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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 92
Rank change year-on-year +4 +51 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 73 41 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.83% 4.50% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.78% 9.95% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 55 32 13
10th Percentile - - £63,758
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,372 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% -19.16% +6.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £94,387
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £68,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -26.47% -10.13% +10.44%

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 571 412 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 37.76% 45.23% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 397 274 626
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,250 £55,087
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% +0.30% -4.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £73,438
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,646 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 February 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 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.74%) CMS
1 2 (2.74%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 63 (86.30%) AWS
2 46 (63.01%) Azure
3 36 (49.32%) Serverless
4 26 (35.62%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (34.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (32.88%) Amazon S3
6 24 (32.88%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (32.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (30.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (20.55%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (17.81%) Amazon EventBridge
11 12 (16.44%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (12.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (6.85%) Datadog
14 4 (5.48%) GCP
15 3 (4.11%) Azure App Service
15 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (2.74%) dbt
16 2 (2.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.14%) DynamoDB
1 22 (30.14%) NoSQL
2 15 (20.55%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (20.55%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.33%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.11%) Metadata
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.74%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (61.64%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
General
1 24 (32.88%) Multimedia
2 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (65.75%) Developer
2 24 (32.88%) Trainee
3 12 (16.44%) .NET Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Software Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Trainee Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Trainee Software Developer
4 11 (15.07%) Python Developer
5 9 (12.33%) AWS Developer
5 9 (12.33%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Lead
7 6 (8.22%) Senior
8 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (4.11%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (47.95%) CSS
1 35 (47.95%) HTML
2 24 (32.88%) React
3 14 (19.18%) RESTful
4 13 (17.81%) .NET
4 13 (17.81%) .NET Core
4 13 (17.81%) ASP.NET
4 13 (17.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (17.81%) AWS CDK
4 13 (17.81%) Blazor
5 11 (15.07%) Django
5 11 (15.07%) FastAPI
5 11 (15.07%) Flask
5 11 (15.07%) Vue
6 9 (12.33%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.33%) Node.js
7 3 (4.11%) PySpark
8 2 (2.74%) Next.js
8 2 (2.74%) Pandas
9 1 (1.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.07%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 38 (52.05%) DevOps
3 36 (49.32%) Mentoring
4 31 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (35.62%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (35.62%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (32.88%) Agile
7 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
8 14 (19.18%) Application Security
8 14 (19.18%) Deployment Automation
8 14 (19.18%) Microservices
9 11 (15.07%) API Testing
9 11 (15.07%) Data Analysis
9 11 (15.07%) Design Patterns
9 11 (15.07%) Front End Development
9 11 (15.07%) OOP
9 11 (15.07%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (13.70%) DevSecOps
11 8 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.96%) OO
Programming Languages
1 45 (61.64%) Python
2 40 (54.79%) JavaScript
3 36 (49.32%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) R
5 9 (12.33%) Java
5 9 (12.33%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.11%) Go
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (47.95%) AWS Certification
2 26 (35.62%) Azure Certification
3 24 (32.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (32.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (15.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) Degree
6 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 38 (52.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (42.47%) Terraform
2 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) Databricks
3 2 (2.74%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.37%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) OpenAI