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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 320 409
Rank change year-on-year -5 +89 -5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 138 99 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.61% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.71% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 99 91 71
10th Percentile £46,100 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,074 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +15.38% -16.13%

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 8,712 5,787 9,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.93% 35.74% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,380 4,194 6,997
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,325 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%

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 6 September 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 11 (7.97%) Apache
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) Confluence
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.45%) CMS
4 2 (1.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.72%) Drupal
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) GitHub
2 99 (71.74%) AWS
3 71 (51.45%) Azure
4 32 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (18.84%) Serverless
6 23 (16.67%) GCP
7 22 (15.94%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (12.32%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.14%) Datadog
11 11 (7.97%) Firebase
11 11 (7.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.25%) Stripe
12 10 (7.25%) TestFlight
13 9 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) VPN
2 7 (5.07%) DNS
3 5 (3.62%) Firewall
4 4 (2.90%) SSH
5 2 (1.45%) BGP
5 2 (1.45%) SSL
5 2 (1.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.72%) HTTP
6 1 (0.72%) LTE
6 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.77%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (7.25%) DynamoDB
5 9 (6.52%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.80%) MySQL
7 6 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.35%) Power BI
8 5 (3.62%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.62%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.90%) Tableau
10 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.17%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.45%) Metadata
11 2 (1.45%) Redis
11 2 (1.45%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 36 (26.09%) Git
2 31 (22.46%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.32%) GitLab
4 11 (7.97%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.25%) Crashlytics
5 10 (7.25%) JIRA
5 10 (7.25%) XCTest
6 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.62%) Poetry
7 5 (3.62%) Postman
7 5 (3.62%) Selenium
7 5 (3.62%) Storybook
8 4 (2.90%) Appium
8 4 (2.90%) NUnit
9 3 (2.17%) MLflow
10 2 (1.45%) JUnit
10 2 (1.45%) Snyk
10 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.72%) JMeter
11 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.87%) Finance
4 9 (6.52%) Manufacturing
4 9 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.17%) Local Government
6 3 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Games
7 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Law
7 2 (1.45%) Legal
7 2 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) Senior
2 24 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.49%) Developer
5 19 (13.77%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 16 (11.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (9.42%) Lead
9 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) Mobile Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (49.28%) Terraform
2 32 (23.19%) React
3 30 (21.74%) Node.js
4 20 (14.49%) CSS
5 18 (13.04%) REST
6 16 (11.59%) Tailwind CSS
7 14 (10.14%) Jest
7 14 (10.14%) RESTful
8 12 (8.70%) Kafka
9 11 (7.97%) .NET
10 10 (7.25%) SwiftUI
10 10 (7.25%) UIKit
11 9 (6.52%) PySpark
12 8 (5.80%) AngularJS
12 8 (5.80%) React Native
13 7 (5.07%) Spring
13 7 (5.07%) Spring Boot
13 7 (5.07%) Web Services
13 7 (5.07%) YAML
14 6 (4.35%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.77%) Mobile App
3 16 (11.59%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.52%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.07%) Blog
6 7 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (5.07%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.35%) CMDB
7 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Clustering
8 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.17%) NHS
8 3 (2.17%) Robotics
9 2 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.45%) PKI
10 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.19%) Linux
2 14 (10.14%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.80%) Windows
4 7 (5.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.90%) Android
5 4 (2.90%) Unix
6 3 (2.17%) Debian
6 3 (2.17%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.72%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (93.48%) CI/CD
2 70 (50.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (47.83%) DevOps
4 47 (34.06%) Software Engineering
5 46 (33.33%) AI
6 42 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 40 (28.99%) Analytics
8 38 (27.54%) Test Automation
9 35 (25.36%) Observability
10 32 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (21.74%) Agile
12 29 (21.01%) Mentoring
12 29 (21.01%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (18.12%) Code Quality
14 20 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (13.04%) Clean Code
16 18 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (13.04%) Machine Learning
17 17 (12.32%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.38%) Python
2 38 (27.54%) TypeScript
3 29 (21.01%) Bash
4 27 (19.57%) SQL
5 23 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 20 (14.49%) PowerShell
7 19 (13.77%) Kotlin
8 13 (9.42%) Java
8 13 (9.42%) Swift
9 10 (7.25%) Bicep
9 10 (7.25%) Go
10 8 (5.80%) C#
10 8 (5.80%) PHP
10 8 (5.80%) Scala
11 7 (5.07%) Groovy
12 5 (3.62%) Dart
13 3 (2.17%) Rust
14 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.72%) C++
15 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.59%) Degree
3 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.45%) OCP
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 4 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.45%) IFRS
5 2 (1.45%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.45%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) SLA
5 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.45%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (47.83%) Docker
2 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.77%) Grafana
3 15 (10.87%) Ansible
4 12 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 12 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.80%) Packer
6 3 (2.17%) Argo
7 2 (1.45%) Puppet
7 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.72%) Cilium
8 1 (0.72%) Consul
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) linkerd
8 1 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) Amplitude
2 10 (7.25%) Braze
3 8 (5.80%) Databricks
4 7 (5.07%) VMware
5 6 (4.35%) Cisco
5 6 (4.35%) EMC
5 6 (4.35%) F5
5 6 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.62%) Google
6 5 (3.62%) New Relic
6 5 (3.62%) Splunk
7 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.17%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.17%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.72%) TOWER Software