Which roles ask for GitHub Actions at tech companies · 91 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
91 roles counted that list GitHub Actions, one per company, title and level; 125 postings in the window.
In short
GitHub Actions: listed in 91 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 62 and preferred in 29. The largest group is software engineer roles: 29 of 91 (32%).
- Required
- 62 of 91 (68%)
- Of the roles that list GitHub Actions
- Preferred
- 29 of 91 (32%)
- Of the roles that list GitHub Actions
- Largest group
- 29 of 91 (32%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for GitHub Actions
Roles listing GitHub Actions, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 29 | 29 of 719 (4%) |
| DevOps engineer | 20 | 20 of 58 (34%) |
| QA engineer | 9 | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| Platform engineer | 8 | 8 of 57 (14%) |
| Data engineer | 6 | 6 of 99 (6%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 6 | 6 of 70 (9%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 4 | 4 of 79 (5%) |
| Security engineer | 3 | 3 of 126 (2%) |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Mobile engineer | 2 | 2 of 38 |
Companies that ask for it most
- JumpCloud4 roles
- Bitwarden2 roles
- Black Duck Software, Inc.2 roles
- Black Financial Consult2 roles
- Latino Legends2 roles
- Remedy Product Studio2 roles
- Scale AI2 roles
- Together AI2 roles
- Vantor2 roles
- Wolters Kluwer2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 91 GitHub Actions roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 62 of 91 (68%) |
| Python | 50 of 91 (55%) |
| AWS | 46 of 91 (51%) |
| Kubernetes | 40 of 91 (44%) |
| Docker | 39 of 91 (43%) |
| Terraform | 34 of 91 (37%) |
| Azure | 32 of 91 (35%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 30 of 91 (33%) |
| GCP | 29 of 91 (32%) |
| GitLab CI | 27 of 91 (30%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 18 of 91 (20%) |
| Terraform | 17 of 91 (19%) |
| Kubernetes | 13 of 91 (14%) |
| AWS | 11 of 91 (12%) |
| Docker | 11 of 91 (12%) |
| Observability | 11 of 91 (12%) |
| Python | 11 of 91 (12%) |
| Azure | 10 of 91 (11%) |
| GCP | 10 of 91 (11%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 10 of 91 (11%) |
Experience
Of the 53 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 53 of 53 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 52 of 53 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 50 of 53 (94%)
- 5+ years
- 38 of 53 (72%)
- 8+ years
- 12 of 53 (23%)
- 10+ years
- 2 of 53 (4%)
Degree
Of the 63 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 3 of 63 (5%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 14 of 63 (22%)
- Preferred
- 1 of 63 (2%)
- Not mentioned
- 45 of 63 (71%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 91 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 34 of 91 (37%)
- Remote roles
- 73 of 91 (80%)
How we count: 91 roles from 79 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology