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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 54 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 +65
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 76 24 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.45% 2.56% 6.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.16% 6.90% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 33 18 90
10th Percentile £62,500 £28,250 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £49,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +9.59% -31.40%
75th Percentile £100,000 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +41.67% +9.59% -8.02%

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 681 348 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.91% 37.10% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 484 283 452
10th Percentile £36,975 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,458 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +5.83% +2.56% +1.74%

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 26 September 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 64 (84.21%) AWS
2 53 (69.74%) GitHub Actions
3 44 (57.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (39.47%) Amazon S3
5 27 (35.53%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (35.53%) Serverless
6 24 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (30.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (30.26%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (28.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 22 (28.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 18 (23.68%) Datadog
10 7 (9.21%) Azure
10 7 (9.21%) GCP
11 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (2.63%) Cloudflare
12 2 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (2.63%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) DNS
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.32%) Firewall
3 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.58%) DynamoDB
2 18 (23.68%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (23.68%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (55.26%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.63%) Git
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 7 (9.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (7.89%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.89%) JIRA
6 5 (6.58%) JMeter
6 5 (6.58%) Postman
7 4 (5.26%) Claude Code
General
1 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.58%) Banking
4 4 (5.26%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Platform Engineer
2 23 (30.26%) Developer
3 22 (28.95%) Java Developer
4 19 (25.00%) Senior
5 15 (19.74%) AWS Developer
6 11 (14.47%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (14.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (11.84%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 9 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Test Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.95%) Angular Developer
12 3 (3.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 2 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (53.95%) Terraform
2 24 (31.58%) Node.js
3 23 (30.26%) AngularJS
4 18 (23.68%) Web Services
5 11 (14.47%) Spring
5 11 (14.47%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.89%) Playwright
7 5 (6.58%) Gherkin
8 4 (5.26%) RESTful
9 2 (2.63%) A2A Protocol
9 2 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (2.63%) React
9 2 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.32%) OAuth
10 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.32%) OpenID
10 1 (1.32%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (35.53%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.89%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) CentOS
2 7 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (88.16%) CI/CD
2 44 (57.89%) DevOps
3 39 (51.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (43.42%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 23 (30.26%) Software Delivery
7 19 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 18 (23.68%) DevSecOps
9 17 (22.37%) Network Load Balancing
10 16 (21.05%) Workflow
11 15 (19.74%) RBAC
12 14 (18.42%) Agile
12 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (18.42%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 14 (18.42%) Secrets Management
12 14 (18.42%) Workflow Management
13 13 (17.11%) Microservices
14 11 (14.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 8 (10.53%) AI
15 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.16%) Python
2 27 (35.53%) SQL
3 26 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 22 (28.95%) Java
4 22 (28.95%) Kotlin
5 18 (23.68%) Groovy
6 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.63%) Go
7 2 (2.63%) PHP
7 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) Ruby
8 1 (1.32%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (69.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (43.42%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.68%) Progress Chef
3 7 (9.21%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Argo
4 1 (1.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (1.32%) F5
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.32%) VMware