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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 347 447
Rank change year-on-year +32 +100 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 82 93
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.35% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 94 78 81
10th Percentile £43,425 £51,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -15.58%
75th Percentile £74,920 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £85,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -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 8,450 6,082 11,854
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.99% 36.89% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,038 4,483 9,649
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 23 July 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 5 (3.73%) Apache
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) nginx
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.49%) WordPress
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) Drupal
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) GitHub
2 90 (67.16%) AWS
3 62 (46.27%) Azure
4 34 (25.37%) Serverless
5 31 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (21.64%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.18%) GCP
8 18 (13.43%) Amazon S3
8 18 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (11.19%) Firebase
11 14 (10.45%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (10.45%) Stripe
11 14 (10.45%) TestFlight
12 13 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (8.21%) Datadog
14 11 (8.21%) PaaS
15 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (4.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) VPN
2 12 (8.96%) Firewall
3 6 (4.48%) DNS
4 4 (2.99%) SSH
5 3 (2.24%) HTTP
5 3 (2.24%) SSL
6 2 (1.49%) RTP
6 2 (1.49%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.49%) VoIP
6 2 (1.49%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) LTE
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.97%) MySQL
5 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.99%) Power BI
8 3 (2.24%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.24%) Metadata
9 2 (1.49%) Big Data
9 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.49%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.49%) Redis
9 2 (1.49%) Tableau
10 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (24.63%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.88%) Git
3 14 (10.45%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.45%) XCTest
4 11 (8.21%) GitLab
5 9 (6.72%) JIRA
6 7 (5.22%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.73%) Storybook
9 3 (2.24%) Postman
9 3 (2.24%) Selenium
10 2 (1.49%) Appium
10 2 (1.49%) MLflow
10 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.75%) Gatling
11 1 (0.75%) git-flow
11 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.97%) Finance
4 7 (5.22%) Retail
5 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.24%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Military
8 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.10%) Senior
2 26 (19.40%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (17.91%) Developer
4 21 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Lead
9 10 (7.46%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.46%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.48%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Administrator
13 6 (4.48%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 6 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.66%) React
2 20 (14.93%) REST
3 18 (13.43%) CSS
4 16 (11.94%) Node.js
5 14 (10.45%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.45%) UIKit
6 13 (9.70%) Tailwind CSS
7 11 (8.21%) .NET
8 10 (7.46%) RESTful
9 9 (6.72%) Jest
10 8 (5.97%) Web Services
11 7 (5.22%) YAML
12 6 (4.48%) Flutter
12 6 (4.48%) Kafka
12 6 (4.48%) Playwright
12 6 (4.48%) React Native
13 5 (3.73%) OAuth
13 5 (3.73%) OAuth2
13 5 (3.73%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (3.73%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.67%) Mobile App
3 20 (14.93%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (8.96%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.22%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.48%) CMDB
7 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.24%) PKI
10 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.49%) NHS
10 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.75%) Clustering
11 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.37%) Linux
2 16 (11.94%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.97%) Windows
4 7 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.99%) Unix
6 2 (1.49%) Android
6 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (91.04%) CI/CD
2 70 (52.24%) DevOps
3 67 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (30.60%) Containerisation
5 40 (29.85%) Test Automation
6 37 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (26.87%) AI
8 33 (24.63%) Mentoring
9 31 (23.13%) Agile
10 30 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (21.64%) Observability
12 28 (20.90%) Code Quality
13 27 (20.15%) Analytics
13 27 (20.15%) Software Engineering
14 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (14.93%) Clean Code
15 20 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (14.93%) Process Improvement
16 19 (14.18%) Cloud Security
16 19 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.78%) Python
2 31 (23.13%) TypeScript
3 28 (20.90%) Bash
4 26 (19.40%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.43%) Kotlin
5 18 (13.43%) SQL
6 16 (11.94%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.19%) Swift
8 11 (8.21%) Go
9 8 (5.97%) C#
9 8 (5.97%) PHP
10 7 (5.22%) Groovy
10 7 (5.22%) Java
11 6 (4.48%) Bicep
11 6 (4.48%) Dart
12 5 (3.73%) Scala
13 3 (2.24%) C++
14 2 (1.49%) C
14 2 (1.49%) Rust
14 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.70%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.48%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.99%) GDPR
4 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.49%) IFRS
5 2 (1.49%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.75%) NCSC
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.49%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (48.51%) Terraform
2 54 (40.30%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.91%) Ansible
4 21 (15.67%) Grafana
5 17 (12.69%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.21%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.22%) Packer
8 6 (4.48%) Argo
8 6 (4.48%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.24%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) Consul
10 1 (0.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.75%) Kibana
10 1 (0.75%) linkerd
10 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.45%) Braze
3 13 (9.70%) VMware
4 6 (4.48%) Cisco
4 6 (4.48%) EMC
4 6 (4.48%) F5
4 6 (4.48%) New Relic
4 6 (4.48%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.99%) Google
6 3 (2.24%) Databricks
6 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.24%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.24%) Splunk
7 2 (1.49%) BT
7 2 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.49%) Mitel
8 1 (0.75%) Foundry