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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 349 471
Rank change year-on-year +33 +122 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 127 88 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.45% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 88 80 93
10th Percentile £46,550 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,938 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -18.37%
75th Percentile £73,982 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £87,875 £99,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -15.58%

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 8,029 6,073 13,988
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.54% 37.57% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,717 4,480 11,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 4 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 (3.94%) Apache
2 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.57%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) nginx
2 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.57%) WordPress
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.79%) Drupal
3 1 (0.79%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) GitHub
2 85 (66.93%) AWS
3 61 (48.03%) Azure
4 34 (26.77%) Serverless
5 33 (25.98%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (22.05%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (14.96%) Amazon S3
8 16 (12.60%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (11.81%) GCP
10 14 (11.02%) Firebase
10 14 (11.02%) Stripe
10 14 (11.02%) TestFlight
11 12 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.66%) PaaS
12 11 (8.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (7.09%) Datadog
14 6 (4.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.24%) Firewall
1 13 (10.24%) VPN
2 6 (4.72%) DNS
3 4 (3.15%) HTTP
4 3 (2.36%) RTP
4 3 (2.36%) SSL
4 3 (2.36%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.36%) VoIP
4 3 (2.36%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.57%) SSH
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) LTE
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.09%) MySQL
5 8 (6.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.94%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.15%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.15%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.36%) Metadata
8 3 (2.36%) Power BI
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.57%) Big Data
9 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.57%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (24.41%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.83%) Git
3 14 (11.02%) Crashlytics
3 14 (11.02%) XCTest
4 11 (8.66%) GitLab
5 8 (6.30%) JIRA
6 6 (4.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.94%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.94%) Storybook
8 3 (2.36%) Postman
8 3 (2.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.57%) MLflow
10 1 (0.79%) Appium
10 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.79%) Gatling
10 1 (0.79%) git-flow
10 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.79%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 42 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.30%) Retail
4 7 (5.51%) Finance
5 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.36%) Health Technology
6 3 (2.36%) Military
6 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Aviation
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (29.13%) Senior
2 26 (20.47%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (19.69%) Developer
4 18 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.81%) Mobile Engineer
7 14 (11.02%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (9.45%) Lead
10 10 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (7.87%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (7.87%) Software Engineer
11 9 (7.09%) .NET Developer
11 9 (7.09%) Senior Developer
11 9 (7.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.51%) Administrator
13 7 (5.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.51%) DevOps Administrator
13 7 (5.51%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.11%) React
2 19 (14.96%) CSS
3 17 (13.39%) REST
4 14 (11.02%) .NET
4 14 (11.02%) SwiftUI
4 14 (11.02%) UIKit
5 11 (8.66%) Node.js
5 11 (8.66%) Tailwind CSS
6 9 (7.09%) RESTful
7 8 (6.30%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (5.51%) Web Services
9 6 (4.72%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.72%) Flutter
9 6 (4.72%) HTML
9 6 (4.72%) Jest
9 6 (4.72%) Kafka
10 5 (3.94%) OAuth
10 5 (3.94%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.94%) React Native
10 5 (3.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 20 (15.75%) Mobile App
3 18 (14.17%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (10.24%) Private Cloud
5 8 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.51%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.51%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.72%) CMDB
7 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.57%) NHS
9 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.20%) Linux
2 15 (11.81%) Apple iOS
3 8 (6.30%) Windows
4 7 (5.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.57%) Unix
7 1 (0.79%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (92.13%) CI/CD
2 69 (54.33%) DevOps
3 68 (53.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (31.50%) Containerisation
5 36 (28.35%) Test Automation
6 34 (26.77%) AI
6 34 (26.77%) Mentoring
7 33 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (25.20%) Observability
9 31 (24.41%) Agile
10 30 (23.62%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (20.47%) Code Quality
12 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (18.90%) Analytics
14 23 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (17.32%) Software Engineering
16 20 (15.75%) Process Improvement
17 19 (14.96%) Cloud Security
17 19 (14.96%) Deployment Automation
17 19 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.88%) Python
2 25 (19.69%) Bash
3 24 (18.90%) TypeScript
4 22 (17.32%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.17%) SQL
6 17 (13.39%) Kotlin
7 16 (12.60%) PowerShell
8 14 (11.02%) Swift
9 11 (8.66%) Go
10 10 (7.87%) C#
11 7 (5.51%) Groovy
11 7 (5.51%) PHP
12 6 (4.72%) Bicep
12 6 (4.72%) Dart
13 5 (3.94%) Scala
14 4 (3.15%) C++
14 4 (3.15%) Java
15 3 (2.36%) C
16 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
16 2 (1.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (11.02%) Degree
2 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.87%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 3 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.57%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (33.07%) Docker
2 10 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.36%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (51.18%) Terraform
2 50 (39.37%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.90%) Ansible
4 19 (14.96%) Grafana
5 15 (11.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.87%) Progress Chef
7 7 (5.51%) Argo
7 7 (5.51%) Packer
7 7 (5.51%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Consul
9 1 (0.79%) Istio
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) linkerd
9 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.02%) Amplitude
2 14 (11.02%) Braze
2 14 (11.02%) VMware
3 6 (4.72%) Cisco
3 6 (4.72%) EMC
3 6 (4.72%) F5
3 6 (4.72%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.15%) Google
4 4 (3.15%) New Relic
5 3 (2.36%) BT
5 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.36%) Mitel
5 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.36%) Splunk
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
6 2 (1.57%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.79%) LogicMonitor