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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 344 454
Rank change year-on-year +35 +110 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 132 83 95
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.36% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 93 79 83
10th Percentile £45,100 £51,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -15.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,250 £88,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 8,368 6,121 12,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.87% 37.04% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,520 10,250
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,950 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%

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 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 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) nginx
2 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) WordPress
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.76%) Drupal
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) GitHub
2 87 (65.91%) AWS
3 63 (47.73%) Azure
4 33 (25.00%) Serverless
5 32 (24.24%) 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%) PaaS
12 12 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (7.58%) Datadog
15 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
16 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 16 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) MySQL
3 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.03%) Power BI
6 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.27%) Metadata
7 2 (1.52%) Big Data
7 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.52%) Redis
7 2 (1.52%) Tableau
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 32 (24.24%) Git
3 14 (10.61%) Crashlytics
3 14 (10.61%) XCTest
4 11 (8.33%) GitLab
5 8 (6.06%) 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%) MLflow
11 1 (0.76%) Appium
11 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.76%) git-flow
11 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.76%) Vite
11 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.30%) Finance
3 7 (5.30%) Retail
4 6 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.27%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.27%) Military
7 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Aviation
8 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (28.79%) Senior
2 26 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (18.18%) 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 12 (9.09%) 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%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Administrator
13 6 (4.55%) Lead Developer
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 12 (9.09%) .NET
8 11 (8.33%) RESTful
9 7 (5.30%) Jest
9 7 (5.30%) Web Services
9 7 (5.30%) YAML
10 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.55%) Flutter
10 6 (4.55%) Kafka
10 6 (4.55%) Playwright
10 6 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (3.79%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.79%) OAuth
11 5 (3.79%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.15%) 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%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (11.36%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Unix
6 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 70 (53.03%) DevOps
3 66 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (31.06%) Containerisation
5 40 (30.30%) Test Automation
6 37 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (26.52%) AI
8 33 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 31 (23.48%) Agile
10 30 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (21.97%) Code Quality
12 28 (21.21%) Observability
13 26 (19.70%) Analytics
13 26 (19.70%) Software Engineering
14 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (15.15%) Process Improvement
17 19 (14.39%) Clean Code
17 19 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.70%) Python
2 30 (22.73%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.45%) Bash
4 24 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.64%) SQL
6 17 (12.88%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.12%) PowerShell
8 14 (10.61%) Swift
9 11 (8.33%) Go
10 8 (6.06%) C#
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) Java
11 7 (5.30%) PHP
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 14 (10.61%) 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 6 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.79%) 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
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (36.36%) Docker
2 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (48.48%) Terraform
2 52 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.18%) Ansible
4 19 (14.39%) 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 22 (16.67%) 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%) Foundry