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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 72 19 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.72% 2.35% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.41% 6.03% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 43 13 46
10th Percentile £42,410 £52,000 £47,740
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £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 £81,250 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 765 315 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.86% 39.03% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 540 259 721
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +16.36% -7.60%
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% -4.86%

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 18 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 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 59 (81.94%) AWS
2 37 (51.39%) AWS CloudFormation
2 37 (51.39%) GitHub Actions
3 31 (43.06%) Serverless
4 29 (40.28%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (38.89%) Amazon S3
6 26 (36.11%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 24 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (19.44%) Datadog
9 12 (16.67%) Azure
10 9 (12.50%) GCP
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.56%) SaaS
12 3 (4.17%) IaaS
12 3 (4.17%) PaaS
12 3 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.72%) DynamoDB
2 24 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (43.06%) Jenkins
2 22 (30.56%) Git
3 4 (5.56%) GitLab
4 3 (4.17%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.56%) Multimedia
3 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.78%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (47.22%) Developer
2 24 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 18 (25.00%) Senior
4 17 (23.61%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (16.67%) AWS Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Trainee
10 3 (4.17%) Lead
11 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native Architect
11 2 (2.78%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.72%) AngularJS
1 25 (34.72%) Node.js
2 12 (16.67%) Web Services
3 9 (12.50%) CSS
3 9 (12.50%) HTML
3 9 (12.50%) Spring
3 9 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.72%) Vue
5 5 (6.94%) Flask
5 5 (6.94%) React
6 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.17%) OAuth
6 3 (4.17%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.17%) OpenID
7 2 (2.78%) Django
7 2 (2.78%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (1.39%) .NET
8 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.17%) PKI
4 2 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.78%) NHS
4 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) CentOS
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (81.94%) CI/CD
2 43 (59.72%) DevOps
3 32 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (34.72%) Containerisation
4 25 (34.72%) DevSecOps
5 20 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (23.61%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (20.83%) Workflow
8 14 (19.44%) RBAC
9 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
9 13 (18.06%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (18.06%) Secrets Management
9 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
9 13 (18.06%) Workflow Management
10 11 (15.28%) Network Load Balancing
11 10 (13.89%) Agile
11 10 (13.89%) Observability
12 9 (12.50%) Software Delivery
13 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.17%) Python
2 31 (43.06%) SQL
3 24 (33.33%) Java
3 24 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 14 (19.44%) TypeScript
6 12 (16.67%) Groovy
7 4 (5.56%) Bash
8 3 (4.17%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.78%) R
9 2 (2.78%) Ruby
10 1 (1.39%) Bicep
10 1 (1.39%) C#
10 1 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (63.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (48.61%) Terraform
2 21 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.17%) Argo
5 1 (1.39%) Ansible
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (1.39%) VMware