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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 81 26 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.57% 3.42% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.71% 7.72% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59 23 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.41% -2.08%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,022 £82,548
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.94% +0.74%

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 756 337 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 33.33% 44.34% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 522 274 692
10th Percentile £28,775 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £77,500 £72,101
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,959
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £59,769 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% +8.67% -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 19 April 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 (1.23%) Apache
1 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 71 (87.65%) AWS
2 45 (55.56%) Serverless
3 39 (48.15%) Azure
4 34 (41.98%) Amazon S3
5 33 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (40.74%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (39.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (38.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 30 (37.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (27.16%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (20.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 16 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (17.28%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (16.05%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (11.11%) Datadog
15 8 (9.88%) GCP
16 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (3.70%) Azure App Service
16 3 (3.70%) SaaS
16 3 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.04%) DynamoDB
1 30 (37.04%) NoSQL
2 17 (20.99%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 43 (53.09%) Git
2 16 (19.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) JIRA
General
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (64.20%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Trainee
3 17 (20.99%) Java Developer
4 12 (14.81%) .NET Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Python Developer
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
5 11 (13.58%) AWS Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Trainee Developer
6 8 (9.88%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Lead
8 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) CSS
1 30 (37.04%) HTML
2 22 (27.16%) React
3 17 (20.99%) AngularJS
3 17 (20.99%) Node.js
4 14 (17.28%) Vue
5 13 (16.05%) .NET
5 13 (16.05%) .NET Core
5 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET
5 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (16.05%) AWS CDK
5 13 (16.05%) Blazor
5 13 (16.05%) RESTful
6 12 (14.81%) Flask
7 9 (11.11%) Django
8 8 (9.88%) FastAPI
9 5 (6.17%) Spring
9 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.70%) OAuth
10 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.81%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) NHS
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (72.84%) CI/CD
2 50 (61.73%) DevOps
3 36 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 26 (32.10%) Agile
6 25 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (29.63%) Containerisation
8 18 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 17 (20.99%) Application Security
10 14 (17.28%) Front End Development
10 14 (17.28%) Microservices
11 13 (16.05%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (14.81%) API Testing
12 12 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (14.81%) Data Analysis
12 12 (14.81%) Design Patterns
12 12 (14.81%) OOP
12 12 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) Python
2 45 (55.56%) SQL
3 35 (43.21%) JavaScript
4 17 (20.99%) Java
4 17 (20.99%) Kotlin
5 10 (12.35%) R
6 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) Bash
8 3 (3.70%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (35.80%) AWS Certification
2 18 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 18 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 18 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (13.58%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.70%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (58.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (46.91%) Terraform
2 7 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (1.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (2.47%) Google