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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 338 361
Rank change year-on-year +141 +23 +149
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 169 102 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.62% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 1.34% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 123 77 106
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £50,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.90% +0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £76,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,750 £79,632
% change year-on-year +8.61% -16.18% +7.98%

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 5,496 7,619 10,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.50% 46.25% 46.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,928 4,864 8,695
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,998 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +7.89% -7.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,775 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 8 (4.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) GitHub
2 131 (77.51%) Azure
3 85 (50.30%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (49.11%) AWS
5 32 (18.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (18.93%) GCP
5 32 (18.93%) Serverless
6 29 (17.16%) SaaS
7 26 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (14.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (14.20%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (14.20%) Datadog
10 22 (13.02%) Entra ID
11 18 (10.65%) Azure AKS
11 18 (10.65%) PaaS
12 17 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (10.06%) Azure App Service
13 16 (9.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) Firewall
2 5 (2.96%) Network Security
3 4 (2.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.78%) DNS
5 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.79%) NoSQL
2 24 (14.20%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.92%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.92%) Flink
4 8 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.14%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.37%) Looker
7 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.37%) Power BI
7 4 (2.37%) Tableau
8 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.78%) Metadata
8 3 (1.78%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.18%) MySQL
10 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (25.44%) Jenkins
2 34 (20.12%) Git
3 24 (14.20%) GitLab
4 10 (5.92%) JIRA
5 9 (5.33%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.73%) Subversion
7 7 (4.14%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.37%) JMeter
9 3 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.78%) JUnit
9 3 (1.78%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.78%) Selenium
10 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.18%) git-flow
10 2 (1.18%) Postman
10 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.59%) Appium
11 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (41.42%) Finance
2 65 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.88%) Banking
6 12 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.92%) Front Office
7 10 (5.92%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (5.33%) Retail
9 6 (3.55%) Marketing
10 5 (2.96%) Back Office
11 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.78%) Billing
13 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Electronics
13 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.18%) Law
14 1 (0.59%) Automotive
14 1 (0.59%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 45 (26.63%) Senior
2 34 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (15.98%) Lead
4 23 (13.61%) Developer
5 19 (11.24%) .NET Developer
5 19 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (8.28%) Azure Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Development Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Lead .NET Developer
9 13 (7.69%) Lead Developer
10 12 (7.10%) SaaS Developer
11 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (5.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.89%) .NET
1 37 (21.89%) RESTful
2 28 (16.57%) React
3 16 (9.47%) .NET Framework
3 16 (9.47%) Kafka
4 15 (8.88%) JSON
4 15 (8.88%) OAuth
4 15 (8.88%) OAuth2
5 14 (8.28%) ADO
5 14 (8.28%) ASP.NET Web API
5 14 (8.28%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 13 (7.69%) Entity Framework
6 13 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
6 13 (7.69%) YAML
7 12 (7.10%) Node.js
8 9 (5.33%) AWS CDK
9 8 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.55%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.55%) ARM Templates
10 6 (3.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.24%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.28%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.55%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.37%) Blog
6 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) IoT
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.59%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.38%) Linux
2 16 (9.47%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (94.08%) CI/CD
2 149 (88.17%) DevOps
3 87 (51.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (36.69%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (31.95%) Containerisation
6 51 (30.18%) Observability
7 50 (29.59%) Agile
8 46 (27.22%) Test Automation
9 45 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (25.44%) Incident Response
11 41 (24.26%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (20.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 33 (19.53%) Mentoring
14 32 (18.93%) RBAC
15 30 (17.75%) Cloud Security
16 29 (17.16%) Code Quality
16 29 (17.16%) Root Cause Analysis
17 28 (16.57%) Coaching
17 28 (16.57%) Computer Science
17 28 (16.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.30%) Python
2 47 (27.81%) Bicep
3 43 (25.44%) SQL
4 38 (22.49%) Bash
5 35 (20.71%) PowerShell
6 24 (14.20%) TypeScript
7 22 (13.02%) JavaScript
8 21 (12.43%) Java
9 12 (7.10%) Go
10 9 (5.33%) C#
11 4 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.78%) Ruby
13 2 (1.18%) C++
14 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Degree
2 27 (15.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (11.83%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.65%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.47%) Security Cleared
6 14 (8.28%) Master's Degree
6 14 (8.28%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.18%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.59%) CCNA
10 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.53%) QA
2 18 (10.65%) GDPR
3 14 (8.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.55%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.37%) GRC
5 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) ECSS
8 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (33.73%) Docker
2 21 (12.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (57.99%) Terraform
2 82 (48.52%) Kubernetes
3 39 (23.08%) Grafana
4 30 (17.75%) Prometheus
5 20 (11.83%) Ansible
6 15 (8.88%) Argo
7 9 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.37%) Cilium
8 4 (2.37%) logstash
9 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.59%) Icinga
10 1 (0.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.33%) Google
4 8 (4.73%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.55%) VMware
6 5 (2.96%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.96%) Splunk
7 4 (2.37%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.37%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.37%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.37%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.37%) Talend
7 4 (2.37%) Zoho
8 3 (1.78%) Databricks
8 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.18%) SAP
9 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.59%) Foundry
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle