GitHub Job Trends in Leeds

GitHub
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 71 20 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.69% 2.41% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.34% 6.17% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 43 14 50
10th Percentile £45,100 £52,375 £48,148
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,375 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +22.32% -15.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,250
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +6.65%

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 760 324 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.80% 39.04% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 550 267 711
10th Percentile £32,975 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,625 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year - +17.81% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

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 job vacancy trend in Leeds

GitHub
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing GitHub.

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 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Leeds

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 58 (81.69%) AWS
2 39 (54.93%) GitHub Actions
3 36 (50.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (39.44%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (39.44%) Serverless
5 27 (38.03%) Amazon S3
6 24 (33.80%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (30.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (30.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 22 (30.99%) AWS Step Functions
8 15 (21.13%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (18.31%) Datadog
10 11 (15.49%) Azure
11 10 (14.08%) GCP
12 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (5.63%) SaaS
14 3 (4.23%) IaaS
14 3 (4.23%) PaaS
14 3 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
1 2 (2.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.80%) DynamoDB
2 22 (30.99%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (30.99%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (46.48%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.76%) Git
3 5 (7.04%) GitLab
4 3 (4.23%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.82%) JIRA
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.82%) Finance
3 2 (2.82%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.82%) Multimedia
3 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.41%) Banking
4 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (40.85%) Developer
2 22 (30.99%) Java Developer
3 20 (28.17%) Senior
4 18 (25.35%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) AWS Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (5.63%) Lead
10 4 (5.63%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.82%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.80%) Node.js
2 23 (32.39%) AngularJS
3 13 (18.31%) Web Services
4 9 (12.68%) Spring
4 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.45%) CSS
5 6 (8.45%) HTML
5 6 (8.45%) Vue
6 5 (7.04%) React
7 4 (5.63%) Flask
8 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.23%) OAuth
8 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.23%) OpenID
9 2 (2.82%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (1.41%) .NET
10 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.41%) Django
10 1 (1.41%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) PKI
4 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.82%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.82%) NHS
4 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) CentOS
2 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (84.51%) CI/CD
2 43 (60.56%) DevOps
3 35 (49.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (36.62%) Containerisation
5 23 (32.39%) DevSecOps
6 22 (30.99%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (21.13%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
8 14 (19.72%) Workflow
9 13 (18.31%) RBAC
10 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.90%) Network Load Balancing
10 12 (16.90%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 12 (16.90%) Secrets Management
10 12 (16.90%) Workflow Management
11 10 (14.08%) Agile
11 10 (14.08%) Observability
11 10 (14.08%) Software Delivery
12 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 38 (53.52%) Python
2 28 (39.44%) SQL
3 22 (30.99%) Java
3 22 (30.99%) Kotlin
4 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
6 13 (18.31%) Groovy
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
7 4 (5.63%) Go
8 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.82%) R
8 2 (2.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.41%) Bicep
9 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) Degree
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (63.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (53.52%) Terraform
2 24 (33.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.31%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.23%) Argo
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Google
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.41%) VMware