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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 488 390
Rank change year-on-year +16 -98 +83
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Actions 112 152 673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.40% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.84% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 97 93 182
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 £116,789 £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 15,032 18,007 40,311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.61% 47.71% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 12,066 13,649 22,138
10th Percentile £36,050 £38,125 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%

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 9 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 (9.82%) nginx
2 7 (6.25%) Confluence
3 6 (5.36%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) CMS
4 4 (3.57%) IIS
4 4 (3.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) GitHub
2 69 (61.61%) AWS
3 57 (50.89%) Azure
4 29 (25.89%) GCP
5 19 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.39%) PaaS
7 14 (12.50%) SaaS
7 14 (12.50%) Serverless
8 13 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 11 (9.82%) IaaS
10 10 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (6.25%) npm
11 7 (6.25%) Yarn
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
13 5 (4.46%) Datadog
13 5 (4.46%) Vercel
14 4 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) DNS
1 5 (4.46%) MQTT
1 5 (4.46%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (4.46%) VPN
2 4 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.11%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (19.64%) Redis
3 11 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.25%) GIS
5 6 (5.36%) MySQL
6 5 (4.46%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.79%) Big Data
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (21.43%) GitLab
2 19 (16.96%) Git
3 15 (13.39%) CircleCI
3 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
4 13 (11.61%) SonarQube
5 10 (8.93%) JIRA
6 7 (6.25%) CMake
7 4 (3.57%) Postman
7 4 (3.57%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.68%) git-flow
8 3 (2.68%) Maven
8 3 (2.68%) Selenium
9 2 (1.79%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.89%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.89%) Gradle
10 1 (0.89%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.89%) Phabricator
10 1 (0.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (27.68%) Finance
2 20 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (15.18%) Marketing
4 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Electronics
5 6 (5.36%) Games
5 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
7 2 (1.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Developer
2 28 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (19.64%) Senior
4 16 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 12 (10.71%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Software Developer
8 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Junior
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Systems Developer
10 6 (5.36%) C# Developer
10 6 (5.36%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Geospatial Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Lead
10 6 (5.36%) Senior C# Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.46%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.18%) Node.js
2 16 (14.29%) React
3 12 (10.71%) Django
4 11 (9.82%) Flask
5 10 (8.93%) ARM Templates
5 10 (8.93%) Azure Blueprints
6 9 (8.04%) JSON
6 9 (8.04%) Kafka
6 9 (8.04%) Vue
7 8 (7.14%) RESTful
8 7 (6.25%) Celery
8 7 (6.25%) Dask
8 7 (6.25%) GraphQL
8 7 (6.25%) HTML
8 7 (6.25%) NumPy
8 7 (6.25%) OpenAPI
8 7 (6.25%) Swagger
8 7 (6.25%) VuePress
9 6 (5.36%) GeoPandas
9 6 (5.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Onboarding
2 13 (11.61%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.36%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.46%) IoT
5 5 (4.46%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.68%) Tandem
8 2 (1.79%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.89%) Online Games
9 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.64%) Linux
2 18 (16.07%) Windows
3 7 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 7 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.57%) VMS
4 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.79%) Debian
5 2 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.61%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.14%) DevOps
3 47 (41.96%) Software Engineering
4 42 (37.50%) Agile
5 34 (30.36%) Containerisation
6 32 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 26 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
10 17 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (15.18%) DevSecOps
11 15 (13.39%) Computer Science
11 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (12.50%) Functional Testing
12 14 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
13 13 (11.61%) Continuous Delivery
13 13 (11.61%) Project Management
13 13 (11.61%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) Python
2 29 (25.89%) Go
3 25 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 17 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.71%) Java
6 11 (9.82%) Bash
7 10 (8.93%) C#
7 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.46%) Ada
9 5 (4.46%) C
9 5 (4.46%) JSX
9 5 (4.46%) R
10 2 (1.79%) SQL
11 1 (0.89%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (13.39%) Degree
4 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.50%) NCSC
2 7 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) NIST
3 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (44.64%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (50.00%) Terraform
2 36 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 25 (22.32%) Ansible
4 10 (8.93%) Grafana
5 8 (7.14%) Puppet
6 7 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.46%) Kibana
8 3 (2.68%) Argo
8 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.79%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.89%) Consul
10 1 (0.89%) Packer
10 1 (0.89%) Podman
10 1 (0.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Google
2 6 (5.36%) SAP
2 6 (5.36%) Splunk
3 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.68%) McAfee
5 2 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.79%) New Relic
5 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.89%) Thales
6 1 (0.89%) VMware