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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 326 474
Rank change year-on-year +30 +148 0
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 123 94 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.61% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.60% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 83 79 95
10th Percentile £47,100 £52,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £53,125
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 £89,250 £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 7,549 5,879 14,623
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 38.15% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,290 4,277 12,168
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,070
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +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% -9.45%

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 18 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 (4.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.63%) nginx
2 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.63%) WordPress
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) GitHub
2 81 (65.85%) AWS
3 60 (48.78%) Azure
4 35 (28.46%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (28.46%) Serverless
5 29 (23.58%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (16.26%) Amazon S3
7 17 (13.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (13.01%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (11.38%) Firebase
10 14 (11.38%) Stripe
10 14 (11.38%) TestFlight
11 13 (10.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (8.94%) GCP
12 11 (8.94%) PaaS
13 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (6.50%) Datadog
14 7 (5.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) Firewall
2 12 (9.76%) VPN
3 5 (4.07%) DNS
4 4 (3.25%) HTTP
5 3 (2.44%) RTP
5 3 (2.44%) SSL
5 3 (2.44%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.44%) VoIP
5 3 (2.44%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.81%) BGP
6 1 (0.81%) LTE
6 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.32%) MySQL
5 8 (6.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.25%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.44%) Metadata
8 3 (2.44%) Power BI
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.63%) Big Data
9 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.63%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.63%) Redis
10 1 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (22.76%) Jenkins
2 27 (21.95%) Git
3 14 (11.38%) Crashlytics
3 14 (11.38%) XCTest
4 11 (8.94%) GitLab
5 8 (6.50%) JIRA
6 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.07%) Storybook
8 2 (1.63%) MLflow
8 2 (1.63%) Postman
8 2 (1.63%) Selenium
9 1 (0.81%) Appium
9 1 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.81%) Gatling
9 1 (0.81%) git-flow
9 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 42 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.32%) Finance
4 8 (6.50%) Retail
5 6 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.44%) Military
6 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.63%) Billing
7 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Aviation
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Senior
2 27 (21.95%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (19.51%) Developer
4 18 (14.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 17 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) Lead
10 10 (8.13%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (7.32%) .NET Developer
12 8 (6.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.50%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.50%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.69%) Administrator
13 7 (5.69%) DevOps Administrator
13 7 (5.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) React
2 18 (14.63%) CSS
3 17 (13.82%) REST
4 14 (11.38%) .NET
4 14 (11.38%) SwiftUI
4 14 (11.38%) UIKit
5 11 (8.94%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (8.13%) Node.js
7 9 (7.32%) RESTful
8 8 (6.50%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (4.88%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.88%) Flutter
9 6 (4.88%) Jest
9 6 (4.88%) OAuth
9 6 (4.88%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.88%) Web Services
10 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.07%) HTML
10 5 (4.07%) JSON
10 5 (4.07%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.26%) Mobile App
3 18 (14.63%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (10.57%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.69%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.88%) CMDB
7 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.63%) NHS
9 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.58%) Linux
2 15 (12.20%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.50%) Windows
4 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (93.50%) CI/CD
2 70 (56.91%) DevOps
3 68 (55.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (30.08%) Containerisation
5 36 (29.27%) Test Automation
6 34 (27.64%) Observability
7 32 (26.02%) Mentoring
7 32 (26.02%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (22.76%) Agile
9 28 (22.76%) AI
10 26 (21.14%) Code Quality
11 25 (20.33%) Analytics
12 24 (19.51%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (17.07%) Cloud Security
15 20 (16.26%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (16.26%) Process Improvement
15 20 (16.26%) Software Engineering
16 18 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.72%) Python
2 25 (20.33%) Bash
3 23 (18.70%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 18 (14.63%) PowerShell
5 17 (13.82%) SQL
6 16 (13.01%) Kotlin
7 14 (11.38%) Swift
8 10 (8.13%) Go
9 8 (6.50%) C#
10 7 (5.69%) Bicep
11 6 (4.88%) Dart
11 6 (4.88%) Groovy
11 6 (4.88%) PHP
12 4 (3.25%) C++
12 4 (3.25%) Scala
13 3 (2.44%) C
13 3 (2.44%) Java
14 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (11.38%) Degree
2 11 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) AWS Certification
3 10 (8.13%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.88%) QA
3 5 (4.07%) GDPR
4 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.63%) IFRS
6 2 (1.63%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.63%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (30.89%) Docker
2 10 (8.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.44%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (52.85%) Terraform
2 47 (38.21%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.51%) Ansible
4 18 (14.63%) Grafana
5 14 (11.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.32%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.69%) Argo
7 7 (5.69%) Packer
7 7 (5.69%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.44%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) Consul
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) linkerd
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) Amplitude
2 14 (11.38%) Braze
2 14 (11.38%) VMware
3 6 (4.88%) Cisco
3 6 (4.88%) EMC
3 6 (4.88%) F5
3 6 (4.88%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.25%) Google
5 3 (2.44%) BT
5 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.44%) Mitel
5 3 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.63%) New Relic
6 2 (1.63%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.63%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor