GitHub Job Trends in Leeds

GitHub
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	50	50	27
Rank change year-on-year	0	-23	+63
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	74	30	88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.42%	3.06%	5.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category	11.23%	8.11%	16.12%
Number of salaries quoted	33	24	73
10^th Percentile	£56,500	-	-
25^th Percentile	£66,250	£28,250	£48,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£85,000	£57,500	£49,500
Median % change year-on-year	+47.83%	+16.16%	-37.98%
75^th Percentile	£100,000	£69,688	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£73,575	-
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£85,000	£57,500	£49,500
% change year-on-year	+47.83%	+16.16%	-16.84%

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	659	370	546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	21.56%	37.79%	36.87%
Number of salaries quoted	452	300	390
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£28,250	£31,475
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£46,750	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,306	£63,867	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.52%	+6.44%	-
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£75,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£85,000	£85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£64,500	£60,000	£58,500
% change year-on-year	+7.50%	+2.56%	-1.72%

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 22 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 22 October 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 with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	90.5%	67
2	AWS	83.8%	62
3	Docker	70.3%	52
4	GitHub Actions	67.6%	50
5	DevOps	60.8%	45
6	AWS CloudFormation	56.8%	42
6	Jenkins	56.8%	42
8	Terraform	47.3%	35
9	Infrastructure as Code	45.9%	34
10	Kubernetes	41.9%	31
11	Platform Engineering	40.5%	30
12	Amazon S3	39.2%	29
12	SQL	39.2%	29
14	AWS Lambda	36.5%	27
14	Serverless	36.5%	27
16	Python	35.1%	26
16	TypeScript	35.1%	26
18	Amazon ECS	32.4%	24
18	DynamoDB	32.4%	24
18	Linux	32.4%	24
18	Node.js	32.4%	24
18	Security Cleared	32.4%	24
18	Software Delivery	32.4%	24
24	Amazon CloudWatch	31.1%	23
25	Amazon OpenSearch	29.7%	22
25	AngularJS	29.7%	22
25	AWS Step Functions	29.7%	22
25	Git	29.7%	22
25	Java	29.7%	22
25	Kotlin	29.7%	22

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	83.8%	62
2	GitHub Actions	67.6%	50
3	AWS CloudFormation	56.8%	42
4	Amazon S3	39.2%	29
5	AWS Lambda	36.5%	27
5	Serverless	36.5%	27
7	Amazon ECS	32.4%	24
8	Amazon CloudWatch	31.1%	23
9	Amazon OpenSearch	29.7%	22
9	AWS Step Functions	29.7%	22
11	Amazon EC2	27.0%	20
12	Datadog	24.3%	18
13	Azure	9.5%	7
14	Azure DevOps	5.4%	4
14	GCP	5.4%	4
14	IaaS	5.4%	4
17	GitHub Copilot	4.1%	3
18	Amazon EKS	2.7%	2
18	Anthropic Claude	2.7%	2
18	Azure Cosmos DB	2.7%	2