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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 326 358
Rank change year-on-year +127 +32 +140
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 172 109 136
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 1.43% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 126 80 108
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.90% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £84,125 £98,250
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 5,602 7,627 10,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.53% 46.46% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,978 4,856 9,194
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
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 17 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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) GitHub
2 132 (76.74%) Azure
3 86 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (48.26%) AWS
5 34 (19.77%) Serverless
6 32 (18.60%) GCP
7 31 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (16.86%) SaaS
9 26 (15.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (13.95%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (13.95%) Entra ID
11 23 (13.37%) Datadog
12 18 (10.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (10.47%) PaaS
13 17 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (9.88%) Azure AKS
13 17 (9.88%) Azure App Service
14 15 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (8.14%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.07%) Firewall
2 5 (2.91%) Network Security
2 5 (2.91%) VPN
3 4 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.74%) DNS
5 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
6 1 (0.58%) HTTP
6 1 (0.58%) RTP
6 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.58%) VoIP
6 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.53%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.81%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.81%) Flink
4 8 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.07%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.33%) Looker
8 4 (2.33%) Power BI
8 4 (2.33%) Tableau
9 3 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.74%) Metadata
9 3 (1.74%) MySQL
9 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 42 (24.42%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.35%) Git
3 24 (13.95%) GitLab
4 10 (5.81%) JIRA
5 9 (5.23%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.65%) Subversion
7 7 (4.07%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.33%) JMeter
9 3 (1.74%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.74%) JUnit
9 3 (1.74%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.74%) Selenium
10 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.16%) git-flow
10 2 (1.16%) Postman
10 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.58%) Appium
11 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (40.70%) Finance
2 66 (38.37%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.72%) Banking
6 12 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.81%) Front Office
7 10 (5.81%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.81%) Retail
8 9 (5.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.49%) Marketing
10 5 (2.91%) Back Office
11 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.74%) Billing
13 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.16%) Electronics
13 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.16%) Law
14 1 (0.58%) Automotive
14 1 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 48 (27.91%) Senior
2 33 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (15.70%) Lead
4 26 (15.12%) Developer
5 21 (12.21%) .NET Developer
6 19 (11.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (9.30%) Azure Developer
8 16 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (8.14%) Development Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) Lead .NET Developer
10 13 (7.56%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.98%) SaaS Developer
12 11 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (5.81%) Integration Engineer
13 10 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.67%) .NET
1 39 (22.67%) RESTful
2 28 (16.28%) React
3 16 (9.30%) .NET Framework
3 16 (9.30%) Kafka
3 16 (9.30%) OAuth
3 16 (9.30%) OAuth2
4 15 (8.72%) JSON
4 15 (8.72%) Razor View Engine
5 14 (8.14%) ADO
5 14 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 14 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 13 (7.56%) Entity Framework
6 13 (7.56%) YAML
7 12 (6.98%) Node.js
8 9 (5.23%) AWS CDK
9 8 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (4.07%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.07%) REST
11 6 (3.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.05%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.14%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.33%) Blog
6 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.28%) Linux
2 16 (9.30%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (94.19%) CI/CD
2 151 (87.79%) DevOps
3 90 (52.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (36.05%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (31.98%) Containerisation
6 52 (30.23%) Agile
6 52 (30.23%) Observability
7 46 (26.74%) Test Automation
8 45 (26.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (25.00%) Incident Response
10 41 (23.84%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (19.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (19.19%) Mentoring
13 31 (18.02%) Cloud Security
13 31 (18.02%) RBAC
14 29 (16.86%) Code Quality
15 28 (16.28%) Coaching
15 28 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (16.28%) Microservices
15 28 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.00%) Python
2 46 (26.74%) Bicep
3 43 (25.00%) SQL
4 38 (22.09%) Bash
5 34 (19.77%) PowerShell
6 24 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 24 (13.95%) TypeScript
7 21 (12.21%) Java
8 13 (7.56%) Go
9 11 (6.40%) C#
10 4 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.74%) C++
11 3 (1.74%) Ruby
12 2 (1.16%) VB
13 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.58%) C
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.28%) Degree
2 27 (15.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (12.21%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.47%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.30%) Security Cleared
6 14 (8.14%) Master's Degree
6 14 (8.14%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.58%) CCNA
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.19%) QA
2 18 (10.47%) GDPR
3 15 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.49%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.91%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.33%) GRC
7 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.16%) ECSS
9 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (33.72%) Docker
2 23 (13.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.58%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 98 (56.98%) Terraform
2 84 (48.84%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.26%) Grafana
4 31 (18.02%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.21%) Ansible
6 16 (9.30%) Argo
7 9 (5.23%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.33%) Cilium
8 4 (2.33%) logstash
9 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Icinga
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
10 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 38 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.14%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.23%) Google
4 8 (4.65%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.07%) VMware
6 6 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.91%) Splunk
8 4 (2.33%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.33%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.33%) Talend
8 4 (2.33%) Zoho
9 3 (1.74%) Databricks
9 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.16%) SAP
10 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle
11 1 (0.58%) UiPath