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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 77 21 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.89% 2.68% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.99% 6.67% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 47 15 44
10th Percentile £29,150 £48,250 £47,536
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +37.37% -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 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +21.80% -9.75%

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 771 315 844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.97% 40.23% 37.63%
Number of salaries quoted 533 248 704
10th Percentile £32,550 £35,875 £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% -5.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,950
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 4 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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (83.12%) AWS
2 40 (51.95%) GitHub Actions
3 39 (50.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (46.75%) Serverless
5 32 (41.56%) Amazon S3
6 30 (38.96%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (35.06%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 20 (25.97%) Azure
11 13 (16.88%) Datadog
12 12 (15.58%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (11.69%) GCP
15 6 (7.79%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (5.19%) SaaS
17 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) DynamoDB
2 28 (36.36%) NoSQL
3 22 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (37.66%) Git
2 28 (36.36%) 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 6 (7.79%) 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 39 (50.65%) Developer
2 22 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.08%) Senior
4 15 (19.48%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) AWS Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.79%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Trainee
8 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Lead
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) AngularJS
1 23 (29.87%) Node.js
2 12 (15.58%) CSS
2 12 (15.58%) HTML
3 10 (12.99%) React
3 10 (12.99%) Web Services
4 8 (10.39%) Vue
5 7 (9.09%) .NET
5 7 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 7 (9.09%) Spring
5 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.79%) ASP.NET
6 6 (7.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (7.79%) AWS CDK
6 6 (7.79%) Blazor
6 6 (7.79%) Flask
6 6 (7.79%) RESTful
7 3 (3.90%) Django
7 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.68%) 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
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) CentOS
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (80.52%) CI/CD
2 47 (61.04%) DevOps
3 37 (48.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (37.66%) Containerisation
5 23 (29.87%) DevSecOps
6 18 (23.38%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.78%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (20.78%) Mentoring
9 14 (18.18%) Agile
9 14 (18.18%) Workflow
10 13 (16.88%) RBAC
10 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.58%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 12 (15.58%) Secrets Management
11 12 (15.58%) Workflow Management
12 10 (12.99%) Application Security
12 10 (12.99%) Front End Development
12 10 (12.99%) Observability
13 9 (11.69%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.95%) Python
2 35 (45.45%) SQL
3 22 (28.57%) Java
3 22 (28.57%) Kotlin
4 19 (24.68%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.99%) Groovy
7 4 (5.19%) Bash
7 4 (5.19%) R
8 3 (3.90%) Go
9 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
10 1 (1.30%) Bicep
10 1 (1.30%) C#
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.19%) 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 49 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (51.95%) Terraform
2 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.99%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) Google
3 1 (1.30%) VMware