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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 326 459
Rank change year-on-year +69 +133 0
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 141 91 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.62% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.57% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 97 77 95
10th Percentile £47,300 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +11.54% -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 7,174 5,780 14,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 39.57% 42.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,919 4,169 11,966
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 25 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 5 (3.55%) Apache
2 4 (2.84%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.42%) nginx
3 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) WordPress
4 1 (0.71%) Drupal
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) GitHub
2 85 (60.28%) AWS
3 78 (55.32%) Azure
4 48 (34.04%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (26.24%) Serverless
6 27 (19.15%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (16.31%) Amazon S3
8 21 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (11.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (9.22%) Datadog
12 13 (9.22%) Firebase
12 13 (9.22%) PaaS
12 13 (9.22%) Stripe
12 13 (9.22%) TestFlight
12 13 (9.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (7.80%) Entra ID
14 10 (7.09%) GCP
15 9 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) Firewall
2 10 (7.09%) VPN
3 4 (2.84%) DNS
3 4 (2.84%) HTTP
4 3 (2.13%) RTP
4 3 (2.13%) SSL
4 3 (2.13%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.13%) VoIP
4 3 (2.13%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.71%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.67%) MySQL
2 8 (5.67%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.55%) Flink
3 5 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.84%) Metadata
5 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.42%) Big Data
6 2 (1.42%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.42%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.42%) Power BI
6 2 (1.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (19.15%) Git
2 26 (18.44%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.22%) Crashlytics
3 13 (9.22%) XCTest
4 12 (8.51%) GitLab
5 9 (6.38%) JIRA
6 6 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.55%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.55%) Storybook
8 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.84%) Subversion
9 2 (1.42%) JMeter
9 2 (1.42%) MLflow
10 1 (0.71%) Appium
10 1 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.71%) Locust
10 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.71%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 46 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Finance
3 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.38%) Retail
5 6 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Banking
6 5 (3.55%) Front Office
7 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.13%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.13%) Military
8 3 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.42%) Billing
9 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Aviation
10 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) Senior
2 27 (19.15%) Developer
3 26 (18.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (13.48%) Lead
6 15 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) .NET Developer
8 13 (9.22%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Administrator
12 7 (4.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (4.96%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.96%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 7 (4.96%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.15%) React
2 22 (15.60%) .NET
3 18 (12.77%) CSS
3 18 (12.77%) REST
4 15 (10.64%) RESTful
5 13 (9.22%) SwiftUI
5 13 (9.22%) UIKit
6 11 (7.80%) Tailwind CSS
7 10 (7.09%) Node.js
7 10 (7.09%) OAuth
7 10 (7.09%) OAuth2
7 10 (7.09%) Razor View Engine
8 9 (6.38%) JSON
8 9 (6.38%) Kafka
9 8 (5.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.96%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.96%) Entity Framework
11 6 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 6 (4.26%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.48%) Mobile App
3 17 (12.06%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (9.22%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.26%) CMDB
7 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.42%) NHS
10 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.57%) Linux
2 14 (9.93%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.67%) Windows
4 7 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (94.33%) CI/CD
2 95 (67.38%) DevOps
3 73 (51.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (31.91%) Test Automation
5 44 (31.21%) Observability
6 41 (29.08%) Containerisation
7 38 (26.95%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (24.82%) Mentoring
10 34 (24.11%) Agile
11 31 (21.99%) Code Quality
12 29 (20.57%) AI
13 28 (19.86%) Analytics
14 27 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (19.15%) Deployment Automation
15 24 (17.02%) Cloud Security
16 23 (16.31%) Infrastructure Automation
17 21 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (14.18%) Software Engineering
19 19 (13.48%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) Python
2 28 (19.86%) Bash
3 25 (17.73%) TypeScript
4 23 (16.31%) SQL
5 22 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.89%) PowerShell
7 14 (9.93%) Bicep
7 14 (9.93%) Go
8 13 (9.22%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.22%) Swift
9 8 (5.67%) C#
10 7 (4.96%) Java
11 6 (4.26%) Dart
11 6 (4.26%) PHP
12 4 (2.84%) C++
12 4 (2.84%) Groovy
13 3 (2.13%) C
14 2 (1.42%) Rust
14 2 (1.42%) Scala
14 2 (1.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (10.64%) Degree
2 12 (8.51%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.09%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.96%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) QA
2 10 (7.09%) GDPR
3 9 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.13%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.42%) IFRS
6 2 (1.42%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.42%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (31.91%) Docker
2 15 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.13%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 79 (56.03%) Terraform
2 55 (39.01%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.02%) Ansible
4 22 (15.60%) Grafana
5 18 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.51%) Argo
7 7 (4.96%) Packer
7 7 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 7 (4.96%) Proxmox
8 4 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.13%) logstash
9 3 (2.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.71%) Consul
10 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.93%) VMware
3 13 (9.22%) Amplitude
3 13 (9.22%) Braze
4 6 (4.26%) Cisco
4 6 (4.26%) EMC
4 6 (4.26%) F5
4 6 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.55%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.84%) Google
6 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.13%) BT
7 3 (2.13%) Databricks
7 3 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.13%) Mitel
8 2 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.42%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software