GitHub Actions Jobs with Work from Home Options

GitHub Actions
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GitHub Actions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub Actions over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 471 393
Rank change year-on-year -11 -78 +89
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 111 168 663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.44% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.92% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 96 109 178
10th Percentile £41,250 £53,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +39.13% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,236 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £79,632 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.37% +22.51% -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

GitHub Actions is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,883 18,326 39,761
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.84% 47.65% 53.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,042 13,805 21,987
10th Percentile £35,767 £38,220 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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 1 June 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 (9.91%) nginx
2 7 (6.31%) Confluence
3 6 (5.41%) Apache
4 4 (3.60%) CMS
4 4 (3.60%) IIS
4 4 (3.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) GitHub
2 69 (62.16%) AWS
3 58 (52.25%) Azure
4 30 (27.03%) GCP
5 20 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.51%) PaaS
7 14 (12.61%) SaaS
7 14 (12.61%) Serverless
8 13 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (9.91%) IaaS
10 10 (9.01%) Amazon S3
10 10 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (6.31%) npm
11 7 (6.31%) Yarn
12 6 (5.41%) Amazon ELB
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.50%) Datadog
13 5 (4.50%) Vercel
14 4 (3.60%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) DNS
1 5 (4.50%) MQTT
1 5 (4.50%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (4.50%) VPN
2 4 (3.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (19.82%) Redis
3 11 (9.91%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.31%) GIS
5 6 (5.41%) MySQL
6 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.60%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.80%) Big Data
9 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (21.62%) GitLab
2 20 (18.02%) Git
3 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
4 15 (13.51%) CircleCI
5 13 (11.71%) SonarQube
6 10 (9.01%) JIRA
7 7 (6.31%) CMake
8 4 (3.60%) git-flow
8 4 (3.60%) Postman
8 4 (3.60%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.70%) Maven
9 3 (2.70%) Selenium
10 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.90%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.90%) Gradle
11 1 (0.90%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.90%) Phabricator
11 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
General
1 30 (27.03%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (15.32%) Marketing
4 17 (15.32%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Electronics
5 6 (5.41%) Games
5 6 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.50%) Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (36.04%) Developer
2 28 (25.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) Senior
4 16 (14.41%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Software Developer
7 9 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Junior
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (5.41%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.41%) C# Software Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Geospatial Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Senior C# Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Senior C# Software Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Systems Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Junior Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) Node.js
2 15 (13.51%) React
3 12 (10.81%) Django
4 11 (9.91%) Flask
5 10 (9.01%) ARM Templates
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (8.11%) JSON
6 9 (8.11%) Kafka
6 9 (8.11%) Vue
7 8 (7.21%) RESTful
8 7 (6.31%) Celery
8 7 (6.31%) Dask
8 7 (6.31%) GraphQL
8 7 (6.31%) HTML
8 7 (6.31%) NumPy
8 7 (6.31%) OpenAPI
8 7 (6.31%) Swagger
8 7 (6.31%) VuePress
9 6 (5.41%) GeoPandas
9 6 (5.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Onboarding
2 14 (12.61%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.21%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.50%) IoT
5 5 (4.50%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.70%) Tandem
8 2 (1.80%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.90%) Online Games
9 1 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Linux
2 18 (16.22%) Windows
3 7 (6.31%) Apple iOS
3 7 (6.31%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
4 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.80%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.80%) Debian
6 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.66%) DevOps
3 48 (43.24%) Software Engineering
4 43 (38.74%) Agile
5 35 (31.53%) Containerisation
6 32 (28.83%) Test Automation
7 27 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (19.82%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (17.12%) Mentoring
10 18 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (16.22%) DevSecOps
11 15 (13.51%) Computer Science
11 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.61%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (12.61%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (12.61%) Functional Testing
12 14 (12.61%) Non-Functional Testing
13 13 (11.71%) Project Management
13 13 (11.71%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.63%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) Go
3 25 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.81%) Java
6 11 (9.91%) Bash
7 10 (9.01%) C#
7 10 (9.01%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.21%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.50%) Ada
9 5 (4.50%) C
9 5 (4.50%) JSX
9 5 (4.50%) R
10 2 (1.80%) SQL
11 1 (0.90%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (13.51%) Degree
4 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) NCSC
2 7 (6.31%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (45.95%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (50.45%) Terraform
2 37 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 26 (23.42%) Ansible
4 10 (9.01%) Grafana
5 8 (7.21%) Puppet
6 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.50%) Kibana
8 3 (2.70%) Argo
8 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.80%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.90%) Consul
10 1 (0.90%) Packer
10 1 (0.90%) Podman
10 1 (0.90%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
3 6 (5.41%) Splunk
4 4 (3.60%) McAfee
4 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.80%) Databricks
5 2 (1.80%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.80%) New Relic
5 2 (1.80%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.90%) Thales
6 1 (0.90%) VMware