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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 54 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +2
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 77 21 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.94% 2.73% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 6.73% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49 15 38
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +21.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.34% +21.80% -13.47%

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 770 312 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.37% 40.57% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 529 245 701
10th Percentile £31,450 £36,750 £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% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
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 27 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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 65 (84.42%) AWS
2 39 (50.65%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (49.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (48.05%) Serverless
5 33 (42.86%) Amazon S3
6 31 (40.26%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (37.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (37.66%) AWS Step Functions
8 26 (33.77%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (32.47%) Azure
10 21 (27.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (15.58%) Datadog
12 11 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (10.39%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (10.39%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (10.39%) GCP
15 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (3.90%) IaaS
16 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (38.96%) DynamoDB
2 29 (37.66%) NoSQL
3 21 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (42.86%) Git
2 26 (33.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.60%) JIRA
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Multimedia
3 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (53.25%) Developer
2 21 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior
4 12 (15.58%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) AWS Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Trainee
7 8 (10.39%) .NET Developer
8 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Lead
11 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.90%) Trainee Developer
12 3 (3.90%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 22 (28.57%) Node.js
2 15 (19.48%) CSS
2 15 (19.48%) HTML
3 12 (15.58%) React
4 9 (11.69%) .NET
4 9 (11.69%) .NET Core
5 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET
5 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (10.39%) AWS CDK
5 8 (10.39%) Blazor
5 8 (10.39%) RESTful
5 8 (10.39%) Vue
5 8 (10.39%) Web Services
6 6 (7.79%) Flask
6 6 (7.79%) Spring
6 6 (7.79%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.68%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.60%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) CentOS
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) CI/CD
2 46 (59.74%) DevOps
3 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (37.66%) Containerisation
5 22 (28.57%) DevSecOps
6 19 (24.68%) Mentoring
7 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.78%) Agile
9 15 (19.48%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (19.48%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (16.88%) Workflow
11 12 (15.58%) Application Security
12 11 (14.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 11 (14.29%) RBAC
12 11 (14.29%) Secrets Management
12 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.29%) Workflow Management
13 10 (12.99%) Front End Development
13 10 (12.99%) Microservices
14 9 (11.69%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) Python
2 37 (48.05%) SQL
3 22 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 21 (27.27%) Java
4 21 (27.27%) Kotlin
5 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.39%) Groovy
7 6 (7.79%) R
8 4 (5.19%) Bash
9 3 (3.90%) Go
10 2 (2.60%) Ruby
11 1 (1.30%) C#
11 1 (1.30%) PHP
11 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
3 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Degree
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (62.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (48.05%) Terraform
2 17 (22.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.60%) Google
3 1 (1.30%) Databricks