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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 340 407
Rank change year-on-year +12 +67 +16
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 128 90 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.51% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 87 84 73
10th Percentile £46,700 £50,575 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,250 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.86% +13.46% -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 8,638 5,955 10,188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.03% 35.86% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,255 4,370 7,956
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,125 £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 £81,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 14 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 6 (4.69%) Apache
2 5 (3.91%) Confluence
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.56%) nginx
4 2 (1.56%) WordPress
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) Drupal
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) GitHub
2 90 (70.31%) AWS
3 66 (51.56%) Azure
4 31 (24.22%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (21.88%) Serverless
6 22 (17.19%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (17.19%) GCP
7 18 (14.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (10.94%) Firebase
9 13 (10.16%) Amazon S3
9 13 (10.16%) Datadog
9 13 (10.16%) Stripe
9 13 (10.16%) TestFlight
10 10 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (6.25%) PaaS
13 7 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (5.47%) Power Platform
14 5 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) VPN
2 7 (5.47%) Firewall
3 5 (3.91%) DNS
4 4 (3.13%) SSH
5 3 (2.34%) SSL
6 2 (1.56%) BGP
6 2 (1.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.78%) HTTP
7 1 (0.78%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.28%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.69%) MySQL
6 6 (4.69%) Power BI
7 5 (3.91%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.13%) Tableau
9 3 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.34%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.56%) Big Data
10 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.56%) Metadata
10 2 (1.56%) Redis
10 2 (1.56%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 34 (26.56%) Git
2 31 (24.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.16%) Crashlytics
3 13 (10.16%) XCTest
4 12 (9.38%) GitLab
5 11 (8.59%) Cypress.io
6 10 (7.81%) JIRA
7 6 (4.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.91%) Postman
8 5 (3.91%) Selenium
8 5 (3.91%) Storybook
9 4 (3.13%) Appium
9 4 (3.13%) NUnit
10 3 (2.34%) MLflow
11 2 (1.56%) JUnit
11 2 (1.56%) Snyk
11 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.78%) WinDbg
General
1 44 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.16%) Finance
4 8 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.13%) Retail
7 3 (2.34%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Law
8 2 (1.56%) Legal
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
8 2 (1.56%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (32.03%) Senior
2 24 (18.75%) Developer
3 23 (17.97%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.28%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.94%) Mobile Engineer
8 13 (10.16%) Software Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Lead
10 9 (7.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (7.03%) Senior Developer
10 9 (7.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Architect
12 6 (4.69%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (3.91%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.91%) Data Architect
13 5 (3.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.22%) React
2 23 (17.97%) Node.js
3 19 (14.84%) CSS
3 19 (14.84%) REST
4 15 (11.72%) Tailwind CSS
5 13 (10.16%) .NET
5 13 (10.16%) Jest
5 13 (10.16%) RESTful
5 13 (10.16%) SwiftUI
5 13 (10.16%) UIKit
6 8 (6.25%) Kafka
6 8 (6.25%) React Native
7 7 (5.47%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.47%) Web Services
7 7 (5.47%) YAML
8 6 (4.69%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.69%) GraphQL
8 6 (4.69%) JSON
9 5 (3.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.19%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.84%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.03%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (7.03%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (7.03%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.25%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.69%) CMDB
6 6 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.91%) Blog
8 4 (3.13%) NHS
9 3 (2.34%) Clustering
9 3 (2.34%) PKI
10 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.88%) Linux
2 17 (13.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.25%) Windows
4 7 (5.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.13%) Android
5 4 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (92.19%) CI/CD
2 65 (50.78%) DevOps
3 60 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (30.47%) Test Automation
5 36 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 35 (27.34%) AI
7 33 (25.78%) Software Engineering
8 32 (25.00%) Analytics
9 31 (24.22%) Agile
10 30 (23.44%) Mentoring
11 28 (21.88%) Code Quality
11 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (21.09%) Observability
13 26 (20.31%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (14.84%) Clean Code
16 19 (14.84%) Process Improvement
17 18 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.63%) Python
2 36 (28.13%) TypeScript
3 25 (19.53%) JavaScript
4 22 (17.19%) Bash
4 22 (17.19%) SQL
5 21 (16.41%) Kotlin
6 16 (12.50%) Swift
7 15 (11.72%) PowerShell
8 11 (8.59%) Java
9 9 (7.03%) C#
9 9 (7.03%) Go
9 9 (7.03%) PHP
10 7 (5.47%) Groovy
10 7 (5.47%) Scala
11 6 (4.69%) Bicep
12 5 (3.91%) Dart
13 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.78%) C++
13 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 12 (9.38%) Degree
2 12 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.56%) OCP
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) QA
2 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) GDPR
3 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.56%) IFRS
4 2 (1.56%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.56%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (39.84%) Docker
2 7 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (42.97%) Terraform
2 44 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.06%) Grafana
4 16 (12.50%) Ansible
5 13 (10.16%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.38%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.25%) Packer
8 3 (2.34%) Argo
8 3 (2.34%) Puppet
9 2 (1.56%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.78%) Cilium
10 1 (0.78%) Consul
10 1 (0.78%) Istio
10 1 (0.78%) Kibana
10 1 (0.78%) linkerd
10 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.16%) Amplitude
2 13 (10.16%) Braze
3 8 (6.25%) Databricks
3 8 (6.25%) VMware
4 6 (4.69%) Cisco
4 6 (4.69%) EMC
4 6 (4.69%) F5
4 6 (4.69%) New Relic
4 6 (4.69%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.91%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.34%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.34%) Splunk
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) Apple
8 1 (0.78%) Foundry
8 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software