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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +47
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 73 24 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.47% 2.52% 4.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.75% 7.08% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 38 17 75
10th Percentile £55,875 £50,050 -
25th Percentile £63,125 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% +38.38% -24.95%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 749 339 661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 25.39% 35.65% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 541 286 538
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +5.04% -0.83%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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% -3.40%

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 11 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 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 61 (83.56%) AWS
2 43 (58.90%) GitHub Actions
3 39 (53.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (36.99%) Serverless
5 25 (34.25%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (34.25%) Amazon S3
6 23 (31.51%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (28.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 21 (28.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (27.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (21.92%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (19.18%) Datadog
11 8 (10.96%) Azure
12 7 (9.59%) GCP
13 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (4.11%) SaaS
15 2 (2.74%) Cloudflare
15 2 (2.74%) IaaS
15 2 (2.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) DNS
1 2 (2.74%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.51%) DynamoDB
2 20 (27.40%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (27.40%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.74%) Big Data
4 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (47.95%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) GitLab
4 5 (6.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.48%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.74%) Banking
3 2 (2.74%) Finance
3 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
3 2 (2.74%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Developer
2 21 (28.77%) Java Developer
2 21 (28.77%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (24.66%) Senior
4 12 (16.44%) AWS Developer
5 11 (15.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
11 3 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) Node.js
2 22 (30.14%) AngularJS
3 15 (20.55%) Web Services
4 11 (15.07%) Spring
4 11 (15.07%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.22%) Vue
6 5 (6.85%) CSS
6 5 (6.85%) HTML
6 5 (6.85%) React
7 4 (5.48%) Flask
7 4 (5.48%) OAuth
7 4 (5.48%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.48%) OpenID
8 2 (2.74%) A2A Protocol
8 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.74%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (2.74%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) PKI
4 2 (2.74%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.74%) NHS
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.40%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) CentOS
2 5 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (84.93%) CI/CD
2 42 (57.53%) DevOps
3 39 (53.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (36.99%) Platform Engineering
5 26 (35.62%) Containerisation
6 20 (27.40%) DevSecOps
7 17 (23.29%) Software Engineering
8 15 (20.55%) Software Delivery
8 15 (20.55%) Workflow
9 14 (19.18%) Network Load Balancing
9 14 (19.18%) RBAC
10 13 (17.81%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (17.81%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 13 (17.81%) Secrets Management
10 13 (17.81%) Workflow Management
11 11 (15.07%) Agile
11 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (13.70%) Mentoring
12 10 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) Python
2 26 (35.62%) SQL
3 21 (28.77%) Java
3 21 (28.77%) Kotlin
4 17 (23.29%) TypeScript
5 15 (20.55%) Groovy
6 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.74%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) Go
7 2 (2.74%) PHP
7 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.74%) Ruby
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.74%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 51 (69.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (56.16%) Terraform
2 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 15 (20.55%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.85%) Ansible
5 2 (2.74%) Argo
6 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Google
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.37%) VMware