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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 383 345
Rank change year-on-year +133 -38 +168
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 147 85 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.64% 0.96% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 115 70 110
10th Percentile £45,700 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,016 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -8.77% +2.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £97,311
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 5,572 8,825 10,428
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.42% 44.33% 47.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 5,720 8,902
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,000
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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 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 4 (2.72%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (1.36%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) GitHub
2 101 (68.71%) Azure
3 74 (50.34%) AWS
4 73 (49.66%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (19.05%) Serverless
6 27 (18.37%) GCP
7 26 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (15.65%) SaaS
9 21 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (10.88%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (10.88%) PaaS
12 15 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (10.20%) Datadog
13 14 (9.52%) Entra ID
14 13 (8.84%) Azure AKS
15 12 (8.16%) Amazon S3
15 12 (8.16%) Azure App Service
16 10 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Firewall
2 5 (3.40%) Network Security
3 4 (2.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.72%) VPN
4 2 (1.36%) DNS
4 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.24%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.80%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.40%) Power BI
7 4 (2.72%) Flink
7 4 (2.72%) Looker
7 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.72%) Tableau
8 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.04%) MySQL
8 3 (2.04%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.36%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.36%) Metadata
10 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.09%) Git
3 19 (12.93%) GitLab
4 13 (8.84%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.08%) JIRA
6 5 (3.40%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.72%) Subversion
8 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.04%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.04%) JMeter
8 3 (2.04%) JUnit
8 3 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.36%) Postman
9 2 (1.36%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 47 (31.97%) Finance
3 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.12%) Banking
5 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.12%) Retail
6 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.08%) Marketing
7 5 (3.40%) Back Office
7 5 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.72%) Front Office
8 4 (2.72%) Law
9 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (28.57%) Senior
2 35 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.97%) Lead
4 19 (12.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (12.24%) Developer
5 18 (12.24%) Senior DevOps
6 17 (11.56%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) .NET Developer
9 11 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Azure Developer
10 10 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (6.80%) Lead .NET Developer
10 10 (6.80%) Lead Developer
10 10 (6.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) SaaS Developer
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Development Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.37%) .NET
1 27 (18.37%) RESTful
2 26 (17.69%) React
3 16 (10.88%) Node.js
4 13 (8.84%) YAML
5 12 (8.16%) .NET Framework
6 10 (6.80%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (6.80%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 10 (6.80%) Entity Framework
6 10 (6.80%) Razor View Engine
7 9 (6.12%) JSON
7 9 (6.12%) Kafka
7 9 (6.12%) REST
8 7 (4.76%) ADO
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.08%) AWS CDK
9 6 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.08%) Spring
10 5 (3.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Blog
5 4 (2.72%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.97%) Linux
2 16 (10.88%) Windows
3 4 (2.72%) Unix
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.36%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (93.88%) CI/CD
2 125 (85.03%) DevOps
3 75 (51.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (37.41%) Containerisation
5 46 (31.29%) Agile
5 46 (31.29%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (26.53%) Observability
7 36 (24.49%) Test Automation
8 31 (21.09%) Mentoring
8 31 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (19.73%) Computer Science
10 28 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (17.01%) Incident Response
12 24 (16.33%) Microservices
12 24 (16.33%) RBAC
13 23 (15.65%) Cloud Security
14 22 (14.97%) Software Engineering
15 21 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.30%) Python
2 36 (24.49%) Bash
3 35 (23.81%) Bicep
4 33 (22.45%) SQL
5 30 (20.41%) PowerShell
6 23 (15.65%) TypeScript
7 22 (14.97%) Java
8 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
9 11 (7.48%) C#
10 8 (5.44%) Go
11 4 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.04%) Ruby
13 2 (1.36%) C++
13 2 (1.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.68%) Dart
14 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Degree
2 28 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 19 (12.93%) AWS Certification
4 19 (12.93%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.84%) Azure Certification
6 12 (8.16%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.36%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.68%) CCNA
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) QA
2 18 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.48%) GDPR
4 6 (4.08%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.72%) GRC
5 4 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.36%) ECSS
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (31.29%) Docker
2 15 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (51.02%) Terraform
2 71 (48.30%) Kubernetes
3 30 (20.41%) Grafana
4 22 (14.97%) Ansible
5 21 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.44%) Argo
7 4 (2.72%) Cilium
7 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.68%) Icinga
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) VMware
3 10 (6.80%) Google
4 7 (4.76%) Ab Initio
5 6 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.72%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.72%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.72%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.72%) Splunk
6 4 (2.72%) Talend
6 4 (2.72%) Zoho
7 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.36%) Databricks
8 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.36%) Pega
8 2 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) UiPath