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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 311 405
Rank change year-on-year -13 +94 -29
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 136 111 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.94% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 102 94 71
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,525 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,125 £53,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £91,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -18.37%

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 8,676 5,713 9,224
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.85% 34.08% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 4,041 6,080
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 6 October 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 10 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
4 2 (1.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) GitHub
2 92 (67.65%) AWS
3 72 (52.94%) Azure
4 31 (22.79%) GCP
5 29 (21.32%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (16.91%) Serverless
7 17 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (12.50%) Datadog
8 15 (11.03%) Amazon S3
9 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (8.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (7.35%) Azure AKS
12 10 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (6.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (5.88%) PaaS
15 7 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (5.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (5.15%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) VPN
2 7 (5.15%) DNS
3 5 (3.68%) Firewall
4 4 (2.94%) SSH
5 2 (1.47%) BGP
5 2 (1.47%) Network Security
5 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.47%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.47%) WAN
6 1 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.74%) Internet
6 1 (0.74%) SSL
6 1 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.79%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.44%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.56%) DynamoDB
4 11 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (7.35%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.15%) MySQL
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.41%) Power BI
8 5 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (3.68%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.94%) Tableau
10 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.21%) Redis
10 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (23.53%) Git
1 32 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.65%) GitLab
3 8 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.15%) JIRA
5 6 (4.41%) Postman
6 5 (3.68%) Appium
6 5 (3.68%) Crashlytics
6 5 (3.68%) Poetry
6 5 (3.68%) Selenium
6 5 (3.68%) XCTest
7 4 (2.94%) NUnit
7 4 (2.94%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.21%) MLflow
9 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.47%) JUnit
9 2 (1.47%) Snyk
9 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.94%) Banking
6 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.21%) Local Government
8 2 (1.47%) Games
8 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Law
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Military
8 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Police
8 2 (1.47%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (39.71%) Senior
2 22 (16.18%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (13.97%) Developer
5 16 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (11.03%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Lead
7 12 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.09%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Architect
12 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.41%) Mobile Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
14 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (50.74%) Terraform
2 30 (22.06%) Node.js
3 28 (20.59%) React
4 21 (15.44%) REST
5 17 (12.50%) RESTful
6 16 (11.76%) CSS
7 12 (8.82%) Tailwind CSS
8 11 (8.09%) Kafka
9 10 (7.35%) .NET
9 10 (7.35%) AngularJS
9 10 (7.35%) GraphQL
9 10 (7.35%) Jest
10 9 (6.62%) PySpark
11 8 (5.88%) Spring
11 8 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 7 (5.15%) Web Services
12 7 (5.15%) YAML
13 6 (4.41%) Playwright
14 5 (3.68%) FastAPI
14 5 (3.68%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.09%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (7.35%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.15%) Blog
5 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.68%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.21%) Clustering
8 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.21%) NHS
8 3 (2.21%) Robotics
9 2 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.12%) Linux
2 10 (7.35%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.68%) Android
3 5 (3.68%) Unix
4 3 (2.21%) Debian
4 3 (2.21%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.47%) Windows
5 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.74%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (92.65%) CI/CD
2 75 (55.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (47.79%) DevOps
4 53 (38.97%) AI
4 53 (38.97%) Software Engineering
5 51 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 38 (27.94%) Test Automation
7 37 (27.21%) Analytics
8 36 (26.47%) Observability
9 32 (23.53%) Agile
10 28 (20.59%) Mentoring
10 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (15.44%) Code Quality
12 21 (15.44%) Machine Learning
13 20 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.50%) Cloud Security
14 17 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (50.00%) Python
2 38 (27.94%) TypeScript
3 35 (25.74%) SQL
4 30 (22.06%) Bash
5 26 (19.12%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.50%) Java
7 16 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.03%) Kotlin
9 12 (8.82%) Bicep
9 12 (8.82%) Go
10 10 (7.35%) C#
11 8 (5.88%) Scala
11 8 (5.88%) Swift
12 6 (4.41%) Groovy
12 6 (4.41%) PHP
13 3 (2.21%) Rust
14 2 (1.47%) C
14 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.74%) Ruby
15 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Degree
4 9 (6.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.47%) OCP
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.47%) IFRS
4 2 (1.47%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.47%) NIST
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
4 2 (1.47%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (55.88%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.74%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.38%) Grafana
3 13 (9.56%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.35%) Ansible
5 9 (6.62%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.41%) Argo
7 3 (2.21%) Packer
8 2 (1.47%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.74%) Cilium
9 1 (0.74%) Istio
9 1 (0.74%) linkerd
9 1 (0.74%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) Databricks
3 6 (4.41%) Google
4 5 (3.68%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.68%) Braze
4 5 (3.68%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.68%) New Relic
4 5 (3.68%) Splunk
5 4 (2.94%) VMware
6 3 (2.21%) NVIDIA
6 3 (2.21%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco
7 2 (1.47%) EMC
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) Foundry