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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +59
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 76 23 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.55% 2.41% 4.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.48% 6.87% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39 16 79
10th Percentile £56,000 £49,750 -
25th Percentile £65,625 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% +38.38% -24.95%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +41.41% -24.95%

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 725 335 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 24.28% 35.15% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 524 278 529
10th Percentile £36,625 £31,250 £34,690
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,867 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +7.34% -0.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 20 August 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 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (84.21%) AWS
2 46 (60.53%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (55.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (36.84%) Serverless
5 27 (35.53%) Amazon S3
6 26 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (30.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 23 (30.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (22.37%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (22.37%) Datadog
11 8 (10.53%) Azure
12 7 (9.21%) GCP
13 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (3.95%) SaaS
15 2 (2.63%) Cloudflare
15 2 (2.63%) IaaS
15 2 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) DNS
1 2 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.89%) DynamoDB
2 20 (26.32%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (26.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (46.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.63%) Git
3 7 (9.21%) GitLab
4 6 (7.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.26%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.26%) Banking
3 4 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Developer
2 23 (30.26%) Java Developer
3 22 (28.95%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (25.00%) Senior
5 13 (17.11%) AWS Developer
6 11 (14.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 6 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
12 4 (5.26%) Angular Developer
12 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (56.58%) Terraform
2 25 (32.89%) Node.js
3 24 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 16 (21.05%) Web Services
5 12 (15.79%) Spring
5 12 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.58%) CSS
6 5 (6.58%) HTML
6 5 (6.58%) Vue
7 4 (5.26%) Flask
7 4 (5.26%) OAuth
7 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.26%) OpenID
7 4 (5.26%) React
8 2 (2.63%) A2A Protocol
8 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (1.32%) .NET
9 1 (1.32%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
4 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.95%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) CentOS
2 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (85.53%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) DevOps
3 41 (53.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (38.16%) Platform Engineering
5 25 (32.89%) Containerisation
6 20 (26.32%) DevSecOps
7 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
8 16 (21.05%) Software Delivery
8 16 (21.05%) Workflow
9 15 (19.74%) Network Load Balancing
9 15 (19.74%) RBAC
10 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (18.42%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 14 (18.42%) Secrets Management
10 14 (18.42%) Workflow Management
11 12 (15.79%) Agile
12 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (14.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
13 10 (13.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 28 (36.84%) SQL
3 23 (30.26%) Java
3 23 (30.26%) Kotlin
4 20 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 16 (21.05%) Groovy
6 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.63%) Bash
7 2 (2.63%) Go
7 2 (2.63%) PHP
7 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 55 (72.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.05%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.89%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (2.63%) Google
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.32%) VMware