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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 324 386
Rank change year-on-year +115 +62 +131
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 177 110 138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 0.68% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 1.45% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 130 81 108
10th Percentile £44,750 £47,500 £50,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +1.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £68,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.61% +6.18%

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 5,783 7,607 11,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.82% 46.68% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,026 4,825 10,360
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 January 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 (4.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.13%) Apache
3 2 (1.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) GitHub
2 133 (75.14%) Azure
3 87 (49.15%) Azure DevOps
4 85 (48.02%) AWS
5 35 (19.77%) Serverless
6 32 (18.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (18.08%) GCP
7 30 (16.95%) SaaS
8 29 (16.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (15.82%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (14.12%) Entra ID
11 24 (13.56%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (13.56%) Datadog
12 20 (11.30%) PaaS
13 18 (10.17%) Azure App Service
13 18 (10.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (9.60%) Azure AKS
15 15 (8.47%) Amazon S3
15 15 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) Firewall
2 6 (3.39%) VPN
3 4 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.26%) Network Security
4 3 (1.69%) DNS
5 2 (1.13%) HTTP
5 2 (1.13%) RTP
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.13%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.13%) VoIP
5 2 (1.13%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.69%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.65%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.65%) Flink
4 9 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.95%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.26%) Looker
7 4 (2.26%) MySQL
7 4 (2.26%) Power BI
7 4 (2.26%) Tableau
8 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.69%) Metadata
8 3 (1.69%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 43 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 38 (21.47%) Git
3 26 (14.69%) GitLab
4 11 (6.21%) JIRA
5 9 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.52%) Subversion
7 7 (3.95%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.26%) JMeter
9 3 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.69%) JUnit
10 2 (1.13%) git-flow
10 2 (1.13%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.13%) Selenium
10 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.56%) Locust
11 1 (0.56%) Postman
11 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (40.68%) Finance
2 65 (36.72%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.30%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.47%) Banking
5 12 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.21%) Retail
7 10 (5.65%) Front Office
7 10 (5.65%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.39%) Marketing
10 5 (2.82%) Back Office
11 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.69%) Billing
13 2 (1.13%) Aviation
13 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.13%) Electronics
13 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.13%) Law
14 1 (0.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 50 (28.25%) Senior
2 34 (19.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (15.82%) Developer
3 28 (15.82%) Lead
4 22 (12.43%) .NET Developer
5 19 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (10.73%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (9.60%) Azure Developer
8 14 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) Development Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) Lead .NET Developer
8 14 (7.91%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.34%) SaaS Developer
10 12 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.60%) .NET
1 40 (22.60%) RESTful
2 30 (16.95%) React
3 17 (9.60%) .NET Framework
3 17 (9.60%) OAuth
3 17 (9.60%) OAuth2
4 16 (9.04%) Kafka
4 16 (9.04%) Razor View Engine
5 15 (8.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 15 (8.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 15 (8.47%) JSON
6 14 (7.91%) ADO
6 14 (7.91%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.34%) YAML
8 12 (6.78%) Node.js
9 9 (5.08%) AWS CDK
10 8 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.52%) REST
11 7 (3.95%) ASP.NET
12 6 (3.39%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.21%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.73%) Onboarding
3 15 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.39%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.26%) Blog
6 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.13%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.56%) IoT
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.38%) Linux
2 16 (9.04%) Windows
3 5 (2.82%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (94.35%) CI/CD
2 154 (87.01%) DevOps
3 93 (52.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (36.16%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (31.64%) Containerisation
6 55 (31.07%) Observability
7 51 (28.81%) Agile
8 48 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (26.55%) Test Automation
10 43 (24.29%) Incident Response
10 43 (24.29%) Platform Engineering
11 35 (19.77%) Mentoring
12 34 (19.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (17.51%) Cloud Security
13 31 (17.51%) RBAC
14 30 (16.95%) Code Quality
14 30 (16.95%) Computer Science
15 29 (16.38%) Microservices
16 28 (15.82%) Coaching
16 28 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.28%) Python
2 46 (25.99%) Bicep
2 46 (25.99%) SQL
3 40 (22.60%) Bash
4 34 (19.21%) PowerShell
5 26 (14.69%) TypeScript
6 23 (12.99%) JavaScript
7 20 (11.30%) Java
8 14 (7.91%) Go
9 10 (5.65%) C#
10 4 (2.26%) C++
10 4 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.69%) Ruby
12 2 (1.13%) C
12 2 (1.13%) VB
13 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.56%) Dart
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
13 1 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (16.95%) Degree
2 28 (15.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.17%) Azure Certification
5 15 (8.47%) Master's Degree
5 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.91%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.13%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.56%) CCNA
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.64%) QA
2 18 (10.17%) GDPR
3 16 (9.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.39%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.26%) GRC
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.13%) ECSS
8 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 62 (35.03%) Docker
2 24 (13.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.69%) vSphere
5 2 (1.13%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 101 (57.06%) Terraform
2 88 (49.72%) Kubernetes
3 42 (23.73%) Grafana
4 33 (18.64%) Prometheus
5 22 (12.43%) Ansible
6 16 (9.04%) Argo
7 9 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.26%) Cilium
8 4 (2.26%) logstash
9 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.13%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.56%) Icinga
11 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.91%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.08%) Google
4 8 (4.52%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.52%) VMware
5 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.82%) Splunk
7 4 (2.26%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.26%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.26%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.26%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.26%) Talend
7 4 (2.26%) Zoho
8 3 (1.69%) Databricks
8 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.13%) BT
9 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.13%) Mitel
9 2 (1.13%) SAP