YAML Job Trends in Leicestershire

YAML
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing YAML 4 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.71% - 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.33% - 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £65,550 - £50,600
25th Percentile £65,625 - £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £65,000
75th Percentile £69,375 - £67,500
90th Percentile £69,450 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £37,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +80.00% -37.50% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 81 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.35% 16.67% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 26 45 89
10th Percentile £35,625 £33,750 £36,150
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,000 -
East Midlands median annual salary £61,250 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.79% -9.57% +4.55%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

YAML
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing YAML

YAML
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Leicester - 4 £67,500 - 3
YAML
East Midlands

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) npm
1 3 (75.00%) NuGet
1 3 (75.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Keras
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks