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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 321 403
Rank change year-on-year +102 +82 +84
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 174 105 135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 0.70% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 1.50% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 124 80 102
10th Percentile £43,425 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% - -9.39%
75th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £97,030
90th Percentile £106,125 £89,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -6.45%

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 6,177 6,998 12,797
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.54% 46.77% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 4,684 11,200
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,253
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 28 February 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 8 (4.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) GitHub
2 122 (70.11%) Azure
3 87 (50.00%) AWS
4 81 (46.55%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (20.69%) Serverless
6 28 (16.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (14.94%) GCP
9 24 (13.79%) Entra ID
9 24 (13.79%) SaaS
10 21 (12.07%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (12.07%) Datadog
11 19 (10.92%) Amazon S3
11 19 (10.92%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (10.92%) PaaS
12 18 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (9.77%) Azure App Service
14 15 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.32%) Firewall
2 7 (4.02%) VPN
3 4 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.30%) Network Security
4 3 (1.72%) HTTP
4 3 (1.72%) RTP
4 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.72%) VoIP
4 3 (1.72%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.37%) NoSQL
2 21 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.75%) Flink
4 9 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
7 4 (2.30%) Metadata
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.57%) Parquet
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.24%) Git
3 27 (15.52%) GitLab
4 12 (6.90%) JIRA
5 9 (5.17%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.17%) Subversion
6 6 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.30%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.72%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.72%) JMeter
8 3 (1.72%) XCTest
9 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.15%) git-flow
9 2 (1.15%) JUnit
9 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.57%) Locust
10 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 63 (36.21%) Finance
2 56 (32.18%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.49%) Telecoms
4 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.75%) Front Office
7 10 (5.75%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.75%) Retail
8 9 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.87%) Back Office
10 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.72%) Billing
11 3 (1.72%) Military
12 2 (1.15%) Aviation
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Electronics
12 2 (1.15%) Law
12 2 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (27.01%) Senior
2 32 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (17.24%) Developer
4 29 (16.67%) Lead
5 22 (12.64%) .NET Developer
5 22 (12.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.64%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Azure Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Lead .NET Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Lead Developer
9 12 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.32%) Development Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) SaaS Developer
11 10 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.69%) .NET
1 36 (20.69%) RESTful
2 29 (16.67%) React
3 18 (10.34%) OAuth
3 18 (10.34%) OAuth2
4 17 (9.77%) Kafka
5 16 (9.20%) .NET Framework
5 16 (9.20%) JSON
6 15 (8.62%) Razor View Engine
7 14 (8.05%) ASP.NET Web API
7 14 (8.05%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 13 (7.47%) Entity Framework
9 11 (6.32%) ADO
9 11 (6.32%) YAML
10 10 (5.75%) Node.js
10 10 (5.75%) REST
11 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET
11 7 (4.02%) CSS
11 7 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.45%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.87%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Blog
7 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
10 1 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.67%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Windows
3 5 (2.87%) Unix
4 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (95.98%) CI/CD
2 146 (83.91%) DevOps
3 94 (54.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (33.91%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (32.76%) Observability
6 56 (32.18%) Containerisation
7 54 (31.03%) Agile
8 47 (27.01%) Test Automation
9 43 (24.71%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (23.56%) Incident Response
11 40 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (20.69%) Mentoring
13 30 (17.24%) Cloud Security
14 29 (16.67%) Code Quality
14 29 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
14 29 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (15.52%) AI
15 27 (15.52%) RBAC
15 27 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (47.70%) Python
2 41 (23.56%) Bicep
2 41 (23.56%) SQL
3 39 (22.41%) Bash
4 27 (15.52%) PowerShell
5 26 (14.94%) TypeScript
6 25 (14.37%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.34%) Go
7 18 (10.34%) Java
8 8 (4.60%) C#
9 5 (2.87%) C++
10 3 (1.72%) C
10 3 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.72%) Ruby
10 3 (1.72%) Swift
11 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.15%) PHP
11 2 (1.15%) Rust
11 2 (1.15%) Scala
11 2 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (13.22%) Degree
2 20 (11.49%) AWS Certification
2 20 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.47%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.94%) QA
2 18 (10.34%) GDPR
3 13 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (4.02%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.30%) GRC
6 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.15%) ECSS
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (36.21%) Docker
2 21 (12.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (55.75%) Terraform
2 83 (47.70%) Kubernetes
3 39 (22.41%) Grafana
4 32 (18.39%) Prometheus
5 26 (14.94%) Ansible
6 17 (9.77%) Argo
7 10 (5.75%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.87%) Proxmox
9 4 (2.30%) Cilium
9 4 (2.30%) logstash
10 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.57%) Icinga
11 1 (0.57%) Kibana
11 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.05%) Ab Initio
3 10 (5.75%) VMware
4 8 (4.60%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.87%) Splunk
6 3 (1.72%) Amplitude
6 3 (1.72%) BT
6 3 (1.72%) Databricks
6 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.72%) Google
6 3 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.72%) Mitel
6 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.15%) SAP
7 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.57%) Apple
8 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry
8 1 (0.57%) New Relic
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle