YAML Job Trends in Manchester

YAML
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 131 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +92
Permanent jobs citing YAML 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.034% - 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66,807
25th Percentile £67,500 - £89,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £92,778
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.59%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £96,539
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 - £92,778
% change year-on-year - - +33.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 373 590 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.79% 22.12% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 321 360 637
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +2.92% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,013
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.56% +2.63%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

YAML job vacancy trend in Manchester

YAML
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing YAML

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk