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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 337 479
Rank change year-on-year +33 +142 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 121 92 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.56% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 83 77 95
10th Percentile £47,100 £52,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,000 £98,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -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 7,630 5,915 14,640
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.88% 38.22% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,367 4,306 12,168
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,549 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 20 June 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 5 (4.13%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) nginx
2 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.83%) Drupal
3 1 (0.83%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) GitHub
2 80 (66.12%) AWS
3 58 (47.93%) Azure
4 35 (28.93%) Serverless
5 33 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (23.97%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (16.53%) Amazon S3
8 17 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (13.22%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (11.57%) Firebase
11 14 (11.57%) Stripe
11 14 (11.57%) TestFlight
12 13 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (9.09%) PaaS
14 10 (8.26%) GCP
15 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (5.79%) Datadog
15 7 (5.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.74%) Firewall
2 12 (9.92%) VPN
3 5 (4.13%) DNS
4 4 (3.31%) HTTP
5 3 (2.48%) RTP
5 3 (2.48%) SSL
5 3 (2.48%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.48%) VoIP
5 3 (2.48%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.83%) BGP
6 1 (0.83%) LTE
6 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.44%) MySQL
5 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.48%) Metadata
8 3 (2.48%) Power BI
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.65%) Big Data
9 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.65%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.65%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (23.14%) Git
2 27 (22.31%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.57%) Crashlytics
3 14 (11.57%) XCTest
4 11 (9.09%) GitLab
5 8 (6.61%) JIRA
6 6 (4.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.13%) Storybook
8 2 (1.65%) MLflow
8 2 (1.65%) Postman
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) Appium
9 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.83%) Gatling
9 1 (0.83%) git-flow
9 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Retail
4 7 (5.79%) Finance
5 6 (4.96%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.48%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.48%) Military
6 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.65%) Billing
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (27.27%) Senior
2 27 (22.31%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (19.83%) Developer
4 18 (14.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 16 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (11.57%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Lead
9 10 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (7.44%) .NET Developer
10 9 (7.44%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) Senior Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.79%) Administrator
12 7 (5.79%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (5.79%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.18%) React
2 19 (15.70%) CSS
3 17 (14.05%) REST
4 14 (11.57%) .NET
4 14 (11.57%) SwiftUI
4 14 (11.57%) UIKit
5 11 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (8.26%) Node.js
7 8 (6.61%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (6.61%) RESTful
8 6 (4.96%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.96%) Flutter
8 6 (4.96%) HTML
8 6 (4.96%) Jest
8 6 (4.96%) Web Services
9 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.13%) Kafka
9 5 (4.13%) OAuth
9 5 (4.13%) OAuth2
9 5 (4.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Cloud Native
1 20 (16.53%) Mobile App
2 18 (14.88%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (10.74%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.96%) CMDB
5 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.65%) NHS
7 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Linux
2 15 (12.40%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.61%) Windows
4 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (93.39%) CI/CD
2 67 (55.37%) DevOps
3 66 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (28.93%) Containerisation
4 35 (28.93%) Test Automation
5 32 (26.45%) Mentoring
5 32 (26.45%) Observability
6 31 (25.62%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (23.97%) Agile
7 29 (23.97%) AI
8 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (20.66%) Code Quality
10 24 (19.83%) Analytics
11 23 (19.01%) Infrastructure Automation
12 21 (17.36%) Cloud Security
12 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (17.36%) Software Engineering
13 20 (16.53%) Process Improvement
14 19 (15.70%) Deployment Automation
15 18 (14.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.80%) Python
2 25 (20.66%) Bash
3 23 (19.01%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.88%) PowerShell
4 18 (14.88%) SQL
5 16 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.22%) Kotlin
6 14 (11.57%) Swift
7 9 (7.44%) C#
7 9 (7.44%) Go
8 6 (4.96%) Bicep
8 6 (4.96%) Dart
8 6 (4.96%) Groovy
8 6 (4.96%) PHP
9 4 (3.31%) C++
9 4 (3.31%) Scala
10 3 (2.48%) C
10 3 (2.48%) Java
11 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (11.57%) Degree
2 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.26%) AWS Certification
3 10 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.13%) QA
3 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) GDPR
4 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.65%) IFRS
5 2 (1.65%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.65%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (31.40%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.48%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (52.07%) Terraform
2 46 (38.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.83%) Ansible
4 17 (14.05%) Grafana
5 13 (10.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.44%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.79%) Argo
7 7 (5.79%) Packer
7 7 (5.79%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.48%) Puppet
9 1 (0.83%) Consul
9 1 (0.83%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) linkerd
9 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Amplitude
2 14 (11.57%) Braze
2 14 (11.57%) VMware
3 6 (4.96%) Cisco
3 6 (4.96%) EMC
3 6 (4.96%) F5
3 6 (4.96%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.31%) Google
5 3 (2.48%) BT
5 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.48%) Mitel
5 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.65%) Databricks
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) New Relic
6 2 (1.65%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor