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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 336 425
Rank change year-on-year +21 +89 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 90 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.51% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 90 85 74
10th Percentile £46,175 £50,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,125 £60,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%

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 8,670 5,950 10,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.15% 35.81% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,273 4,388 7,983
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,250 £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 £81,313 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 13 August 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 6 (4.58%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) Confluence
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
4 2 (1.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 93 (70.99%) AWS
3 67 (51.15%) Azure
4 31 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (22.14%) Serverless
6 23 (17.56%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (17.56%) GCP
7 18 (13.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.69%) Amazon S3
9 14 (10.69%) Firebase
10 13 (9.92%) Datadog
10 13 (9.92%) Stripe
10 13 (9.92%) TestFlight
11 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (6.11%) PaaS
14 7 (5.34%) Power Platform
15 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) VPN
2 8 (6.11%) Firewall
3 5 (3.82%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.53%) BGP
6 2 (1.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.98%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.58%) MySQL
6 6 (4.58%) Power BI
7 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.05%) Tableau
9 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.29%) Metadata
10 2 (1.53%) Big Data
10 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.53%) Redis
10 2 (1.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 34 (25.95%) Git
2 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.92%) Crashlytics
3 13 (9.92%) XCTest
4 12 (9.16%) GitLab
5 11 (8.40%) Cypress.io
6 10 (7.63%) JIRA
7 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.82%) Postman
8 5 (3.82%) Selenium
8 5 (3.82%) Storybook
9 4 (3.05%) Appium
9 4 (3.05%) NUnit
10 3 (2.29%) MLflow
11 2 (1.53%) JUnit
11 2 (1.53%) Snyk
11 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.76%) GDB
12 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.92%) Finance
4 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Law
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (32.06%) Senior
2 24 (18.32%) Developer
3 23 (17.56%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.98%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (12.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (9.92%) Lead
8 13 (9.92%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.58%) Architect
13 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
13 5 (3.82%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.66%) React
2 23 (17.56%) Node.js
3 19 (14.50%) CSS
3 19 (14.50%) REST
4 15 (11.45%) Tailwind CSS
5 13 (9.92%) .NET
5 13 (9.92%) Jest
5 13 (9.92%) RESTful
5 13 (9.92%) SwiftUI
5 13 (9.92%) UIKit
6 8 (6.11%) Kafka
6 8 (6.11%) React Native
7 7 (5.34%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.34%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.58%) GraphQL
8 6 (4.58%) JSON
9 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.79%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.50%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.63%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.87%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.87%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.58%) CMDB
6 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.82%) Blog
8 4 (3.05%) NHS
9 3 (2.29%) Clustering
9 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.29%) PKI
10 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.14%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Android
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (92.37%) CI/CD
2 67 (51.15%) DevOps
3 63 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (29.77%) Test Automation
5 37 (28.24%) AI
5 37 (28.24%) Containerisation
6 33 (25.19%) Agile
6 33 (25.19%) Software Engineering
7 32 (24.43%) Analytics
8 31 (23.66%) Mentoring
9 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (21.37%) Code Quality
10 28 (21.37%) Observability
11 26 (19.85%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (15.27%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (14.50%) Clean Code
14 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (14.50%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 54 (41.22%) Python
2 36 (27.48%) TypeScript
3 25 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.56%) Bash
4 23 (17.56%) SQL
5 21 (16.03%) Kotlin
6 16 (12.21%) Swift
7 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
8 11 (8.40%) Java
9 10 (7.63%) Go
10 9 (6.87%) C#
10 9 (6.87%) PHP
11 7 (5.34%) Groovy
11 7 (5.34%) Scala
12 6 (4.58%) Bicep
13 5 (3.82%) Dart
14 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.76%) C++
14 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.16%) Azure Certification
2 12 (9.16%) Degree
2 12 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.53%) OCP
4 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (39.69%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (44.27%) Terraform
2 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.50%) Grafana
4 18 (13.74%) Ansible
5 14 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.16%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.11%) Packer
8 3 (2.29%) Argo
8 3 (2.29%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.76%) Cilium
9 1 (0.76%) Consul
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) Kibana
9 1 (0.76%) linkerd
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) Amplitude
2 13 (9.92%) Braze
3 9 (6.87%) VMware
4 8 (6.11%) Databricks
5 6 (4.58%) Cisco
5 6 (4.58%) EMC
5 6 (4.58%) F5
5 6 (4.58%) Google
5 6 (4.58%) New Relic
5 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.29%) Splunk
7 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) Foundry
8 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software