YAML Job Trends in London

YAML
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 318 391 339
Rank change year-on-year +73 -52 +173
Permanent jobs citing YAML 56 37 104
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.24% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.11% 0.89% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 38 23 97
10th Percentile £66,375 £68,000 £60,590
25th Percentile £73,563 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,125 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £99,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,658 4,138 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.85% 26.67% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,553 4,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

YAML job vacancy trend in London

YAML
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing YAML

YAML
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for YAML in London

YAML
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the London 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
Central London +33 7 £75,000 - 5
South London - 2 £70,000 -
West London - 1 £107,500 - 1
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (7.14%) IIS
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (75.00%) Azure
2 40 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (46.43%) GitHub
4 15 (26.79%) PaaS
5 12 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (17.86%) Azure AKS
8 9 (16.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (16.07%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (16.07%) Datadog
8 9 (16.07%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (7.14%) AWS
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Storage
10 4 (7.14%) Serverless
11 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
12 2 (3.57%) Logz.io
13 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
1 9 (16.07%) VPN
1 9 (16.07%) WAN
2 6 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (7.14%) Network Security
4 2 (3.57%) SSL
5 1 (1.79%) DHCP
5 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) GIS
2 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.36%) Power BI
3 2 (3.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) GitLab
4 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.57%) Gradle
4 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 2 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (1.79%) Appium
5 1 (1.79%) Postman
5 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 30 (53.57%) Finance
2 10 (17.86%) Law
3 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
7 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 2 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
1 13 (23.21%) Lead
2 10 (17.86%) Security Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) IBM Storage Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Operations Support Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Platform Support Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Manager
8 3 (5.36%) IT Security Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Security Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Senior
8 3 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) ADO
1 9 (16.07%) JSON
1 9 (16.07%) OAuth
1 9 (16.07%) SAML
2 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) Playwright
3 1 (1.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Security Posture
2 7 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.79%) CMDB
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) VMS
2 6 (10.71%) zOS
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) Windows
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (78.57%) DevOps
2 42 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Test Automation
4 22 (39.29%) Agile
5 21 (37.50%) Application Security
6 20 (35.71%) SDLC
7 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (30.36%) OWASP
8 17 (30.36%) Threat Modelling
9 16 (28.57%) DevSecOps
9 16 (28.57%) Security Testing
10 15 (26.79%) Mentoring
10 15 (26.79%) Product Strategy
11 14 (25.00%) Analytics
12 13 (23.21%) Observability
13 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (21.43%) Log Analytics
14 11 (19.64%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (19.64%) Vulnerability Management
15 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) PowerShell
2 21 (37.50%) Python
3 14 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (16.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (10.71%) Bash
5 6 (10.71%) JCL
5 6 (10.71%) REXX
6 4 (7.14%) Bicep
6 4 (7.14%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.57%) Go
8 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) Korn
9 1 (1.79%) Ruby
9 1 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (16.07%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (46.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (30.36%) NCSC
2 17 (30.36%) NIST
3 9 (16.07%) GDPR
3 9 (16.07%) SOC 2
4 5 (8.93%) QA
5 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
1 9 (16.07%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (10.71%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.79%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Ansible
2 17 (30.36%) Terraform
3 15 (26.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.93%) Grafana
5 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Argo
7 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Palo Alto
2 9 (16.07%) Zscaler
3 6 (10.71%) Broadcom
3 6 (10.71%) Dell
3 6 (10.71%) IBM
4 5 (8.93%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Arista
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk