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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 340 479
Rank change year-on-year +57 +139 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 130 94 112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.61% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 89 79 97
10th Percentile £46,700 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £89,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 7,375 5,834 14,465
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.91% 38.59% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,084 4,241 12,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +3.33% -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% -10.16%

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 10 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 (3.85%) Apache
2 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) nginx
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.54%) WordPress
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.77%) Drupal
4 1 (0.77%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) GitHub
2 84 (64.62%) AWS
3 66 (50.77%) Azure
4 40 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (26.92%) Serverless
6 28 (21.54%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (16.15%) Amazon S3
8 18 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (13.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (10.77%) Firebase
11 14 (10.77%) Stripe
11 14 (10.77%) TestFlight
12 13 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.46%) GCP
13 11 (8.46%) PaaS
14 10 (7.69%) Datadog
15 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.00%) Firewall
2 11 (8.46%) VPN
3 4 (3.08%) DNS
3 4 (3.08%) HTTP
4 3 (2.31%) RTP
4 3 (2.31%) SSL
4 3 (2.31%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.31%) VoIP
4 3 (2.31%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.77%) BGP
5 1 (0.77%) LTE
5 1 (0.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.92%) MySQL
5 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.08%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.08%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.31%) Metadata
9 3 (2.31%) Power BI
10 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.54%) Big Data
10 2 (1.54%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.54%) Flink
10 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.54%) Redis
11 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 26 (20.00%) Git
3 14 (10.77%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.77%) XCTest
4 12 (9.23%) GitLab
5 9 (6.92%) JIRA
6 6 (4.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.85%) Storybook
8 2 (1.54%) MLflow
8 2 (1.54%) Subversion
9 1 (0.77%) Appium
9 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.77%) Gatling
9 1 (0.77%) git-flow
9 1 (0.77%) Postman
9 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.77%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.15%) Retail
5 7 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.31%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.31%) Military
9 2 (1.54%) Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.54%) Front Office
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Aviation
10 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Senior
2 27 (20.77%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (19.23%) Developer
4 21 (16.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.54%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (10.00%) Lead
9 12 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (8.46%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (7.69%) .NET Developer
11 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.38%) Administrator
13 7 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.38%) Python Developer
13 7 (5.38%) Senior Developer
13 7 (5.38%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 7 (5.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) React
2 18 (13.85%) CSS
2 18 (13.85%) REST
3 16 (12.31%) .NET
4 14 (10.77%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.77%) UIKit
5 11 (8.46%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (7.69%) Node.js
6 10 (7.69%) RESTful
7 8 (6.15%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (5.38%) Kafka
8 7 (5.38%) OAuth
8 7 (5.38%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.62%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.62%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.62%) Flutter
9 6 (4.62%) Jest
9 6 (4.62%) JSON
10 5 (3.85%) HTML
10 5 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 20 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 18 (13.85%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.38%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.62%) CMDB
6 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.54%) NHS
8 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.54%) Linux
2 15 (11.54%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.15%) Windows
4 7 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Android
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (93.08%) CI/CD
2 79 (60.77%) DevOps
3 70 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (29.23%) Test Automation
5 37 (28.46%) Containerisation
5 37 (28.46%) Observability
6 34 (26.15%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (25.38%) Mentoring
8 32 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (22.31%) Agile
9 29 (22.31%) AI
10 27 (20.77%) Code Quality
11 26 (20.00%) Analytics
12 24 (18.46%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (17.69%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (16.92%) Cloud Security
15 21 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (15.38%) Process Improvement
16 20 (15.38%) Software Engineering
17 19 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) Python
2 26 (20.00%) Bash
3 23 (17.69%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.38%) SQL
5 19 (14.62%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.62%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.54%) Kotlin
7 14 (10.77%) Swift
8 12 (9.23%) Go
9 9 (6.92%) Bicep
10 8 (6.15%) C#
11 6 (4.62%) Dart
11 6 (4.62%) PHP
12 5 (3.85%) Groovy
13 4 (3.08%) C++
13 4 (3.08%) Java
14 3 (2.31%) C
14 3 (2.31%) Scala
15 2 (1.54%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Degree
2 11 (8.46%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.38%) QA
3 6 (4.62%) GDPR
4 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.31%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.54%) IFRS
6 2 (1.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (30.77%) Docker
2 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.31%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.77%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (53.85%) Terraform
2 48 (36.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.46%) Ansible
4 18 (13.85%) Grafana
5 14 (10.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.15%) Argo
6 8 (6.15%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.38%) Packer
7 7 (5.38%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.31%) Puppet
9 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.77%) Consul
10 1 (0.77%) Kibana
10 1 (0.77%) logstash
Vendors
1 25 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.77%) Braze
2 14 (10.77%) VMware
3 6 (4.62%) Cisco
3 6 (4.62%) EMC
3 6 (4.62%) F5
3 6 (4.62%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.08%) Google
4 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.31%) BT
5 3 (2.31%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.31%) Mitel
6 2 (1.54%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.54%) Databricks
6 2 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.54%) New Relic
6 2 (1.54%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk