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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 478 393
Rank change year-on-year +14 -85 +89
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 111 186 613
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 0.95% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 96 124 175
10th Percentile £41,250 £54,125 £39,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,180 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +43.48% -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,125 £109,865 £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 14,653 19,603 37,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.34% 48.31% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,910 14,302 21,927
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 20 May 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 68 (61.26%) AWS
3 61 (54.95%) Azure
4 33 (29.73%) GCP
5 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.51%) Serverless
7 14 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.61%) PaaS
8 13 (11.71%) SaaS
9 10 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (9.01%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.01%) IaaS
9 10 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (6.31%) npm
10 7 (6.31%) Yarn
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.50%) Datadog
12 5 (4.50%) Vercel
13 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 26 (23.42%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (18.92%) Redis
3 10 (9.01%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.31%) GIS
5 6 (5.41%) MySQL
6 5 (4.50%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.80%) Big Data
10 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (22.52%) GitLab
2 23 (20.72%) Git
3 19 (17.12%) Jenkins
4 16 (14.41%) CircleCI
5 14 (12.61%) SonarQube
6 10 (9.01%) JIRA
7 7 (6.31%) CMake
8 5 (4.50%) git-flow
8 5 (4.50%) Maven
8 5 (4.50%) Selenium
9 4 (3.60%) Postman
9 4 (3.60%) Terragrunt
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 32 (28.83%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 17 (15.32%) Marketing
5 7 (6.31%) Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Electronics
6 6 (5.41%) Games
6 6 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (35.14%) Developer
2 29 (26.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.02%) Senior
4 16 (14.41%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 11 (9.91%) Software Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) Software Developer
9 9 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Junior
10 7 (6.31%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) C# Developer
11 6 (5.41%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Geospatial Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior C# Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Lead
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Full Stack Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) Node.js
2 15 (13.51%) React
3 11 (9.91%) Django
4 10 (9.01%) Flask
5 9 (8.11%) ARM Templates
5 9 (8.11%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (8.11%) JSON
5 9 (8.11%) Kafka
5 9 (8.11%) Vue
6 7 (6.31%) Celery
6 7 (6.31%) Dask
6 7 (6.31%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.31%) HTML
6 7 (6.31%) NumPy
6 7 (6.31%) OpenAPI
6 7 (6.31%) RESTful
6 7 (6.31%) Swagger
6 7 (6.31%) VuePress
7 6 (5.41%) GeoJSON
7 6 (5.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Onboarding
2 14 (12.61%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.91%) Virtual Team
4 8 (7.21%) Private Cloud
4 8 (7.21%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.90%) Online Games
9 1 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.92%) 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 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 65 (58.56%) DevOps
3 47 (42.34%) Software Engineering
4 45 (40.54%) Agile
5 34 (30.63%) Containerisation
6 33 (29.73%) Test Automation
7 29 (26.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (20.72%) Deployment Automation
9 20 (18.02%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (16.22%) DevSecOps
10 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.61%) Computer Science
11 14 (12.61%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.61%) Release Management
12 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (11.71%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (11.71%) Functional Testing
12 13 (11.71%) Non-Functional Testing
12 13 (11.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.83%) Python
2 31 (27.93%) Go
3 27 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.61%) Java
6 13 (11.71%) Bash
7 10 (9.01%) C#
7 10 (9.01%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.11%) 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 14 (12.61%) Degree
4 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) 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 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (50.45%) Terraform
2 37 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (25.23%) Ansible
4 10 (9.01%) Puppet
5 9 (8.11%) Grafana
5 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.50%) Argo
6 5 (4.50%) Kibana
7 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.80%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.90%) Consul
9 1 (0.90%) Packer
9 1 (0.90%) Podman
9 1 (0.90%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.21%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
3 6 (5.41%) Splunk
4 5 (4.50%) McAfee
5 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) Databricks
7 2 (1.80%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.80%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.90%) Thales
8 1 (0.90%) VMware