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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 42 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 0
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 70 46 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.77% 4.78% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.70% 10.67% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 52 36 14
10th Percentile - - £64,387
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,788 £64,372 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -44.40% -19.16% +6.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £87,813
90th Percentile £79,750 £75,000 £94,080
West Yorkshire median annual salary £35,788 £68,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -47.37% -10.13% +8.96%

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 551 431 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 37.59% 44.76% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 383 285 625
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £34,400
25th Percentile £41,207 £43,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +1.77% -1.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £90,822 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

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 February 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 (2.86%) Apache
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.86%) CMS
1 2 (2.86%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 60 (85.71%) AWS
2 45 (64.29%) Azure
3 35 (50.00%) Serverless
4 24 (34.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (34.29%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (32.86%) Amazon S3
5 23 (32.86%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (32.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 21 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (24.29%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (18.57%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (12.86%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (11.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (7.14%) Datadog
13 3 (4.29%) Azure App Service
13 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (2.86%) dbt
14 2 (2.86%) Figma
14 2 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) DynamoDB
1 21 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 15 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.29%) Metadata
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.86%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (64.29%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.29%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.43%) GitLab
General
1 24 (34.29%) Multimedia
2 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (1.43%) Finance
5 1 (1.43%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 24 (34.29%) Trainee
3 12 (17.14%) .NET Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Software Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Trainee Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Trainee Software Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Python Developer
5 9 (12.86%) AWS Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Lead
8 6 (8.57%) Senior
9 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (4.29%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Serverless Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.00%) CSS
1 35 (50.00%) HTML
2 24 (34.29%) React
3 14 (20.00%) RESTful
4 13 (18.57%) .NET
4 13 (18.57%) .NET Core
4 13 (18.57%) ASP.NET
4 13 (18.57%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (18.57%) AWS CDK
4 13 (18.57%) Blazor
5 11 (15.71%) Django
5 11 (15.71%) FastAPI
5 11 (15.71%) Flask
5 11 (15.71%) Vue
6 8 (11.43%) AngularJS
6 8 (11.43%) Node.js
7 3 (4.29%) PySpark
8 2 (2.86%) Next.js
8 2 (2.86%) Pandas
9 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.71%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) IoT
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 35 (50.00%) DevOps
2 35 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 29 (41.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (37.14%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (34.29%) Agile
5 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 14 (20.00%) Application Security
7 14 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (20.00%) Microservices
8 11 (15.71%) API Testing
8 11 (15.71%) Data Analysis
8 11 (15.71%) Design Patterns
8 11 (15.71%) Front End Development
8 11 (15.71%) OOP
8 11 (15.71%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (12.86%) DevSecOps
10 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (11.43%) OO
Programming Languages
1 43 (61.43%) Python
2 38 (54.29%) JavaScript
3 35 (50.00%) SQL
4 12 (17.14%) R
5 8 (11.43%) Java
5 8 (11.43%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.43%) Bash
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) C#
7 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 26 (37.14%) Azure Certification
3 24 (34.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (34.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (15.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.29%) Degree
6 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (52.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) Databricks
3 2 (2.86%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) OpenAI