GitHub Job Trends in Leeds

GitHub
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds citing GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	55	49	29
Rank change year-on-year	-6	-20	+57
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	72	42	84
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.38%	3.77%	5.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category	10.73%	9.68%	16.12%
Number of salaries quoted	33	34	69
10^th Percentile	£56,500	-	-
25^th Percentile	£66,250	£28,250	£48,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£85,000	£52,250	£49,500
Median % change year-on-year	+62.68%	+5.56%	-37.98%
75^th Percentile	£101,250	£67,750	£69,500
90^th Percentile	-	£76,750	£69,600
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£85,000	£52,250	£49,500
% change year-on-year	+62.68%	+5.56%	-28.86%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in Leeds.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	671	434	521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	22.17%	38.96%	37.08%
Number of salaries quoted	459	348	369
10^th Percentile	£38,772	£28,250	£31,600
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£45,000	£47,231
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,999	£62,500	£58,500
Median % change year-on-year	+12.00%	+6.84%	-6.40%
75^th Percentile	£83,750	£75,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£85,000	£85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£65,000	£60,000	£57,826
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	+3.76%	-2.86%

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

GitHub Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing GitHub.

GitHub Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Leeds over the 6 months to 10 November 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	88.9%	64
2	AWS	79.2%	57
3	DevOps	63.9%	46
4	Docker	62.5%	45
4	GitHub Actions	62.5%	45
6	Jenkins	52.8%	38
7	AWS CloudFormation	48.6%	35
7	Terraform	48.6%	35
9	Infrastructure as Code	45.8%	33
10	Amazon S3	38.9%	28
11	Kubernetes	37.5%	27
11	SQL	37.5%	27
13	AWS Lambda	36.1%	26
13	Platform Engineering	36.1%	26
13	Serverless	36.1%	26
16	TypeScript	33.3%	24
17	DynamoDB	31.9%	23
17	Node.js	31.9%	23
17	Python	31.9%	23
17	Security Cleared	31.9%	23
21	Amazon CloudWatch	30.6%	22
21	Amazon ECS	30.6%	22
21	Git	30.6%	22
24	Java	29.2%	21
24	SC Cleared	29.2%	21
26	Amazon OpenSearch	27.8%	20
26	AngularJS	27.8%	20
26	AWS Step Functions	27.8%	20
26	Kotlin	27.8%	20
30	Agile	26.4%	19

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	79.2%	57
2	GitHub Actions	62.5%	45
3	AWS CloudFormation	48.6%	35
4	Amazon S3	38.9%	28
5	AWS Lambda	36.1%	26
5	Serverless	36.1%	26
7	Amazon CloudWatch	30.6%	22
7	Amazon ECS	30.6%	22
9	Amazon OpenSearch	27.8%	20
9	AWS Step Functions	27.8%	20
11	Amazon EC2	22.2%	16
11	Datadog	22.2%	16
13	Azure	13.9%	10
14	Azure DevOps	9.7%	7
15	GCP	5.6%	4
15	IaaS	5.6%	4
17	GitHub Copilot	4.2%	3
18	Amazon EKS	2.8%	2
18	Anthropic Claude	2.8%	2
18	Azure Cosmos DB	2.8%	2