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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 239 195
Rank change year-on-year +28 -44 +93
Permanent jobs citing YAML 10 3 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.045% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 0.28% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 23
10th Percentile - £52,875 £51,950
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -6.25% -17.24%
75th Percentile £68,500 £58,438 £91,250
90th Percentile £69,300 £58,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £79,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.66% +11.58%

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 622 1,083 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.97% 16.25% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 515 601 859
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,916 £75,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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
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 1 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
West Midlands +22 7 £58,750 +4.44% 6
East Midlands - 3 £67,500 - 3
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 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) CMS
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (30.00%) npm
3 3 (30.00%) NuGet
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) SonarCloud
4 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) MSTest
2 4 (40.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Moq
3 2 (20.00%) NSubstitute
3 2 (20.00%) Vite
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 5 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (40.00%) Entity Framework
5 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (30.00%) Node.js
5 3 (30.00%) React
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (20.00%) Laravel
6 2 (20.00%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (20.00%) RESTful
6 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (20.00%) Vue
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) API Design
6 2 (20.00%) API Development
6 2 (20.00%) API Management
6 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) Bicep
5 2 (20.00%) PHP
5 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) VMware