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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 655 941
Rank change year-on-year -40 +286 -160
Permanent jobs citing YAML 221 310 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 1.06% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 128 167 209
10th Percentile £48,375 £47,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £62,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £86,485 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,625 £92,000 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,956 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.13% -2.29% +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 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £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 £106,250 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +1 195 £75,000 +8.00% 41
UK excluding London -58 151 £70,000 +6.13% 36
Work from Home +56 124 £77,500 +11.60% 30
London +105 63 £77,000 -3.75% 10
Midlands -6 36 £86,485 +57.25% 3
South West -7 34 £80,000 +15.20% 1
North of England -8 32 £67,500 +2.34% 9
West Midlands +12 28 £86,485 +57.25% 2
South East +4 24 £70,000 -17.65% 13
Yorkshire +32 21 £67,500 +2.34% 6
Scotland -61 13 £57,500 -17.20% 5
North West -4 10 - - 2
East Midlands -18 8 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Northern Ireland +20 5 - - 1
Wales +3 5 - -
East of England -3 2 £55,750 -34.41% 5
North East - 1 £70,000 - 1

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 74 (33.48%) Apache
2 20 (9.05%) nginx
3 17 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.69%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.45%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.94%) Azure
2 82 (37.10%) Amazon S3
3 65 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (12.67%) PaaS
5 22 (9.95%) Entra ID
6 21 (9.50%) IaaS
6 21 (9.50%) OpenShift
7 18 (8.14%) AWS
7 18 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (7.69%) MinIO
9 14 (6.33%) Azure API Management
10 12 (5.43%) Azure Event Grid
11 11 (4.98%) Azure Storage
12 10 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (4.52%) GCP
12 10 (4.52%) GitHub
12 10 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.52%) Serverless
13 9 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.07%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 78 (35.29%) Firewall
1 78 (35.29%) VPN
2 65 (29.41%) Internet
3 63 (28.51%) SNMP
4 54 (24.43%) IPsec
5 33 (14.93%) DNS
6 11 (4.98%) BGP
6 11 (4.98%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.98%) MPLS
7 10 (4.52%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.07%) tcpdump
8 9 (4.07%) WAN
9 8 (3.62%) NGFW
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 74 (33.48%) MongoDB
2 68 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (19.46%) SQL Server
4 22 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.69%) Big Data
5 17 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 17 (7.69%) MySQL
5 17 (7.69%) 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 42 (19.00%) Git
2 31 (14.03%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.50%) GitLab
4 18 (8.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.88%) JIRA
6 11 (4.98%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.17%) Katalon Studio
7 7 (3.17%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 1 (0.45%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (35.29%) Finance
2 49 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.86%) Telecoms
4 20 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.24%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.88%) 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 6 (2.71%) Police
10 6 (2.71%) 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
13 2 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 54 (24.43%) Consultant
1 54 (24.43%) NetApp Consultant
2 53 (23.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.74%) Senior
4 34 (15.38%) Developer
5 32 (14.48%) Architect
6 28 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
7 17 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.98%) Lead
10 11 (4.98%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Citrix Architect
11 10 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.62%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (32.58%) RabbitMQ
2 43 (19.46%) JSON
3 41 (18.55%) .NET
4 28 (12.67%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (11.76%) ARM Templates
5 26 (11.76%) XML
6 25 (11.31%) ASP.NET
7 23 (10.41%) Entity Framework
8 22 (9.95%) HTML
8 22 (9.95%) RESTful
9 21 (9.50%) .NET Framework
10 20 (9.05%) .NET Core
11 18 (8.14%) REST
12 17 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (7.69%) Blazor
13 14 (6.33%) React
14 13 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
15 11 (4.98%) CSS
15 11 (4.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.89%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.98%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.07%) 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
9 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.45%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.45%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 110 (49.77%) Linux
2 85 (38.46%) Windows
3 54 (24.43%) Data ONTAP
4 14 (6.33%) 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 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (62.90%) DevOps
2 94 (42.53%) CI/CD
3 92 (41.63%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (38.01%) Agile
5 75 (33.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (27.15%) Containerisation
6 60 (27.15%) Project Management
7 56 (25.34%) Infrastructure Management
8 55 (24.89%) Storage Management
9 54 (24.43%) Actionable Insight
9 54 (24.43%) Project Planning
9 54 (24.43%) Release Management
10 47 (21.27%) Scrum
11 40 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (12.67%) Roadmaps
13 24 (10.86%) Microservices
14 21 (9.50%) Data Engineering
14 21 (9.50%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (8.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 118 (53.39%) Python
2 66 (29.86%) PowerShell
3 56 (25.34%) C#
3 56 (25.34%) SQL
4 31 (14.03%) Bash
5 21 (9.50%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.60%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.60%) T-SQL
7 17 (7.69%) Bicep
8 11 (4.98%) PHP
8 11 (4.98%) XAML
9 10 (4.52%) Perl
10 5 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.81%) Java
11 4 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.81%) VB
12 3 (1.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.90%) AWK
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.62%) Degree
4 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.81%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) CISSP
6 1 (0.45%) MCSA
6 1 (0.45%) MCSE
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.71%) QA
2 4 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (52.49%) Docker
2 63 (28.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.60%) Active Directory
4 17 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.62%) vSphere
7 5 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 116 (52.49%) Kubernetes
2 89 (40.27%) Ansible
3 82 (37.10%) Terraform
4 71 (32.13%) Prometheus
5 63 (28.51%) vCenter Server
6 30 (13.57%) Grafana
7 26 (11.76%) HAProxy
8 14 (6.33%) Puppet
9 9 (4.07%) Graphite
9 9 (4.07%) Nagios
10 7 (3.17%) Packer
11 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.36%) Kibana
11 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.45%) Istio
13 1 (0.45%) logstash
13 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 64 (28.96%) VMware
2 57 (25.79%) Red Hat
3 54 (24.43%) NetApp
3 54 (24.43%) Palo Alto
3 54 (24.43%) SolidFire
4 34 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.88%) Cisco
6 10 (4.52%) Citrix
7 7 (3.17%) DevExpress
8 6 (2.71%) Oracle
8 6 (2.71%) Twitter
9 5 (2.26%) SAP
10 4 (1.81%) Databricks
11 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.90%) IBM
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