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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 58 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 87 23 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.56% 3.04% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.74% 6.78% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 64 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 £75,000 £73,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £84,250 £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 683 339 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 35.80% 44.78% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 481 275 664
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,875 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.62% +2.73% -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 28 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 (2.30%) CMS
1 2 (2.30%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 76 (87.36%) AWS
2 47 (54.02%) Serverless
3 43 (49.43%) Azure
4 32 (36.78%) Amazon S3
4 32 (36.78%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (35.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (35.63%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (34.48%) AWS Step Functions
7 29 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (18.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 16 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (16.09%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (14.94%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (9.20%) Datadog
13 7 (8.05%) GCP
14 3 (3.45%) Azure App Service
14 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (3.45%) SaaS
15 2 (2.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 29 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 16 (18.39%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (18.39%) SQL Server
3 15 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.45%) Metadata
5 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 46 (52.87%) Git
2 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) JIRA
4 3 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.29%) Multimedia
3 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.30%) Finance
4 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.30%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (66.67%) Developer
2 22 (25.29%) Trainee
3 16 (18.39%) Java Developer
4 15 (17.24%) Python Developer
5 12 (13.79%) .NET Developer
6 11 (12.64%) Senior
7 10 (11.49%) AWS Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Software Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Trainee Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Trainee Software Developer
8 8 (9.20%) Lead
9 7 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (42.53%) CSS
1 37 (42.53%) HTML
2 27 (31.03%) React
3 17 (19.54%) Vue
4 16 (18.39%) AngularJS
4 16 (18.39%) Node.js
5 15 (17.24%) Flask
6 13 (14.94%) .NET
6 13 (14.94%) .NET Core
6 13 (14.94%) ASP.NET
6 13 (14.94%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (14.94%) AWS CDK
6 13 (14.94%) Blazor
6 13 (14.94%) RESTful
7 12 (13.79%) Django
8 11 (12.64%) FastAPI
9 5 (5.75%) Spring
9 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.45%) OAuth
10 3 (3.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.24%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) PKI
4 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.30%) NHS
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.11%) CI/CD
2 47 (54.02%) DevOps
3 37 (42.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (42.53%) Mentoring
4 29 (33.33%) Agile
4 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (26.44%) Containerisation
6 22 (25.29%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (19.54%) DevSecOps
7 17 (19.54%) Front End Development
8 16 (18.39%) Application Security
9 15 (17.24%) API Testing
9 15 (17.24%) Data Analysis
9 15 (17.24%) Design Patterns
9 15 (17.24%) OOP
10 14 (16.09%) Microservices
11 13 (14.94%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.77%) Python
2 46 (52.87%) SQL
3 44 (50.57%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.39%) Java
4 16 (18.39%) Kotlin
5 12 (13.79%) R
6 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 3 (3.45%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) AWS Certification
2 22 (25.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (25.29%) Azure Certification
2 22 (25.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (12.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.60%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (55.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (44.83%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (2.30%) Google
3 2 (2.30%) HubSpot