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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 315 410
Rank change year-on-year -19 +95 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 103 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.79% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 99 91 70
10th Percentile £46,100 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,074 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £90,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.93% +11.54% -18.37%

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 8,680 5,763 9,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.55% 35.56% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 4,149 6,527
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 21 September 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 10 (7.63%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 94 (71.76%) AWS
3 70 (53.44%) Azure
4 28 (21.37%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.32%) GCP
6 21 (16.03%) Serverless
7 18 (13.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (12.98%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.69%) Datadog
11 11 (8.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (6.11%) SaaS
15 7 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (5.34%) Firebase
15 7 (5.34%) PaaS
15 7 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) VPN
2 5 (3.82%) DNS
3 4 (3.05%) Firewall
3 4 (3.05%) SSH
4 2 (1.53%) BGP
4 2 (1.53%) SSL
4 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.53%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.61%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.27%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.40%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.87%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.34%) MySQL
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.58%) Power BI
8 5 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.82%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.05%) Tableau
10 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.29%) Redis
10 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.53%) Metadata
11 2 (1.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 36 (27.48%) Git
2 30 (22.90%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.74%) GitLab
4 10 (7.63%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.87%) JIRA
6 6 (4.58%) Postman
7 5 (3.82%) Crashlytics
7 5 (3.82%) Poetry
7 5 (3.82%) Selenium
7 5 (3.82%) XCTest
8 4 (3.05%) Appium
8 4 (3.05%) NUnit
8 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.29%) MLflow
9 3 (2.29%) Storybook
10 2 (1.53%) JUnit
10 2 (1.53%) Snyk
10 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.76%) JMeter
11 1 (0.76%) Maven
General
1 46 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Finance
3 13 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.87%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.05%) Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Local Government
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Games
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Law
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Senior
2 21 (16.03%) Developer
2 21 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.50%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Lead
7 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Mobile Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.38%) Terraform
2 31 (23.66%) React
3 30 (22.90%) Node.js
4 18 (13.74%) CSS
4 18 (13.74%) REST
5 15 (11.45%) RESTful
6 14 (10.69%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (9.16%) Jest
7 12 (9.16%) Kafka
8 9 (6.87%) .NET
8 9 (6.87%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.87%) PySpark
9 8 (6.11%) Spring
9 8 (6.11%) Spring Boot
10 7 (5.34%) React Native
10 7 (5.34%) Web Services
10 7 (5.34%) YAML
11 6 (4.58%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.58%) Playwright
12 5 (3.82%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.16%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.87%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.34%) Blog
4 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.34%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.58%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.05%) CMDB
7 3 (2.29%) Clustering
7 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.29%) NHS
7 3 (2.29%) Robotics
8 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.14%) Linux
2 9 (6.87%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.82%) Unix
4 4 (3.05%) Android
4 4 (3.05%) Windows
4 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) Debian
5 3 (2.29%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.76%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (93.13%) CI/CD
2 70 (53.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (48.85%) DevOps
4 47 (35.88%) AI
5 45 (34.35%) Containerisation
5 45 (34.35%) Software Engineering
6 34 (25.95%) Analytics
7 33 (25.19%) Observability
8 32 (24.43%) Agile
8 32 (24.43%) Test Automation
9 31 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (19.08%) Mentoring
11 23 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (14.50%) Code Quality
12 19 (14.50%) Machine Learning
13 17 (12.98%) Cloud Security
13 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (12.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.85%) Python
2 38 (29.01%) TypeScript
3 29 (22.14%) Bash
3 29 (22.14%) SQL
4 24 (18.32%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.74%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.45%) Kotlin
7 14 (10.69%) Java
8 12 (9.16%) Go
9 10 (7.63%) Bicep
10 8 (6.11%) C#
10 8 (6.11%) Scala
10 8 (6.11%) Swift
11 7 (5.34%) Groovy
12 6 (4.58%) PHP
13 3 (2.29%) Dart
13 3 (2.29%) Rust
14 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.76%) C
15 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Degree
4 9 (6.87%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) OCP
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.40%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.05%) GDPR
3 2 (1.53%) IFRS
3 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.53%) NIST
3 2 (1.53%) SLA
3 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (51.91%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.76%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 48 (36.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.74%) Grafana
3 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.40%) Ansible
4 11 (8.40%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.82%) Packer
6 3 (2.29%) Argo
7 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) Cilium
8 1 (0.76%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) linkerd
8 1 (0.76%) logstash
8 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Databricks
3 6 (4.58%) VMware
4 5 (3.82%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.82%) Braze
4 5 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) New Relic
4 5 (3.82%) Splunk
5 4 (3.05%) Cisco
5 4 (3.05%) EMC
5 4 (3.05%) F5
5 4 (3.05%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.29%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Foundry
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAI