 (17.88%) Cloud Security
14 31 (17.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 30 (16.76%) Code Quality
15 30 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 29 (16.20%) Deployment Automation
16 29 (16.20%) RBAC
17 28 (15.64%) AI
17 28 (15.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.04%) Python
2 43 (24.02%) Bicep
3 41 (22.91%) Bash
4 40 (22.35%) SQL
5 30 (16.76%) PowerShell
6 27 (15.08%) JavaScript
7 26 (14.53%) TypeScript
8 18 (10.06%) Go
8 18 (10.06%) Java
9 9 (5.03%) C#
10 5 (2.79%) C++
11 3 (1.68%) C
11 3 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.68%) PHP
11 3 (1.68%) Ruby
11 3 (1.68%) Swift
12 2 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (1.12%) VB
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (14.53%) Degree
2 23 (12.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (11.73%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.38%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.82%) Azure Certification
6 12 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) CCNA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.08%) QA
2 19 (10.61%) GDPR
3 16 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.91%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.91%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.23%) GRC
6 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.12%) ECSS
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (35.20%) Docker
2 22 (12.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.68%) Kamailio
5 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (56.42%) Terraform
2 86 (48.04%) Kubernetes
3 41 (22.91%) Grafana
4 33 (18.44%) Prometheus
5 27 (15.08%) Ansible
6 17 (9.50%) Argo
7 10 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.79%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.23%) Cilium
9 4 (2.23%) logstash
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.56%) Icinga
11 1 (0.56%) Kibana
11 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Ab Initio
3 11 (6.15%) VMware
4 8 (4.47%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.79%) Splunk
6 4 (2.23%) Google
6 4 (2.23%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.68%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.68%) BT
7 3 (1.68%) Databricks
7 3 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.68%) Mitel
7 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.68%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.12%) SAP
9 1 (0.56%) Apple
9 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.56%) Foundry
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle