GitHub Actions Jobs with Work from Home Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring GitHub Actions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 446 414
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 +31
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 89 134 653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.41% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.85% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 80 92 201
10th Percentile £40,625 £53,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £117,236 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.91% -7.33%

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 11,565 15,776 41,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.40% 48.07% 53.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,006 12,359 22,853
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,866 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £97,132
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

GitHub Actions
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Actions trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

GitHub Actions salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub Actions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.36%) nginx
2 6 (6.74%) Apache
3 4 (4.49%) CMS
3 4 (4.49%) IIS
3 4 (4.49%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) GitHub
2 56 (62.92%) AWS
3 53 (59.55%) Azure
4 22 (24.72%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (23.60%) PaaS
6 20 (22.47%) GCP
7 19 (21.35%) SaaS
8 16 (17.98%) IaaS
9 12 (13.48%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (12.36%) Amazon S3
11 10 (11.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (6.74%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (6.74%) Serverless
13 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.62%) Datadog
14 4 (4.49%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (4.49%) Sentry
15 3 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (3.37%) Slack
16 2 (2.25%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) Firewall
2 5 (5.62%) MQTT
2 5 (5.62%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (5.62%) VPN
3 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.73%) Redis
3 11 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.87%) GIS
5 6 (6.74%) MySQL
6 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.62%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.25%) Big Data
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (16.85%) SonarQube
2 13 (14.61%) GitLab
3 8 (8.99%) CircleCI
3 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) Git
5 5 (5.62%) JIRA
6 4 (4.49%) Postman
6 4 (4.49%) Terragrunt
7 3 (3.37%) CMake
8 2 (2.25%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.12%) Fiddler
9 1 (1.12%) Gradle
9 1 (1.12%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (25.84%) Public Sector
2 17 (19.10%) Finance
2 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.99%) Marketing
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Electronics
5 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Automotive
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.12%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Developer
2 21 (23.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 15 (16.85%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Systems Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Geospatial Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.49%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) ARM Templates
1 15 (16.85%) Azure Blueprints
2 12 (13.48%) Django
2 12 (13.48%) Node.js
3 11 (12.36%) Flask
3 11 (12.36%) React
4 9 (10.11%) RESTful
5 8 (8.99%) .NET
6 7 (7.87%) Celery
6 7 (7.87%) Dask
6 7 (7.87%) GraphQL
6 7 (7.87%) HTML
6 7 (7.87%) NumPy
7 6 (6.74%) CSS
7 6 (6.74%) GeoJSON
7 6 (6.74%) GeoPandas
7 6 (6.74%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (6.74%) React Native
8 5 (5.62%) gRPC
8 5 (5.62%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Onboarding
2 15 (16.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.62%) IoT
3 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.37%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Tandem
6 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.12%) Online Games
7 1 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.60%) Linux
2 15 (16.85%) Windows
3 4 (4.49%) VMS
3 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Alpine Linux
4 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.37%) Debian
4 3 (3.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (65.17%) DevOps
2 56 (62.92%) CI/CD
3 44 (49.44%) Software Engineering
4 34 (38.20%) Test Automation
5 32 (35.96%) Containerisation
6 30 (33.71%) Agile
7 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (22.47%) Deployment Automation
8 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
9 19 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (21.35%) DevSecOps
9 19 (21.35%) Functional Testing
9 19 (21.35%) Non-Functional Testing
10 17 (19.10%) Project Management
11 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (16.85%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (16.85%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 15 (16.85%) Performance Analysis
12 15 (16.85%) Release Management
12 15 (16.85%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.57%) Python
2 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.48%) Go
3 12 (13.48%) TypeScript
4 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.11%) Bash
6 8 (8.99%) C#
7 5 (5.62%) Java
7 5 (5.62%) JSX
7 5 (5.62%) R
8 4 (4.49%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.49%) SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Ada
9 1 (1.12%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (15.73%) Degree
4 6 (6.74%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.35%) NCSC
2 8 (8.99%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (50.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (60.67%) Terraform
2 32 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 21 (23.60%) Ansible
4 10 (11.24%) Grafana
5 5 (5.62%) Kibana
6 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.25%) Puppet
7 2 (2.25%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.12%) Argo
8 1 (1.12%) Consul
8 1 (1.12%) Packer
8 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.12%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.74%) SAP
2 6 (6.74%) Splunk
3 4 (4.49%) Google
3 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.37%) Databricks
5 2 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.25%) New Relic
5 2 (2.25%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Thales