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

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	51	48	25
Rank change year-on-year	-3	-23	+64
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	73	32	86
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds	2.39%	3.22%	5.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category	11.01%	8.44%	15.78%
Number of salaries quoted	34	26	71
10^th Percentile	£57,250	-	-
25^th Percentile	£67,500	£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	£100,938	£70,250	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£76,250	-
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 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	663	379	545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds	21.68%	38.09%	37.05%
Number of salaries quoted	457	308	389
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£28,250	£31,450
25^th Percentile	£48,289	£46,750	£47,231
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,607	£65,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+7.09%	+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	£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 24 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 24 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	90.4%	66
2	AWS	83.6%	61
3	Docker	68.5%	50
4	GitHub Actions	67.1%	49
5	DevOps	63.0%	46
6	Jenkins	56.2%	41
7	AWS CloudFormation	54.8%	40
8	Terraform	46.6%	34
9	Infrastructure as Code	45.2%	33
10	Amazon S3	39.7%	29
10	Kubernetes	39.7%	29
10	SQL	39.7%	29
13	Platform Engineering	38.4%	28
14	AWS Lambda	37.0%	27
14	Serverless	37.0%	27
16	TypeScript	35.6%	26
17	Node.js	34.2%	25
17	Python	34.2%	25
19	Amazon ECS	32.9%	24
19	DynamoDB	32.9%	24
19	Security Cleared	32.9%	24
22	Amazon CloudWatch	31.5%	23
22	Git	31.5%	23
22	Java	31.5%	23
25	Amazon OpenSearch	30.1%	22
25	AngularJS	30.1%	22
25	AWS Step Functions	30.1%	22
25	Kotlin	30.1%	22
25	Linux	30.1%	22
25	Software Delivery	30.1%	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	83.6%	61
2	GitHub Actions	67.1%	49
3	AWS CloudFormation	54.8%	40
4	Amazon S3	39.7%	29
5	AWS Lambda	37.0%	27
5	Serverless	37.0%	27
7	Amazon ECS	32.9%	24
8	Amazon CloudWatch	31.5%	23
9	Amazon OpenSearch	30.1%	22
9	AWS Step Functions	30.1%	22
11	Amazon EC2	26.0%	19
12	Datadog	24.7%	18
13	Azure	11.0%	8
14	Azure DevOps	6.8%	5
15	GCP	5.5%	4
15	IaaS	5.5%	4
17	GitHub Copilot	4.1%	3
18	Amazon EKS	2.7%	2
18	Anthropic Claude	2.7%	2
18	Azure Cosmos DB	2.7%	2