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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 300 456
Rank change year-on-year +68 +156 +15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 169 90 131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.51% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 116 73 98
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,508 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,250 £83,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £108,750 £98,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.29% -14.61%

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 6,730 5,973 13,993
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.35% 45.27% 43.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,519 4,666 12,113
10th Percentile £33,568 £33,225 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 16 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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.78%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) WordPress
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Drupal
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) GitHub
2 104 (61.54%) Azure
3 95 (56.21%) AWS
4 66 (39.05%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (24.85%) Serverless
6 25 (14.79%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (14.20%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (14.20%) Amazon S3
8 23 (13.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (13.61%) GCP
9 22 (13.02%) SaaS
10 21 (12.43%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (12.43%) Entra ID
11 20 (11.83%) Datadog
12 17 (10.06%) PaaS
13 15 (8.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (8.28%) Azure App Service
15 13 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.47%) Firewall
2 10 (5.92%) VPN
3 4 (2.37%) DNS
3 4 (2.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.37%) Network Security
4 3 (1.78%) HTTP
4 3 (1.78%) RTP
4 3 (1.78%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.78%) VoIP
4 3 (1.78%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.59%) Broadband
6 1 (0.59%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) NoSQL
1 20 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.92%) Flink
4 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.96%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.96%) Metadata
5 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.96%) MySQL
6 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.18%) Redis
7 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) Big Data
8 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.59%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (17.16%) Jenkins
2 28 (16.57%) Git
3 24 (14.20%) GitLab
4 16 (9.47%) JIRA
5 10 (5.92%) Crashlytics
5 10 (5.92%) XCTest
6 9 (5.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (5.33%) Subversion
7 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.96%) Storybook
7 5 (2.96%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.18%) git-flow
9 2 (1.18%) JMeter
10 1 (0.59%) GDB
10 1 (0.59%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.59%) Maven
10 1 (0.59%) Selenium
10 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.59%) WinDbg
General
1 58 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 56 (33.14%) Finance
3 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.06%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.28%) Banking
5 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.10%) Retail
7 10 (5.92%) Front Office
7 10 (5.92%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.96%) Back Office
10 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Billing
11 3 (1.78%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.78%) Military
12 2 (1.18%) Aviation
12 2 (1.18%) Electronics
12 2 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (24.85%) Senior
2 34 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (18.34%) Developer
4 29 (17.16%) Lead
5 23 (13.61%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) .NET Developer
6 18 (10.65%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) Lead Developer
11 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Development Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Lead .NET Developer
12 10 (5.92%) Mobile Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (5.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.93%) .NET
2 28 (16.57%) RESTful
3 27 (15.98%) React
4 17 (10.06%) Kafka
5 14 (8.28%) OAuth
5 14 (8.28%) OAuth2
6 13 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 13 (7.69%) JSON
7 12 (7.10%) Razor View Engine
8 11 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 11 (6.51%) Entity Framework
9 10 (5.92%) ADO
9 10 (5.92%) CSS
9 10 (5.92%) SwiftUI
9 10 (5.92%) UIKit
10 9 (5.33%) REST
11 8 (4.73%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.14%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.47%) Mobile App
3 15 (8.88%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.51%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.55%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.37%) Blog
9 4 (2.37%) CMDB
9 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.18%) NHS
12 1 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.57%) Linux
2 10 (5.92%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.33%) Windows
4 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.78%) Unix
7 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (97.63%) CI/CD
2 135 (79.88%) DevOps
3 84 (49.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (33.14%) Observability
4 56 (33.14%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (30.18%) Agile
5 51 (30.18%) Containerisation
6 47 (27.81%) Test Automation
7 46 (27.22%) Platform Engineering
8 40 (23.67%) Mentoring
9 37 (21.89%) Code Quality
10 35 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (18.34%) Deployment Automation
11 31 (18.34%) Incident Response
12 30 (17.75%) AI
13 29 (17.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (16.57%) Analytics
14 28 (16.57%) Cloud Security
15 22 (13.02%) Front End Development
15 22 (13.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.11%) Python
2 36 (21.30%) Bash
3 35 (20.71%) SQL
4 25 (14.79%) Bicep
5 24 (14.20%) TypeScript
6 23 (13.61%) PowerShell
7 22 (13.02%) JavaScript
8 19 (11.24%) Go
9 15 (8.88%) Java
10 10 (5.92%) Kotlin
10 10 (5.92%) Swift
11 7 (4.14%) C#
12 6 (3.55%) C++
12 6 (3.55%) Dart
13 4 (2.37%) PHP
14 3 (1.78%) C
15 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
15 2 (1.18%) Rust
15 2 (1.18%) Scala
15 2 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (13.02%) Degree
2 17 (10.06%) AWS Certification
3 16 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.10%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.96%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.78%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.02%) QA
2 14 (8.28%) GDPR
3 13 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.14%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.14%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.37%) GRC
6 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) ECSS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS
8 1 (0.59%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.59%) NCSC
8 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (31.36%) Docker
2 22 (13.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.78%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (55.62%) Terraform
2 73 (43.20%) Kubernetes
3 31 (18.34%) Grafana
4 28 (16.57%) Prometheus
5 27 (15.98%) Ansible
6 17 (10.06%) Argo
7 10 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.14%) Proxmox
9 5 (2.96%) Packer
10 4 (2.37%) Cilium
10 4 (2.37%) logstash
10 4 (2.37%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.78%) Puppet
12 1 (0.59%) Consul
12 1 (0.59%) Icinga
12 1 (0.59%) Kibana
12 1 (0.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.69%) VMware
3 10 (5.92%) Ab Initio
3 10 (5.92%) Amplitude
3 10 (5.92%) Braze
4 8 (4.73%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.37%) Cisco
5 4 (2.37%) Databricks
5 4 (2.37%) EMC
5 4 (2.37%) F5
5 4 (2.37%) Google
5 4 (2.37%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.78%) BT
6 3 (1.78%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.78%) Mitel
6 3 (1.78%) Splunk
7 2 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.18%) SAP