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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 329 462
Rank change year-on-year +33 +133 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 124 94 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.62% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.61% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 84 79 96
10th Percentile £45,950 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -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 7,465 5,843 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.80% 38.34% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,193 4,244 12,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +2.29% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 13 June 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 (4.03%) Apache
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.61%) Confluence
2 2 (1.61%) nginx
2 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.61%) WordPress
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) GitHub
2 80 (64.52%) AWS
3 62 (50.00%) Azure
4 38 (30.65%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (28.23%) Serverless
6 28 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (16.94%) Amazon S3
8 17 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (12.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (11.29%) Firebase
11 14 (11.29%) Stripe
11 14 (11.29%) TestFlight
12 13 (10.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.87%) PaaS
14 10 (8.06%) GCP
15 8 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (6.45%) Datadog
16 7 (5.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) Firewall
2 11 (8.87%) VPN
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) HTTP
4 3 (2.42%) RTP
4 3 (2.42%) SSL
4 3 (2.42%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.42%) VoIP
4 3 (2.42%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.81%) BGP
5 1 (0.81%) LTE
5 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.26%) MySQL
5 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.42%) Metadata
9 3 (2.42%) Power BI
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.61%) Big Data
10 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.61%) Redis
11 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (21.77%) Git
1 27 (21.77%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.29%) Crashlytics
2 14 (11.29%) XCTest
3 11 (8.87%) GitLab
4 8 (6.45%) JIRA
5 6 (4.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (4.03%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.03%) Storybook
7 2 (1.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.81%) Appium
8 1 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) git-flow
8 1 (0.81%) Postman
8 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 42 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.26%) Finance
4 8 (6.45%) Retail
5 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.42%) Military
6 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.61%) Billing
7 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Aviation
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (25.81%) Senior
2 27 (21.77%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (20.16%) Developer
4 17 (13.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 17 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Mobile Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.87%) Lead
9 10 (8.06%) .NET Developer
9 10 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Administrator
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Python Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 7 (5.65%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) React
2 18 (14.52%) CSS
2 18 (14.52%) REST
3 15 (12.10%) .NET
4 14 (11.29%) SwiftUI
4 14 (11.29%) UIKit
5 11 (8.87%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (8.06%) Node.js
7 9 (7.26%) RESTful
8 8 (6.45%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.84%) Flutter
9 6 (4.84%) Jest
9 6 (4.84%) OAuth
9 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.03%) HTML
10 5 (4.03%) React Native
10 5 (4.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.13%) Mobile App
3 18 (14.52%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (10.48%) Private Cloud
5 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.84%) CMDB
7 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.61%) NHS
10 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.58%) Linux
2 15 (12.10%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.45%) Windows
4 7 (5.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (92.74%) CI/CD
2 73 (58.87%) DevOps
3 69 (55.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (29.84%) Containerisation
5 36 (29.03%) Test Automation
6 35 (28.23%) Observability
7 33 (26.61%) Mentoring
8 32 (25.81%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (22.58%) AI
11 27 (21.77%) Agile
12 26 (20.97%) Analytics
12 26 (20.97%) Code Quality
13 24 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
14 21 (16.94%) Cloud Security
14 21 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (16.94%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (16.13%) Process Improvement
15 20 (16.13%) Software Engineering
16 19 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.16%) Python
2 25 (20.16%) Bash
3 23 (18.55%) TypeScript
4 20 (16.13%) SQL
5 18 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.52%) PowerShell
6 15 (12.10%) Kotlin
7 14 (11.29%) Swift
8 10 (8.06%) Go
9 8 (6.45%) C#
10 7 (5.65%) Bicep
11 6 (4.84%) Dart
11 6 (4.84%) PHP
12 5 (4.03%) Groovy
13 4 (3.23%) C++
14 3 (2.42%) C
14 3 (2.42%) Scala
15 2 (1.61%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.61%) Java
15 2 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (11.29%) Degree
2 11 (8.87%) Azure Certification
3 10 (8.06%) AWS Certification
3 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.84%) QA
3 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.03%) GDPR
4 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.61%) IFRS
5 2 (1.61%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.61%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (30.65%) Docker
2 10 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.42%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (52.42%) Terraform
2 45 (36.29%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.35%) Ansible
4 18 (14.52%) Grafana
5 14 (11.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.45%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.65%) Argo
7 7 (5.65%) Packer
7 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) Consul
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) linkerd
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.29%) Amplitude
2 14 (11.29%) Braze
2 14 (11.29%) VMware
3 6 (4.84%) Cisco
3 6 (4.84%) EMC
3 6 (4.84%) F5
3 6 (4.84%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.23%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.42%) BT
5 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.42%) Mitel
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) New Relic
6 2 (1.61%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.81%) Splunk