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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 349 348
Rank change year-on-year +143 -1 +150
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 173 100 132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 1.27% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 127 75 105
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £74,375 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £76,500 £97,290
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,750 £79,632
% change year-on-year +8.61% -16.18% +9.84%

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 5,555 7,849 9,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.53% 45.88% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,989 5,076 8,197
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 December 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 8 (4.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.73%) IIS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.58%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) GitHub
2 131 (75.72%) Azure
3 86 (49.71%) AWS
3 86 (49.71%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (19.08%) Serverless
5 32 (18.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (18.50%) GCP
6 28 (16.18%) SaaS
7 27 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (14.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (13.87%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (13.87%) Datadog
10 22 (12.72%) Entra ID
11 18 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (10.40%) Azure AKS
11 18 (10.40%) PaaS
12 17 (9.83%) Azure App Service
13 16 (9.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) Firewall
2 5 (2.89%) Network Security
3 4 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (1.73%) DNS
5 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.45%) NoSQL
1 25 (14.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.36%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.78%) Flink
4 8 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.05%) BigQuery
5 7 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.31%) Looker
7 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.31%) Power BI
7 4 (2.31%) Tableau
8 3 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.73%) Metadata
8 3 (1.73%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.16%) MySQL
10 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 42 (24.28%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.23%) Git
3 24 (13.87%) GitLab
4 10 (5.78%) JIRA
4 10 (5.78%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.62%) Subversion
7 4 (2.31%) JMeter
8 3 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.73%) JUnit
8 3 (1.73%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.73%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.16%) git-flow
9 2 (1.16%) Postman
9 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (41.04%) Finance
2 69 (39.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.98%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.78%) Front Office
7 10 (5.78%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.78%) Retail
8 9 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.47%) Back Office
9 6 (3.47%) Marketing
10 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.16%) Billing
11 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Electronics
11 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.16%) Law
12 1 (0.58%) Automotive
12 1 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 47 (27.17%) Senior
2 37 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.76%) Lead
4 23 (13.29%) Developer
5 20 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (10.98%) .NET Developer
7 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (8.09%) Azure Developer
9 14 (8.09%) Development Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Lead .NET Developer
10 13 (7.51%) Lead Developer
11 12 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (6.94%) SaaS Developer
12 11 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
13 10 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.97%) .NET
2 37 (21.39%) RESTful
3 28 (16.18%) React
4 16 (9.25%) .NET Framework
4 16 (9.25%) Kafka
5 15 (8.67%) JSON
5 15 (8.67%) OAuth
5 15 (8.67%) OAuth2
6 14 (8.09%) ADO
6 14 (8.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 14 (8.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 14 (8.09%) Node.js
7 13 (7.51%) Entity Framework
7 13 (7.51%) Razor View Engine
7 13 (7.51%) YAML
8 9 (5.20%) AWS CDK
9 8 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.47%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.47%) ARM Templates
10 6 (3.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.56%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.47%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.31%) Blog
8 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.61%) Linux
2 17 (9.83%) Windows
3 5 (2.89%) Unix
4 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (94.22%) CI/CD
2 153 (88.44%) DevOps
3 88 (50.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (37.57%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (32.37%) Containerisation
6 52 (30.06%) Observability
7 50 (28.90%) Agile
8 48 (27.75%) Test Automation
9 45 (26.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (23.70%) Incident Response
10 41 (23.70%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (19.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (19.08%) Mentoring
13 32 (18.50%) RBAC
14 30 (17.34%) Cloud Security
14 30 (17.34%) Computer Science
15 29 (16.76%) Code Quality
16 28 (16.18%) Asset Management
16 28 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (16.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.13%) Python
2 47 (27.17%) Bicep
3 44 (25.43%) SQL
4 39 (22.54%) Bash
5 35 (20.23%) PowerShell
6 25 (14.45%) TypeScript
7 22 (12.72%) JavaScript
8 21 (12.14%) Java
9 12 (6.94%) Go
10 9 (5.20%) C#
11 4 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.73%) Ruby
13 2 (1.16%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Degree
2 29 (16.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (10.40%) Azure Certification
4 18 (10.40%) Security Cleared
5 16 (9.25%) SC Cleared
6 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.58%) CCNA
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.65%) QA
2 18 (10.40%) GDPR
3 16 (9.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.47%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.31%) GRC
5 4 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.16%) ECSS
8 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (34.68%) Docker
2 22 (12.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (57.80%) Terraform
2 84 (48.55%) Kubernetes
3 39 (22.54%) Grafana
4 30 (17.34%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.14%) Ansible
6 15 (8.67%) Argo
7 9 (5.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.31%) Cilium
8 4 (2.31%) logstash
9 3 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.58%) Icinga
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) Ab Initio
3 9 (5.20%) Google
3 9 (5.20%) VMware
4 8 (4.62%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.89%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.89%) Splunk
7 4 (2.31%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.31%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.31%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.31%) Talend
7 4 (2.31%) Zoho
8 3 (1.73%) Databricks
8 3 (1.73%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.16%) SAP
9 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle
10 1 (0.58%) Pega