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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 50 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +46 -10
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 78 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 4.52% 4.08% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.34% 8.87% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 59 26 10
10th Percentile - - £59,225
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £64,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,372 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -14.93% -3.16%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £84,764
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,389 £95,229
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £68,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -11.76% -10.13% +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 632 372 778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 36.64% 45.98% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 446 271 641
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.82% - -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 5 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 (2.56%) Apache
1 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.56%) CMS
1 2 (2.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 68 (87.18%) AWS
2 44 (56.41%) Azure
3 42 (53.85%) Serverless
4 30 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (37.18%) Amazon S3
5 29 (37.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (35.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (24.36%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (19.23%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (7.69%) Datadog
13 4 (5.13%) GCP
14 3 (3.85%) Azure App Service
14 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (2.56%) dbt
15 2 (2.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 26 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 15 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 13 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.85%) Metadata
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (56.41%) Git
2 14 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 3 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Multimedia
3 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Finance
5 1 (1.28%) Law
5 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (67.95%) Developer
2 22 (28.21%) Trainee
3 13 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 13 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 12 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Software Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Trainee Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior
7 9 (11.54%) AWS Developer
8 8 (10.26%) Lead
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Data Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.85%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (42.31%) CSS
1 33 (42.31%) HTML
2 26 (33.33%) React
3 14 (17.95%) RESTful
4 13 (16.67%) .NET
4 13 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 13 (16.67%) Blazor
4 13 (16.67%) Node.js
4 13 (16.67%) Vue
5 11 (14.10%) Django
5 11 (14.10%) FastAPI
5 11 (14.10%) Flask
6 4 (5.13%) Spring
6 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.85%) PySpark
8 2 (2.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.10%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) NHS
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 45 (57.69%) DevOps
3 34 (43.59%) Mentoring
4 32 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (33.33%) Agile
5 26 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (29.49%) Containerisation
8 15 (19.23%) Application Security
9 14 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (17.95%) DevSecOps
9 14 (17.95%) Microservices
10 13 (16.67%) Front End Development
11 11 (14.10%) API Testing
11 11 (14.10%) Data Analysis
11 11 (14.10%) Design Patterns
11 11 (14.10%) OOP
11 11 (14.10%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (58.97%) Python
2 40 (51.28%) JavaScript
2 40 (51.28%) SQL
3 13 (16.67%) Java
3 13 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 11 (14.10%) R
5 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) Go
7 2 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.28%) Bicep
8 1 (1.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.77%) Azure Certification
3 22 (28.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (28.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (14.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.85%) Degree
6 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (55.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (41.03%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (2.56%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.28%) Google
4 1 (1.28%) OpenAI