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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 316 461
Rank change year-on-year +62 +145 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 157 90 115
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.65% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 1.50% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 109 73 96
10th Percentile £50,400 £52,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £86,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £98,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 6,898 6,003 13,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 43.17% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,674 4,633 11,960
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £35,639
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 5 May 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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 5 (3.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) nginx
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) WordPress
4 1 (0.64%) Drupal
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) GitHub
2 93 (59.24%) Azure
3 88 (56.05%) AWS
4 60 (38.22%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (26.75%) Serverless
6 27 (17.20%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (15.29%) Amazon S3
8 23 (14.65%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (12.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (11.46%) Entra ID
12 16 (10.19%) Datadog
12 16 (10.19%) GCP
13 15 (9.55%) PaaS
13 15 (9.55%) SaaS
14 14 (8.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (8.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (8.28%) Firebase
16 12 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.92%) Firewall
2 10 (6.37%) VPN
3 5 (3.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (1.91%) RTP
4 3 (1.91%) SSL
4 3 (1.91%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.91%) VoIP
4 3 (1.91%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.64%) Broadband
5 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.64%) LTE
5 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.92%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.10%) Flink
5 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.82%) MySQL
7 5 (3.18%) Metadata
7 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.27%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.27%) Redis
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.64%) Apache Arrow
11 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 30 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.92%) Git
3 19 (12.10%) GitLab
4 14 (8.92%) JIRA
5 12 (7.64%) Crashlytics
5 12 (7.64%) XCTest
6 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.46%) Subversion
7 5 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.18%) Storybook
7 5 (3.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.27%) git-flow
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) MLflow
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.64%) GDB
9 1 (0.64%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.64%) WinDbg
General
1 54 (34.39%) Social Skills
2 43 (27.39%) Finance
3 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.64%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.73%) Banking
5 9 (5.73%) Retail
6 8 (5.10%) Front Office
6 8 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Billing
9 3 (1.91%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.91%) Military
10 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Marketing
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 44 (28.03%) Senior
2 32 (20.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.47%) Developer
4 25 (15.92%) Lead
5 24 (15.29%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.19%) Senior DevOps
7 15 (9.55%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (8.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (8.28%) Mobile Engineer
10 11 (7.01%) Lead Developer
11 10 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.73%) Lead .NET Developer
13 8 (5.10%) Development Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Senior Development Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.83%) .NET
2 25 (15.92%) React
3 24 (15.29%) RESTful
4 15 (9.55%) Kafka
5 12 (7.64%) .NET Framework
5 12 (7.64%) OAuth
5 12 (7.64%) OAuth2
5 12 (7.64%) SwiftUI
5 12 (7.64%) UIKit
6 11 (7.01%) JSON
6 11 (7.01%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 10 (6.37%) CSS
7 10 (6.37%) Entity Framework
8 9 (5.73%) REST
9 8 (5.10%) ADO
10 7 (4.46%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.82%) Flutter
11 6 (3.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.10%) Mobile App
3 17 (10.83%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (7.64%) Private Cloud
5 11 (7.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.73%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.18%) CMDB
8 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.11%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.10%) Windows
4 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (96.82%) CI/CD
2 121 (77.07%) DevOps
3 78 (49.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (34.39%) Observability
5 50 (31.85%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (29.94%) Test Automation
7 45 (28.66%) Agile
8 44 (28.03%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (26.75%) Containerisation
9 42 (26.75%) Mentoring
10 36 (22.93%) Code Quality
11 32 (20.38%) Deployment Automation
12 31 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (19.11%) Analytics
14 28 (17.83%) AI
15 27 (17.20%) Cloud Security
16 26 (16.56%) Incident Response
17 25 (15.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure Automation
19 19 (12.10%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (49.04%) Python
2 32 (20.38%) Bash
3 29 (18.47%) SQL
4 24 (15.29%) TypeScript
5 22 (14.01%) PowerShell
6 21 (13.38%) Bicep
6 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.19%) Go
8 12 (7.64%) Kotlin
8 12 (7.64%) Swift
9 11 (7.01%) Java
10 7 (4.46%) C#
11 6 (3.82%) Dart
12 5 (3.18%) PHP
13 4 (2.55%) C++
14 3 (1.91%) C
14 3 (1.91%) Groovy
15 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.27%) Scala
15 2 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) AWS Certification
2 12 (7.64%) Azure Certification
3 11 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.73%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.46%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.10%) QA
2 13 (8.28%) GDPR
3 10 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.55%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.27%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (29.30%) Docker
2 20 (12.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.91%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (57.32%) Terraform
2 64 (40.76%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.20%) Grafana
4 26 (16.56%) Ansible
5 24 (15.29%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.55%) Argo
7 8 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.46%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.82%) Packer
9 6 (3.82%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.55%) logstash
11 3 (1.91%) Puppet
12 1 (0.64%) Cilium
12 1 (0.64%) Consul
12 1 (0.64%) Icinga
12 1 (0.64%) Kibana
12 1 (0.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.92%) VMware
3 12 (7.64%) Amplitude
3 12 (7.64%) Braze
4 8 (5.10%) Ab Initio
5 6 (3.82%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.18%) Cisco
6 5 (3.18%) EMC
6 5 (3.18%) F5
6 5 (3.18%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.55%) Databricks
7 4 (2.55%) Google
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) BT
8 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.91%) Mitel
9 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.27%) SAP
10 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace