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 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	49	52	26
Rank change year-on-year	+3	-26	+64
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	78	30	92
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.54%	3.09%	6.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category	11.89%	8.22%	16.76%
Number of salaries quoted	34	24	77
10^th Percentile	£52,027	-	-
25^th Percentile	£65,313	£28,250	£48,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£85,000	£60,000	£49,500
Median % change year-on-year	+41.67%	+21.21%	-37.98%
75^th Percentile	£98,750	£70,250	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£75,000	-
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£85,000	£60,000	£49,500
% change year-on-year	+41.67%	+21.21%	-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 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	656	365	549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	21.35%	37.55%	36.90%
Number of salaries quoted	455	300	393
10^th Percentile	£36,450	£29,825	£31,650
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£47,500	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,306	£65,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+6.62%	+8.33%	-
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 17 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 17 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	89.7%	70
2	AWS	82.1%	64
3	Docker	69.2%	54
4	GitHub Actions	67.9%	53
5	DevOps	59.0%	46
6	AWS CloudFormation	56.4%	44
6	Jenkins	56.4%	44
8	Terraform	48.7%	38
9	Infrastructure as Code	47.4%	37
10	Kubernetes	43.6%	34
11	Platform Engineering	42.3%	33
12	Amazon S3	37.2%	29
12	SQL	37.2%	29
14	Python	35.9%	28
15	AWS Lambda	34.6%	27
15	Serverless	34.6%	27
17	Linux	33.3%	26
17	TypeScript	33.3%	26
19	Amazon ECS	30.8%	24
19	DynamoDB	30.8%	24
19	Node.js	30.8%	24
19	Security Cleared	30.8%	24
19	Software Delivery	30.8%	24
24	Amazon CloudWatch	29.5%	23
24	AngularJS	29.5%	23
24	Containerisation	29.5%	23
27	Amazon EC2	28.2%	22
27	Amazon OpenSearch	28.2%	22
27	AWS Step Functions	28.2%	22
27	Git	28.2%	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	82.1%	64
2	GitHub Actions	67.9%	53
3	AWS CloudFormation	56.4%	44
4	Amazon S3	37.2%	29
5	AWS Lambda	34.6%	27
5	Serverless	34.6%	27
7	Amazon ECS	30.8%	24
8	Amazon CloudWatch	29.5%	23
9	Amazon EC2	28.2%	22
9	Amazon OpenSearch	28.2%	22
9	AWS Step Functions	28.2%	22
12	Datadog	23.1%	18
13	Azure	11.5%	9
14	IaaS	6.4%	5
15	Azure DevOps	5.1%	4
15	GCP	5.1%	4
17	GitHub Copilot	3.8%	3
17	PaaS	3.8%	3
19	Amazon EKS	2.6%	2
19	Anthropic Claude	2.6%	2