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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 385 355
Rank change year-on-year +102 -30 +151
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 134 83 150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.41% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 0.94% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 107 69 116
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £52,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -8.77% +1.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £84,917
90th Percentile £93,500 £75,000 £97,500
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 5,821 8,801 10,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.60% 43.98% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 5,732 9,185
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £47,533 £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 £112,500 £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 30 October 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 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.24%) IIS
2 2 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.24%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) GitHub
2 90 (67.16%) Azure
3 72 (53.73%) AWS
4 68 (50.75%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (22.39%) Serverless
6 26 (19.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (16.42%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (15.67%) GCP
9 20 (14.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (14.93%) SaaS
10 19 (14.18%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
12 15 (11.19%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (9.70%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (9.70%) Azure AKS
13 13 (9.70%) Datadog
13 13 (9.70%) PaaS
14 10 (7.46%) Entra ID
15 8 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) Firewall
1 5 (3.73%) VPN
2 4 (2.99%) Network Security
3 3 (2.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.49%) DNS
4 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.46%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.22%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.73%) Power BI
7 4 (2.99%) Looker
7 4 (2.99%) Tableau
8 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
8 3 (2.24%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.49%) Flink
9 2 (1.49%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (30.60%) Jenkins
2 29 (21.64%) Git
3 15 (11.19%) GitLab
4 12 (8.96%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.48%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.24%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.24%) JIRA
7 3 (2.24%) JMeter
7 3 (2.24%) JUnit
7 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.49%) Postman
8 2 (1.49%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.49%) Selenium
8 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.49%) Subversion
General
1 45 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.61%) Finance
3 16 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Retail
5 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.48%) Banking
7 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.99%) Back Office
8 4 (2.99%) Marketing
9 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.24%) Law
9 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.49%) Front Office
10 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.75%) Automotive
11 1 (0.75%) Aviation
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Publishing
11 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) DevOps Engineer
1 37 (27.61%) Senior
2 18 (13.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (12.69%) Senior DevOps
4 16 (11.94%) Developer
4 16 (11.94%) Lead
5 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (11.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (8.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) .NET Developer
8 10 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Azure Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Lead .NET Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.22%) SaaS Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Development Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Java Engineer
13 5 (3.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.66%) React
2 24 (17.91%) .NET
3 22 (16.42%) RESTful
4 14 (10.45%) Node.js
5 11 (8.21%) YAML
6 10 (7.46%) .NET Framework
7 9 (6.72%) REST
8 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 8 (5.97%) Entity Framework
8 8 (5.97%) JSON
8 8 (5.97%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (4.48%) ADO
9 6 (4.48%) AWS CDK
9 6 (4.48%) OAuth
9 6 (4.48%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.48%) Spring
10 5 (3.73%) CSS
10 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.73%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.70%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.22%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) Blog
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.49%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.42%) Linux
2 15 (11.19%) Windows
3 3 (2.24%) Unix
3 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (92.54%) CI/CD
2 113 (84.33%) DevOps
3 71 (52.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (40.30%) Containerisation
5 40 (29.85%) Agile
6 37 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (26.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (26.87%) Observability
8 33 (24.63%) Test Automation
9 29 (21.64%) Mentoring
10 27 (20.15%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (19.40%) Computer Science
11 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (17.16%) Cloud Security
12 23 (17.16%) Software Engineering
13 22 (16.42%) Incident Response
13 22 (16.42%) RBAC
14 20 (14.93%) Microservices
15 18 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (12.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 69 (51.49%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) Bash
3 31 (23.13%) Bicep
4 28 (20.90%) PowerShell
4 28 (20.90%) SQL
5 21 (15.67%) Java
6 19 (14.18%) TypeScript
7 18 (13.43%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.21%) C#
9 7 (5.22%) Go
10 4 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.24%) Ruby
12 2 (1.49%) C++
12 2 (1.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.75%) Dart
13 1 (0.75%) Groovy
13 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) Degree
2 25 (18.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
4 19 (14.18%) AWS Certification
5 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
6 13 (9.70%) Azure Certification
7 10 (7.46%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.49%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.75%) CCNA
11 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.40%) QA
2 18 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.46%) GDPR
4 5 (3.73%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.24%) GRC
5 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.49%) ECSS
7 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (34.33%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (54.48%) Terraform
2 66 (49.25%) Kubernetes
3 30 (22.39%) Grafana
4 20 (14.93%) Prometheus
5 19 (14.18%) Ansible
6 6 (4.48%) Argo
7 3 (2.24%) Cilium
7 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.21%) VMware
3 8 (5.97%) Google
4 6 (4.48%) Ab Initio
4 6 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.99%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.99%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.99%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.99%) Talend
5 4 (2.99%) Zoho
6 3 (2.24%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.24%) Splunk
7 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.49%) Pega
7 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) UiPath