YAML Job Trends in England

YAML
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 540 647
Rank change year-on-year -52 +107 +21
Permanent jobs citing YAML 89 62 178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 0.80% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 63 42 140
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,925 £46,741
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.33% - +8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,690 7,773 16,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.06% 20.93% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,805 5,916 14,141
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

YAML job vacancy trend in England

YAML
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing YAML

YAML
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for YAML in England

YAML
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
London +6 38 £85,000 +6.25% 10
South East -35 22 £60,000 -20.00% 12
Midlands -39 17 £66,500 +15.65% 3
East Midlands -37 10 £67,500 - 1
North of England -48 9 £65,000 -13.91% 5
West Midlands -21 7 £66,500 +15.65% 2
North West - 5 £65,000 -
South West - 5 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire -57 3 £82,500 -
North East -37 1 £59,000 -21.85% 5
YAML
UK

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.36%) IIS
2 7 (7.87%) CMS
3 5 (5.62%) nginx
4 2 (2.25%) Confluence
5 1 (1.12%) Apache
5 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) PlantUML
2 5 (5.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (5.62%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.92%) Azure
2 44 (49.44%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (33.71%) AWS
4 23 (25.84%) GitHub
4 23 (25.84%) Serverless
5 18 (20.22%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (16.85%) Datadog
6 15 (16.85%) Entra ID
7 13 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.61%) Azure AKS
7 13 (14.61%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (14.61%) PaaS
8 12 (13.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (13.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (12.36%) OpenShift
10 10 (11.24%) Amazon S3
10 10 (11.24%) npm
10 10 (11.24%) NuGet
10 10 (11.24%) SonarCloud
11 9 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.84%) Firewall
2 12 (13.48%) VPN
2 12 (13.48%) WAN
3 6 (6.74%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.49%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.62%) MySQL
5 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.25%) Looker
6 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (35.96%) Git
2 22 (24.72%) GitLab
3 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) JIRA
4 6 (6.74%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.62%) Vite
6 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.49%) Maven
7 3 (3.37%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.37%) Gradle
7 3 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 32 (35.96%) Finance
2 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Telecoms
4 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Law
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
6 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.25%) Marketing
6 2 (2.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (39.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (19.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior
5 11 (12.36%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Network Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Telecoms Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (10.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Automation Specialist
8 7 (7.87%) Lead
8 7 (7.87%) Network Specialist
8 7 (7.87%) Telecoms Specialist
9 6 (6.74%) Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) JSON
2 13 (14.61%) .NET
2 13 (14.61%) REST
3 12 (13.48%) ADO
3 12 (13.48%) OAuth
3 12 (13.48%) SAML
4 11 (12.36%) Jinja
5 10 (11.24%) Node.js
5 10 (11.24%) React
6 8 (8.99%) .NET Framework
7 6 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (6.74%) XML
7 6 (6.74%) YANG
8 5 (5.62%) .NET Core
8 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (5.62%) Laravel
8 5 (5.62%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (5.62%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (5.62%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.74%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.12%) CMDB
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.83%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) VMS
2 12 (13.48%) Windows
3 6 (6.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (87.64%) CI/CD
2 69 (77.53%) DevOps
3 58 (65.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (32.58%) Agile
5 28 (31.46%) Containerisation
5 28 (31.46%) Test Automation
6 27 (30.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (29.21%) Microservices
8 19 (21.35%) Observability
9 18 (20.22%) DevSecOps
9 18 (20.22%) Zero Trust
10 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (16.85%) Analytics
11 15 (16.85%) Task Automation
12 14 (15.73%) API Management
12 14 (15.73%) Threat Modelling
13 13 (14.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (14.61%) Log Analytics
13 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (14.61%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) Python
2 25 (28.09%) PowerShell
3 23 (25.84%) Bash
4 21 (23.60%) SQL
5 12 (13.48%) C#
5 12 (13.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (12.36%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.11%) Bicep
8 5 (5.62%) Groovy
8 5 (5.62%) Java
8 5 (5.62%) PHP
9 2 (2.25%) Perl
10 1 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.74%) Degree
4 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (15.73%) GDPR
2 14 (15.73%) SOC 2
3 11 (12.36%) QA
4 8 (8.99%) NCSC
4 8 (8.99%) NIST
5 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (39.33%) Docker
2 12 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 48 (53.93%) Terraform
2 39 (43.82%) Kubernetes
3 32 (35.96%) Ansible
4 8 (8.99%) Grafana
5 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.49%) Packer
7 3 (3.37%) Scalr
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.22%) Palo Alto
3 12 (13.48%) Zscaler
4 11 (12.36%) Cisco
4 11 (12.36%) Red Hat
5 10 (11.24%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (6.74%) F5
6 6 (6.74%) Juniper
7 4 (4.49%) AppDynamics
7 4 (4.49%) IBM
8 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.12%) Arista
9 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.12%) Sonatype
9 1 (1.12%) Veracode