YAML
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for YAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited YAML over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 651 967
Rank change year-on-year -34 +316 -158
Permanent jobs citing YAML 221 305 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.10% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 127 159 205
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,993 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £100,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

YAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing YAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing YAML.

Salary trend for YAML in the UK

YAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 195 £75,000 +8.00% 42
UK excluding London -73 152 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Work from Home +42 124 £77,500 +11.60% 25
London +70 62 £77,000 -8.33% 13
Midlands -12 37 £86,485 +57.25% 3
South West -10 33 £80,000 +15.20% 1
North of England -15 33 £67,500 +2.34% 5
West Midlands -6 29 £86,485 +57.25% 2
South East -10 24 £70,000 -17.65% 12
Yorkshire +22 22 £67,500 +2.34% 4
Scotland -72 13 £57,500 -17.20% 5
North West -22 10 - - 1
East Midlands -20 8 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Northern Ireland +19 5 - -
Wales +4 5 - -
East of England -4 2 £55,750 -34.41% 5
North East - 1 £70,000 -

YAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (32.58%) Apache
2 19 (8.60%) nginx
3 16 (7.24%) Apache Spark
3 16 (7.24%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.94%) Azure
2 80 (36.20%) Amazon S3
3 67 (30.32%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (12.22%) PaaS
5 21 (9.50%) Entra ID
5 21 (9.50%) IaaS
6 20 (9.05%) OpenShift
7 18 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (7.69%) AWS
9 16 (7.24%) MinIO
10 14 (6.33%) Azure API Management
11 13 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
12 12 (5.43%) Azure Storage
13 10 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (4.52%) GitHub
13 10 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.52%) Serverless
14 9 (4.07%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.07%) Azure App Service
15 8 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 79 (35.75%) VPN
2 78 (35.29%) Firewall
3 64 (28.96%) Internet
4 62 (28.05%) SNMP
5 54 (24.43%) IPsec
6 33 (14.93%) DNS
7 11 (4.98%) BGP
7 11 (4.98%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (4.98%) MPLS
8 9 (4.07%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.07%) WAN
9 8 (3.62%) NGFW
9 8 (3.62%) tcpdump
10 7 (3.17%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.26%) Network Security
12 3 (1.36%) HTTP
12 3 (1.36%) SSL
13 2 (0.90%) LAN
13 2 (0.90%) Wireless
14 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.03%) MongoDB
2 67 (30.32%) Elasticsearch
3 42 (19.00%) SQL Server
4 22 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.24%) Big Data
5 16 (7.24%) Hadoop
5 16 (7.24%) MySQL
5 16 (7.24%) Presto
6 11 (4.98%) SQLite
7 8 (3.62%) Power BI
8 7 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.81%) HDInsight
10 4 (1.81%) Looker
10 4 (1.81%) QlikView
10 4 (1.81%) Tableau
11 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (19.91%) Git
2 28 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.95%) GitLab
4 17 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.88%) JIRA
6 11 (4.98%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.17%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (3.17%) Vagrant
8 4 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.45%) Postman
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (35.75%) Finance
2 49 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.41%) Telecoms
4 19 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.24%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.62%) Marketing
9 7 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.26%) Police
10 5 (2.26%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.81%) Electronics
12 3 (1.36%) Banking
12 3 (1.36%) German Language
12 3 (1.36%) Retail
13 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 2 (0.90%) Back Office
14 1 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (24.43%) Consultant
1 54 (24.43%) NetApp Consultant
2 50 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (16.29%) Senior
4 34 (15.38%) Developer
5 33 (14.93%) Architect
6 29 (13.12%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.24%) Big Data Engineer
7 16 (7.24%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.98%) Lead
11 10 (4.52%) Citrix Architect
11 10 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.62%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (3.62%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (32.13%) RabbitMQ
2 44 (19.91%) JSON
3 43 (19.46%) .NET
4 26 (11.76%) ARM Templates
4 26 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 25 (11.31%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (11.31%) XML
6 23 (10.41%) HTML
7 22 (9.95%) Entity Framework
7 22 (9.95%) RESTful
8 21 (9.50%) .NET Framework
9 20 (9.05%) .NET Core
10 19 (8.60%) REST
11 17 (7.69%) Blazor
12 16 (7.24%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (7.24%) Apache NiFi
13 14 (6.33%) React
14 13 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (5.43%) CSS
15 12 (5.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.89%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.62%) Clustering
6 8 (3.62%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.45%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.45%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 108 (48.87%) Linux
2 83 (37.56%) Windows
3 54 (24.43%) Data ONTAP
4 13 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.43%) Unix
6 11 (4.98%) CentOS
7 4 (1.81%) VMS
8 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (62.44%) DevOps
2 93 (42.08%) CI/CD
3 90 (40.72%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (38.01%) Agile
5 72 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (27.15%) Project Management
7 58 (26.24%) Containerisation
8 56 (25.34%) Infrastructure Management
9 55 (24.89%) Storage Management
10 54 (24.43%) Actionable Insight
10 54 (24.43%) Project Planning
10 54 (24.43%) Release Management
11 47 (21.27%) Scrum
12 39 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (13.12%) Roadmaps
14 23 (10.41%) Microservices
15 20 (9.05%) Cloud Security
15 20 (9.05%) Data Engineering
15 20 (9.05%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (52.49%) Python
2 66 (29.86%) PowerShell
3 58 (26.24%) C#
4 55 (24.89%) SQL
5 28 (12.67%) Bash
6 22 (9.95%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.60%) T-SQL
8 18 (8.14%) Bicep
8 18 (8.14%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.98%) PHP
9 11 (4.98%) XAML
10 9 (4.07%) Perl
11 6 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.26%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.81%) Java
13 4 (1.81%) VB
14 3 (1.36%) Ruby
15 2 (0.90%) AWK
15 2 (0.90%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (9.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.24%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.62%) Degree
4 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.71%) QA
2 4 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 115 (52.04%) Docker
2 63 (28.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
4 16 (7.24%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (6.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.62%) vSphere
7 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 116 (52.49%) Kubernetes
2 86 (38.91%) Ansible
3 82 (37.10%) Terraform
4 70 (31.67%) Prometheus
5 62 (28.05%) vCenter Server
6 28 (12.67%) Grafana
7 24 (10.86%) HAProxy
8 13 (5.88%) Puppet
9 8 (3.62%) Graphite
9 8 (3.62%) Nagios
10 7 (3.17%) Packer
11 3 (1.36%) Kibana
11 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.45%) Istio
13 1 (0.45%) logstash
13 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.45%) Salt
13 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (28.96%) VMware
2 56 (25.34%) Red Hat
3 54 (24.43%) NetApp
3 54 (24.43%) Palo Alto
3 54 (24.43%) SolidFire
4 32 (14.48%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.88%) Cisco
6 10 (4.52%) Citrix
7 7 (3.17%) DevExpress
8 6 (2.71%) Twitter
9 5 (2.26%) Oracle
10 4 (1.81%) Databricks
10 4 (1.81%) SAP
11 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.90%) Meraki
11 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Software AG
11 2 (0.90%) webMethods
12 1 (0.45%) Brocade
12 1 (0.45%) Splunk