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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 -24
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 79 27 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.30% 3.51% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.35% 8.18% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 21 29
10th Percentile - £48,250 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £68,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -2.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £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 763 330 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 31.87% 42.86% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 519 267 693
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 £78,375 £71,725
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,685
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 2 May 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 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 68 (86.08%) AWS
2 39 (49.37%) Serverless
3 38 (48.10%) GitHub Actions
4 36 (45.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (44.30%) Azure
6 32 (40.51%) Amazon S3
7 31 (39.24%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (36.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (36.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (29.11%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (22.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (13.92%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (13.92%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (12.66%) Datadog
14 8 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (10.13%) GCP
15 3 (3.80%) IaaS
15 3 (3.80%) PaaS
15 3 (3.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (36.71%) DynamoDB
1 29 (36.71%) NoSQL
2 18 (22.78%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
4 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.53%) Metadata
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 39 (49.37%) Git
2 22 (27.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) GitLab
4 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Multimedia
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Finance
5 2 (2.53%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (58.23%) Developer
2 18 (22.78%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.99%) Trainee
4 13 (16.46%) Senior
5 11 (13.92%) .NET Developer
5 11 (13.92%) AWS Developer
6 10 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) Python Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Trainee Software Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Lead
11 4 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) CSS
1 23 (29.11%) HTML
2 19 (24.05%) AngularJS
3 18 (22.78%) Node.js
4 16 (20.25%) React
5 12 (15.19%) .NET
5 12 (15.19%) .NET Core
6 11 (13.92%) ASP.NET
6 11 (13.92%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (13.92%) AWS CDK
6 11 (13.92%) Blazor
6 11 (13.92%) RESTful
7 10 (12.66%) Vue
8 8 (10.13%) Flask
9 6 (7.59%) Web Services
10 5 (6.33%) Django
10 5 (6.33%) Spring
10 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
11 4 (5.06%) FastAPI
12 3 (3.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.80%) PKI
4 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.53%) NHS
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (74.68%) CI/CD
2 46 (58.23%) DevOps
3 36 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (36.71%) Containerisation
5 25 (31.65%) Mentoring
6 19 (24.05%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) DevSecOps
6 19 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (18.99%) Application Security
8 14 (17.72%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (16.46%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (15.19%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (15.19%) Front End Development
10 12 (15.19%) Microservices
10 12 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (11.39%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 9 (11.39%) Secrets Management
12 9 (11.39%) Workflow
12 9 (11.39%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.70%) Python
2 39 (49.37%) SQL
3 29 (36.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (22.78%) Java
4 18 (22.78%) Kotlin
5 9 (11.39%) R
5 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.59%) Groovy
7 4 (5.06%) Bash
8 3 (3.80%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) C#
9 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (30.38%) AWS Certification
2 15 (18.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 15 (18.99%) Azure Certification
2 15 (18.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (59.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (48.10%) Terraform
2 14 (17.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.59%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.80%) Argo
5 1 (1.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.53%) Databricks
2 2 (2.53%) Google