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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 53 92
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 77 27 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.16% 3.48% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.12% 8.18% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 52 21 31
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £29,375 £51,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% - -2.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £82,548
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.94% -2.08%

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 761 330 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 31.24% 42.58% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 518 267 688
10th Percentile £28,925 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £81,000 £78,750 £71,791
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,101
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.86%

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 6 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
Cloud Services
1 66 (85.71%) AWS
2 38 (49.35%) GitHub Actions
3 37 (48.05%) Serverless
4 36 (46.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (42.86%) Azure
6 31 (40.26%) Amazon S3
7 30 (38.96%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (29.87%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (23.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 13 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (12.99%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (12.99%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (12.99%) Datadog
13 9 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (10.39%) GCP
15 3 (3.90%) IaaS
15 3 (3.90%) SaaS
15 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (36.36%) DynamoDB
1 28 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 18 (23.38%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 37 (48.05%) Git
2 23 (29.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 2 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Multimedia
3 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (57.14%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Java Developer
3 14 (18.18%) Trainee
4 13 (16.88%) Senior
5 11 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) .NET Developer
6 10 (12.99%) AWS Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Trainee Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Trainee Software Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Lead
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) CSS
1 21 (27.27%) HTML
2 19 (24.68%) AngularJS
3 18 (23.38%) Node.js
4 14 (18.18%) React
5 11 (14.29%) .NET
5 11 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET
6 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (12.99%) AWS CDK
6 10 (12.99%) Blazor
6 10 (12.99%) RESTful
7 9 (11.69%) Vue
8 7 (9.09%) Flask
8 7 (9.09%) Web Services
9 5 (6.49%) Spring
9 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
10 4 (5.19%) Django
11 3 (3.90%) OAuth
11 3 (3.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.97%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
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%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) CI/CD
2 45 (58.44%) DevOps
3 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (37.66%) Containerisation
5 23 (29.87%) Mentoring
6 19 (24.68%) DevSecOps
7 17 (22.08%) Agile
7 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.18%) Application Security
9 13 (16.88%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (16.88%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (14.29%) Front End Development
10 11 (14.29%) Microservices
11 9 (11.69%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 9 (11.69%) RBAC
11 9 (11.69%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (11.69%) Secrets Management
11 9 (11.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.84%) Python
2 37 (48.05%) SQL
3 27 (35.06%) JavaScript
4 18 (23.38%) Java
4 18 (23.38%) Kotlin
5 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.39%) R
7 7 (9.09%) Groovy
8 4 (5.19%) Bash
9 3 (3.90%) Go
10 1 (1.30%) C#
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 14 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 14 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (59.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (48.05%) Terraform
2 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.60%) Databricks
2 2 (2.60%) Google