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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 69 19 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.61% 2.34% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.06% 5.99% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 41 13 46
10th Percentile £42,410 £52,000 £47,740
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £82,500 £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 762 317 872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.79% 39.04% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 541 261 722
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,959
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 20 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 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 56 (81.16%) AWS
2 37 (53.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (52.17%) GitHub Actions
4 30 (43.48%) Serverless
5 28 (40.58%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (40.58%) Amazon S3
6 26 (37.68%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (34.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 24 (34.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (20.29%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (20.29%) Datadog
9 10 (14.49%) Azure
10 8 (11.59%) GCP
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.80%) SaaS
12 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.35%) IaaS
12 3 (4.35%) PaaS
12 3 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (1.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (36.23%) DynamoDB
2 24 (34.78%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (34.78%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.90%) Big Data
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 21 (30.43%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) GitLab
4 3 (4.35%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.35%) Multimedia
2 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.90%) Finance
3 2 (2.90%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.90%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.45%) Banking
4 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Developer
2 24 (34.78%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.09%) Senior
4 17 (24.64%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) AWS Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Lead
10 3 (4.35%) Trainee
11 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native Architect
11 2 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) AngularJS
1 25 (36.23%) Node.js
2 12 (17.39%) Web Services
3 9 (13.04%) Spring
3 9 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.14%) CSS
4 7 (10.14%) HTML
5 6 (8.70%) Vue
6 4 (5.80%) Flask
6 4 (5.80%) React
7 3 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.35%) OAuth
7 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.35%) OpenID
8 2 (2.90%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (1.45%) .NET
9 1 (1.45%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.45%) Django
9 1 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.35%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) CentOS
2 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 42 (60.87%) DevOps
3 30 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (36.23%) DevSecOps
5 24 (34.78%) Containerisation
6 20 (28.99%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (24.64%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (21.74%) Workflow
9 14 (20.29%) RBAC
10 13 (18.84%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 13 (18.84%) Secrets Management
10 13 (18.84%) Software Engineering
10 13 (18.84%) Workflow Management
11 11 (15.94%) Mentoring
11 11 (15.94%) Network Load Balancing
11 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.49%) Observability
13 9 (13.04%) Agile
13 9 (13.04%) Software Delivery
14 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.17%) Python
2 30 (43.48%) SQL
3 24 (34.78%) Java
3 24 (34.78%) Kotlin
4 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
5 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
6 12 (17.39%) Groovy
7 4 (5.80%) Bash
8 2 (2.90%) Go
8 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.90%) R
8 2 (2.90%) Ruby
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) C#
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (65.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (47.83%) Terraform
2 20 (28.99%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.39%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (1.45%) VMware