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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 88
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 76 22 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.94% 2.86% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.92% 6.98% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 49 16 39
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,063 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £68,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +4.78% -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 766 315 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.63% 41.02% 39.23%
Number of salaries quoted 523 246 695
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
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% -7.60%

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 22 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 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 65 (85.53%) AWS
2 39 (51.32%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (48.68%) Serverless
5 33 (43.42%) Amazon S3
6 31 (40.79%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (38.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (38.16%) AWS Step Functions
8 26 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (34.21%) Azure
9 21 (27.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (15.79%) Datadog
11 11 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (10.53%) GCP
14 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (3.95%) SaaS
15 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (39.47%) DynamoDB
2 29 (38.16%) NoSQL
3 21 (27.63%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (43.42%) Git
2 25 (32.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.95%) GitLab
4 2 (2.63%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Multimedia
3 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.63%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Developer
2 21 (27.63%) Java Developer
3 15 (19.74%) Senior
4 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (13.16%) AWS Developer
5 10 (13.16%) Trainee
6 8 (10.53%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Trainee Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.95%) AngularJS
1 22 (28.95%) Node.js
2 16 (21.05%) CSS
2 16 (21.05%) HTML
3 12 (15.79%) React
4 9 (11.84%) .NET
4 9 (11.84%) .NET Core
5 8 (10.53%) ASP.NET
5 8 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (10.53%) AWS CDK
5 8 (10.53%) Blazor
5 8 (10.53%) RESTful
5 8 (10.53%) Vue
5 8 (10.53%) Web Services
6 6 (7.89%) Flask
6 6 (7.89%) Spring
6 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.95%) Django
7 3 (3.95%) OAuth
7 3 (3.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) NHS
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) DevOps
3 34 (44.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (38.16%) Containerisation
5 22 (28.95%) DevSecOps
6 19 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (19.74%) Agile
8 15 (19.74%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (15.79%) Application Security
10 12 (15.79%) Workflow
11 11 (14.47%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 11 (14.47%) RBAC
11 11 (14.47%) Secrets Management
11 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) Workflow Management
12 10 (13.16%) Front End Development
13 9 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (11.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Python
2 37 (48.68%) SQL
3 23 (30.26%) JavaScript
4 21 (27.63%) Java
4 21 (27.63%) Kotlin
5 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.53%) Groovy
7 6 (7.89%) R
8 4 (5.26%) Bash
9 3 (3.95%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) C#
10 1 (1.32%) PHP
10 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (13.16%) Azure Certification
2 10 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.89%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.95%) Degree
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (61.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (47.37%) Terraform
2 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.95%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (1.32%) Databricks