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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 311 413
Rank change year-on-year -13 +102 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 105 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.65% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.81% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 100 93 70
10th Percentile £46,175 £50,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £60,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £86,537 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £94,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £73,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.90% +12.69% -18.37%

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 8,738 5,805 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 35.68% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,410 4,185 6,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 20 September 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 11 (8.33%) Apache
2 5 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.27%) nginx
5 2 (1.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.76%) Drupal
6 1 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 95 (71.97%) AWS
3 71 (53.79%) Azure
4 29 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.94%) GCP
6 21 (15.91%) Serverless
7 19 (14.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (12.12%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.61%) Datadog
11 11 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (6.06%) SaaS
13 8 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (5.30%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (5.30%) Firebase
14 7 (5.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) VPN
2 5 (3.79%) DNS
3 4 (3.03%) Firewall
3 4 (3.03%) SSH
4 2 (1.52%) BGP
4 2 (1.52%) SSL
4 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) HTTP
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.15%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.30%) MySQL
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.55%) Power BI
7 5 (3.79%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.79%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.79%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.03%) Redis
8 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.03%) Tableau
9 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.27%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (27.27%) Git
2 30 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.64%) GitLab
4 10 (7.58%) Cypress.io
4 10 (7.58%) JIRA
5 6 (4.55%) Postman
6 5 (3.79%) Crashlytics
6 5 (3.79%) Poetry
6 5 (3.79%) Selenium
6 5 (3.79%) XCTest
7 4 (3.03%) Appium
7 4 (3.03%) NUnit
7 4 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.27%) MLflow
8 3 (2.27%) Storybook
9 2 (1.52%) JMeter
9 2 (1.52%) JUnit
9 2 (1.52%) Snyk
9 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.76%) git-flow
General
1 46 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Local Government
7 3 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.52%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Legal
8 2 (1.52%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (36.36%) Senior
2 22 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (15.91%) Developer
4 19 (14.39%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (12.88%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Lead
9 11 (8.33%) Data Engineer
10 10 (7.58%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (6.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (5.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.30%) Java Developer
13 7 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
14 6 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
14 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
15 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (50.76%) Terraform
2 31 (23.48%) React
3 30 (22.73%) Node.js
4 18 (13.64%) CSS
4 18 (13.64%) REST
5 15 (11.36%) RESTful
6 14 (10.61%) Tailwind CSS
7 12 (9.09%) Jest
7 12 (9.09%) Kafka
8 10 (7.58%) .NET
9 9 (6.82%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.82%) PySpark
10 8 (6.06%) Spring
10 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.30%) React Native
11 7 (5.30%) Web Services
11 7 (5.30%) YAML
12 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.55%) Playwright
13 5 (3.79%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.30%) Blog
4 7 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.03%) CMDB
7 3 (2.27%) Clustering
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.27%) NHS
7 3 (2.27%) Robotics
8 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) PKI
8 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.73%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.79%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.03%) Android
5 3 (2.27%) Debian
5 3 (2.27%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.76%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (93.18%) CI/CD
2 70 (53.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (49.24%) DevOps
4 47 (35.61%) AI
5 46 (34.85%) Software Engineering
6 45 (34.09%) Containerisation
7 34 (25.76%) Analytics
8 33 (25.00%) Observability
9 32 (24.24%) Agile
9 32 (24.24%) Test Automation
10 31 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (19.70%) Mentoring
12 23 (17.42%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.39%) Code Quality
13 19 (14.39%) Machine Learning
14 18 (13.64%) Cloud Security
15 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
16 16 (12.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.48%) Python
2 38 (28.79%) TypeScript
3 29 (21.97%) Bash
3 29 (21.97%) SQL
4 24 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.36%) Kotlin
7 14 (10.61%) Java
8 12 (9.09%) Go
9 10 (7.58%) Bicep
10 8 (6.06%) C#
10 8 (6.06%) Scala
10 8 (6.06%) Swift
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) PHP
12 3 (2.27%) Dart
12 3 (2.27%) Rust
13 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.76%) C
14 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) Degree
4 10 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.52%) OCP
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) IFRS
3 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
3 2 (1.52%) SLA
3 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (52.27%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 48 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.64%) Grafana
3 13 (9.85%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.09%) Ansible
4 12 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.55%) Packer
6 3 (2.27%) Argo
7 2 (1.52%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.52%) Puppet
7 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) Cilium
8 1 (0.76%) Consul
8 1 (0.76%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) linkerd
8 1 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.82%) Databricks
3 6 (4.55%) Google
3 6 (4.55%) VMware
4 5 (3.79%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.79%) Braze
4 5 (3.79%) New Relic
4 5 (3.79%) Splunk
5 4 (3.03%) Cisco
5 4 (3.03%) EMC
5 4 (3.03%) F5
5 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.27%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.27%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Foundry
7 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software