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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 54 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 80 27 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.38% 3.52% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.47% 8.16% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55 23 27
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -2.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,022 £82,548
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.94% -2.08%

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 764 331 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 32.28% 43.21% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 522 269 695
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,946
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 28 April 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 (1.25%) Apache
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 68 (85.00%) AWS
2 40 (50.00%) Serverless
3 37 (46.25%) Azure
4 36 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (42.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (40.00%) Amazon S3
7 31 (38.75%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (36.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (27.50%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (21.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (13.75%) Amazon EventBridge
15 9 (11.25%) Datadog
16 8 (10.00%) GCP
17 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
18 3 (3.75%) IaaS
18 3 (3.75%) PaaS
18 3 (3.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.00%) DynamoDB
1 28 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 17 (21.25%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.75%) Metadata
6 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 39 (48.75%) Git
2 20 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Multimedia
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Finance
5 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (58.75%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Java Developer
3 16 (20.00%) Trainee
4 13 (16.25%) Senior
5 11 (13.75%) .NET Developer
6 10 (12.50%) AWS Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Python Developer
8 8 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Trainee Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Trainee Software Developer
10 6 (7.50%) Lead
10 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
12 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 4 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.25%) CSS
1 25 (31.25%) HTML
2 18 (22.50%) AngularJS
3 17 (21.25%) Node.js
3 17 (21.25%) React
4 12 (15.00%) .NET
4 12 (15.00%) .NET Core
5 11 (13.75%) ASP.NET
5 11 (13.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (13.75%) AWS CDK
5 11 (13.75%) Blazor
5 11 (13.75%) RESTful
5 11 (13.75%) Vue
6 9 (11.25%) Flask
7 6 (7.50%) Django
8 5 (6.25%) FastAPI
8 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.00%) Web Services
10 3 (3.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) PKI
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.50%) NHS
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) CI/CD
2 48 (60.00%) DevOps
3 36 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
4 27 (33.75%) Mentoring
5 21 (26.25%) Agile
5 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (22.50%) DevSecOps
7 16 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (18.75%) Application Security
9 12 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (15.00%) Front End Development
9 12 (15.00%) Microservices
10 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (11.25%) API Testing
11 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
11 9 (11.25%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.25%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) Python
2 41 (51.25%) SQL
3 31 (38.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (21.25%) Java
4 17 (21.25%) Kotlin
5 9 (11.25%) R
6 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.00%) Bash
7 4 (5.00%) Groovy
8 3 (3.75%) Go
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) AWS Certification
2 16 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 16 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 16 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.75%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (57.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (47.50%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.75%) Argo
5 1 (1.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Databricks
3 2 (2.50%) Google