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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 382 350
Rank change year-on-year +162 -32 +169
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 156 88 145
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 0.44% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 0.99% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 110
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.52% +0.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,438 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.37% +13.76%

All Cloud 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 5,552 8,864 10,111
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 44.58% 47.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,142 5,787 8,666
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.79%

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 25 November 2025.

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 (3.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.92%) IIS
3 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) GitHub
2 112 (71.79%) Azure
3 78 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (48.72%) AWS
5 29 (18.59%) GCP
5 29 (18.59%) Serverless
6 28 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (16.67%) SaaS
8 22 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (12.18%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (11.54%) Datadog
12 17 (10.90%) Entra ID
12 17 (10.90%) PaaS
13 15 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (8.97%) Azure AKS
14 14 (8.97%) Azure App Service
15 12 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (7.05%) Amazon S3
16 11 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.85%) Firewall
2 5 (3.21%) Network Security
3 4 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.56%) VPN
4 3 (1.92%) DNS
5 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.77%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.49%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.21%) Flink
7 5 (3.21%) Power BI
8 4 (2.56%) Looker
8 4 (2.56%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.56%) Tableau
9 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.92%) MySQL
9 3 (1.92%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.28%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.28%) Metadata
11 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.15%) Git
3 23 (14.74%) GitLab
4 11 (7.05%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.13%) JIRA
6 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.21%) Subversion
7 3 (1.92%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.92%) JMeter
7 3 (1.92%) JUnit
7 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.28%) git-flow
8 2 (1.28%) Postman
8 2 (1.28%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.28%) Selenium
9 1 (0.64%) Burp Suite
General
1 61 (39.10%) Social Skills
2 53 (33.97%) Finance
3 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.41%) Banking
6 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.77%) Retail
7 7 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.85%) Back Office
8 6 (3.85%) Marketing
8 6 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.21%) Front Office
10 4 (2.56%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.56%) Law
11 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.28%) Electronics
13 1 (0.64%) Automotive
13 1 (0.64%) Aviation
13 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (27.56%) Senior
2 34 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.74%) Lead
4 21 (13.46%) Developer
5 20 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (12.18%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (9.62%) .NET Developer
9 13 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Azure Developer
11 11 (7.05%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (7.05%) Lead .NET Developer
11 11 (7.05%) Lead Developer
12 10 (6.41%) SaaS Developer
12 10 (6.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (5.77%) Development Engineer
14 8 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (4.49%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.87%) .NET
1 31 (19.87%) RESTful
2 25 (16.03%) React
3 16 (10.26%) Node.js
4 14 (8.97%) .NET Framework
5 13 (8.33%) YAML
6 12 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 12 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 11 (7.05%) Entity Framework
7 11 (7.05%) JSON
7 11 (7.05%) Razor View Engine
8 10 (6.41%) Kafka
8 10 (6.41%) OAuth
8 10 (6.41%) OAuth2
9 9 (5.77%) ADO
10 7 (4.49%) AWS CDK
10 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (4.49%) REST
11 5 (3.21%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.21%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.90%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.21%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.56%) Blog
7 3 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) IoT
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.64%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.74%) Linux
2 17 (10.90%) Windows
3 5 (3.21%) Unix
4 3 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.28%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (94.23%) CI/CD
2 133 (85.26%) DevOps
3 82 (52.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 53 (33.97%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (30.13%) Agile
7 45 (28.85%) Observability
8 39 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 34 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (21.15%) Mentoring
11 32 (20.51%) Incident Response
12 30 (19.23%) Computer Science
13 28 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (16.67%) Cloud Security
14 26 (16.67%) RBAC
15 25 (16.03%) Microservices
15 25 (16.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (13.46%) Analytics
16 21 (13.46%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (46.79%) Python
2 38 (24.36%) Bash
2 38 (24.36%) Bicep
3 37 (23.72%) SQL
4 34 (21.79%) PowerShell
5 24 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
7 19 (12.18%) Java
8 12 (7.69%) C#
9 8 (5.13%) Go
10 4 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.92%) Ruby
12 2 (1.28%) C++
12 2 (1.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.64%) Dart
13 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.64%) Swift
13 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.23%) Degree
2 29 (18.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (12.82%) AWS Certification
3 20 (12.82%) Security Cleared
4 18 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.97%) Azure Certification
6 13 (8.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.28%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.64%) CCNA
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.31%) QA
2 17 (10.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.33%) GDPR
4 6 (3.85%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.56%) GRC
5 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.28%) ECSS
7 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (31.41%) Docker
2 17 (10.90%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (53.21%) Terraform
2 74 (47.44%) Kubernetes
3 34 (21.79%) Grafana
4 25 (16.03%) Prometheus
5 22 (14.10%) Ansible
6 9 (5.77%) Argo
7 6 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.56%) Cilium
9 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.64%) Icinga
10 1 (0.64%) logstash
10 1 (0.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.41%) Google
2 10 (6.41%) VMware
3 9 (5.77%) Ab Initio
4 6 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.21%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.21%) Splunk
6 4 (2.56%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.56%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.56%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.56%) Talend
6 4 (2.56%) Zoho
7 3 (1.92%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.28%) Databricks
8 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.28%) SAP
8 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle
9 1 (0.64%) Pega