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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 346 427
Rank change year-on-year +16 +81 -4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 92 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.56% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.55% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 92 86 73
10th Percentile £46,325 £50,625 £42,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £60,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,313 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -13.33%

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 8,648 5,948 10,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.92% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 4,361 7,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £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 £81,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 20 August 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 7 (5.30%) Apache
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) CMS
4 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 92 (69.70%) AWS
3 68 (51.52%) Azure
4 31 (23.48%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (21.21%) Serverless
6 23 (17.42%) GCP
7 21 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (14.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.61%) Datadog
10 13 (9.85%) Amazon S3
10 13 (9.85%) Firebase
11 12 (9.09%) Stripe
11 12 (9.09%) TestFlight
12 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (6.82%) PaaS
14 8 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
16 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) VPN
2 7 (5.30%) DNS
2 7 (5.30%) Firewall
3 4 (3.03%) SSH
4 3 (2.27%) SSL
5 2 (1.52%) BGP
5 2 (1.52%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) HTTP
6 1 (0.76%) LTE
6 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.39%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.58%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.06%) MySQL
5 7 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.30%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.55%) Power BI
7 5 (3.79%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.03%) Tableau
9 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.27%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.52%) Big Data
10 2 (1.52%) Metadata
10 2 (1.52%) Redis
10 2 (1.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (26.52%) Git
2 32 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.09%) Crashlytics
3 12 (9.09%) GitLab
3 12 (9.09%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 10 (7.58%) JIRA
6 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.79%) Postman
7 5 (3.79%) Selenium
7 5 (3.79%) Storybook
8 4 (3.03%) Appium
8 4 (3.03%) NUnit
9 3 (2.27%) MLflow
10 2 (1.52%) JUnit
10 2 (1.52%) Snyk
10 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.76%) JMeter
11 1 (0.76%) Maven
11 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.61%) Finance
4 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Local Government
8 2 (1.52%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Legal
8 2 (1.52%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (31.82%) Senior
2 23 (17.42%) Developer
2 23 (17.42%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (12.88%) Software Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Lead
8 9 (6.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (44.70%) Terraform
2 32 (24.24%) React
3 27 (20.45%) Node.js
4 20 (15.15%) CSS
5 19 (14.39%) REST
6 16 (12.12%) Tailwind CSS
7 14 (10.61%) Jest
7 14 (10.61%) RESTful
8 12 (9.09%) .NET
8 12 (9.09%) SwiftUI
8 12 (9.09%) UIKit
9 10 (7.58%) Kafka
10 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
10 8 (6.06%) React Native
11 7 (5.30%) Spring
11 7 (5.30%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.30%) Web Services
11 7 (5.30%) YAML
12 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.91%) Mobile App
3 18 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.58%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.82%) Public Cloud
6 8 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (6.06%) Private Cloud
7 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.55%) Blog
8 6 (4.55%) CMDB
9 4 (3.03%) NHS
10 3 (2.27%) Clustering
11 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.48%) Linux
2 16 (12.12%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Android
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) Debian
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.76%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (93.18%) CI/CD
2 66 (50.00%) DevOps
3 64 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (30.30%) Software Engineering
5 39 (29.55%) AI
5 39 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 38 (28.79%) Containerisation
7 34 (25.76%) Analytics
8 32 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (23.48%) Agile
10 28 (21.21%) Mentoring
10 28 (21.21%) Observability
11 27 (20.45%) Code Quality
11 27 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (14.39%) Clean Code
13 19 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (13.64%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.67%) Python
2 39 (29.55%) TypeScript
3 24 (18.18%) Bash
3 24 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 24 (18.18%) SQL
4 21 (15.91%) Kotlin
5 17 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.36%) Swift
7 13 (9.85%) Java
8 10 (7.58%) Go
9 8 (6.06%) C#
9 8 (6.06%) PHP
10 7 (5.30%) Bicep
10 7 (5.30%) Groovy
10 7 (5.30%) Scala
11 5 (3.79%) Dart
12 2 (1.52%) Rust
12 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) Degree
3 13 (9.85%) Azure Certification
3 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.52%) OCP
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) SLA
4 2 (1.52%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (43.18%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 46 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.39%) Grafana
3 16 (12.12%) Ansible
4 13 (9.85%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.06%) Packer
7 3 (2.27%) Argo
7 3 (2.27%) Puppet
8 2 (1.52%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.76%) Cilium
9 1 (0.76%) Consul
9 1 (0.76%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) linkerd
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.09%) Amplitude
2 12 (9.09%) Braze
3 8 (6.06%) Databricks
3 8 (6.06%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Cisco
4 6 (4.55%) EMC
4 6 (4.55%) F5
4 6 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.79%) Google
5 5 (3.79%) New Relic
6 4 (3.03%) Splunk
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software