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

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	57	48	28
Rank change year-on-year	-9	-20	+60
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	71	40	82
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.34%	3.71%	5.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category	10.57%	9.52%	15.47%
Number of salaries quoted	33	33	67
10^th Percentile	£56,500	-	£47,842
25^th Percentile	£66,250	£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	£101,250	£70,250	£69,500
90^th Percentile	-	£77,000	-
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 citing cloud computing skills in Leeds.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	672	420	530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	22.14%	38.92%	37.01%
Number of salaries quoted	462	340	374
10^th Percentile	£38,527	£28,250	£31,663
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£46,250	£47,231
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,607	£62,500	£58,500
Median % change year-on-year	+11.37%	+6.84%	-2.50%
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 4 November 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 4 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	90.1%	64
2	AWS	81.7%	58
3	Docker	64.8%	46
4	DevOps	63.4%	45
4	GitHub Actions	63.4%	45
6	Jenkins	53.5%	38
7	AWS CloudFormation	50.7%	36
8	Terraform	46.5%	33
9	Infrastructure as Code	43.7%	31
10	Amazon S3	40.8%	29
11	SQL	39.4%	28
12	AWS Lambda	38.0%	27
12	Serverless	38.0%	27
14	Kubernetes	36.6%	26
15	Platform Engineering	35.2%	25
15	TypeScript	35.2%	25
17	DynamoDB	33.8%	24
17	Node.js	33.8%	24
19	Amazon CloudWatch	32.4%	23
19	Amazon ECS	32.4%	23
19	Git	32.4%	23
19	Python	32.4%	23
19	Security Cleared	32.4%	23
24	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	SC Cleared	29.6%	21
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	81.7%	58
2	GitHub Actions	63.4%	45
3	AWS CloudFormation	50.7%	36
4	Amazon S3	40.8%	29
5	AWS Lambda	38.0%	27
5	Serverless	38.0%	27
7	Amazon CloudWatch	32.4%	23
7	Amazon ECS	32.4%	23
9	Amazon OpenSearch	29.6%	21
9	AWS Step Functions	29.6%	21
11	Datadog	23.9%	17
12	Amazon EC2	22.5%	16
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