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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 330 424
Rank change year-on-year +2 +94 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 133 101 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.75% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 101 90 68
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,725 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -13.60%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% +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 8,755 5,782 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.03% 35.59% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,424 4,175 6,576
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £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 17 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 11 (8.27%) Apache
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Confluence
3 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
5 2 (1.50%) CMS
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.75%) Drupal
6 1 (0.75%) IIS
6 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (71.43%) AWS
3 71 (53.38%) Azure
4 30 (22.56%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.05%) GCP
6 22 (16.54%) Serverless
7 19 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (13.53%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (12.03%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.53%) Datadog
11 11 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (8.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (6.02%) Firebase
13 8 (6.02%) SaaS
13 8 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) VPN
2 5 (3.76%) DNS
3 4 (3.01%) Firewall
3 4 (3.01%) SSH
4 2 (1.50%) BGP
4 2 (1.50%) SSL
4 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.50%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) LTE
5 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.75%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.27%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.26%) MySQL
6 6 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.51%) Power BI
7 5 (3.76%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.76%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.01%) Tableau
9 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.26%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.26%) Redis
10 2 (1.50%) Metadata
10 2 (1.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (26.32%) Git
2 31 (23.31%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.78%) GitLab
4 10 (7.52%) Cypress.io
4 10 (7.52%) JIRA
5 6 (4.51%) Crashlytics
5 6 (4.51%) Postman
5 6 (4.51%) XCTest
6 5 (3.76%) Poetry
6 5 (3.76%) Selenium
7 4 (3.01%) Appium
7 4 (3.01%) NUnit
7 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.26%) MLflow
8 3 (2.26%) Storybook
9 2 (1.50%) JMeter
9 2 (1.50%) JUnit
9 2 (1.50%) Snyk
9 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Finance
3 13 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.77%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.01%) Banking
6 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Local Government
7 3 (2.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.50%) Games
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Law
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (36.84%) Senior
2 22 (16.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.79%) Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (13.53%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead
8 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
14 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (50.38%) Terraform
2 31 (23.31%) React
3 30 (22.56%) Node.js
4 18 (13.53%) CSS
4 18 (13.53%) REST
5 14 (10.53%) RESTful
5 14 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
6 12 (9.02%) Jest
6 12 (9.02%) Kafka
7 10 (7.52%) .NET
8 9 (6.77%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.77%) PySpark
9 8 (6.02%) Spring
9 8 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 7 (5.26%) React Native
10 7 (5.26%) Web Services
10 7 (5.26%) YAML
11 6 (4.51%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.51%) Playwright
11 6 (4.51%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.77%) Mobile App
3 12 (9.02%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.26%) Blog
5 7 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.51%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.01%) CMDB
8 3 (2.26%) Clustering
8 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.26%) NHS
8 3 (2.26%) Robotics
9 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) PKI
9 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.31%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.51%) Windows
4 5 (3.76%) Unix
4 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.01%) Android
6 3 (2.26%) Debian
6 3 (2.26%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.75%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (93.23%) CI/CD
2 70 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (49.62%) DevOps
4 47 (35.34%) Software Engineering
5 46 (34.59%) AI
6 44 (33.08%) Containerisation
7 35 (26.32%) Analytics
8 33 (24.81%) Observability
9 32 (24.06%) Agile
9 32 (24.06%) Test Automation
10 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
12 23 (17.29%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (15.04%) Code Quality
14 18 (13.53%) Cloud Security
14 18 (13.53%) Machine Learning
15 17 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (12.78%) SDLC
16 16 (12.03%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.37%) Python
2 38 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 29 (21.80%) Bash
3 29 (21.80%) SQL
4 24 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
6 16 (12.03%) Kotlin
7 14 (10.53%) Java
8 12 (9.02%) Go
9 10 (7.52%) Bicep
10 9 (6.77%) Swift
11 8 (6.02%) C#
11 8 (6.02%) Scala
12 7 (5.26%) Groovy
12 7 (5.26%) PHP
13 3 (2.26%) Dart
13 3 (2.26%) Rust
14 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.75%) C++
15 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) Degree
4 10 (7.52%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.50%) OCP
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.27%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) IFRS
3 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) NIST
3 2 (1.50%) SLA
3 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (51.13%) Docker
2 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 48 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.53%) Grafana
3 13 (9.77%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.02%) Ansible
4 12 (9.02%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.51%) Packer
6 3 (2.26%) Argo
7 2 (1.50%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.50%) Puppet
7 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Cilium
8 1 (0.75%) Consul
8 1 (0.75%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) linkerd
8 1 (0.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Databricks
3 6 (4.51%) Amplitude
3 6 (4.51%) Braze
3 6 (4.51%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) VMware
4 5 (3.76%) New Relic
4 5 (3.76%) Splunk
5 4 (3.01%) Cisco
5 4 (3.01%) EMC
5 4 (3.01%) F5
5 4 (3.01%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.26%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.26%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software