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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 580 487
Rank change year-on-year +56 -93 +155
Permanent jobs citing YAML 93 99 196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 0.95% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 67 69 175
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -9.09% +17.86%

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 6,259 10,404 12,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.84% 21.61% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 6,107 10,094
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,663
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 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
London +73 56 £81,000 -1.82% 13
South West +13 11 £45,000 -42.86% 2
Midlands +29 10 £66,500 +18.22% 9
South East +7 8 £60,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +25 7 £63,250 +12.44% 7
East of England +20 4 £40,000 -20.00%
North of England +8 3 £75,000 -6.25% 8
East Midlands - 3 £67,500 - 2
North East - 2 £75,000 -
North West - 1 £70,000 - 3
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 7 (7.53%) IIS
2 5 (5.38%) CMS
3 3 (3.23%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (79.57%) Azure
2 65 (69.89%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (47.31%) GitHub
4 22 (23.66%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (21.51%) PaaS
6 12 (12.90%) Azure AKS
6 12 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (10.75%) AWS
8 9 (9.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (9.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (9.68%) Datadog
8 9 (9.68%) Entra ID
9 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
9 7 (7.53%) Serverless
10 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (4.30%) Azure Storage
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) Firewall
2 9 (9.68%) VPN
2 9 (9.68%) WAN
3 6 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (4.30%) Network Security
5 3 (3.23%) SSL
6 2 (2.15%) DHCP
6 2 (2.15%) DNS
7 1 (1.08%) HTTP
7 1 (1.08%) SAN
7 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.23%) GIS
3 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
3 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.23%) Power BI
4 2 (2.15%) Looker
4 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (20.43%) Git
2 7 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.23%) GitLab
3 3 (3.23%) JIRA
3 3 (3.23%) MSTest
3 3 (3.23%) NUnit
3 3 (3.23%) Storybook
3 3 (3.23%) Vite
4 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.15%) Gradle
4 2 (2.15%) Maven
5 1 (1.08%) Appium
5 1 (1.08%) Moq
5 1 (1.08%) NSubstitute
5 1 (1.08%) Postman
5 1 (1.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (40.86%) Finance
2 10 (10.75%) Law
2 10 (10.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Financial Institution
4 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Banking
5 3 (3.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.15%) Legal
6 2 (2.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Lead
2 19 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (16.13%) Security Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Senior
6 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Developer
8 6 (6.45%) IBM Storage Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.30%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Operations Support Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Platform Support Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) IT Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) .NET
2 10 (10.75%) JSON
3 9 (9.68%) ADO
3 9 (9.68%) OAuth
3 9 (9.68%) SAML
4 7 (7.53%) .NET Framework
4 7 (7.53%) Vue
5 6 (6.45%) React
6 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.38%) REST
7 4 (4.30%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.30%) Web Services
8 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.23%) CSS
8 3 (3.23%) HTML
8 3 (3.23%) Jest
8 3 (3.23%) Laravel
8 3 (3.23%) Next.js
8 3 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 16 (17.20%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.53%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.08%) CMDB
6 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.90%) Linux
2 9 (9.68%) VMS
3 8 (8.60%) Windows
4 6 (6.45%) zOS
5 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.08%) Android
6 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (78.49%) CI/CD
2 72 (77.42%) DevOps
3 39 (41.94%) Agile
4 38 (40.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (32.26%) Test Automation
6 27 (29.03%) SDLC
7 26 (27.96%) Application Security
7 26 (27.96%) DevSecOps
8 25 (26.88%) Mentoring
9 22 (23.66%) OWASP
9 22 (23.66%) Threat Modelling
10 21 (22.58%) Security Testing
11 20 (21.51%) Product Strategy
12 19 (20.43%) Containerisation
13 18 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (18.28%) Backlog Management
14 17 (18.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (17.20%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.31%) PowerShell
2 25 (26.88%) Python
3 20 (21.51%) Bicep
4 16 (17.20%) C#
4 16 (17.20%) SQL
5 14 (15.05%) Bash
6 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (6.45%) JCL
7 6 (6.45%) REXX
8 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.30%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.23%) PHP
9 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.15%) Go
11 1 (1.08%) Korn
11 1 (1.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.08%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Degree
2 15 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.05%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (23.66%) NCSC
2 22 (23.66%) NIST
3 10 (10.75%) QA
4 9 (9.68%) GDPR
4 9 (9.68%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (29.03%) Docker
2 9 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.45%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (24.73%) Terraform
3 22 (23.66%) Ansible
4 5 (5.38%) Grafana
5 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Argo
7 1 (1.08%) Nessus
7 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (43.01%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) Palo Alto
2 9 (9.68%) Zscaler
3 7 (7.53%) IBM
4 6 (6.45%) Broadcom
4 6 (6.45%) Dell
5 5 (5.38%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.30%) DevExpress
7 3 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.15%) Splunk
9 1 (1.08%) Arista
9 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.08%) VMware
9 1 (1.08%) webMethods