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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 373 338
Rank change year-on-year +159 -35 +197
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 163 90 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 0.46% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 1.03% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 121 74 112
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,016 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.90% +0.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,188 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £97,290
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 5,581 8,777 9,953
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.54% 44.65% 47.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,141 5,740 8,530
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -0.79%

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 29 November 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 6 (3.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.84%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.84%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) GitHub
2 118 (72.39%) Azure
3 80 (49.08%) AWS
4 79 (48.47%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (18.40%) GCP
6 29 (17.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (17.79%) Serverless
7 26 (15.95%) SaaS
8 22 (13.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (13.50%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (12.88%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (12.27%) Datadog
11 18 (11.04%) Entra ID
12 16 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (9.82%) PaaS
13 15 (9.20%) Azure AKS
14 14 (8.59%) Azure App Service
15 13 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (7.36%) Amazon S3
16 12 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Firewall
2 5 (3.07%) Network Security
3 4 (2.45%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.45%) VPN
4 3 (1.84%) DNS
5 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.50%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.88%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.52%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.29%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.68%) Flink
6 6 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.07%) Power BI
8 4 (2.45%) Looker
8 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.45%) Tableau
9 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.84%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.23%) Metadata
10 2 (1.23%) MySQL
11 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (26.38%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.25%) Git
3 24 (14.72%) GitLab
4 11 (6.75%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.52%) JIRA
6 7 (4.29%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.68%) Subversion
8 4 (2.45%) JMeter
9 3 (1.84%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.84%) JUnit
9 3 (1.84%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.84%) Selenium
9 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.23%) git-flow
10 2 (1.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 64 (39.26%) Social Skills
2 60 (36.81%) Finance
3 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.75%) Banking
6 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.13%) Retail
7 8 (4.91%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.68%) Back Office
9 6 (3.68%) Front Office
9 6 (3.68%) Marketing
10 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.45%) Law
11 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Electronics
13 1 (0.61%) Automotive
13 1 (0.61%) Billing
13 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (28.22%) Senior
2 35 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.34%) Lead
4 21 (12.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (12.88%) Developer
5 19 (11.66%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (11.66%) Senior DevOps
6 15 (9.20%) .NET Developer
7 13 (7.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Azure Developer
9 11 (6.75%) Development Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Lead .NET Developer
9 11 (6.75%) Lead Developer
10 10 (6.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) SaaS Developer
10 10 (6.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.63%) .NET
1 32 (19.63%) RESTful
2 24 (14.72%) React
3 15 (9.20%) Node.js
4 14 (8.59%) .NET Framework
5 13 (7.98%) YAML
6 12 (7.36%) ASP.NET Web API
6 12 (7.36%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 12 (7.36%) JSON
6 12 (7.36%) OAuth
6 12 (7.36%) OAuth2
7 11 (6.75%) ADO
7 11 (6.75%) Entity Framework
7 11 (6.75%) Kafka
7 11 (6.75%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (4.29%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.68%) REST
11 5 (3.07%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.66%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.68%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.45%) Blog
7 3 (1.84%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.61%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.34%) Linux
2 17 (10.43%) Windows
3 5 (3.07%) Unix
4 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.23%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (94.48%) CI/CD
2 140 (85.89%) DevOps
3 86 (52.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (34.36%) Containerisation
4 56 (34.36%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (30.06%) Observability
6 48 (29.45%) Agile
7 43 (26.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (25.77%) Test Automation
9 37 (22.70%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (21.47%) Incident Response
11 33 (20.25%) Mentoring
12 29 (17.79%) Computer Science
12 29 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (17.18%) Cloud Security
13 28 (17.18%) RBAC
13 28 (17.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (14.72%) Code Quality
14 24 (14.72%) Microservices
15 22 (13.50%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 77 (47.24%) Python
2 41 (25.15%) Bicep
3 39 (23.93%) Bash
4 37 (22.70%) SQL
5 34 (20.86%) PowerShell
6 24 (14.72%) TypeScript
7 21 (12.88%) JavaScript
8 20 (12.27%) Java
9 11 (6.75%) C#
10 8 (4.91%) Go
11 4 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.84%) Ruby
13 2 (1.23%) C++
14 1 (0.61%) Dart
14 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.61%) PHP
14 1 (0.61%) Swift
14 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.79%) Degree
2 28 (17.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (12.27%) AWS Certification
3 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
4 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.20%) Azure Certification
6 12 (7.36%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.61%) CCNA
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.40%) QA
2 17 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (9.20%) GDPR
4 6 (3.68%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.45%) GRC
5 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.23%) ECSS
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 53 (32.52%) Docker
2 18 (11.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (55.21%) Terraform
2 80 (49.08%) Kubernetes
3 37 (22.70%) Grafana
4 28 (17.18%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.50%) Ansible
6 11 (6.75%) Argo
7 7 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.45%) Cilium
9 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.23%) logstash
11 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.61%) Icinga
11 1 (0.61%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) Ab Initio
3 10 (6.13%) Google
3 10 (6.13%) VMware
4 6 (3.68%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.07%) Splunk
6 4 (2.45%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.45%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.45%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.45%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.45%) Talend
6 4 (2.45%) Zoho
7 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.23%) Databricks
8 2 (1.23%) SAP
8 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle
9 1 (0.61%) UiPath