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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 51 115
Rank change year-on-year +7 +64 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 79 26 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.27% 3.37% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.23% 7.51% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60 22 6
10th Percentile - - £61,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £64,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,872 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -16.91% +4.77%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £80,250 £91,900 £88,774
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.49% +12.10%

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 646 346 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 34.94% 44.82% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 456 275 665
10th Percentile £28,875 £32,000 £34,400
25th Percentile £44,688 £43,125 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,778 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -4.86%

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 23 March 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 2 (2.53%) CMS
1 2 (2.53%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 70 (88.61%) AWS
2 41 (51.90%) Azure
2 41 (51.90%) Serverless
3 29 (36.71%) Amazon S3
3 29 (36.71%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (36.71%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (35.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (34.18%) AWS Step Functions
6 26 (32.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (22.78%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (17.72%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (16.46%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (16.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (7.59%) Datadog
12 5 (6.33%) GCP
13 3 (3.80%) Azure App Service
13 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (3.80%) SaaS
14 2 (2.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.91%) DynamoDB
1 26 (32.91%) NoSQL
2 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
3 15 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (16.46%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.80%) Metadata
6 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (55.70%) Git
2 14 (17.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
4 3 (3.80%) GitLab
General
1 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.85%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Finance
4 2 (2.53%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.53%) Marketing
5 1 (1.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (65.82%) Developer
2 22 (27.85%) Trainee
3 14 (17.72%) Python Developer
4 13 (16.46%) Java Developer
5 12 (15.19%) .NET Developer
6 11 (13.92%) Senior
7 10 (12.66%) Software Developer
7 10 (12.66%) Trainee Developer
7 10 (12.66%) Trainee Software Developer
8 9 (11.39%) AWS Developer
9 7 (8.86%) Lead
10 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
12 4 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 3 (3.80%) DevOps Developer
13 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.04%) CSS
1 34 (43.04%) HTML
2 27 (34.18%) React
3 14 (17.72%) Vue
4 13 (16.46%) .NET
4 13 (16.46%) .NET Core
4 13 (16.46%) AngularJS
4 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET
4 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (16.46%) AWS CDK
4 13 (16.46%) Blazor
4 13 (16.46%) Node.js
4 13 (16.46%) RESTful
5 12 (15.19%) Django
5 12 (15.19%) Flask
6 11 (13.92%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.06%) Spring
7 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.80%) PySpark
9 2 (2.53%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.19%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 43 (54.43%) DevOps
3 34 (43.04%) Mentoring
4 33 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (32.91%) Agile
5 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (27.85%) Containerisation
6 22 (27.85%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (20.25%) Application Security
8 14 (17.72%) DevSecOps
8 14 (17.72%) Front End Development
8 14 (17.72%) Microservices
9 13 (16.46%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (15.19%) API Testing
10 12 (15.19%) Data Analysis
10 12 (15.19%) Design Patterns
10 12 (15.19%) OOP
11 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.76%) Python
2 41 (51.90%) JavaScript
3 40 (50.63%) SQL
4 13 (16.46%) Java
4 13 (16.46%) Kotlin
5 12 (15.19%) R
6 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.80%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (41.77%) AWS Certification
2 22 (27.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (27.85%) Azure Certification
2 22 (27.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (13.92%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.06%) Degree
5 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.53%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (53.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (43.04%) Terraform
2 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Databricks
3 2 (2.53%) Google
3 2 (2.53%) HubSpot