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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 54 107
Rank change year-on-year +9 +53 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 78 30 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.29% 3.82% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.09% 8.50% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59 26 8
10th Percentile - £48,250 £62,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,688 £67,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -12.12% +8.96%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £93,778 £95,687
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.49% +12.10%

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 645 353 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 35.44% 44.97% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 456 278 657
10th Percentile £28,875 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,688 £42,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,826 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +5.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 19 March 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 (2.56%) CMS
1 2 (2.56%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 70 (89.74%) AWS
2 41 (52.56%) Azure
2 41 (52.56%) Serverless
3 29 (37.18%) Amazon S3
3 29 (37.18%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (37.18%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (35.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (34.62%) AWS Step Functions
6 26 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (17.95%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (7.69%) Datadog
12 5 (6.41%) GCP
13 3 (3.85%) Azure App Service
13 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (2.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 26 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
3 15 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.85%) Metadata
6 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.28%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (56.41%) Git
2 14 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 3 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Finance
4 2 (2.56%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (66.67%) Developer
2 22 (28.21%) Trainee
3 14 (17.95%) Python Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 12 (15.38%) .NET Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior
6 10 (12.82%) Software Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Trainee Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Trainee Software Developer
7 9 (11.54%) AWS Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Lead
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.59%) CSS
1 34 (43.59%) HTML
2 27 (34.62%) React
3 14 (17.95%) Vue
4 13 (16.67%) .NET
4 13 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 13 (16.67%) Blazor
4 13 (16.67%) Node.js
4 13 (16.67%) RESTful
5 12 (15.38%) Django
5 12 (15.38%) Flask
6 11 (14.10%) FastAPI
7 4 (5.13%) Spring
7 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.85%) PySpark
9 2 (2.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 42 (53.85%) DevOps
3 34 (43.59%) Mentoring
4 33 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (33.33%) Agile
6 25 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (28.21%) Containerisation
7 22 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (20.51%) Application Security
9 14 (17.95%) DevSecOps
9 14 (17.95%) Front End Development
9 14 (17.95%) Microservices
10 13 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (15.38%) API Testing
11 12 (15.38%) Data Analysis
11 12 (15.38%) Design Patterns
11 12 (15.38%) OOP
12 11 (14.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (61.54%) Python
2 41 (52.56%) JavaScript
3 39 (50.00%) SQL
4 13 (16.67%) Java
4 13 (16.67%) Kotlin
5 12 (15.38%) R
6 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 3 (3.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) AWS Certification
2 22 (28.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (28.21%) Azure Certification
2 22 (28.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (14.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) Degree
5 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.56%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (43.59%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (2.56%) Google
3 2 (2.56%) HubSpot