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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 57 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 74 20 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.78% 2.53% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.75% 6.45% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 14 45
10th Percentile £28,850 £52,375 £47,638
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,250 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +37.88% -24.95%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £61,013
% change year-on-year - +18.83% -0.27%

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 759 310 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.53% 39.24% 36.86%
Number of salaries quoted 530 253 708
10th Percentile £32,725 £37,500 £34,000
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% -7.97%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £83,750
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 10 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 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 61 (82.43%) AWS
2 38 (51.35%) GitHub Actions
3 37 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (43.24%) Serverless
5 29 (39.19%) Amazon S3
6 28 (37.84%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (36.49%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (33.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (33.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (31.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 16 (21.62%) Azure
11 14 (18.92%) Datadog
12 13 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (12.16%) GCP
14 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (5.41%) SaaS
16 3 (4.05%) IaaS
16 3 (4.05%) PaaS
16 3 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (35.14%) DynamoDB
2 25 (33.78%) NoSQL
3 23 (31.08%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (39.19%) Jenkins
2 26 (35.14%) Git
3 4 (5.41%) GitLab
4 3 (4.05%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Multimedia
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.70%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.70%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (47.30%) Developer
2 23 (31.08%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.97%) Senior
4 16 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) AWS Developer
6 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Trainee
8 5 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native Architect
11 2 (2.70%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.43%) AngularJS
1 24 (32.43%) Node.js
2 11 (14.86%) CSS
2 11 (14.86%) HTML
2 11 (14.86%) Web Services
3 8 (10.81%) Spring
3 8 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.46%) Vue
5 6 (8.11%) React
6 5 (6.76%) Flask
7 3 (4.05%) .NET
7 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.05%) OAuth
7 3 (4.05%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.05%) OpenID
8 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.70%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.70%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.05%) PKI
4 2 (2.70%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) CentOS
2 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (79.73%) CI/CD
2 44 (59.46%) DevOps
3 33 (44.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (35.14%) Containerisation
5 24 (32.43%) DevSecOps
6 19 (25.68%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (22.97%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (20.27%) Mentoring
8 15 (20.27%) Workflow
9 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (18.92%) RBAC
10 13 (17.57%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 13 (17.57%) Secrets Management
10 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
10 13 (17.57%) Workflow Management
11 10 (13.51%) Agile
11 10 (13.51%) Network Load Balancing
11 10 (13.51%) Observability
12 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (10.81%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.05%) Python
2 32 (43.24%) SQL
3 23 (31.08%) Java
3 23 (31.08%) Kotlin
4 18 (24.32%) JavaScript
5 14 (18.92%) TypeScript
6 11 (14.86%) Groovy
7 4 (5.41%) Bash
7 4 (5.41%) R
8 3 (4.05%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.70%) Ruby
10 1 (1.35%) Bicep
10 1 (1.35%) C#
10 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.05%) Degree
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (62.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (48.65%) Terraform
2 20 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 11 (14.86%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.05%) Argo
5 1 (1.35%) Ansible
5 1 (1.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Google
3 1 (1.35%) VMware