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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 348 426
Rank change year-on-year +25 +78 +7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 131 86 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.42% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 90 81 82
10th Percentile £44,775 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £93,875 £91,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -13.33%

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 8,589 6,051 10,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 36.72% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,190 4,465 8,790
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 31 July 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 5 (3.82%) Apache
2 4 (3.05%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) nginx
4 2 (1.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) GitHub
2 91 (69.47%) AWS
3 66 (50.38%) Azure
4 33 (25.19%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (22.90%) Serverless
6 26 (19.85%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (16.03%) GCP
8 16 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (11.45%) Firebase
10 14 (10.69%) Stripe
10 14 (10.69%) TestFlight
11 11 (8.40%) Datadog
11 11 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (6.11%) PaaS
14 7 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) VPN
2 10 (7.63%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) DNS
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
5 3 (2.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) RTP
7 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.76%) VoIP
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.58%) MySQL
6 5 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.82%) Power BI
7 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Metadata
8 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.29%) Tableau
9 2 (1.53%) Big Data
9 2 (1.53%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.53%) Redis
10 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 32 (24.43%) Git
2 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.69%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.69%) XCTest
4 10 (7.63%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.87%) GitLab
5 9 (6.87%) JIRA
6 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.82%) Storybook
8 4 (3.05%) Postman
8 4 (3.05%) Selenium
9 3 (2.29%) Appium
9 3 (2.29%) NUnit
10 2 (1.53%) MLflow
10 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.76%) GDB
11 1 (0.76%) Maven
11 1 (0.76%) Subversion
11 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.76%) WinDbg
General
1 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Finance
4 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.29%) Military
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Senior
2 24 (18.32%) Platform Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Developer
4 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.45%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) Lead
8 12 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
14 5 (3.82%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.82%) Architect
14 5 (3.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 4 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.37%) React
2 19 (14.50%) REST
3 18 (13.74%) CSS
3 18 (13.74%) Node.js
4 14 (10.69%) SwiftUI
4 14 (10.69%) Tailwind CSS
4 14 (10.69%) UIKit
5 12 (9.16%) .NET
5 12 (9.16%) Jest
6 11 (8.40%) RESTful
7 7 (5.34%) React Native
7 7 (5.34%) Web Services
7 7 (5.34%) YAML
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.58%) Kafka
8 6 (4.58%) Playwright
9 5 (3.82%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.82%) Flutter
9 5 (3.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Mobile App
2 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
3 20 (15.27%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (7.63%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.87%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (6.11%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.58%) CMDB
8 4 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.29%) Blog
9 3 (2.29%) NHS
9 3 (2.29%) PKI
10 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.53%) Clustering
10 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.66%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.11%) Windows
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 3 (2.29%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.84%) CI/CD
2 67 (51.15%) DevOps
3 63 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.30%) Test Automation
5 38 (29.01%) Containerisation
6 36 (27.48%) AI
7 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (23.66%) Agile
8 31 (23.66%) Mentoring
9 29 (22.14%) Analytics
10 28 (21.37%) Code Quality
11 27 (20.61%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (20.61%) Software Engineering
12 25 (19.08%) Observability
13 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (15.27%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.27%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (15.27%) Process Improvement
15 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.51%) Python
2 33 (25.19%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.61%) JavaScript
4 25 (19.08%) Bash
5 19 (14.50%) Kotlin
5 19 (14.50%) SQL
6 16 (12.21%) Swift
7 15 (11.45%) PowerShell
8 11 (8.40%) Go
9 9 (6.87%) C#
10 8 (6.11%) Java
10 8 (6.11%) PHP
11 7 (5.34%) Groovy
12 6 (4.58%) Bicep
12 6 (4.58%) Scala
13 5 (3.82%) Dart
14 2 (1.53%) C++
14 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.76%) C
15 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.16%) Degree
3 11 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.76%) OCP
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (35.88%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (45.80%) Terraform
2 48 (36.64%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.03%) Ansible
4 18 (13.74%) Grafana
5 13 (9.92%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.16%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.34%) Packer
8 5 (3.82%) Argo
9 4 (3.05%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.29%) Puppet
11 1 (0.76%) Consul
11 1 (0.76%) Istio
11 1 (0.76%) Kibana
11 1 (0.76%) linkerd
11 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.69%) Braze
3 11 (8.40%) VMware
4 6 (4.58%) Cisco
4 6 (4.58%) EMC
4 6 (4.58%) F5
4 6 (4.58%) New Relic
4 6 (4.58%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.82%) Databricks
6 4 (3.05%) Google
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) OneLogin
7 3 (2.29%) Splunk
8 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Mitel
9 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software