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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 57 110
Rank change year-on-year +16 +53 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 84 24 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.47% 3.18% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.52% 7.06% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 62 22 6
10th Percentile - - £61,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £64,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,872 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -16.91% +4.77%
75th Percentile £74,688 £73,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £82,250 £91,900 £88,774
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.49% +12.10%

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 671 340 807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 35.73% 45.09% 40.49%
Number of salaries quoted 472 276 666
10th Percentile £28,775 £32,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £42,938 £42,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 26 March 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 2 (2.38%) CMS
1 2 (2.38%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 75 (89.29%) AWS
2 46 (54.76%) Serverless
3 41 (48.81%) Azure
4 31 (36.90%) Amazon S3
4 31 (36.90%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (34.52%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (17.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 14 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (15.48%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (8.33%) Datadog
14 5 (5.95%) GCP
15 3 (3.57%) Azure App Service
15 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (3.57%) SaaS
16 2 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 28 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 16 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 15 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) Metadata
5 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 45 (53.57%) Git
2 15 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.76%) JIRA
4 3 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.19%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.38%) Finance
4 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (1.19%) Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (67.86%) Developer
2 22 (26.19%) Trainee
3 15 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 15 (17.86%) Python Developer
4 12 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 11 (13.10%) Senior
6 10 (11.90%) Software Developer
6 10 (11.90%) Trainee Developer
6 10 (11.90%) Trainee Software Developer
7 9 (10.71%) AWS Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Lead
9 6 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (44.05%) CSS
1 37 (44.05%) HTML
2 27 (32.14%) React
3 17 (20.24%) Vue
4 15 (17.86%) AngularJS
4 15 (17.86%) Flask
4 15 (17.86%) Node.js
5 13 (15.48%) .NET
5 13 (15.48%) .NET Core
5 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET
5 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (15.48%) AWS CDK
5 13 (15.48%) Blazor
5 13 (15.48%) RESTful
6 12 (14.29%) Django
7 11 (13.10%) FastAPI
8 5 (5.95%) Spring
8 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.57%) OAuth
9 3 (3.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
2 45 (53.57%) DevOps
3 37 (44.05%) Mentoring
4 36 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (34.52%) Agile
5 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (27.38%) Containerisation
7 22 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (20.24%) Front End Development
9 16 (19.05%) Application Security
9 16 (19.05%) DevSecOps
10 15 (17.86%) API Testing
10 15 (17.86%) Data Analysis
10 15 (17.86%) Design Patterns
10 15 (17.86%) OOP
11 14 (16.67%) Microservices
12 13 (15.48%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (13.10%) OO
13 11 (13.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (60.71%) Python
2 45 (53.57%) SQL
3 44 (52.38%) JavaScript
4 15 (17.86%) Java
4 15 (17.86%) Kotlin
5 12 (14.29%) R
6 8 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (39.29%) AWS Certification
2 22 (26.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (26.19%) Azure Certification
2 22 (26.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (13.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (55.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (44.05%) Terraform
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (2.38%) Google
3 2 (2.38%) HubSpot