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

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	52	51	29
Rank change year-on-year	-1	-22	+61
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	72	29	88
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.36%	2.94%	5.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category	10.94%	7.73%	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 citing cloud computing skills in Leeds.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	658	375	546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	21.55%	38.07%	36.99%
Number of salaries quoted	453	305	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)	£69,607	£62,733	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.96%	+4.56%	-
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£75,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£85,000	£85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£65,000	£60,000	£58,500
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	+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 23 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 23 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 citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	90.3%	65
2	AWS	83.3%	60
3	Docker	69.4%	50
4	GitHub Actions	66.7%	48
5	DevOps	62.5%	45
6	AWS CloudFormation	55.6%	40
6	Jenkins	55.6%	40
8	Terraform	45.8%	33
9	Infrastructure as Code	44.4%	32
10	Amazon S3	40.3%	29
10	Kubernetes	40.3%	29
10	SQL	40.3%	29
13	Platform Engineering	38.9%	28
14	AWS Lambda	37.5%	27
14	Serverless	37.5%	27
16	TypeScript	36.1%	26
17	Amazon ECS	33.3%	24
17	DynamoDB	33.3%	24
17	Node.js	33.3%	24
17	Python	33.3%	24
17	Security Cleared	33.3%	24
22	Amazon CloudWatch	31.9%	23
23	Amazon OpenSearch	30.6%	22
23	AngularJS	30.6%	22
23	AWS Step Functions	30.6%	22
23	Git	30.6%	22
23	Java	30.6%	22
23	Kotlin	30.6%	22
23	Linux	30.6%	22
23	Software Delivery	30.6%	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	83.3%	60
2	GitHub Actions	66.7%	48
3	AWS CloudFormation	55.6%	40
4	Amazon S3	40.3%	29
5	AWS Lambda	37.5%	27
5	Serverless	37.5%	27
7	Amazon ECS	33.3%	24
8	Amazon CloudWatch	31.9%	23
9	Amazon OpenSearch	30.6%	22
9	AWS Step Functions	30.6%	22
11	Amazon EC2	26.4%	19
12	Datadog	25.0%	18
13	Azure	9.7%	7
14	Azure DevOps	5.6%	4
14	GCP	5.6%	4
14	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