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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 339 426
Rank change year-on-year +17 +87 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 92 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.56% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.53% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 89 87 74
10th Percentile £44,950 £50,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £94,000 £92,750 £84,250
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 8,710 6,011 10,200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.37% 36.39% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,287 4,439 8,040
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,353 £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 £82,500 £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 10 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 (4.55%) Apache
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
4 2 (1.52%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 94 (71.21%) AWS
3 67 (50.76%) Azure
4 32 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (23.48%) Serverless
6 26 (19.70%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (15.91%) GCP
8 18 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.12%) Amazon S3
9 16 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (11.36%) Firebase
11 14 (10.61%) Stripe
11 14 (10.61%) TestFlight
12 13 (9.85%) Datadog
13 11 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (6.06%) PaaS
16 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
17 6 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) VPN
2 9 (6.82%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) DNS
4 4 (3.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.76%) BGP
6 1 (0.76%) HTTP
6 1 (0.76%) LTE
6 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.55%) Power BI
6 5 (3.79%) Delta Lake
6 5 (3.79%) MySQL
7 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.03%) Tableau
8 3 (2.27%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.27%) Metadata
8 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.52%) Big Data
9 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Git
2 29 (21.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.61%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.61%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.58%) GitLab
5 10 (7.58%) JIRA
6 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.79%) Postman
7 5 (3.79%) Selenium
7 5 (3.79%) Storybook
8 4 (3.03%) Appium
8 4 (3.03%) NUnit
9 3 (2.27%) MLflow
10 2 (1.52%) JUnit
10 2 (1.52%) Snyk
10 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.76%) WinDbg
General
1 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.09%) Finance
4 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.79%) Retail
7 4 (3.03%) Military
8 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Legal
9 2 (1.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (30.30%) Senior
2 24 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (17.42%) Developer
4 18 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Lead
8 12 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.55%) Architect
14 5 (3.79%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 5 (3.79%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.48%) React
2 21 (15.91%) Node.js
3 19 (14.39%) CSS
3 19 (14.39%) REST
4 15 (11.36%) Tailwind CSS
5 14 (10.61%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.61%) UIKit
6 13 (9.85%) .NET
6 13 (9.85%) Jest
7 12 (9.09%) RESTful
8 8 (6.06%) React Native
9 7 (5.30%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.30%) Web Services
9 7 (5.30%) YAML
10 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.55%) JSON
10 6 (4.55%) Kafka
11 5 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.42%) Mobile App
2 21 (15.91%) Cloud Native
3 20 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.82%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.82%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) CMDB
6 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.79%) Blog
8 4 (3.03%) NHS
9 3 (2.27%) Clustering
9 3 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.27%) PKI
10 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.21%) Linux
2 18 (13.64%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Android
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 68 (51.52%) DevOps
3 63 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 38 (28.79%) AI
6 37 (28.03%) Containerisation
7 34 (25.76%) Agile
8 33 (25.00%) Analytics
9 31 (23.48%) Software Engineering
10 30 (22.73%) Mentoring
10 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (21.97%) Code Quality
12 27 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (19.70%) Observability
14 21 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (15.15%) Clean Code
15 20 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (15.15%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.67%) Python
2 35 (26.52%) TypeScript
3 26 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 24 (18.18%) Bash
5 22 (16.67%) SQL
6 21 (15.91%) Kotlin
7 17 (12.88%) Swift
8 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.58%) Java
10 9 (6.82%) C#
10 9 (6.82%) Go
10 9 (6.82%) PHP
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) Scala
12 6 (4.55%) Bicep
13 5 (3.79%) 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 15 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.09%) Degree
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.52%) OCP
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.52%) IFRS
5 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.52%) NIST
5 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (38.64%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (43.94%) Terraform
2 46 (34.85%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.15%) Ansible
4 19 (14.39%) Grafana
5 13 (9.85%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.09%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.30%) Packer
8 4 (3.03%) Argo
9 3 (2.27%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) Consul
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.61%) Braze
3 9 (6.82%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) Databricks
5 6 (4.55%) Cisco
5 6 (4.55%) EMC
5 6 (4.55%) F5
5 6 (4.55%) New Relic
5 6 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.27%) Splunk
8 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software