YAML Job Trends in Leeds

YAML
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 79 124
Rank change year-on-year -39 +45 +11
Permanent jobs citing YAML 3 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.13% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.55% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +2.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 374 181 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 15.70% 23.51% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 273 136 365
10th Percentile £38,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,639 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -9.84%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Leeds

YAML
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Packer
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) IBM