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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 298 424
Rank change year-on-year +73 +126 +62
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 174 96 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 0.75% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.69% 1.58% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 120 79 89
10th Percentile £46,800 £53,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,508 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +3.57% -12.10%
75th Percentile £86,563 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £94,022 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 6,462 6,080 13,809
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.29% 47.27% 44.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 4,699 11,972
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 28 March 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 9 (5.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.72%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) WordPress
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Drupal
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Magento
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) GitHub
2 110 (63.22%) Azure
3 96 (55.17%) AWS
4 69 (39.66%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (24.71%) Serverless
6 27 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (14.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (14.94%) GCP
8 25 (14.37%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (13.79%) Amazon S3
10 23 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (12.64%) Datadog
11 22 (12.64%) Entra ID
12 21 (12.07%) SaaS
13 18 (10.34%) PaaS
14 16 (9.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (8.62%) Azure App Service
16 14 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.05%) Firewall
2 9 (5.17%) VPN
3 4 (2.30%) DNS
3 4 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.30%) Network Security
4 3 (1.72%) HTTP
4 3 (1.72%) RTP
4 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.72%) VoIP
4 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.57%) Broadband
5 1 (0.57%) LTE
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.22%) NoSQL
2 21 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.47%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.75%) Flink
5 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
7 4 (2.30%) Metadata
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.15%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.57%) Parquet
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 29 (16.67%) Git
3 27 (15.52%) GitLab
4 16 (9.20%) JIRA
5 9 (5.17%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.17%) Crashlytics
5 9 (5.17%) Subversion
5 9 (5.17%) XCTest
6 5 (2.87%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.87%) Storybook
6 5 (2.87%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.15%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.15%) git-flow
8 2 (1.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.57%) GDB
9 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.57%) Maven
9 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.57%) WinDbg
General
1 60 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (32.76%) Finance
3 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.92%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.32%) Retail
8 10 (5.75%) Front Office
8 10 (5.75%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.87%) Back Office
11 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Billing
12 3 (1.72%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.72%) Military
13 2 (1.15%) Aviation
13 2 (1.15%) Electronics
13 2 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (24.71%) Senior
2 32 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (17.82%) Developer
4 30 (17.24%) Lead
5 26 (14.94%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (10.92%) .NET Developer
7 18 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (7.47%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.32%) Lead .NET Developer
13 10 (5.75%) Azure Developer
13 10 (5.75%) Development Engineer
13 10 (5.75%) Integration Engineer
13 10 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.17%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.97%) .NET
2 30 (17.24%) RESTful
3 29 (16.67%) React
4 16 (9.20%) Kafka
5 15 (8.62%) OAuth
5 15 (8.62%) OAuth2
6 14 (8.05%) .NET Framework
6 14 (8.05%) JSON
7 13 (7.47%) Razor View Engine
8 12 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
8 12 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 11 (6.32%) CSS
9 11 (6.32%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.75%) ADO
11 9 (5.17%) REST
11 9 (5.17%) SwiftUI
11 9 (5.17%) UIKit
12 8 (4.60%) .NET Core
12 8 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.62%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (7.47%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.75%) Private Cloud
7 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.45%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.30%) Blog
10 4 (2.30%) CMDB
10 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.15%) NHS
13 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.82%) Linux
2 13 (7.47%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.87%) Unix
4 5 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (97.70%) CI/CD
2 137 (78.74%) DevOps
3 88 (50.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.61%) Containerisation
6 54 (31.03%) Agile
7 53 (30.46%) Observability
8 49 (28.16%) Test Automation
9 47 (27.01%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (24.14%) Mentoring
11 38 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (20.69%) Code Quality
13 35 (20.11%) Incident Response
14 31 (17.82%) Deployment Automation
15 29 (16.67%) AI
15 29 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (15.52%) Analytics
16 27 (15.52%) Cloud Security
17 24 (13.79%) Front End Development
17 24 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.85%) Python
2 38 (21.84%) SQL
3 37 (21.26%) Bash
4 30 (17.24%) Bicep
5 26 (14.94%) PowerShell
5 26 (14.94%) TypeScript
6 23 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.34%) Go
8 15 (8.62%) Java
9 9 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 9 (5.17%) Swift
10 7 (4.02%) C#
11 6 (3.45%) C++
11 6 (3.45%) Dart
12 4 (2.30%) PHP
13 3 (1.72%) C
14 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.15%) Rust
14 2 (1.15%) Scala
14 2 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (14.37%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 14 (8.05%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.32%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.02%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.22%) QA
2 15 (8.62%) GDPR
3 13 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.02%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.30%) GRC
6 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.15%) ECSS
8 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (33.33%) Docker
2 23 (13.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.72%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (54.60%) Terraform
2 78 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 34 (19.54%) Grafana
4 29 (16.67%) Ansible
4 29 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 16 (9.20%) Argo
6 10 (5.75%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.45%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.87%) Packer
9 4 (2.30%) Cilium
9 4 (2.30%) logstash
10 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.15%) Puppet
12 1 (0.57%) Consul
12 1 (0.57%) Icinga
12 1 (0.57%) Kibana
12 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) VMware
3 11 (6.32%) Ab Initio
4 9 (5.17%) Amplitude
5 8 (4.60%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.87%) Splunk
7 4 (2.30%) Cisco
7 4 (2.30%) EMC
7 4 (2.30%) F5
7 4 (2.30%) Google
7 4 (2.30%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.72%) BT
8 3 (1.72%) Databricks
8 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.72%) Mitel
9 2 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.15%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle