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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 68 20 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.59% 2.44% 2.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.02% 6.31% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 41 14 50
10th Percentile £42,410 £52,375 £48,148
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,375 £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 754 317 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.69% 38.66% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 545 261 712
10th Percentile £32,850 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,301
Median % change year-on-year - +17.54% -7.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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 26 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 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 55 (80.88%) AWS
2 36 (52.94%) GitHub Actions
3 35 (51.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (41.18%) Serverless
5 27 (39.71%) Amazon S3
6 26 (38.24%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (32.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (32.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 22 (32.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (20.59%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (19.12%) Datadog
11 10 (14.71%) Azure
12 8 (11.76%) GCP
13 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (5.88%) SaaS
15 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (4.41%) IaaS
15 3 (4.41%) PaaS
15 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) Internet
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (35.29%) DynamoDB
2 22 (32.35%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (32.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (42.65%) Jenkins
2 19 (27.94%) Git
3 4 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (4.41%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
6 1 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.41%) Multimedia
2 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Finance
3 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.94%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.47%) Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Developer
2 22 (32.35%) Java Developer
3 18 (26.47%) Senior
4 17 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (16.18%) AWS Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Trainee
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.29%) Node.js
2 23 (33.82%) AngularJS
3 12 (17.65%) Web Services
4 9 (13.24%) Spring
4 9 (13.24%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.29%) CSS
5 7 (10.29%) HTML
6 6 (8.82%) Vue
7 5 (7.35%) React
8 4 (5.88%) Flask
9 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (4.41%) OAuth
9 3 (4.41%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.41%) OpenID
10 2 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (1.47%) .NET
11 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
11 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
11 1 (1.47%) Django
11 1 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.12%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) CentOS
2 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 40 (58.82%) DevOps
3 31 (45.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 23 (33.82%) DevSecOps
6 20 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (22.06%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 14 (20.59%) Workflow
9 13 (19.12%) RBAC
10 12 (17.65%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (17.65%) Secrets Management
10 12 (17.65%) Workflow Management
11 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
11 11 (16.18%) Network Load Balancing
12 10 (14.71%) Observability
13 9 (13.24%) Agile
13 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (13.24%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 28 (41.18%) SQL
3 22 (32.35%) Java
3 22 (32.35%) Kotlin
4 14 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 12 (17.65%) Groovy
6 4 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (2.94%) Go
7 2 (2.94%) PHP
7 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.94%) R
7 2 (2.94%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (63.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Terraform
2 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.47%) Ansible
5 1 (1.47%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) VMware