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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 327 389
Rank change year-on-year +109 +62 +114
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 179 108 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 0.69% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 1.48% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 128 81 114
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,508 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -0.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £109,125 £87,500 £103,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.62% -12.26% +0.65%

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 6,170 7,298 12,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.70% 46.84% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,721 11,090
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,219
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 February 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 8 (4.47%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) GitHub
2 127 (70.95%) Azure
3 88 (49.16%) AWS
4 82 (45.81%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (20.11%) Serverless
6 31 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (16.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (16.20%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (15.64%) GCP
9 25 (13.97%) SaaS
10 24 (13.41%) Datadog
10 24 (13.41%) Entra ID
11 22 (12.29%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (11.17%) PaaS
13 19 (10.61%) Amazon S3
13 19 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (9.50%) Azure App Service
16 16 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (8.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 7 (3.91%) VPN
3 4 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.68%) RTP
4 3 (1.68%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.68%) VoIP
4 3 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.29%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.59%) Flink
3 10 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.35%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) MySQL
6 4 (2.23%) Metadata
7 3 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 41 (22.91%) Jenkins
2 32 (17.88%) Git
3 26 (14.53%) GitLab
4 11 (6.15%) JIRA
5 9 (5.03%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.03%) Subversion
6 7 (3.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.68%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 2 (1.12%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.12%) git-flow
8 2 (1.12%) JUnit
8 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) XCTest
9 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.56%) Deequ
9 1 (0.56%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.56%) Selenium
9 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (36.31%) Finance
2 60 (33.52%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.17%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.38%) Banking
6 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.59%) Front Office
7 10 (5.59%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.59%) Retail
8 9 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.79%) Back Office
10 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.68%) Billing
11 3 (1.68%) Military
12 2 (1.12%) Aviation
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Electronics
12 2 (1.12%) Law
12 2 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (26.82%) Senior
2 34 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (15.64%) Lead
4 27 (15.08%) Developer
5 22 (12.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (11.73%) .NET Developer
7 18 (10.06%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.38%) Azure Developer
9 13 (7.26%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.26%) Development Engineer
9 13 (7.26%) Lead .NET Developer
9 13 (7.26%) Lead Developer
10 12 (6.70%) SaaS Developer
11 11 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.23%) .NET
1 38 (21.23%) RESTful
2 27 (15.08%) React
3 18 (10.06%) OAuth
3 18 (10.06%) OAuth2
4 16 (8.94%) .NET Framework
4 16 (8.94%) JSON
4 16 (8.94%) Kafka
5 15 (8.38%) Razor View Engine
6 14 (7.82%) ASP.NET Web API
6 14 (7.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 13 (7.26%) ADO
7 13 (7.26%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.26%) Node.js
8 12 (6.70%) YAML
9 9 (5.03%) REST
10 7 (3.91%) ASP.NET
10 7 (3.91%) CSS
10 7 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (3.91%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.50%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.35%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.79%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) Blog
7 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) IoT
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.32%) Linux
2 13 (7.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.79%) Unix
4 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (96.09%) CI/CD
2 153 (85.47%) DevOps
3 96 (53.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (35.20%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (32.96%) Observability
6 58 (32.40%) Containerisation
7 52 (29.05%) Agile
8 50 (27.93%) Test Automation
9 45 (25.14%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (23.46%) Incident Response
12 34 (18.99%) Mentoring
13 33 (18.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (17.88%) Cloud Security
15 30 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 29 (16.20%) AI
16 29 (16.20%) Code Quality
16 29 (16.20%) RBAC
17 28 (15.64%) Computer Science
17 28 (15.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.60%) Python
2 42 (23.46%) Bicep
3 41 (22.91%) SQL
4 40 (22.35%) Bash
5 31 (17.32%) PowerShell
6 26 (14.53%) JavaScript
7 25 (13.97%) TypeScript
8 18 (10.06%) Go
8 18 (10.06%) Java
9 9 (5.03%) C#
10 5 (2.79%) C++
11 3 (1.68%) C
11 3 (1.68%) Ruby
12 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (1.12%) Swift
12 2 (1.12%) VB
13 1 (0.56%) Dart
Qualifications
1 28 (15.64%) Degree
2 25 (13.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (12.29%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.38%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.82%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
6 13 (7.26%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) CCNA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.20%) QA
2 19 (10.61%) GDPR
3 18 (10.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.91%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.91%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.23%) GRC
6 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.12%) ECSS
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (35.20%) Docker
2 22 (12.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.68%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 103 (57.54%) Terraform
2 89 (49.72%) Kubernetes
3 42 (23.46%) Grafana
4 34 (18.99%) Prometheus
5 27 (15.08%) Ansible
6 17 (9.50%) Argo
7 9 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.79%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.23%) Cilium
9 4 (2.23%) logstash
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.56%) Icinga
11 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.82%) Ab Initio
3 12 (6.70%) VMware
4 8 (4.47%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.79%) Google
5 5 (2.79%) Splunk
6 4 (2.23%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.68%) BT
7 3 (1.68%) Databricks
7 3 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.68%) Mitel
7 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.68%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.12%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.12%) SAP
9 1 (0.56%) Foundry
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow