YAML Job Trends in the East of England

YAML
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 174 130
Rank change year-on-year +21 -44 +97
Permanent jobs citing YAML 6 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 1.09% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - £51,350 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £79,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.66% +11.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 303 736 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.34% 20.54% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 231 337 346
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £81,450 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the East of England

YAML
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £40,000 -
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) Vue
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 6 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 6 (100.00%) Push Notifications
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) SOLID
2 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) DevExpress
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft