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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 353 446
Rank change year-on-year +38 +93 +1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 81 95
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.33% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 92 77 83
10th Percentile £45,050 £51,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -15.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,500 £88,000
UK median annual salary £65,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +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 8,446 6,086 12,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.98% 36.92% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,030 4,483 9,784
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 22 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 (3.79%) Apache
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 88 (66.67%) AWS
3 62 (46.97%) Azure
4 32 (24.24%) Serverless
5 31 (23.48%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.39%) GCP
8 18 (13.64%) Amazon S3
9 17 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (10.61%) Firebase
11 14 (10.61%) Stripe
11 14 (10.61%) TestFlight
12 12 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (8.33%) Datadog
13 11 (8.33%) PaaS
14 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.85%) VPN
2 12 (9.09%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) DNS
4 4 (3.03%) SSH
5 3 (2.27%) HTTP
5 3 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (1.52%) RTP
6 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.52%) VoIP
6 2 (1.52%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.76%) BGP
7 1 (0.76%) LTE
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) MySQL
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.03%) Power BI
7 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.27%) Metadata
8 2 (1.52%) Big Data
8 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.52%) Tableau
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (23.48%) Git
3 14 (10.61%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.61%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) GitLab
5 9 (6.82%) JIRA
6 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.79%) Storybook
9 3 (2.27%) Postman
9 3 (2.27%) Selenium
10 2 (1.52%) Appium
10 2 (1.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.76%) Gatling
11 1 (0.76%) git-flow
11 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 43 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.06%) Finance
4 7 (5.30%) Retail
5 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.27%) Military
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.55%) Senior
2 26 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (17.42%) Developer
4 20 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Lead
9 10 (7.58%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (7.58%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Administrator
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 6 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.94%) React
2 19 (14.39%) REST
3 18 (13.64%) CSS
4 15 (11.36%) Node.js
5 14 (10.61%) SwiftUI
5 14 (10.61%) UIKit
6 13 (9.85%) Tailwind CSS
7 11 (8.33%) .NET
8 10 (7.58%) RESTful
9 8 (6.06%) Jest
10 7 (5.30%) Web Services
10 7 (5.30%) YAML
11 6 (4.55%) Flutter
11 6 (4.55%) Kafka
11 6 (4.55%) Playwright
11 6 (4.55%) React Native
12 5 (3.79%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.79%) OAuth
12 5 (3.79%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.79%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 21 (15.91%) Mobile App
3 19 (14.39%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (9.09%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.30%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) CMDB
7 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.52%) NHS
9 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.52%) PKI
9 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Linux
2 16 (12.12%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 2 (1.52%) Android
6 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 69 (52.27%) DevOps
3 66 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.06%) Containerisation
5 40 (30.30%) Test Automation
6 36 (27.27%) AI
6 36 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (24.24%) Mentoring
8 30 (22.73%) Agile
8 30 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (21.97%) Observability
10 28 (21.21%) Code Quality
11 27 (20.45%) Analytics
11 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
12 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (15.15%) Process Improvement
14 19 (14.39%) Clean Code
14 19 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.70%) Python
2 30 (22.73%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.45%) Bash
4 25 (18.94%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.64%) Kotlin
6 17 (12.88%) SQL
7 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.36%) Swift
9 11 (8.33%) Go
10 8 (6.06%) C#
10 8 (6.06%) PHP
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) Java
12 6 (4.55%) Bicep
12 6 (4.55%) Dart
13 5 (3.79%) Scala
14 3 (2.27%) C++
15 2 (1.52%) C
15 2 (1.52%) Rust
15 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.82%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) GDPR
4 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.52%) IFRS
5 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (37.12%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.52%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (48.48%) Terraform
2 53 (40.15%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.18%) Ansible
4 20 (15.15%) Grafana
5 16 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.30%) Packer
8 6 (4.55%) Argo
8 6 (4.55%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) Consul
10 1 (0.76%) Istio
10 1 (0.76%) Kibana
10 1 (0.76%) linkerd
10 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Amplitude
2 14 (10.61%) Braze
3 13 (9.85%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Cisco
4 6 (4.55%) EMC
4 6 (4.55%) F5
4 6 (4.55%) New Relic
4 6 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.03%) Google
6 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.27%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) BT
7 2 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.52%) Mitel
8 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software