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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -5
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 76 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.11% 2.94% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.99% 6.95% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 50 17 32
10th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £42,410 £55,000 £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 £81,243
West Yorkshire median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -12.07% +6.62% -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 761 331 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 31.14% 42.38% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 519 265 693
10th Percentile £29,000 £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 £80,125 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £83,750
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 9 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 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 65 (85.53%) AWS
2 39 (51.32%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (50.00%) Serverless
4 37 (48.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (42.11%) Amazon S3
6 31 (40.79%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (40.79%) Azure
7 29 (38.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (38.16%) AWS Step Functions
8 24 (31.58%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 13 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (14.47%) Datadog
12 10 (13.16%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (10.53%) GCP
15 3 (3.95%) IaaS
15 3 (3.95%) SaaS
15 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.16%) DynamoDB
1 29 (38.16%) NoSQL
2 19 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
4 10 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (47.37%) Git
2 23 (30.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.95%) GitLab
4 2 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Multimedia
3 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (57.89%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (17.11%) Senior
4 12 (15.79%) Trainee
5 11 (14.47%) AWS Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (13.16%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Lead
9 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Trainee Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Trainee Software Developer
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) AngularJS
2 19 (25.00%) CSS
2 19 (25.00%) HTML
2 19 (25.00%) Node.js
3 14 (18.42%) React
4 11 (14.47%) .NET
4 11 (14.47%) .NET Core
5 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET
5 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET Core
5 10 (13.16%) AWS CDK
5 10 (13.16%) Blazor
5 10 (13.16%) RESTful
6 9 (11.84%) Vue
7 7 (9.21%) Flask
7 7 (9.21%) Web Services
8 5 (6.58%) Spring
8 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.26%) Django
10 3 (3.95%) OAuth
10 3 (3.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) NHS
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 46 (60.53%) DevOps
3 35 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (38.16%) Containerisation
5 21 (27.63%) Mentoring
6 20 (26.32%) DevSecOps
7 17 (22.37%) Agile
7 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.42%) Application Security
8 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (14.47%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (14.47%) Front End Development
10 11 (14.47%) Microservices
11 10 (13.16%) Principle of Least Privilege
11 10 (13.16%) RBAC
11 10 (13.16%) Secrets Management
11 10 (13.16%) Workflow
11 10 (13.16%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.95%) Python
2 38 (50.00%) SQL
3 25 (32.89%) JavaScript
4 19 (25.00%) Java
4 19 (25.00%) Kotlin
5 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.21%) Groovy
6 7 (9.21%) R
7 4 (5.26%) Bash
8 3 (3.95%) Go
9 1 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 12 (15.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 12 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (10.53%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (61.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (48.68%) Terraform
2 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.21%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.95%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.63%) Databricks
2 2 (2.63%) Google