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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 322 408
Rank change year-on-year -14 +86 -28
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 108 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.65% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.87% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 100 93 72
10th Percentile £46,175 £50,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,371 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.93% +11.54% -18.37%

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 8,741 5,778 9,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.26% 34.82% 41.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,408 4,126 6,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 27 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 10 (7.63%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 94 (71.76%) AWS
3 70 (53.44%) Azure
4 28 (21.37%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.85%) GCP
6 22 (16.79%) Serverless
7 17 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (12.21%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.45%) Datadog
10 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (8.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (6.11%) Azure AKS
14 8 (6.11%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (6.11%) SaaS
15 7 (5.34%) Firebase
15 7 (5.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) VPN
2 6 (4.58%) DNS
3 5 (3.82%) Firewall
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 2 (1.53%) BGP
5 2 (1.53%) SSL
5 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) HTTP
6 1 (0.76%) Internet
6 1 (0.76%) Network Security
6 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.03%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.16%) DynamoDB
4 11 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.87%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.34%) MySQL
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.58%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.58%) Power BI
8 5 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.05%) Redis
9 4 (3.05%) Tableau
10 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.53%) Metadata
11 2 (1.53%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 34 (25.95%) Git
2 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
3 21 (16.03%) GitLab
4 7 (5.34%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.34%) JIRA
5 6 (4.58%) Postman
6 5 (3.82%) Crashlytics
6 5 (3.82%) Poetry
6 5 (3.82%) Selenium
6 5 (3.82%) XCTest
7 4 (3.05%) Appium
7 4 (3.05%) NUnit
8 3 (2.29%) MLflow
9 2 (1.53%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.53%) JUnit
9 2 (1.53%) Snyk
9 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.76%) JMeter
10 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.98%) Finance
3 13 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.05%) Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Local Government
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Games
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Law
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (38.93%) Senior
2 20 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
3 19 (14.50%) Developer
4 17 (12.98%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Lead
6 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Architect
10 6 (4.58%) Mobile Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.38%) Terraform
2 30 (22.90%) Node.js
3 28 (21.37%) React
4 20 (15.27%) REST
5 16 (12.21%) RESTful
6 15 (11.45%) CSS
7 12 (9.16%) Kafka
8 11 (8.40%) Tailwind CSS
9 10 (7.63%) .NET
9 10 (7.63%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.87%) Jest
10 9 (6.87%) PySpark
11 8 (6.11%) GraphQL
11 8 (6.11%) Spring
11 8 (6.11%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.34%) Web Services
12 7 (5.34%) YAML
13 6 (4.58%) Playwright
14 5 (3.82%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.82%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.40%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.87%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.34%) Blog
5 7 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.05%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Clustering
8 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.29%) NHS
8 3 (2.29%) Robotics
9 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.53%) CMDB
9 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) PKI
9 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.85%) Linux
2 9 (6.87%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.82%) Unix
4 4 (3.05%) Android
5 3 (2.29%) Debian
5 3 (2.29%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.53%) Windows
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.76%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (93.13%) CI/CD
2 73 (55.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (48.09%) DevOps
4 50 (38.17%) AI
5 49 (37.40%) Software Engineering
6 48 (36.64%) Containerisation
7 37 (28.24%) Observability
8 35 (26.72%) Analytics
8 35 (26.72%) Test Automation
9 32 (24.43%) Agile
10 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (17.56%) Mentoring
12 22 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (15.27%) Machine Learning
14 19 (14.50%) Code Quality
15 18 (13.74%) Cloud Security
16 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (12.98%) SDLC
17 16 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
18 15 (11.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.62%) Python
2 34 (25.95%) TypeScript
3 32 (24.43%) SQL
4 30 (22.90%) Bash
5 24 (18.32%) JavaScript
6 16 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.45%) Kotlin
8 14 (10.69%) Java
9 12 (9.16%) Go
10 11 (8.40%) Bicep
11 10 (7.63%) C#
12 8 (6.11%) Scala
12 8 (6.11%) Swift
13 6 (4.58%) Groovy
13 6 (4.58%) PHP
14 3 (2.29%) Rust
15 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.76%) Ruby
16 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) Degree
4 8 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) OCP
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.63%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (55.73%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 47 (35.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.79%) Grafana
3 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.63%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.11%) Ansible
6 4 (3.05%) Argo
7 3 (2.29%) Packer
8 2 (1.53%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.76%) Cilium
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) linkerd
9 1 (0.76%) logstash
9 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Databricks
3 5 (3.82%) Amplitude
3 5 (3.82%) Braze
3 5 (3.82%) Google
3 5 (3.82%) New Relic
3 5 (3.82%) Splunk
4 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.05%) VMware
5 3 (2.29%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.53%) Cisco
6 2 (1.53%) EMC
6 2 (1.53%) F5
6 2 (1.53%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Foundry
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAI