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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 324 412
Rank change year-on-year -2 +88 -22
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 136 102 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.75% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 100 93 71
10th Percentile £46,175 £50,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -16.13%

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 8,775 5,812 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.60% 35.78% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 4,193 6,772
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,770
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 £86,000
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 11 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 (8.09%) Apache
2 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
4 2 (1.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.74%) Drupal
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) GitHub
2 98 (72.06%) AWS
3 70 (51.47%) Azure
4 32 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.38%) Serverless
6 23 (16.91%) GCP
7 21 (15.44%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.29%) Datadog
11 10 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (7.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (7.35%) Firebase
11 10 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.62%) Stripe
12 9 (6.62%) TestFlight
13 8 (5.88%) PaaS
13 8 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) VPN
2 6 (4.41%) DNS
3 4 (2.94%) Firewall
3 4 (2.94%) SSH
4 2 (1.47%) BGP
4 2 (1.47%) SSL
4 2 (1.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.74%) LTE
5 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.09%) DynamoDB
4 10 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.62%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.88%) MySQL
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.41%) Power BI
8 5 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.68%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.94%) Tableau
10 3 (2.21%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.47%) Big Data
11 2 (1.47%) Metadata
11 2 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (25.74%) Git
2 31 (22.79%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.50%) GitLab
4 11 (8.09%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.35%) JIRA
6 9 (6.62%) Crashlytics
6 9 (6.62%) XCTest
7 5 (3.68%) Poetry
7 5 (3.68%) Postman
7 5 (3.68%) Selenium
7 5 (3.68%) Storybook
7 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (2.94%) Appium
8 4 (2.94%) NUnit
9 3 (2.21%) MLflow
10 2 (1.47%) JUnit
10 2 (1.47%) Snyk
10 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.74%) Maven
11 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Finance
3 15 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.21%) Local Government
7 3 (2.21%) Retail
8 2 (1.47%) Games
8 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Law
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Senior
2 22 (16.18%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (15.44%) Developer
3 21 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.24%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (13.24%) Software Engineer
5 15 (11.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Lead
7 11 (8.09%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.35%) Mobile Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (48.53%) Terraform
2 32 (23.53%) React
3 31 (22.79%) Node.js
4 20 (14.71%) CSS
5 18 (13.24%) REST
6 16 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
7 14 (10.29%) Jest
7 14 (10.29%) RESTful
8 12 (8.82%) Kafka
9 11 (8.09%) .NET
10 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.62%) PySpark
10 9 (6.62%) SwiftUI
10 9 (6.62%) UIKit
11 8 (5.88%) React Native
11 8 (5.88%) Spring
11 8 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.15%) Web Services
12 7 (5.15%) YAML
13 6 (4.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.24%) Mobile App
3 15 (11.03%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.15%) Blog
6 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.41%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.68%) CMDB
9 3 (2.21%) Clustering
9 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.21%) NHS
9 3 (2.21%) Robotics
10 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.47%) PKI
11 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.79%) Linux
2 13 (9.56%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.15%) Windows
4 6 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.94%) Android
5 4 (2.94%) Unix
6 3 (2.21%) Debian
6 3 (2.21%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.74%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (93.38%) CI/CD
2 69 (50.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (48.53%) DevOps
4 47 (34.56%) Software Engineering
5 46 (33.82%) AI
6 42 (30.88%) Containerisation
7 39 (28.68%) Analytics
8 36 (26.47%) Test Automation
9 35 (25.74%) Observability
10 31 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (22.06%) Agile
12 28 (20.59%) Mentoring
13 27 (19.85%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (17.65%) Code Quality
15 18 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (13.24%) Machine Learning
16 17 (12.50%) Clean Code
16 17 (12.50%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.59%) Python
2 39 (28.68%) TypeScript
3 28 (20.59%) Bash
3 28 (20.59%) SQL
4 23 (16.91%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.97%) Kotlin
5 19 (13.97%) PowerShell
6 14 (10.29%) Java
7 12 (8.82%) Swift
8 10 (7.35%) Bicep
8 10 (7.35%) Go
9 8 (5.88%) C#
9 8 (5.88%) PHP
9 8 (5.88%) Scala
10 7 (5.15%) Groovy
11 5 (3.68%) Dart
12 3 (2.21%) Rust
13 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.74%) C++
14 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) Degree
3 13 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.09%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.47%) OCP
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.21%) GDPR
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.47%) NIST
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (49.26%) Docker
2 7 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.74%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 48 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.24%) Grafana
3 13 (9.56%) Ansible
4 12 (8.82%) Progress Chef
4 12 (8.82%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.15%) Packer
6 3 (2.21%) Argo
7 2 (1.47%) Puppet
7 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Cilium
8 1 (0.74%) Consul
8 1 (0.74%) Istio
8 1 (0.74%) linkerd
8 1 (0.74%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Amplitude
2 9 (6.62%) Braze
3 8 (5.88%) Databricks
4 6 (4.41%) VMware
5 5 (3.68%) Cisco
5 5 (3.68%) EMC
5 5 (3.68%) F5
5 5 (3.68%) Google
5 5 (3.68%) New Relic
5 5 (3.68%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.21%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.21%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.74%) Foundry
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) TOWER Software