YAML Job Trends in the East Midlands

YAML
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 135 195
Rank change year-on-year -30 +60 -49
Permanent jobs citing YAML 8 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.15% 0.36% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.01% 2.96% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £63,550 - £33,750
25th Percentile £64,000 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £41,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.55%
75th Percentile £69,250 - £51,000
90th Percentile - - £65,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £74,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +3.10% -6.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

YAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 398 270 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.62% 12.18% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 281 173 607
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing YAML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

YAML job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

YAML
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Leicestershire -28 8 £67,500 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) npm
1 8 (100.00%) NuGet
1 8 (100.00%) SonarCloud
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 6 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
1 8 (100.00%) React
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Microservices
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace