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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 294 438
Rank change year-on-year +69 +144 +47
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 173 94 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 0.73% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 1.57% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 121 77 93
10th Percentile £47,000 £53,213 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £94,267 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -10.90%

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 6,535 5,998 13,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.74% 46.74% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 4,671 12,010
10th Percentile £33,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,711 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,584
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £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 3 April 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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.16%) WordPress
3 1 (0.58%) Drupal
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) GitHub
2 108 (62.43%) Azure
3 98 (56.65%) AWS
4 67 (38.73%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (24.28%) Serverless
6 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (15.03%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (15.03%) GCP
7 24 (13.87%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (13.87%) Amazon S3
8 23 (13.29%) SaaS
9 22 (12.72%) Datadog
9 22 (12.72%) Entra ID
10 21 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (10.40%) PaaS
12 15 (8.67%) Azure App Service
12 15 (8.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (7.51%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (7.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.25%) Firewall
2 10 (5.78%) VPN
3 4 (2.31%) DNS
3 4 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.31%) Network Security
4 3 (1.73%) HTTP
4 3 (1.73%) RTP
4 3 (1.73%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.73%) VoIP
4 3 (1.73%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
6 1 (0.58%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.29%) NoSQL
2 21 (12.14%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.51%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.78%) Flink
5 7 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.89%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.89%) MySQL
7 4 (2.31%) Metadata
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.16%) Redis
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.58%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 32 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.34%) Git
3 26 (15.03%) GitLab
4 16 (9.25%) JIRA
5 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.20%) Crashlytics
5 9 (5.20%) Subversion
5 9 (5.20%) XCTest
6 5 (2.89%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.89%) Storybook
6 5 (2.89%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.16%) git-flow
8 2 (1.16%) JMeter
9 1 (0.58%) GDB
9 1 (0.58%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.58%) Maven
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.58%) WinDbg
General
1 59 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 55 (31.79%) Finance
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.98%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.94%) Retail
8 10 (5.78%) Front Office
8 10 (5.78%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.89%) Back Office
11 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.73%) Billing
12 3 (1.73%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.73%) Military
13 2 (1.16%) Aviation
13 2 (1.16%) Electronics
13 2 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (24.86%) Senior
2 33 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (18.50%) Developer
4 30 (17.34%) Lead
5 26 (15.03%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (10.98%) .NET Developer
7 17 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.51%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Lead .NET Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Azure Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Development Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.65%) .NET
2 29 (16.76%) React
2 29 (16.76%) RESTful
3 17 (9.83%) Kafka
4 15 (8.67%) .NET Framework
5 14 (8.09%) OAuth
5 14 (8.09%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.51%) JSON
6 13 (7.51%) Razor View Engine
7 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 12 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 12 (6.94%) Entity Framework
8 10 (5.78%) ADO
8 10 (5.78%) CSS
9 9 (5.20%) .NET Core
9 9 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (5.20%) REST
9 9 (5.20%) SwiftUI
9 9 (5.20%) UIKit
10 7 (4.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.67%) Mobile App
3 14 (8.09%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (7.51%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.36%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.36%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.47%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.31%) Blog
9 4 (2.31%) CMDB
9 4 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) NHS
12 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.92%) Linux
2 12 (6.94%) Windows
3 9 (5.20%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.89%) Unix
4 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (97.69%) CI/CD
2 138 (79.77%) DevOps
3 88 (50.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (33.53%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.79%) Containerisation
6 54 (31.21%) Observability
7 53 (30.64%) Agile
8 48 (27.75%) Test Automation
9 47 (27.17%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (23.70%) Mentoring
11 37 (21.39%) Code Quality
11 37 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (19.65%) Incident Response
13 30 (17.34%) AI
13 30 (17.34%) Deployment Automation
13 30 (17.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (16.18%) Cloud Security
15 25 (14.45%) Analytics
16 24 (13.87%) Root Cause Analysis
17 23 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.13%) Python
2 39 (22.54%) SQL
3 38 (21.97%) Bash
4 27 (15.61%) Bicep
5 26 (15.03%) TypeScript
6 25 (14.45%) PowerShell
7 22 (12.72%) JavaScript
8 19 (10.98%) Go
9 15 (8.67%) Java
10 9 (5.20%) Kotlin
10 9 (5.20%) Swift
11 8 (4.62%) C#
12 6 (3.47%) C++
12 6 (3.47%) Dart
13 4 (2.31%) PHP
14 3 (1.73%) C
15 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.16%) Rust
15 2 (1.16%) Scala
15 2 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (14.45%) Degree
2 19 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (10.40%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.51%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.36%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.47%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.31%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.29%) QA
2 14 (8.09%) GDPR
2 14 (8.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.62%) SOC 2
4 7 (4.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.31%) GRC
6 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.16%) ECSS
7 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (34.10%) Docker
2 23 (13.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.73%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (55.49%) Terraform
2 79 (45.66%) Kubernetes
3 34 (19.65%) Grafana
4 30 (17.34%) Ansible
4 30 (17.34%) Prometheus
5 17 (9.83%) Argo
6 10 (5.78%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.05%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.89%) Packer
9 4 (2.31%) Cilium
9 4 (2.31%) logstash
9 4 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.73%) Puppet
11 1 (0.58%) Consul
11 1 (0.58%) Icinga
11 1 (0.58%) Kibana
11 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) VMware
3 10 (5.78%) Ab Initio
4 9 (5.20%) Amplitude
5 8 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) Cisco
7 4 (2.31%) EMC
7 4 (2.31%) F5
7 4 (2.31%) Google
7 4 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.73%) BT
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
8 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.73%) Mitel
9 2 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.16%) SAP
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle