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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 313 445
Rank change year-on-year +78 +132 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 168 91 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.68% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.52% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 119 74 96
10th Percentile £50,400 £52,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 6,790 5,991 13,959
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 44.82% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,571 4,695 11,995
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,890 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 22 April 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 9 (5.36%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) nginx
3 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) WordPress
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) GitHub
2 104 (61.90%) Azure
3 94 (55.95%) AWS
4 65 (38.69%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (25.60%) Serverless
6 25 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (14.88%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 21 (12.50%) GCP
10 19 (11.31%) Datadog
10 19 (11.31%) SaaS
11 17 (10.12%) PaaS
12 14 (8.33%) Azure App Service
12 14 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.93%) Firewall
2 10 (5.95%) VPN
3 5 (2.98%) DNS
4 3 (1.79%) HTTP
4 3 (1.79%) RTP
4 3 (1.79%) SSL
4 3 (1.79%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.79%) VoIP
4 3 (1.79%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.19%) Network Security
6 1 (0.60%) Broadband
6 1 (0.60%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.90%) NoSQL
1 20 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.95%) Flink
4 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.57%) MySQL
6 5 (2.98%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.98%) Metadata
6 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.19%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.19%) Redis
8 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.60%) Big Data
9 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (17.26%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.67%) Git
3 24 (14.29%) GitLab
4 16 (9.52%) JIRA
5 11 (6.55%) Crashlytics
5 11 (6.55%) XCTest
6 9 (5.36%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.36%) Subversion
7 5 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.98%) Storybook
8 4 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.19%) git-flow
10 2 (1.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.60%) Gatling
11 1 (0.60%) Locust
11 1 (0.60%) MLflow
11 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.36%) Finance
3 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.12%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.14%) Banking
7 10 (5.95%) Front Office
7 10 (5.95%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.95%) Retail
8 8 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Back Office
10 3 (1.79%) Billing
10 3 (1.79%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.79%) Military
11 2 (1.19%) Aviation
11 2 (1.19%) Electronics
11 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (26.19%) Senior
2 35 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (18.45%) Developer
4 29 (17.26%) Lead
5 24 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.71%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.55%) Mobile Engineer
12 10 (5.95%) Lead .NET Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.36%) Azure Developer
13 9 (5.36%) Development Engineer
13 9 (5.36%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.45%) .NET
2 27 (16.07%) React
2 27 (16.07%) RESTful
3 17 (10.12%) Kafka
4 13 (7.74%) .NET Framework
4 13 (7.74%) OAuth
4 13 (7.74%) OAuth2
5 12 (7.14%) JSON
5 12 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
6 11 (6.55%) ASP.NET Web API
6 11 (6.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 11 (6.55%) Entity Framework
6 11 (6.55%) SwiftUI
6 11 (6.55%) UIKit
7 10 (5.95%) CSS
8 9 (5.36%) ADO
8 9 (5.36%) REST
9 8 (4.76%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.12%) Mobile App
3 16 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.55%) Private Cloud
6 10 (5.95%) Product Ownership
7 9 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.57%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.38%) CMDB
10 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.19%) Blog
12 2 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (1.19%) NHS
13 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.26%) Linux
2 11 (6.55%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.36%) Windows
4 5 (2.98%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (97.62%) CI/CD
2 134 (79.76%) DevOps
3 83 (49.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (32.74%) Observability
4 55 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (30.36%) Agile
6 49 (29.17%) Containerisation
7 47 (27.98%) Platform Engineering
7 47 (27.98%) Test Automation
8 42 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 37 (22.02%) Code Quality
10 34 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
12 30 (17.86%) AI
13 29 (17.26%) Analytics
13 29 (17.26%) Incident Response
13 29 (17.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (16.07%) Cloud Security
15 22 (13.10%) Front End Development
16 21 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 82 (48.81%) Python
2 36 (21.43%) Bash
2 36 (21.43%) SQL
3 24 (14.29%) Bicep
3 24 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 24 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 21 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.12%) Go
6 15 (8.93%) Java
7 11 (6.55%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.55%) Swift
8 7 (4.17%) C#
9 6 (3.57%) C++
9 6 (3.57%) Dart
10 5 (2.98%) PHP
11 3 (1.79%) C
12 2 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.19%) Rust
12 2 (1.19%) Scala
12 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 16 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.55%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.95%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.98%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 13 (7.74%) GDPR
3 11 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.98%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.98%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.19%) ECSS
6 2 (1.19%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) IFRS
7 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.60%) NCSC
7 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (31.55%) Docker
2 22 (13.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.79%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (54.17%) Terraform
2 71 (42.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (17.86%) Grafana
4 27 (16.07%) Ansible
4 27 (16.07%) Prometheus
5 17 (10.12%) Argo
6 10 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 5 (2.98%) Packer
9 4 (2.38%) logstash
9 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.79%) Puppet
11 2 (1.19%) Cilium
12 1 (0.60%) Consul
12 1 (0.60%) Icinga
12 1 (0.60%) Kibana
12 1 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.74%) VMware
3 11 (6.55%) Amplitude
3 11 (6.55%) Braze
4 9 (5.36%) Ab Initio
5 8 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.38%) Cisco
6 4 (2.38%) Databricks
6 4 (2.38%) EMC
6 4 (2.38%) F5
6 4 (2.38%) Google
6 4 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.79%) BT
7 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.79%) Mitel
7 3 (1.79%) Splunk
8 2 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.19%) SAP