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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 666 925
Rank change year-on-year -9 +259 -155
Permanent jobs citing YAML 222 319 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.01% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 133 193 227
10th Percentile £47,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £87,500 £84,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +8.58% -2.26% +20.91%

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 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for YAML in the UK

YAML
Top 16 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 27 April 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 +25 198 £75,000 +8.00% 33
UK excluding London -25 147 £70,576 +8.58% 17
Work from Home +63 124 £77,500 +11.60% 23
London +84 69 £77,500 -3.13% 13
Midlands +8 37 £86,485 +57.25% 3
South West +20 34 £75,000 +8.00% 1
North of England -10 32 £67,500 +5.09% 4
West Midlands +26 29 £110,000 +100.00% 3
Yorkshire +39 22 £67,500 +8.00% 2
South East +31 22 £60,000 -28.36% 6
Scotland -66 11 £35,000 -49.60%
North West +5 10 - -
East Midlands -14 8 £57,500 +4.55%
Northern Ireland +33 5 - -
Wales +14 5 - -
East of England +12 1 £46,500 -45.29% 3

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 (33.33%) Apache
2 19 (8.56%) nginx
3 17 (7.66%) Apache Spark
3 17 (7.66%) 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 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.70%) Azure
2 83 (37.39%) Amazon S3
3 69 (31.08%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.67%) PaaS
5 26 (11.71%) IaaS
6 21 (9.46%) OpenShift
7 20 (9.01%) AWS
8 17 (7.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (7.66%) MinIO
9 16 (7.21%) Entra ID
9 16 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.76%) Azure API Management
11 13 (5.86%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.95%) GCP
12 11 (4.95%) Serverless
13 9 (4.05%) Azure App Service
13 9 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.60%) GitHub
14 8 (3.60%) Power Platform
15 7 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 83 (37.39%) VPN
2 76 (34.23%) Firewall
3 67 (30.18%) Internet
4 64 (28.83%) SNMP
5 54 (24.32%) IPsec
6 30 (13.51%) DNS
7 14 (6.31%) NGFW
8 11 (4.95%) BGP
8 11 (4.95%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (4.95%) MPLS
8 11 (4.95%) TCP/IP
9 10 (4.50%) tcpdump
10 7 (3.15%) WAN
11 5 (2.25%) Network Security
11 5 (2.25%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.80%) HTTP
13 2 (0.90%) LAN
13 2 (0.90%) SSL
13 2 (0.90%) Wireless
14 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.78%) MongoDB
2 69 (31.08%) Elasticsearch
3 42 (18.92%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.46%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.11%) MySQL
6 17 (7.66%) Big Data
6 17 (7.66%) Hadoop
6 17 (7.66%) Presto
7 11 (4.95%) SQLite
8 8 (3.60%) Power BI
9 7 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.80%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.80%) HDInsight
12 4 (1.80%) Looker
12 4 (1.80%) QlikView
12 4 (1.80%) Tableau
13 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (17.12%) Git
2 32 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.56%) GitLab
4 18 (8.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (5.86%) JIRA
6 11 (4.95%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.15%) Vagrant
8 5 (2.25%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.45%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.45%) git-flow
10 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (32.88%) Finance
2 46 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.26%) Telecoms
4 23 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.21%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.60%) Marketing
9 7 (3.15%) Banking
9 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.15%) Police
10 6 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.70%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.80%) Electronics
13 3 (1.35%) German Language
13 3 (1.35%) Law
13 3 (1.35%) Retail
14 2 (0.90%) Back Office
15 1 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 58 (26.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (24.32%) Consultant
2 54 (24.32%) NetApp Consultant
3 39 (17.57%) Architect
4 37 (16.67%) Senior
5 32 (14.41%) Developer
6 27 (12.16%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.66%) Big Data Engineer
7 17 (7.66%) Data Engineer
8 16 (7.21%) Citrix Architect
9 14 (6.31%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (6.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 14 (6.31%) DevOps Architect
10 12 (5.41%) Lead
10 12 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.05%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.98%) RabbitMQ
2 53 (23.87%) JSON
3 43 (19.37%) .NET
4 29 (13.06%) Elastic Stack
5 28 (12.61%) ARM Templates
6 27 (12.16%) XML
7 26 (11.71%) .NET Core
8 24 (10.81%) ASP.NET
8 24 (10.81%) HTML
9 23 (10.36%) Entity Framework
10 21 (9.46%) RESTful
11 20 (9.01%) .NET Framework
12 19 (8.56%) REST
13 17 (7.66%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (7.66%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (7.66%) React
14 16 (7.21%) Blazor
15 12 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (5.41%) Node.js
16 11 (4.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.77%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (7.66%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.31%) Private Cloud
4 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.50%) Clustering
6 9 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
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 (49.55%) Linux
2 83 (37.39%) Windows
3 54 (24.32%) Data ONTAP
4 12 (5.41%) Unix
5 11 (4.95%) CentOS
5 11 (4.95%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.80%) VMS
7 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (62.61%) DevOps
2 94 (42.34%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (40.99%) Agile
3 91 (40.99%) CI/CD
4 84 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 60 (27.03%) Project Management
6 56 (25.23%) Infrastructure Management
7 55 (24.77%) Storage Management
8 54 (24.32%) Actionable Insight
8 54 (24.32%) Project Planning
8 54 (24.32%) Release Management
9 44 (19.82%) Scrum
10 40 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.61%) Roadmaps
12 23 (10.36%) Observability
12 23 (10.36%) SDLC
13 22 (9.91%) Microservices
14 21 (9.46%) Data Engineering
15 20 (9.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 117 (52.70%) Python
2 68 (30.63%) PowerShell
3 58 (26.13%) SQL
4 54 (24.32%) C#
5 35 (15.77%) Bash
6 24 (10.81%) JavaScript
7 20 (9.01%) Shell Script
8 19 (8.56%) T-SQL
9 12 (5.41%) Bicep
10 11 (4.95%) Perl
10 11 (4.95%) XAML
11 10 (4.50%) PHP
12 4 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.80%) VB
13 3 (1.35%) Java
13 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.90%) Ruby
15 1 (0.45%) AWK
15 1 (0.45%) C++
15 1 (0.45%) REXX
Qualifications
1 23 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.66%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.15%) Degree
4 5 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) MCSA
7 1 (0.45%) MCSE
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.70%) QA
2 4 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (1.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 118 (53.15%) Docker
2 69 (31.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (6.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (6.31%) vSphere
5 13 (5.86%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.45%) NFS
6 1 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 117 (52.70%) Kubernetes
2 91 (40.99%) Ansible
3 85 (38.29%) Terraform
4 71 (31.98%) Prometheus
5 64 (28.83%) vCenter Server
6 31 (13.96%) Grafana
7 27 (12.16%) HAProxy
8 14 (6.31%) Puppet
9 10 (4.50%) Graphite
9 10 (4.50%) Nagios
10 7 (3.15%) Packer
11 5 (2.25%) Istio
12 4 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.35%) Kibana
13 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.45%) logstash
15 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 70 (31.53%) VMware
2 57 (25.68%) Red Hat
3 54 (24.32%) NetApp
3 54 (24.32%) Palo Alto
3 54 (24.32%) SolidFire
4 36 (16.22%) Microsoft
5 16 (7.21%) Citrix
6 13 (5.86%) Cisco
7 7 (3.15%) DevExpress
8 6 (2.70%) Oracle
8 6 (2.70%) Twitter
9 5 (2.25%) SAP
10 4 (1.80%) Databricks
11 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.35%) Software AG
12 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.90%) IBM
12 2 (0.90%) Meraki
12 2 (0.90%) webMethods
13 1 (0.45%) Broadcom