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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +100
Permanent jobs citing YAML 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.083% - 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% - 0.75%
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 - - +54.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £96,539
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 - £92,778
% change year-on-year - - +42.73%

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 376 777 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.55% 21.45% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 306 435 634
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,825
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk