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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 57 82
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 73 24 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.89% 3.07% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 7.34% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 47 18 37
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £43,705 £56,036 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% - -2.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £74,719
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% -1.15%

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 770 327 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 30.46% 41.82% 39.18%
Number of salaries quoted 526 259 690
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,375 £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 £79,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £83,867
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -6.78%

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 16 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 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 62 (84.93%) AWS
2 38 (52.05%) GitHub Actions
3 36 (49.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (49.32%) Serverless
4 32 (43.84%) Amazon S3
5 30 (41.10%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (38.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (38.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 27 (36.99%) Azure
8 24 (32.88%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (26.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (15.07%) Datadog
12 9 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (12.33%) Amazon EventBridge
12 9 (12.33%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (10.96%) GCP
14 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (4.11%) SaaS
15 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (39.73%) DynamoDB
2 28 (38.36%) NoSQL
3 19 (26.03%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Big Data
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (45.21%) Git
2 23 (31.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) GitLab
4 2 (2.74%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) Claude Code
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Multimedia
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (56.16%) Developer
2 19 (26.03%) Java Developer
3 15 (20.55%) Senior
4 11 (15.07%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (13.70%) AWS Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Trainee
6 9 (12.33%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Python Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Trainee Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.40%) AngularJS
1 20 (27.40%) Node.js
2 16 (21.92%) CSS
2 16 (21.92%) HTML
3 13 (17.81%) React
4 10 (13.70%) .NET
4 10 (13.70%) .NET Core
5 9 (12.33%) ASP.NET
5 9 (12.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (12.33%) AWS CDK
5 9 (12.33%) Blazor
5 9 (12.33%) RESTful
6 8 (10.96%) Vue
7 7 (9.59%) Web Services
8 6 (8.22%) Flask
9 5 (6.85%) Spring
9 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (4.11%) OAuth
10 3 (4.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) PKI
4 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.74%) NHS
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) CI/CD
2 44 (60.27%) DevOps
3 34 (46.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (38.36%) Containerisation
5 20 (27.40%) DevSecOps
6 19 (26.03%) Mentoring
7 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.92%) Agile
9 14 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (17.81%) Application Security
10 13 (17.81%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (15.07%) Workflow
12 10 (13.70%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (13.70%) Front End Development
12 10 (13.70%) Microservices
12 10 (13.70%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 10 (13.70%) RBAC
12 10 (13.70%) Secrets Management
12 10 (13.70%) Workflow Management
13 9 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.05%) Python
2 36 (49.32%) SQL
3 23 (31.51%) JavaScript
4 19 (26.03%) Java
4 19 (26.03%) Kotlin
5 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.59%) Groovy
7 6 (8.22%) R
8 4 (5.48%) Bash
9 3 (4.11%) Go
10 1 (1.37%) C#
10 1 (1.37%) PHP
10 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (13.70%) Azure Certification
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.59%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (61.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (49.32%) Terraform
2 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.11%) Argo
5 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) Databricks