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 9 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	52	49	27
Rank change year-on-year	-3	-22	+59
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	71	42	86
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.35%	3.77%	6.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category	10.58%	9.72%	16.41%
Number of salaries quoted	33	34	71
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	-
West Yorkshire median annual salary	£85,000	£52,250	£54,750
% change year-on-year	+62.68%	-4.57%	-8.02%

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 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	671	432	524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	22.18%	38.74%	36.93%
Number of salaries quoted	460	347	372
10^th Percentile	£38,772	£28,250	£31,663
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£45,625	£47,231
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,803	£62,500	£58,625
Median % change year-on-year	+11.68%	+6.61%	-2.29%
75^th Percentile	£83,125	£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 9 November 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 9 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	88.7%	63
2	AWS	80.3%	57
3	DevOps	63.4%	45
3	Docker	63.4%	45
5	GitHub Actions	62.0%	44
6	Jenkins	53.5%	38
7	AWS CloudFormation	49.3%	35
8	Terraform	47.9%	34
9	Infrastructure as Code	45.1%	32
10	Amazon S3	39.4%	28
11	SQL	38.0%	27
12	AWS Lambda	36.6%	26
12	Kubernetes	36.6%	26
12	Serverless	36.6%	26
15	Platform Engineering	35.2%	25
16	TypeScript	33.8%	24
17	DynamoDB	32.4%	23
17	Node.js	32.4%	23
17	Python	32.4%	23
17	Security Cleared	32.4%	23
21	Amazon CloudWatch	31.0%	22
21	Amazon ECS	31.0%	22
21	Git	31.0%	22
24	Java	29.6%	21
24	SC Cleared	29.6%	21
26	Amazon OpenSearch	28.2%	20
26	AngularJS	28.2%	20
26	AWS Step Functions	28.2%	20
26	Kotlin	28.2%	20
30	Agile	26.8%	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	80.3%	57
2	GitHub Actions	62.0%	44
3	AWS CloudFormation	49.3%	35
4	Amazon S3	39.4%	28
5	AWS Lambda	36.6%	26
5	Serverless	36.6%	26
7	Amazon CloudWatch	31.0%	22
7	Amazon ECS	31.0%	22
9	Amazon OpenSearch	28.2%	20
9	AWS Step Functions	28.2%	20
11	Amazon EC2	22.5%	16
11	Datadog	22.5%	16
13	Azure	12.7%	9
14	Azure DevOps	8.5%	6
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