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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +62
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 82 24 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.63% 2.63% 5.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.58% 7.04% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 36 18 86
10th Percentile £62,500 £28,250 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £49,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +21.21% -37.84%
75th Percentile £96,250 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +41.67% +21.21% -14.54%

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 708 341 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.74% 37.43% 36.37%
Number of salaries quoted 502 279 472
10th Percentile £36,825 £31,250 £34,480
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +2.56% +1.74%

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 September 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 69 (84.15%) AWS
2 54 (65.85%) GitHub Actions
3 46 (56.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (39.02%) Amazon S3
4 32 (39.02%) Serverless
5 29 (35.37%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (31.71%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (30.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (29.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (29.27%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (28.05%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (23.17%) Datadog
11 7 (8.54%) Azure
11 7 (8.54%) GCP
12 3 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.66%) IaaS
13 2 (2.44%) Cloudflare
13 2 (2.44%) Kong
13 2 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 1 (1.22%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.71%) DynamoDB
2 20 (24.39%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (24.39%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (52.44%) Jenkins
2 22 (26.83%) Git
3 12 (14.63%) GitLab
4 7 (8.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (8.54%) JIRA
5 6 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.10%) JMeter
6 5 (6.10%) Postman
7 4 (4.88%) Claude Code
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.10%) Banking
4 4 (4.88%) Finance
5 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (34.15%) Developer
2 25 (30.49%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (29.27%) Java Developer
4 20 (24.39%) Senior
5 15 (18.29%) AWS Developer
6 11 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) Angular Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (53.66%) Terraform
2 26 (31.71%) Node.js
3 25 (30.49%) AngularJS
4 18 (21.95%) Web Services
5 12 (14.63%) Spring
5 12 (14.63%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.32%) Playwright
7 5 (6.10%) Gherkin
8 4 (4.88%) OAuth
8 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.88%) OpenID
8 4 (4.88%) RESTful
9 3 (3.66%) CSS
9 3 (3.66%) Flask
9 3 (3.66%) HTML
9 3 (3.66%) Vue
10 2 (2.44%) A2A Protocol
10 2 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (2.44%) React
10 2 (2.44%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.66%) PKI
3 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.49%) Linux
2 7 (8.54%) CentOS
2 7 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (87.80%) CI/CD
2 47 (57.32%) DevOps
3 42 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (40.24%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (30.49%) Containerisation
6 23 (28.05%) Software Delivery
7 20 (24.39%) DevSecOps
8 19 (23.17%) Software Engineering
9 17 (20.73%) Agile
9 17 (20.73%) Network Load Balancing
9 17 (20.73%) Workflow
10 16 (19.51%) RBAC
11 15 (18.29%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (18.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 15 (18.29%) Secrets Management
11 15 (18.29%) Workflow Management
12 13 (15.85%) Microservices
13 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.24%) SQL
2 32 (39.02%) Python
3 27 (32.93%) TypeScript
4 24 (29.27%) Java
4 24 (29.27%) Kotlin
5 18 (21.95%) Groovy
6 14 (17.07%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Go
7 2 (2.44%) PHP
7 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.44%) Ruby
8 1 (1.22%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.22%) Bash
8 1 (1.22%) Bicep
8 1 (1.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (70.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (40.24%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.95%) Progress Chef
3 7 (8.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Argo
4 1 (1.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (1.22%) F5
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.22%) VMware