YAML Job Trends in the Midlands

YAML
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring YAML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 218 265
Rank change year-on-year -54 +47 -42
Permanent jobs citing YAML 8 17 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.051% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 2.19% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £51,575 £45,625 -
25th Percentile £53,938 £56,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +53.33% -35.90%
75th Percentile £64,438 £61,563 £43,250
90th Percentile £67,325 £70,000 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% -19.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,137 777 1,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.27% 13.77% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 801 543 851
10th Percentile £38,438 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

YAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

YAML job vacancy trend in the Midlands

YAML
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing YAML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing YAML

YAML
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing YAML in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for YAML in the Midlands

YAML
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YAML within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Midlands -45 5 £50,000 -13.04% 6
East Midlands -39 3 £67,500 - 2
YAML
England

YAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) SonarCloud
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) npm
4 1 (12.50%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 4 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) HSRP
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) OSPF
1 4 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) VLAN
1 4 (50.00%) VRRP
1 4 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Marketing
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Retail
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Data Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (25.00%) Tandem
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Change Control
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data Management
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Network Design
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (25.00%) IFS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Veracode