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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 55 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 77 21 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.93% 2.72% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.92% 6.69% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 49 15 40
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +6.67% -20.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -8.28%

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 776 314 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.52% 40.73% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 533 246 703
10th Percentile £31,530 £36,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
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% -7.60%

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 May 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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 65 (84.42%) AWS
2 39 (50.65%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (49.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (48.05%) Serverless
5 33 (42.86%) Amazon S3
6 31 (40.26%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (37.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (37.66%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (35.06%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (31.17%) Azure
10 22 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (16.88%) Datadog
12 10 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (10.39%) GCP
14 7 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (3.90%) IaaS
16 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (38.96%) DynamoDB
2 29 (37.66%) NoSQL
3 22 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (42.86%) Git
2 26 (33.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.60%) JIRA
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Multimedia
3 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (53.25%) Developer
2 22 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior
4 12 (15.58%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) AWS Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Trainee
7 7 (9.09%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Lead
10 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) AngularJS
1 23 (29.87%) Node.js
2 15 (19.48%) CSS
2 15 (19.48%) HTML
3 11 (14.29%) React
4 8 (10.39%) .NET
4 8 (10.39%) .NET Core
4 8 (10.39%) Vue
4 8 (10.39%) Web Services
5 7 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 7 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 7 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 7 (9.09%) Blazor
5 7 (9.09%) RESTful
5 7 (9.09%) Spring
5 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.79%) Flask
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.60%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) CentOS
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) CI/CD
2 46 (59.74%) DevOps
3 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 23 (29.87%) DevSecOps
6 19 (24.68%) Mentoring
7 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.78%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (19.48%) Agile
9 15 (19.48%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (18.18%) Workflow
11 12 (15.58%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 12 (15.58%) RBAC
11 12 (15.58%) Secrets Management
11 12 (15.58%) Workflow Management
12 11 (14.29%) Application Security
12 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 10 (12.99%) Front End Development
14 9 (11.69%) Microservices
15 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) Python
2 37 (48.05%) SQL
3 22 (28.57%) Java
3 22 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 22 (28.57%) Kotlin
4 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.39%) Groovy
6 6 (7.79%) R
7 4 (5.19%) Bash
8 3 (3.90%) Go
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
10 1 (1.30%) C#
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
3 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Degree
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (62.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Terraform
2 17 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.60%) Google
3 1 (1.30%) Databricks