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

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	58	55	29
Rank change year-on-year	-3	-26	+58
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	71	35	84
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.32%	3.39%	5.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category	10.53%	8.79%	15.73%
Number of salaries quoted	34	30	69
10^th Percentile	£57,250	-	£48,046
25^th Percentile	£67,500	£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	£100,938	£70,063	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£75,250	-
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 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	674	398	534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	22.02%	38.53%	36.90%
Number of salaries quoted	464	323	379
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£28,250	£31,725
25^th Percentile	£48,635	£46,500	£47,231
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,306	£62,500	£58,750
Median % change year-on-year	+10.89%	+6.38%	-2.08%
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	£57,500
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	+4.35%	-3.40%

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 30 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 30 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	90.1%	64
2	AWS	83.1%	59
3	Docker	67.6%	48
4	GitHub Actions	66.2%	47
5	DevOps	63.4%	45
6	Jenkins	56.3%	40
7	AWS CloudFormation	53.5%	38
8	Terraform	46.5%	33
9	Infrastructure as Code	45.1%	32
10	Amazon S3	39.4%	28
10	Kubernetes	39.4%	28
10	SQL	39.4%	28
13	Platform Engineering	38.0%	27
14	AWS Lambda	36.6%	26
14	Serverless	36.6%	26
16	TypeScript	35.2%	25
17	Node.js	33.8%	24
17	Python	33.8%	24
17	Security Cleared	33.8%	24
20	Amazon ECS	32.4%	23
20	DynamoDB	32.4%	23
22	Amazon CloudWatch	31.0%	22
22	Git	31.0%	22
22	Java	31.0%	22
25	Amazon OpenSearch	29.6%	21
25	AngularJS	29.6%	21
25	AWS Step Functions	29.6%	21
25	Kotlin	29.6%	21
25	Linux	29.6%	21
25	SC Cleared	29.6%	21

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	83.1%	59
2	GitHub Actions	66.2%	47
3	AWS CloudFormation	53.5%	38
4	Amazon S3	39.4%	28
5	AWS Lambda	36.6%	26
5	Serverless	36.6%	26
7	Amazon ECS	32.4%	23
8	Amazon CloudWatch	31.0%	22
9	Amazon OpenSearch	29.6%	21
9	AWS Step Functions	29.6%	21
11	Amazon EC2	25.4%	18
12	Datadog	23.9%	17
13	Azure	11.3%	8
14	Azure DevOps	7.0%	5
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