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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 308 458
Rank change year-on-year +69 +150 +15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 157 91 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.68% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 1.55% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 110 74 95
10th Percentile £50,825 £52,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,508 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £86,000 £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 6,825 5,874 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 43.63% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 4,628 12,024
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,631
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 30 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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 5 (3.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) nginx
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) WordPress
4 1 (0.64%) Drupal
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (60.51%) Azure
3 86 (54.78%) AWS
4 60 (38.22%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (26.75%) Serverless
6 25 (15.92%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (15.29%) Amazon S3
8 23 (14.65%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (12.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (11.46%) Entra ID
12 17 (10.83%) Datadog
12 17 (10.83%) GCP
13 15 (9.55%) PaaS
13 15 (9.55%) SaaS
14 14 (8.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (8.28%) Azure App Service
15 13 (8.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (8.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.92%) Firewall
2 10 (6.37%) VPN
3 5 (3.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (1.91%) RTP
4 3 (1.91%) SSL
4 3 (1.91%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.91%) VoIP
4 3 (1.91%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.64%) Broadband
5 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.64%) LTE
5 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.83%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.92%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.10%) Flink
5 7 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.82%) Metadata
6 6 (3.82%) MySQL
7 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.27%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.27%) Redis
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.64%) Apache Arrow
11 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (18.47%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.92%) Git
3 20 (12.74%) GitLab
4 14 (8.92%) JIRA
5 12 (7.64%) Crashlytics
5 12 (7.64%) XCTest
6 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.46%) Subversion
7 5 (3.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.18%) Storybook
7 5 (3.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.27%) git-flow
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) MLflow
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.64%) GDB
9 1 (0.64%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.64%) WinDbg
General
1 55 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 43 (27.39%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.73%) Banking
6 9 (5.73%) Retail
7 8 (5.10%) Front Office
7 8 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Billing
10 3 (1.91%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.91%) Military
11 2 (1.27%) Back Office
11 2 (1.27%) Electronics
11 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 43 (27.39%) Senior
2 32 (20.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.47%) Developer
4 26 (16.56%) Lead
5 23 (14.65%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) .NET Developer
6 16 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (8.28%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (8.28%) Mobile Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Lead Developer
9 10 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Lead .NET Developer
11 8 (5.10%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Development Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.83%) .NET
2 25 (15.92%) React
3 24 (15.29%) RESTful
4 15 (9.55%) Kafka
5 12 (7.64%) .NET Framework
5 12 (7.64%) OAuth
5 12 (7.64%) OAuth2
5 12 (7.64%) SwiftUI
5 12 (7.64%) UIKit
6 11 (7.01%) JSON
6 11 (7.01%) Razor View Engine
7 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 10 (6.37%) CSS
7 10 (6.37%) Entity Framework
8 9 (5.73%) REST
9 8 (5.10%) ADO
10 7 (4.46%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.82%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.10%) Mobile App
3 17 (10.83%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (7.64%) Private Cloud
5 11 (7.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.73%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.18%) CMDB
8 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.47%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.73%) Windows
4 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.27%) Unix
7 1 (0.64%) Android
7 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (97.45%) CI/CD
2 123 (78.34%) DevOps
3 77 (49.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (34.39%) Observability
5 51 (32.48%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (29.94%) Test Automation
7 45 (28.66%) Agile
8 43 (27.39%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (26.75%) Mentoring
10 41 (26.11%) Containerisation
11 36 (22.93%) Code Quality
12 32 (20.38%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (19.75%) Analytics
13 31 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (18.47%) AI
15 27 (17.20%) Cloud Security
15 27 (17.20%) Incident Response
16 26 (16.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure Automation
18 19 (12.10%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (49.04%) Python
2 33 (21.02%) Bash
3 31 (19.75%) SQL
4 24 (15.29%) TypeScript
5 23 (14.65%) PowerShell
6 21 (13.38%) Bicep
6 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
7 16 (10.19%) Go
8 12 (7.64%) Kotlin
8 12 (7.64%) Swift
9 11 (7.01%) Java
10 7 (4.46%) C#
11 6 (3.82%) Dart
12 5 (3.18%) PHP
13 4 (2.55%) C++
14 3 (1.91%) C
15 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.27%) Scala
15 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (12.10%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) AWS Certification
2 12 (7.64%) Azure Certification
2 12 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.73%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.10%) QA
2 13 (8.28%) GDPR
3 10 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.55%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS
5 2 (1.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.27%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (28.66%) Docker
2 20 (12.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.91%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (57.32%) Terraform
2 63 (40.13%) Kubernetes
3 28 (17.83%) Grafana
4 27 (17.20%) Ansible
5 25 (15.92%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.55%) Argo
7 8 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.46%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.82%) Packer
10 4 (2.55%) logstash
10 4 (2.55%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.91%) Puppet
12 1 (0.64%) Cilium
12 1 (0.64%) Consul
12 1 (0.64%) Icinga
12 1 (0.64%) Kibana
12 1 (0.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.92%) VMware
3 12 (7.64%) Amplitude
3 12 (7.64%) Braze
4 8 (5.10%) Ab Initio
5 6 (3.82%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.18%) Cisco
6 5 (3.18%) Databricks
6 5 (3.18%) EMC
6 5 (3.18%) F5
6 5 (3.18%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.55%) Google
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) BT
8 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.91%) Mitel
9 2 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.27%) Splunk